Due to popular demand, I am starting the annual interview review thread. Programs can change a lot year to year. I found these threads helpful when applying and when managing expectations prior to interviews so let's make something useful for next year's applicants!
If you would like to contribute but would like to remain anonymous, feel free to send the reviews to me and I will post them. Please note that I will not post anything wildly inappropriate or something that could dox another person so. come out guns blazing under your own name if you really feel it's necessary but consider professionalism before pulling the trigger.
Happy interviewing and may the odds ever be in your favor!
You can use the following format as a guideline. Please feel free to add any additional information you may find helpful!
1. Ease of Communication:
2. Accommodation & Food:
3. Interview Day (Schedule, Type of Interview, Unusual Questions, Experiences):
4. Program Overview:
5. Faculty Achievements & Involvement:
6. Location & Lifestyle:
7. Salary & Benefits:
8. Program Strengths:
9. Potential Weaknesses:
10. Overall Impression:
Table of Contents:
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Vermont
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Washington
Washington DC
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Good luck everyone! These reviews really helped me decide which programs to apply to and how to rank them.
Programs can change a lot within a year and I hope people post their reviews immediately after you interview at a program since it's very difficult to do later if you don't. If you're worried that programs will retaliate, then you're posting inappropriate information. It's always a good idea to review your post for professionalism and doxing info before you submit it.
Reactions: 3 usersYes, if you are going through the process right now and used the previous years' interviews in order to assemble your list and prioritize your applications, you owe it to the community to post at least some reviews after your interview. Like @clozareal said, do it right after you get done with interviews at a particular program. Do not wait until rank lists have been submitted, these are not very dependable or useful to others.
If you actually keep things professional and non-insulting and a program dings you for posting it, that is not a program you want to be at. It implies a level of surveillance and retaliatory reactiveness that will make the experience of actually working there four years very unpleasant.
Reactions: 4 usersNot to derail the thread, but would also like to gauge interest for a thread where current residents anonymously review their programs. While the interview review threads are solid, there's a lot you learn after entering the program and experiencing it for a few years that isn't conveyed on interview days (both positive and negative). If current residents are willing and applicants are interested, feel free to PM me (to not clog up this thread) and I can start an anonymous review thread from current residents.
Reactions: 6 usersSo I noticed that people are contributing more to the spreadsheet than this thread, and by contributing, I mean just about every program has some commentary. I do personally prefer browsing on SDN as opposed to digging through old sheets (and I'm sure others do too!) so at the end of the season I will compile those reviews into a mega post here. That will also help people with the anonymity aspect of this though the trade off is that the reviews will be shorter.
Last edited: Nov 23, 2019 Reactions: 2 usersAll right bbs, I promised I would be posting spreadsheet data alphabetized by state here for your browsing pleasure. As an officially matched MS4 who was sent home at 9 AM today, I truly have nothing better to do! Close to none of these opinions are mine, as many of mine were deleted when people were still messing around with the spreadsheet and I was too annoyed to re-contribute. Content has undergone cursory edits for grammar and clarity. I put "N/A" when no response was given. As this is all crowdsourced data, independent fact-checking is advised. Some notes about spreadsheet nomenclature - people have been using x2 or whatever number to show agreement and << to reply to comments. Enjoy!
ALABAMA
UAB
Interview Structure: Five 20 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated: No
Dinner: Yes - potluck at resident house after brewery hopping
Positive Impressions: Respected name, good inpatient training, has a good child fellowship. Also good if you're interested in psychosis/schizophrenia, some good research with neuroimaging going on there. Most of the residents seemed like they were friends (but I definitely got the impression it could be sort of cliquey.) Everything is centrally located, affordable housing (both rent and own) within short commutes of hospital in good neighborhoods. Newer PD who is a graduate of the program, very well-liked by the residents.
Negative Impressions: Inpatient months on IM are crazy. Residents looked tired at interview. Has had the PD and the coordinator both change in 2019. Have heard that coverage of units is prioritized over teaching. Workload is heavy for psych. At dinner one of the residents was asked what they liked about the program, replied "hmm that's a tough one" and had no good answer. Apparently has night float for first year but goes back to a weird 4 nights q 9 weeks in 2nd half of 2nd year and first half of 3rd. Night float ranges from 4-6 weeks in first year and is pretty much luck of the draw to how long you're on it.
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: N/A
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: 60% resident cafe discount makes food ridiculously cheap
Free Parking: No
Salary: 53k
Benefits: Resident shares cost
Moonlighting: Starting in PGY-3, residents say pays incredibly well. Diversity of options, but most commonly cover UAB’s in-house PES // $100 an hour on weekday, $125 on weekend
U South Alabama
Interview Structure: Four 30 minute interviews with faculty, lunch with PGY3s, then an optional tour of facilities
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: N/A
EMR: myAvatar/Cerner at University Hospital
Free food for residents: Free food at the inpatient facilities and free soup and salad at the university hospital
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 53k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
ARKANSAS
U Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: Yes, 2 nights
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Loved the residents and PD. Seemed like a well-balanced program. // agree everyone was very nice // +1 really surprised by this program, very nice facilities. PRI building has almost everything in it.
Negative Impressions: It's Arkansas. Parts of Little Rock seemed sketchy.// Most of little rock is sketchy. call all 4 years // no overnight call PGY4 **, but sounded like night float PGY2 is rough. "hard" 6 months PGY2// multiple training sites (state, North VA, PRI) at multiple locations.
Other Comments: Call seemed lighter than average.
EMR: Epic//CPRS
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: No in-house moonlighting, but a few PGY3/4 will do external moonlighting.
** Program was on the "Recommended Programs" tab **: I really loved how welcoming the program was. Interview day felt special. They only interview 1-2 applicants per day, and the coordinator will drive you everywhere. I felt like I really got to know the residents and faculty, and that they truly got to know me. Super reasonable COL. Bonus: They pay for your hotel for two nights.
Unity Health-White County
Interview Structure: 6 30-min interviews, lunch after #4 with assortment of PGY2-4's
Hotel Compensated for: yes
Dinner: yes
Positive Impressions: Interviewers were prepared and had read/highlighted parts of my Eras, COL reasonably low, residents can set up electives if they're particularly interested in something, PD was super chill and really nice and so were the rest of my interviewers, most residents I met were moving back to bigger cities for fellowship/jobs except some staying at Unity Health because they're from AR, liked it more than expected.
Negative Impressions: Searcy, need to drive quite a bit to get to some rotations (but they pay for gas if the drive is long, and sometimes even offer housing at a hotel nearby).
Other Comments: Nice PD. Happy residents, good schedule. Hardest part is living in Searcy.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: A **** ton with lax standards to start at PGY-2 at earliest. Over 90% of residents begin moonlighting mid-late PGY-2.
ARIZONA
Creighton/Maricopa Phoenix
Interview Structure: 8AM - 3 PM. Split between two rotation sites. Five interviews, all with faculty.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes, at Southern Rail with amazing food, residents paid for drinks
Positive Impressions: Very heavy inpatient focus with very sick patients, lots of forensics including a courtroom at each inpatient location. Amazing moonlighting opportunities starting PGY-2. Residents were super close and fun.
Negative Impressions: Limited Child/Adolescent since PCH has its own fellowship now. Faculty emphasized "intense" patients. Potential for LOTS of driving between sites spread between Mesa, Central Phoenix, and Glendale. Phoenix traffic sucks. Coordinator was nice but seemed disorganized.
Other Comments: Got a feel that this school is the Sister to UA Phx - main inpatient is involuntary, limited therapy training because of this.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 56k
Benefits: Shares cost, technology stipend
Moonlighting: Yes, can start PGY-2 upon program approval but seemed super easy to start doing.
U Arizona Phoenix
Interview Structure: Three 30 minute interviews with faculty, two 30 minute interviews with PGY4s, tour of the facilities
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No, lunch with residents day of
Positive Impressions: Low COL while still in a reasonably big city, range of training sites: VA, Children's hospital, Banner hospital (which imply is a "university" hospital). Plenty of electives available. New child fellowship with PCH, fast tracking allowed. Moonlighting allowed in PGY-3. PD seems very down to earth, kind, and intelligent.
Negative Impressions: Sounded like electives were really just in PGY4. Daily didactics at lunchtime rather than protected weekly time.
Other Comments: Main inpatient unit is only voluntary, therapy training seems pretty limited to just CBT.
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 58k
Benefits: Fully paid by program
Moonlighting: starting mid-PGY-3 upon program approval, not in-house but there are relationships with nearby places
U Arizona Tucson
Interview Structure: Four or five 30 minute interviews with faculty// and people actually took the time to read applications!
Hotel Compensated for: No.
Dinner: Yes if you have a weekend interview - Dinner at PD's house. No if you are during the week - just lunch with residents day of.
Positive Impressions: Very happy residents. Very coheisve group. Faculty seems responsive to concerns. Amazing work-life balance with understanding faculty. Courthouse at Behavioral Health Pavillion with ability to start testifying even as an intern. Protected half day didactics on Wednesdays with lots of Wellness events. Residents boast of wellness program provided by departments with stipend $50/person they use weekly for 'wellness' events. Great facilities, all seem new and clean. U of A is a large academic center of Tucson and residents are able to work with medical students and can be quite involved with their teaching. Psych is respected with other departments and a lot of attendings seems super cool and nice.
Negative Impressions: I literally cannot think of any other than maybe not a huge research focus? x3.
Other Comments: N/A.
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: yes
Free Parking: yes
Salary: 58k
Benefits: Fully paid by program
Moonlighting: starting mid-PGY-2 upon program approval.
CALIFORNIA
Arrowhead Regional
Interview Structure: Two 30 min “panel” interviews (you and 3 interviewers). Met PD casually. Facilities tour with 1 resident. Lunch (sandwiches).
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No, lunch day of.
Positive Impressions: Large/robust emergency psychiatry training. You are in southern California. DO/IMG friendly for DO/IMG applicants, chairman of Department of Behavioral Health seemed like a nice guy, lots of "It's getting better, lots of changes for the better"
Negative Impressions: Panel interview was slightly overwhelming/difficult compound behavioral questions. Felt as residents had to justify the program, said had matched at last choice though it worked out in the end. Q5 call schedule and grueling inpatient medicine rotation for 4 months (though reports this is great training). Lunch was ****ty coldcut sandwiches. Residents commented "Don't come here if you want an easy residency" "Originally I hated here but grew to love it”.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Meditech (ew), but director says he plans on changing to epic idk how soon this will/wont happen.
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: Mediocre
Moonlighting: N/A
CPMC
Interview Structure: Morning overview with PD, campus tours, interview, tour with chief resident, lunch with residents, attend didactic, two more interviews (about 40 min each)
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Enthusiastic faculty, seems to have good psychotherapy training and see a diverse range of patients /// I did a subi here and have some good things to say, other than yes the call schedule is heavy. but great didactics, integration with psychology program makes for very psychotherapudically oriented discussions about root causes in patients, sutter is a nice facility with grand rounds and lots of other good training programs, fantastic non-malignant IM program you rotate thru, weekly interesting case conference, great faculty who seem to really care about the residents and about teaching, lots and lots and lots of electives available unque to SF like HIV/AIDS/homlessness/transgender/LGBT/women'sMH and intensive psychotherapy training if you want it.
Negative Impressions: Cost of living, really crazy work schedule, poor teaching, standoff-ish residents at interview day < I thought the residents were quite nice, didn't get the sense they were standoffish at all Other Comments: Will be ranked last. People from my school interviewed here last year and said similar things and they went to better places in norcal.x4 < what didn't they like about it?
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Will only be available in 4th year due to Cali law change (this was in email from PD after I directly asked)
Charles R Drew U
Interview Structure: One session writing prompt, one meeting with a resident, one meeting with PD, one-two meetings with faculty
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Strong mission to care for underserved communities; no call is nice :|
Negative Impressions: Slightly weird vibes, not necessarily malignant per se but idk. only had 1 resident talk with us too, although he seemed chill < The PD can give off slightly odd looks when interviewing dunno if that was your experience but I kind of experienced that, can't quite place a word to the expression he made not quite sure I'd say condescending but something similar maybe he kept asking is that all? when I would give my answers. < This is a very new program, and I got the sense that my interviewers were not fully knowledgeable about the curriculum or the program's future. Some of them were very new themselves- one wasn't even Psychiatry faculty. // Only 1 resident to talk to, seemed tired like he didn't want to be there. PD was weird, reading off my app in front of me, made weird side-comments/shade about things throughout the day, lunch was half-sandwiches and chips, little to no psychotherapy training.
Other Comments: I thought it was weird that they made us do a writing exercise as a "station". Definitely brought back old memories from med school admission "multiple mini interviews". One of my interviewers made me read a question and write down my thoughts in front of him before answering. Awkward. I didn't feel people had even read my application. x2 same experience when I interviewed. I don't think anyone read my application x3 awkward interview. One had me write down answers, another read and graded my application right in front of me half way through my interview, Writing portion, and group photo at the end was very uncomfortable.
Schedule: No calls, most days are 7-5 and weekends care off. Longer shifts on IM and neuro rotation according to the resident
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: 500/month
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Kaiser Northern California - Oakland
Interview Structure: Intro from PD, tour of hospital, two 40 min interviews with assistant program directors, 20 min interview with PD, lunch with faculty
Hotel Compensated for: no
Dinner: No, but several events with residents spread throughout the season
Positive Impressions: PD seems very open to feedback and excited abourt the program. Residents seem to have a lot of input and the program is flexible to their interests. Have child psychiatry outpatient during 2nd year for 2 months, no child inpatient unit if that's your thing. Chill schedule, weekend call but no night float or overnight call, PD might be adding overnights but not in the next year // +1 really cool PD, seems to be very receptive to feedback talking to current PGY1s // working on finding residents an inpatient child unit if they want it.
Negative Impressions: New program, this will be their second class; very outpatient heavy (not sure if this is good or bad), maybe won't be as rigorous as some other programs // didn't meet any residents on interview day and unable to attend other events I thought it was kind of bizarre (red flag?) that we didn't meet any residents, even if there only are a few of them. // I was able to meet a 1st year my interview day, they were on medicine and ran into them on the tour. Sounded like they were spread over the place
Other Comments: Overall, really liked PD and faculty, who were very enthusiastic about the program. Interviews conversational, seemed to have read my app and had questions about why KP, how I deal with certain situations and patients, why psychiatry, etc. One interview with some behavioral questions. Chill schedule.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: No
Free Parking: No
Salary: $67K
Benefits: Great; also with housing allowance up to $3500/year, $720 per year for Health and Wellness like gym membership, $1000 for relocation, educational stipend $500.
Moonlighting: Yes during 3rd and 4th year < from what I was told, this will only be 4th year due to the new Cali law
Kaiser Northern California - San Jose
Interview Structure: Intro from PD, three 30 minute interviews, mini-tour, 2 more 30 minute interviews, tour of hospital, lunch.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: All the faculty seemed very excited about the program // Thought the residents were informative about the program and explained ins and outs of program; great EMR (epic); good facilities; faculty were kind during my interview day; good breakfast/lunch; in a very nice area // Faculty all from prestigious backgrounds, broad electives, amazing benefits (relocation stipend, education stipend, housing allowance).
Negative Impressions: This will be their second class // arguably high work schedule but not bad with 12 on and 2 off / one resident dropped mid year, does anyone know why? < I was told they were already on the fence about applying to residency due to family issues and when they matched here dropped out since there ending up being more call than was originally mentioned which wouldn't work out with family responsibilities // program came off feeling too new and no one was sure about how things would work yet, residents didn't seem close or very happy, incredibly expensive area to live despite higher resident income.
Other Comments: Most of the interviews were pretty conversational. Seemed like everyone thoroughly read my app and had specific questions. Each interviewer had 1 question assigned to them that they were required to ask each applicant. Required research project.
EMR: described as "EPIC on steroids"
Schedule: PD said residents work 12 hrs/day on inpt IM to start, may decrease with efficiency // Call is Q4 home call until midnight, 2 weeks of nightfloat PGY1
Free food for residents: $100/mo stipend
Free Parking: yes
Salary: ~$70K
Benefits: Great; also with housing allowance up to $3500/year, $720 per year for Health and Wellness like gym membership, $1000 for relocation, educational stipend $500.
Moonlighting: yes, depending on how California's new laws work
Kaiser Southern California
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: The PD prioritizes and emphasizes wellness. Young residents who get along and enjoy hanging out. // Great location, nice facilities, EPIC, paper charts for inpatient psych at one of the sites which can be both tedious and easy.
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: chill - asked residents why they ranked this place highly, majority said lifestyle
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Kaweah Delta Healthcare District (KDHCD)
Interview Structure: 9-5:30. Morning tours, 6x30min afternoon interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: no nights or 24 hr call
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: $1000 annual stipend
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: no monthly premium on health insurance
Moonlighting: Starting 3rd year
LAC + USC
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Happy hour
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Cerner @county IP + I assume avatar for OP
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Good clinical training because you will put in a lot of hours.
Negative Impressions: Pretty much only considered here if you went to Western or LLU for med school. In need for some diversity and other perspectives.
Other Comments: Got weird vibes from PD and residents, but not an LLU student. so maybe it's an LLU thing.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
San Mateo County
Interview Structure: 3 interviews, 45 min each, one with PD
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Passionate, happy residents (many of whom speak a second language), call is considered moonlighting starting PGY2, prioritize resident wellness, psych ED. Must love community psychiatry and the chronically mentally ill/"mission"-based service. Well-funded county so they have no issues with resources for patients. Hospital is tiny so it seemed like medicine there would be easy.
Negative Impressions: High COL; great program but I do not want to live with 3 roommates and in a shoebox and have a poor lifestyle because I can't afford much. Driving to different sites all four years which significantly decreases the appeal of their hours given the Bay commute. Psych ED did not feel safe (clerks are not protected.) Sat in on didactics which were poor — lecturer had no clear objectives and would skip slides randomly with no explanation. Interviewer admitted level of supervision 2nd year is an issue as you're thrown into managing incredibly complex patients (like on 6+ meds) without adequate supervision. Psychotherapy was touted but is lacking in the program — residents said they have to go to the psychoanalytic institutes if they're truly interested. Poor aging facilities. Their acute unit seemed poorly run — staff were dilly dallying over an agitated patient who was screaming debating whether to call security/get an IM. Made me pay for my own Uber to interview at a different site mid-day even though there was an applicant who was from the area and had a car. Lunch was terrible so I'm guessing they have no food budget. Resident class is only 4 people.
Other Comments: Longitudinal clinic and rotations, community program tied to health dept, mission based.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Stanford
Interview Structure: 4 interviews x 30 minutes (two faculty, one aPD, one resident) + 15min with PD
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Absolutely gorgeous weather and close to great surfing, skiing, etc. Subsidized resident housing that allows pets. 68-71-77-81 base +10k per year in housing and other stipends. Therapy fully covered by health insurance. Brand new Stanford hospital and really nice facilities overall. Loved the aPD who is well known nationally in psych.
Negative Impressions: PD loves long silences. Also had a feedback session with the PD which was a bit awkward (I can’t imagine anyone would seriously give negative feedback.) Lunch and dinner were somewhat sparsely attended — only met 1 intern (sketch) > Not my experience at all, I met a ton of residents at lunch and dinner. PD interview very awkward. Felt like the residents seemed tired and unenthusiastic. Very long interview day. Bay is incredibly expensive. PD has a Jekyll-Hyde moment when he realized I had Bay connections.
Other Comments: The coordinator was not particularly available during the interview day, which made finding where we were supposed to go challenging at times (the outpatient offices are spread across 3 floors and all look the same.).
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
UC Davis
Interview Structure: Intro, 3 20 min interviews, 3 30 min interviews, lunch with residents, facilities tour.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Happy residents. Sacramento = lower cost of living than most of Northern California. Community focus. PD is dedicated and education focus.
Negative Impressions: Interview day not well organized (no breaks between interviews, inadequate PO intake provided). Poor, aging facilities. < We had enough food at ours, and breaks.
Other Comments: Required jail rotations. Strong focus on cultural psychiatry and faculty seem very invested.
Schedule: no in house call
EMR: EPIC at UCD, AVATAR at county, something else at VA and Jail
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: No
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
UC Irvine
Interview Structure: 4 30 minute interviews, 20 minute breaks in between
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Very friendly, happy residents and PD. Excellent turnout at pre/post interview dinner. Diverse patient population. Orange County is beautiful. Subsidized housing option available for all UCIMC employees. Pretty innovative things done by PD to improve schedules for residents.
Negative Impressions: Lack of diversity in residency class. No housing stipend ( Other Comments: Very well organized interview day, good food provided (breakfast and lunch). Two residents walked us through the day so we wouldn't get lost. All-day free parking passes provided. Very sarcastic attitudes but in a nice goofy way.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
UC Riverside
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Low cost of living- actually possible to buy a home during residency which is impossible anywhere else in California. No call for residents. Easy program. Strong community focus. New program which opened to serve the underserved population of Riverside county. Lots of potential for growth and improvement in which residents could play a major role. Residents use their time for research, wellness, and other endeavors (e.g. podcast/radio show on mental health). Recently added Long Beach VA, which is optional but with good teaching. Also made recent changes to didactics, which were not well received before.
Negative Impressions: No call made me wonder if the training is very good here. More of a negative for me. Also research opportunities seemed limited. / Residents gave me weird vibes. One bragged about getting to be lazy because of no call. / San Bernardino is known as the armpit of California. Super hot during the summers. Possible call starting and moonlighting ending because of change with their county.////All UC Riverside residencies were just placed on ACGME probation. Other Comments: I think this program has a lot of potential- it would become great if they were able to select and retain residents who are self-starters and interested in medical education. Weird vibes, PD couldn't answer questions about rotations/// Losing county moonlighting and might have to cover shifts as call. Ranked 189/200 Doximity, residents spend hours commuting from Riverside to Long Beach and chair said they will have to go to palm springs too. New PD doesn't like working with chair or associates, place seems unstable. // Disappointed. new pd seems uninterested and not open to feedback. Constantly writing notes and asks weird questions. Didn’t seem genuine. Said if not enough pick VA (Orange County) then not optional. Unsure where to live with rotations so spread out. bizarre that only 5 faculty are UCR and rest are VA and county volunteers. Most faculty left last year. interviewed in administrative building with security and felt was a show, child fellow at dinner was nasty and caddy, not what I expected, thumbs down.
Schedule: No call
EMR: tons of different EMR
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: County moonlighting starting 2nd year, however there is a new county residency program opening next year, and the UCR residents are concerned they might lose moonlighting shift opportunities < what is the new residency program opening next year? The county affiliate is opening their own residency program. Does not allow external moonlighting.
UCLA David Geffen
Interview Structure: 3x30 min interviews (PD/aPD, faculty, resident)
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Happy hour
Positive Impressions: Good strong training, nice approachable faculty, good facilities, / great lectures and supervisors.
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes, at the cafeteria at David Geffen, and then at the VA you can use an institutional Ubereats account.
Free Parking: Free parking at the VA, at UCLA you need to pay.
Salary: N/A.
Benefits: 1k/month housing stipend starting next year
Moonlighting: Yes, starting in 3rd year < even with the law change? < they have internal moonlighting which is not effected.
UCLA - Kern: No reviews
UCLA - Los Angeles County Harbor
Interview Structure: Only two interviewees per day, 4 interviews total, 45 mins each, one is both interviewees together with the chair
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes (not always on interview day, just Thursdays throughout season)
Positive Impressions: Residents seem pretty happy, all 3 meals free every day, free parking, call schedule doesn't seem horrible, but they also didn't write it out for us on interview day, so I'm not 100% clear on it. Think it was something like 1 call day per week. They have a child psych ED. On site TMS (but it's in a van so kind of weird).
Negative Impressions: Not much carved out didactic time, 1.5 hours per week of didactic and 1 hr of interview training. Chair said not a good program for people who historically like to study independently. Outpatient facilities are pretty old, but it is county so they really struggle with money.
Other Comments: Different curriculum where they start outpatient clinic during second year for 1/2 days per week and mornings at inpatient. Intern said a lot of his class is much older (~30s).
EMR: Epic Free food for residents: 3 meals everyday, even if you aren't working.
Free Parking: yes, access to doctor's lot.
Salary: low, but there's a $4,000 housing stipend and COL is lower in south bay.
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Starting 2nd year, in-house. PGY4 can do external as well with new Cali law I believe.
UCLA - Olive View
Interview Structure: 4 interviews, 30 minutes each, one with PD
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Happy hour (enough for dinner)
Positive Impressions: Awesome residents, benign program, sweet moonlighting opportunities, new PD seems like a major asset; the faculty at this program are AMAZING and so supportive of residents, they are all so happy, incredible program.
Negative Impressions: Location is pretty far in north LA (the valley), call is a bit heavier for weekends than other cali programs.
Other Comments: No problems with accreditation- they were even greenlighted for expedited accreditation.
Schedule: Call on weekends only (none on weekdays), 3 weekend call shifts/month intern year, 2 in PGY-2, 1 in PGY-3, with some 24 hour shifts
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: $70 per week
Free Parking: everywhere except main UCLA
Salary: N/A
Benefits: The residents in the UCLA Olive View residency and fellowship programs are unionized under CIR/SEIU and are currently negotiating with UCLA for a contract WHILE opposing the transfer vehemently. The union is dealing with UCLA and LA County directly. < FYI for all applying to Olive View. Currently benefits are administered by UCLA (paid for by LA county) and are superb. However LA County is currently trying to change this to administer the benefits themselves moving forward. This would worsen benefits substantially. It’s still in the works and not finalized yet but something to keep in mind and worth asking program administration about if you are concerned.< Feb updates from program came through confirming benefits will continue to be under UCLA in 2020.
Moonlighting: in house only
UCLA VA - Greater Los Angeles (formerly SFV)
Interview Structure: 5 interviews, 30 min each
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Happy hour
Positive Impressions: PGY-1 no overnight call, 3x/month. PGY-2 3x/mo. overnight, with post-call day except Sat. High attendance at happy hour and they self-rotated to make sure we talked to different people.
Negative Impressions: VA program so comes with the VA population, 80% VA, 20% UCLA. Small food stipend. Still a newish program. High COL, Westwood is as high as the Bay, horrible LA traffic.
Other Comments: A lot of the main faculty (PD, APD, etc) are child psychiatrists and say you do see children in VA, but it still seems like they are only seen in specific family clinics (by nature since it is still the VA), and residents say the population in the inpatient unit is half people in first break in their late 20s, early 30s and half old vets with really chronic mental illness. Very new/young faculty since many left to Olive View during the split. I'm not convinced that the pathology seen at the VA is transferrable to other systems. any thoughts on this? Schedule: q10 first year with no overnight, and q10-14 second year with 24 call
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: only on call
Free Parking: yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
UCSD
Interview Structure: 2x 30 minute interviews with faculty, 2x15 minute interviews, with PD and APD.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: San Diego is super nice. ~6k housing stipend. PS to the negative vibes over there, there are TONS of gunners who want to be at UCSD for location and are now making stuff up about the program. They did the same thing to UCLA and UCR so please do not believe the hype here. Negative Impressions: high cost of living in SD; to the people spreading lies about UCSD to get into the program and make other applicant rank it lower, I (resident) am quite disappointed in the type of people we have now going into psychiatry. UCSD is collegial, friendly, and wonderful staff. That is why many residents here become faculty. Other Comments: Let us never forget that in 2018-2019, UCSD sent emails saying applicants were ranked to match 5 hours before rank-lists were due. Only later did applicants realize they sent that email to those who were extended interviews but didn't attend, or those who were waitlisted for interviews (You can see last year's thread for more details).
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: PGY4 year only, external only. Currently can moonlight externally PGY 3-4, but laws are changing. I asked about whether they have considered opening up internal slots, residents said that they have lobbied for it but has been denied by higher ups so no.
UCSF
Interview Structure: 1x 30m interview with resident, 2x 30m interview with faculty, 1x 15m interview with PD. Afternoon spent touring VA and ZSFG. PD spends final hour fielding questions from applicants.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Great program leadership, diverse sites. very strong academics.
Negative Impressions: Stupid high COL. One resident cited a rent of $3100 for a 1bedroom, no parking to give you an idea.
Other Comments: Very heavy outpatient focus, could be good or bad depending. 6 months during PGY2.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Get money to spend at cafeteria when on call at ZSfg.
Free Parking: No
Salary: N/A
Benefits: $1000/month housing stipend
Moonlighting: Yes, starting pgy-2
UCSF-Fresno
Interview Structure: Welcome breakfast, intro to program with PD, four 20 minute interviews with 2 breaks (one of which with PD), lunch with residents, tour of sites and Fresno with coordinator
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
COLORADO
U Colorado
Interview Structure: 5 interviews, 30 min to 1 hour
Hotel Compensated for: Discount
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: **Look at last year's impressions, they are pretty accurate and better than mine listed below*** The campus is fantastic, and the attendings seem very dedicated to teaching. The brand new VA building took 10 years to build, and is expectedly phenomenal. Even the behavioral floors at the county hospital were not the worst I've seen. Extremely early elective exposure, dedicated research block in PGY-2, and a dedicated psychotherapy track that every resident seemed jealous they were not a part of (they all loved the breadth of traning for people in the track). Really liked the PD and did not think he was sarcastic, v warm and fuzzy. x2 for really liking PD, he had a witty sense of humor which I appreciated, and was very sweet.
Negative Impressions: Intern year seems incredibly difficult, with 4 months of IM 2 month neuro, and a full month of night float (all at once), not including the night's you'll work on your IM rotation. The resident's were extremely candid and upfront about the rigor of the program, and didn't try to sugar coat it. That being said, the program is very front-loaded, and mellows out immediately after starting PGY-2. Took us over an hour to get from Anschutz to DH at 2 pm and the residents admitted driving back for didactics was torturous. Denver has a pit bull ban.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic at CU, Cerner at Denver Health, CPRS at VA
Free food for residents: on call
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 58k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: After 2nd year unless you get certified before during PGY2
CONNECTICUT
U Connecticut
Interview Structure: 3-4 interviews, 30 min
Hotel Compensated for: Discount
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Institute of Living/Hartford
Interview Structure: 3-4 interviews, 30 min
Hotel Compensated for: Discount
Dinner: Varies?
Positive Impressions: Conversational interviews, well-attended resident lunch, most interested and warm faculty from the trail, very supportive. West Hartford is underrated nice, better living options than advertised // strong emphasis on psychotherapy, a ton of outpatient programs on campus, moonlighting strongly encouraged by PD // I thought the residents at dinner were narcissistic and did not vibe with them. Loved the PD though Negative Impressions: More walking (outdoors) than most interviews so dress accordingly! Location in Hartford, good for suburban/coupled types, but not especially vibrant. A number of people talked about choosing the program because of SOs based in NYC. Not an easy call schedule PGY1-2 (but no call at all PGY3-4).
Other Comments: Everything on one campus including child units < yes, amazing programs on campus - even residential and a school!.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 60k
Benefits:
Moonlighting: Yes, starting PGY3
Yale
Interview Structure: 4 interviews, 2 30 min & 2 45m/hour
Hotel Compensated for: Discount
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: Heard that some residents are unhappy after poor handling of a resident being attacked on the unit last year. anyone know more about this?
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: $10/call
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes
DC
George Washington U
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Heavy global mental health policy, residents were very nice and got along very well, lots of wellness events.
Negative Impressions: PD is not leaving, she is stepping down from PD position but will remain on faculty, new PD recruitment taking place for someone from the outside. GW Hospital is a for-profit hospital & thus not eligible for the federal loan repayment program.
Other Comments: DC is expensive, seems like a single resident salary alone is not guaranteed to get you by comfortably - e.g., most residents live in Arlington, or if they do live in DC, rely on the govt's affordable dwelling units program (which is a fantastic program, btw).
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: $8/call
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 60k
Benefits: 24hr starbucks
Moonlighting: Yes
Howard U
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: N/A
Dinner: N/A
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: The units themselves were surprisingly small. Parking scarce. I can't confirm but I thought a resident said there isn't a metro stop here because the area isn't the greatest, take with a grain of salt because I feel like thats a bit far fetched, there has to be a metro stop there. right? Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Georgetown
Interview Structure: 4 interviews, 15-30 minutes
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions:
Residents are all super friendly, and seem to get along well with each other. Diverse patient population in DC. Seem to be willing to work with you to provide opporutnities that fit your interests. Extremely strong C/L program. //Residents now rotate at Washington State Hospital for inpatient psych, which allows involuntary admissions.
Negative Impressions:
inpatient unit at the georgetown hospital is only voluntary, but they do have diverse training sites so possibly opportunities to see involuntary patients. COL is high in DC. PD does not allow moonlighting. Parking in DC is tough but transit options aren't strong enough to get around entirely without a car, especially in the Georgetown area. //Call: ~7 24's during PGY1, 24's q6-7 during PGY2 (when not on night float block), ~15 24's during PGY3. No built-in child experience during PGY1/2; can do elective PGY2.
Other Comments: No metro stop there.
EMR: No metro stop there
Free food for residents: $10 per call (so no). Also, hospital doesn't have cafeteria.
Free Parking: Yes.
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: No.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital (DC)
Interview Structure: 3 interviews, 15-25 minutes. Interview day 8:30AM to ~2:30PM.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Residents all get along. Long standing history. Forensics heavy. Great faculty. Research ties to big names in psych. Accepting of IMG's, DO's, MD's. Federal employees so get national holidays off unless you are on call. Writing one note/patient/week on inptpsych!
Negative Impressions: Money is tight and it shows sometimes. Area around St. Elizabeths is straight up dangerous. Lots of violent patients. 2nd year resident said he didn’t know how to prescribe SSRIs because all they do is antipsychotics. If you've never used Avatar. good luck. They frequently have running water shut off for weeks at a time due to contamination issues.
Other Comments: Lots of emergency psych done. Residents see worst of the worst so feel well prepared but lots of work. Lots of rotation sites.
EMR: myAvatar
Free food for residents: yes, patient food
Free Parking: yes some places
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: yes
DELAWARE
Delaware Psychiatric Center: No responses
Christiana Care
Interview Structure:
Four consecutive 15-min interviews fit within 1 hour
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Residents nice and get along, Psychiatry is well-respected by the hospital. Diverse patient population. Salary is very high compared to low COL in Delaware. Lots of faculty/geographic connections to everything Philly (medical career & otherwise).
Negative Impressions:
New program (only PGY1s and 2s right now)
Other Comments: This is "the" hospital in Delaware - could be a plus or minus, depending on what you're looking for. DE as a whole seems pretty rough if you're single (maybe a nice place if you're raising kids?).
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: No
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 62k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes
FLORIDA
Aventura Hospital
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: N/A
Dinner: yes > pre-ordered apps.
Positive Impressions: PD emphasizes research and building your CV, program seems to offer a lot of help in this aspect including access to a statistician. Good call schedule, happy residents. Admin seems receptive to feedback and has already changed things based on resident input.
Negative Impressions: That north Miami traffic ugh. HCA Hospital. Don't see moonlighting as a real option. PD tends to ask a lot about any red flags. Overall benefits seem lacking. Good luck with repaying student loans here. Not PLSF.
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: What’s the actual call schedule? EMR: Meditech
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Apparently yes during 4th year
Centerstone
Interview Structure: 4 interviews - PD, psychologist, program coordinator, COO.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Loan repayment options during residency are evidently in the works. Genuinely caring people, good work/life balance.
Negative Impressions: Low compensation, only 47.5 per year. Call is fairly heavy. Have to cover entire hospital on weekends. Did not seem that receptive to MD candidates. Long drive during IM months. Facility is standalone psych facility so you don't really get to interact with other specialties/ if something medical comes up patients are immediately sent out to hospital so medical management is very limited.
Other Comments: PD is a fantastic child psychiatrist, extremely knowledgable.
Schedule: Very heavy on IM. Not terrible on psychiatry, but call is heavy
EMR: Avatar
Free food for residents: Free meals while at hospital
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 47.5k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: PGY3 + PGY4
Citrus Health Network: No responses
Community Health of South Florida (CHI)
Interview Structure: 1 20 min panel interview with PD, attending, chief resident
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Very community oriented if that's the kind of mental health you want to practice in. Supportive program, call schedule seems nice. Interaction with FM residents too. Qualifies for PSLF in residency since it's a community health center. Strong outpatient experience. Reimburses for step, stipend for education.
Negative Impressions: Low salary for the COL. HRSA funded instead of CMS so they track whether you work in community mental health after you graduate. Inpatient psych experience seems lacking.
Other Comments: Really liked the residents and the people there. New child psych attending is amazing.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: No, only while at Larkin
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
FAU
Interview Structure: Three 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Excellent faculty, adult learning principles utilized when structuring the curriculum, the residents are insanely happy and close with each other, hours are great.
Negative Impressions: Boca Raton is quiet and has an older population. Other Comments: PD is ex-Harvard Child Psych PD. he knows everything. I left the interview with the impressions that you will get an incredible clinical training at this program; to add on, seems like a program that you will get incredible training beacuse of the faculty/PD/aPD without an insane work load. There is no call and they cap your patient load pretty low to encourage education (the low workload raised some concern for lack of experience but that seems person dependent).
Schedule: IM heavy (5 months), will work 6 days/week on IM. Absolutely no call when on a psychiatry rotation, weekends completely off when you're on a psychiatry rotation for all the years.
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: $15/day towards hospital cafe that includes a subway and starbucks
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: $50/mo for PPO,$180 with spouse
Moonlighting: TBD, expected ~ $500 per 12h shift (no-one has done it yet)
HCA West Florida/Largo
Interview Structure: Three 10 minute interviews//I had 2 20ish minute interviews. Then waited for about 1.5 hrs while everyone else interviewed lol.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Location // it didn't seem as bad as everyone made it out to be. APD is focused on interventional psych and boosting didactics, claims USF partnership will expand available electives. Residents were friendly.
Negative Impressions: Workhorse program, HCA so impossible to moonlight. and HCA doesn't care about residents which is clear. // PD has a disinterested interview style, did not seem to enjoy/have interest in being a PD // They seemed to be hiding the residents from us. We met one 3rd year and the chief. Didn't show us the resident work room. Agreed on PD being disinterested. Made us go 3 different places without providing any transportation. Intern patient cap is 15, 20 second year.
Other Comments: Nobody read my application prior to the interview x2 // They definitely work ALOT. The teaching is not very organized and is more for a self-starter.
Schedule: 12 on 2 off
EMR: Meditech
Free food for residents: $950 per year
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: PGY $52,770
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes. < They say yes but not really. You have to get PD approval and someone said they tell PDs not to approve anyone. < that explains why no one can describe their moonlight exp. < I got a 'maybe'.
Jackson Health
Interview Structure: 3 30 min interviews with faculty/resident and 1 15 min interview with PD
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Good diversity of sites, they have inpatient adult and child and psych ER at their crisis center and the VA. Residents all seemed to be cool with each other and the program. Miami. Education, conference, and food stipend are generous. The campus is nice. PD and faculty seemed to be very supportive.
Negative Impressions: The residents were all very upfront about working hard while they're on. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that PGY2 has 24 hour call. Other Comments: Even though they get extra money for education and what not, seems like the salary is pretty low for COL.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: 58k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes, but only PGY-4
Larkin Community Hospital
Interview Structure: 1 panel interview with PD, chief resident, someone else?
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Residents are happy, have no problem getting fellowships. Child rotations can be done at Miami Children's Hospital (Nicklaus). Program is known for well-rounded residents. Opportunities for research and collab with other residencies. No more 24hr call, now 12hr. Reimburses for Step, educational stipend < This is totally written by the PC/PD or someone at the program lol x2 // it totally is, those residents are absolutely not happy.
Negative Impressions: LOW salary for COL, one of the lowest in FL. Intern year is tough (and residents admit this). Not much exposure to psychotherapy.
Other Comments: Residents are amazing. Program also works with refugees and ICE child detainees. >> guys this is a garbage program. // yup and program leadership is obviously editing these boxes
EMR: MedHost
Free food for residents: Taken out of your salary whether you eat there or not :/
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: 42K PGY1 >ouch Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Memorial Healthcare-Hollywood
Interview Structure: 3 15 min interviews with directors of various parts of the program.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes kind of. Appetizers are pre-ordered and we don't order entrees. Kind of a cheap first impression < Disagree! I had no problems with the preordered food. dinner location was really nice too < Eh, some people have particular diets and prefer to be wined and dined like every other program does for us.
Positive Impressions: Hmm. By the beach. free food and parking apparently, although did not see this listed on contract. resident work room was pretty nice. Facilities overall were pretty nice. //// checked contract after seeing this post on interview day. food was there, listed as breakfast lunch and dinner.
Negative Impressions: The interviewers were awkward like they didn't have much experience interviewing. I got the impression that the program was a little too confident in themselves, thought some of the residents were a little rude, and didn't feel like the interviewers had reviewed my app or were very interested in anything I had to say. They also weren't really able to answer some of my questions, perhaps this is because it is newer. it was my least favorable impression so far. Didn't really seem to offer anything that every other program doesn't already offer except location IMO. // agree on some interview being a little awkward. No ability to fast track is a con. plus no moonlighting. Battery charger they gave didn't work. Lol +1 I totally had this happen too, thought it was just a one off.
Other Comments: Felt pretty negative the entire day and for a couple of days after. weird vibe. Maybe it just wasn't for me. Will rank last or towards bottom. X10 ANOTHER REVIEW but. felt like this program was complete trash. bad presentation, bad interviewers, PD was the only cool one. sorry NO.
Schedule: Residents couldn't really speak to it much since it is new. No overnight call. They didn't seem overworked.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 54k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Negative this is hospital, not PD policy
Mount Sinai of Florida
Interview Structure: 3 ~15-20min interviews with attendings, PD, and administrator
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Really good moonlighting being setup! $120 an hour.
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Orange Park
Interview Structure: three 20 min interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Residents seem happy which they heavily attribute to their PD. She is quite nurturing. Only 2 months of IM here. Free food. Cool transition to a different hospital second year with a totally different patient population. First year they have an "academic team" where you can really focus on your rhythm and therapy skills. +Some incredibly nice people here. Definetely family safe.
Negative Impressions: HCA. Residents here had a room with no desks. Free prison food -(Not the same person but the cafeteria is being rebuilt and the food at the other sites are really good apparently)-. No moonlighting! Why would you consider a community program without easy access to moonlighting HCA? US grads: not PLSF! 2 half days of didactics is more than I've ever seen anywhere else. +1 we were all kind of appalled they had us take an Uber from one interview site to another.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 52k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: 75th percentile on their exams, so no.
Palm Beach Consortium
Interview Structure:1 on 1 with director and chief resident
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Light call, nice inpatient facilities
Negative Impressions: HCA. Enough said. Dangerous. < how is HCA dangerous? No, their inpatient unit is dangerousOther Comments: HCA salaries significantly lower than regional offers. how low? 52500 1st year.
EMR: Meditech
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 52k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: PGY3 and above
U Central Florida - Gainsville
Interview Structure: Four 15min interviews, some behavioral questions
Hotel Compensated for: discount
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Friendly, seem intested in teaching, faculty mostly trained at UF so good relations. Residents are very cool. free parking. IMG and DO friendly (being positive!) Call done by end of 2nd or early 3rd year and no more after that. PD seemed very supportive, said program had great exposure to pathology, compared it to similar level of pathology at Jackson Behavioral Health/U of Miami.
Negative Impressions: Location is not for everyone. HCA does not employ the residents but they still have some influence on residency. No fellowships, but does allow to fast track to outside child fellowship. Focused on community physicians. No in house moonlighting, apparently one resident is doing moonlighting at a radiology clinic (story didnt make sense). Doesn't take Medicaid patients so limited exposure to underserved. Newish program so no board pass rates yet and fellowship placement is unknown right now. Consults covers both the ER and inpatient so it can get real busy.
Other Comments: Family friendly and good for kids.
EMR: Meditech
Free food for residents: 25% discount
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
U Central Florida
Interview Structure: 3 one on one interviews, all standardized behavioral questions but I found it to still be pretty laid back. One group interview which mostly consisted of us asking questions to the attending at Osceola; very big interview group.
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: New program, residents are happy, room for leadership and change. They've already made changes per feedback given to them. Disney is here, so.
Negative Impressions: Seems like the residents work 6 days a week?// Other Comments: All facilities very new and nice. PD is younger and seems to care about residents very much. Good place to go if you have a family or kids. // At VA tour, told about a new VA residency that "we can SOAP into if you don't match". this guy was an interviewer for UCF too.
EMR: Meditech
Free food for residents: Up to around $9/meal at the main hospital, but residents said that as long as you get a normal sized meal you will never have to pay a dime. VA has unusually good food, but not free.
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: Access to UCF facilities, small discount at Disney (Florida discount is better)
Moonlighting: Very likely after PGY2 move to PGY3. I realize every HCA facility says this but no one is moonlighting. fishy. > interviewer from osceola med center ripped one of the interviewees for asking about moonlighting
U Florida
Interview Structure: five 20 min IV with professors and two residents (together)
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: No call 3rd and 4th year. Intern year is one month medicine two months neuro and one-two months EM; Very cohesive group of residents. Strong in dynamic psychotherapy third year.
Negative Impressions: Moonlighting 3rd year $100 hr. No partial hospitalization program //I was told the moonlighting was only 75 per hour or something. can anyone confirm? I heard that too, but it is internal moonlighting so pros and cons.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: VA does not have epic
Free food for residents: Gator bucks can be used not at VA
Free Parking: No
Salary: 53-59K PGY1-PGY4
Benefits: health insurance paid for by residency program
Moonlighting: PGY3
U Florida-Jacksonville
Interview Structure: 3 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: discounted - $99
Dinner: yes and it is delicious
Positive Impressions: Amazing dinner the night before. Residents all seem very happy and close to one another. No night float. Definitely not overworked. They reported seeing very diverse pathology and the faculty have extremely impressive credentials. Overall seemed like a great program.
Negative Impressions: Only 4 positions available. Not a ton of emphasis on research, which may or may not be a negative depending on your goals. It seems like the resources are available to do research if you really want to. They said forensics is their biggest weakness.
Other Comments: Seems like they are really pushing the child-adolescent track. (Probably because they have more resources for it. Most recent class had 2 people go into addictions) // This year they allotted 2 spots for CAD track and 2 for General Psych (4 in a class total).
Schedule: Heavier Call because program is so small, but it's home call which is probably better
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Allowance - $1200 a year
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
USF Morsani
Interview Structure: 4 20ish minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Dinner the night before at adorable restaurant with 2 residents and 4 applicants - very conversational. Incredibly kind, chill, residents. Also took us to fancy lunch at Oxford exchange. Program is very resident centered, the focus is on resident learning, and they also want you to have a good quality of life. Many rotations have very reasonable hours (8-4), and it seems like you get a good number of weekends off (no call pgy1). Research opportunities exist but there's no pressure to do research. Strong mentors. Medical insurance is paid for by program and is supposed to be great. Strong C/L experience at TGH.
Negative Impressions: One person mentioned that if psychotherapy is your life's calling, this program may not be for you. But therapy training does exist, and it seems like if you put in the work you can still get good therapy training. Somewhat VA heavy in the first year. Parental leave didn't seem fantastic, but it was implied that they would work with you beyond what was stated in the benefits package. // PD is kind of odd. //he's a bit awkward but I think he is very sweet.
Other Comments: Very VA heavy program (like 70%).
Schedule: PGy1: 4 mo IM (wards), 2 mo Neuro, 6 psych (inpt, CL, specialty). No call PGY1.
EMR: Epic, CPRS
Free food for residents: Yes but they don't eat it bc the VA food is bad
Free Parking: Yes at VA, not on USF campus (outpatient)
Salary: PGY1 52k
Benefits: Health insurance paid for by residency program, matched retirement plan, book fund, conference $, moonlight PGY3 100/hour.
Moonlighting: Yes starting third year
GEORGIA
Emory University
Interview Structure: 4 interviews, a lot of applicants
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: A lot of applicants, but a great turnout from residents of all years at the dinner. They looked like they all got along well and were happy. Good support from faculty. Lots of opportunities at various type of hospitals (public, private, VA). Easy moonlighting. Every ACGME accredited fellowship available here.
Negative Impressions: Workload? At VA, you get about $5.50? for on-call meals, $0 at Emory. Moonlighting pays ~$80/hr. Some residents seemed overworked Other Comments: I just want to share my (different) perspective on the heavy workload here for future applicants who might reference this spreadsheet. I also had a resident who said "if you want to coast, this might not be the place for you", but she also said that she doesn't feel taken advantage of by the program - I would not equate that to being "miserable". In fact, many of the residents were transparent about the workload, but seemed to have no major issues with it (especially those who have gotten through it - because they got through it). I suppose it depends what kind of person you are, but it's all relative, right? What about our peers going into general surgery or those who have to do a whole year of IM prelim? A lot of residents have rough schedules, some for all 4+ years! Emory PGY3 and PGY4 are just as good as any other program. And as an attending, your lifestyle will be great! I take heavy workload as more training experience. Sucks, yeah, but it's 10 months of your life.
Schedule: Psych: 2 months Psych ED, 3-4 months inpatient unit; Medicine: only 1 months wards, other 3 variable
EMR: Epic (Grady), Powerchart (Emory Hospital + Wesley Woods), CPRS (VA)
Free food for residents: No
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 59k
Benefits: Free health insurance, low cost dental and vision, book fund
Moonlighting: Can start internal moonlightling as early as PGY2
Morehouse
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: Discount
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Smaller program currently 4 residents/year (could be pro or con), strong emphasis on underserved population, very supportive PD and faculty, happy residents, new CAP fellowship.
Negative Impressions: No moonlighting until mid 3rd year, smaller program, ATL traffic
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: $58,109
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Mid 3rd year or 4th year
Medical College of Georgia
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: N/A
Dinner: N/A
Positive Impressions: I like the residents. They don't seem that stressed. Protected didactics on Thurs, Augusta is a cheap place to live.
Negative Impressions: Augusta on the small side. Have lost their inpatient unit at AUMC last year, are down to only Child for in-house fellowship options.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Coliseum Medical Center
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: N/A
Dinner: N/A
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: Another HCA sweatshop. "Obtain and retain" all the desperate candidates!
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Gateway Behavioral Health
Interview Structure: 4 30-minute interviews, 8 applicants
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Solid faculty, happy residents, lots of training locations, building a new facility, no call.
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: 4 months family medicine (inpatient & outpatient), 2 months neuro
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: No
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: $57,800
Benefits: 15 vacation days
Moonlighting: N/A
HAWAII
U Hawaii
Interview Structure: 4 45-minute interviews, 6 applicants
Hotel Compensated for: No, but ask PC about staying at U Hawaii dorm for cheap
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Residents get a long well, tons to do on Oahu. Program pretty solid as far as academic institutions generally go. Negative Impressions: "island fever" some residents express feeling of isolation after being on the islands for a while. Expensive place to live. Not a great place for research unless you wanna do social science type stuff. No moonlighting all four years, and that is not something that will change in the foreseeable future due to liability concerns (known issue that's been discussed over and over).
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: EPIC
Free food for residents: Call
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: $58,863; 59,673; 60,796; 63,420
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: No
IDAHO
UW Idaho Track
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: N/A
Dinner: Breakfast and happy hour day of interview
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Ample though may change a little with call requirements and PGY1 classs beginning 2021
IOWA
Iowa Medical Education Collaborative
Interview Structure: 8am-1pm, 4x15 min interviews, 8 candidates
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions:
New facilities. Family-friendly. Low call volume - q8 home call, rarely work weekends. Starting up TMS and ketamine clinics with plans for ECT. New 100 bed facility to be completed this year. 3rd years will have their own offices with windows, private bathrooms, and showers.
Negative Impressions: Newer program, 3rd and 4th years have not been trialed. Lighter workload could be con depending on your priorities.
Other Comments: New psych program recruiting for its 3rd class, but at a large hospital with several established residencies in other specialties. Residents are down to earth, close-knit. Many have families. Hours flexible and call very light. Program director is very down to earth, interested in resident feedback, seems invested and engaged Schedule: 1 mo IM, can do electives like peds for other PC. 3x neuro. family medicine. 3rd year is completely outpatient
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: Snacks stocked in resident lounge, $2400 meal stipend.
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: 60k->64k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Will be able to moonlight at new Clive facility
UnityPoint Broadlawns
Interview Structure: 9a-4p, Three 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Gorgeous inpatient unit. Good work-life balance. Lots of ECT exposure. Has "cost of living" stipend of $500/mo on top of salary (or you can get a free apartment).
Negative Impressions: Also newer program (started at same time at IMEC). A ton of night float--I don't remember exact number, but the PD mentioned even PGY3's would be taking time out of clinic to do it. There are 4 residents a year and the hospital require 24/7 coverage.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: COL stipend
Moonlighting: N/A
U Iowa
Interview Structure: Four 25-30 min interviews (PD, aPD, other faculty)
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: New-ish PD seems committed to progress. Opening new addiction and CL fellowships (already has child. geri-psych fellowship is "inactive"). Residents very easy to get along with. Excellent exposure to neuromodulation and interventional psychiatry. Medicine months are done on med-psych unit, so never truly away from psychiatry.
Negative Impressions: Older facilities. Call seems to be heavier than at peer institutions. Little to no exposure to forensics (a couple of didactic lectures from visiting lecturer, no rotation/electives) Other Comments: To give some clarity on Forensics, you can moonlight in PGY3 at the prison, which is very close by. Maybe half the residents per class moonlight there. You can also do an elective or incorporate some forensics into outpatient year. Formal forensic teaching is limited. This is probably the biggest weakness, and residents are very open about it.
Schedule: Call stated as ~4-6 times per month with mix of 5p-10p weeknights and 12hr weekend shifts. First 4 call shifts in PGY1 year with an upper level to help train. Two interns always on call together. Night float as PGY2 (for 6 or 8 weeks I believe?
EMR: Epic, CPRS (VA)
Free food for residents: Certain amount of call money each year, but based on inpatient months, so PGY1/PGY2 have the most. Food 1-2 times per week at didactics.
Free Parking: No, and parking can be a pain (off campus and take a shuttle or walke 10-15 min to the hospital)
Salary: $57,800
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Starting in PGY3 year
All right bbs, I promised I would be posting spreadsheet data alphabetized by state here for your browsing pleasure. As an officially matched MS4 who was sent home at 9 AM today, I truly have nothing better to do! Close to none of these opinions are mine, as many of mine were deleted when people were still messing around with the spreadsheet and I was too annoyed to re-contribute. Content has undergone cursory edits for grammar and clarity. I put "N/A" when no response was given. As this is all crowdsourced data, independent fact-checking is advised. Some notes about spreadsheet nomenclature - people have been using x2 or whatever number to show agreement and you da true mvp Reactions: 2 users
When I was applying it was so much easier to go through SDN threads than to even find the spreadsheets so hopefully someone finds it helpful. I'll finish it up sometime this week. Also some of these comments have been surprisingly juicier than expected.
ILLINOIS
Advocate Lutheran
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Carle Foundation Hospital
Interview Structure: Intro then 3 interviews, 1 with resident, 1 with faculty, and 1 with PD +faculty (behavioral interview), 15 minute discussions about research and psychotherapy, lunch+noon conference, tour of 2 campuses
Hotel Compensated for: discount
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Friendly residents/attendings, reasonable hours, no call.
Negative Impressions: Seems way too chill, no call so they make you do mandatory research.
Other Comments: Heavy research and psychotherapy.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Only at Carle
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Nobody has so far, but they are expecting that you will be able to by 3rd year.
Loyola
Interview Structure: 5x20 min interviews, 2 attendings, 1 PD, 1 assistant PD, 1 PGY4
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Residents were very nice and passionate about the program. PD was nice as well and seemed invested in the program. A big focus was the breadth of experience due to the 4 different training sites.
Negative Impressions: There is a defensive undercurrent. The program has a history of working residents hard and that may still be the case. The few residents that had anything negative to say about the program (e.g. tough call with covering 2 ERs, hard IM rotation, long hours) were immediately overruled by their neighboring resident with an attitude that you need to work really hard to be prepared to see anything. The PD makes you feel like you're a great fit and that they'll rank you highly but this happened last year as well so don't put too much stock in that interaction. PD is a bold face liar.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Northwestern
Interview Structure: 4x30 min interviews - 2 PDs (outgoing and incoming) and two other faculty
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Absolutely gorgeous hospital, all medicine/neuro rotations in first 6mo then all psych afterwards, residents seemed to all be pretty tight, getting more money for research, early exposure to child psych, outpatient experiences starting PGY2, don't need a car, right in downtown Chicago, great area.
Negative Impressions: Just starting a research track this year, so may not be fully fleshed out if you're particularly interested in research. weak geri. A few residents either left or were looking to leave due to being unhappy. Not something the program is obviously open about. Other Comments: Really did not enjoy the department chair -- very smart guy but really not great vibes x2.
Schedule: Off-service is a 6month block of inpatient medicine and inpt neurology - no ambulatory/clinic. Call is PGY1-3. PGY1-2 you work ~1/2 of weekend days according to their call schedule.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: Yes when on call overnight ($12 for food) and when on medicine rotations.
Free Parking: No
Salary: $61k for interns, up to $69k PGY4
Benefits: Apparently the health insurance is legit. even covers 90% of fertility/egg freezing costs. Can't for the life of me remember how that came up but FYI.
Moonlighting: Starting PGY3, can moonlight at Northwestern's ED or affiliate sites.
Rosalind Franklin
Interview Structure: 3 30min interviews, 2 attendings and one PGY-4 or 3 attendings, no behavioral questions
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Laid back program, PD seemed genuine and chill, very chill interview, fast tracking/moonlighting allowed.
Negative Impressions: VA based w/multiple sites; lots of driving b/w sites. 1 hour outside of chicago, How much exposure can you really get with mostly VA based training?
Other Comments: Used to be IMG friendly; preference given to affiliated med school.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: $54,617 @PGY-1
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes
Rush
Interview Structure: "half" day set up - 5 30 min interviews , 4 30 min for my day
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Fanciest lunch by far, residents are really valued, professional presentation and well organized day.
Negative Impressions: No child psych inpatient any longer, adult inpatient recently re-opened after being closed for a few months unclear how this affects patient volume and diversity Other Comments: Will be opening a C/L fellowship this coming year, C/L faculty consists of med/psych attendings; Residents seem very happy but dinner did not have interns there.
Schedule: Will be opening a C/L fellowship this coming year, C/L faculty consists of med/psych attendings; Residents seem very happy but dinner did not have interns there.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Just started catering lunches at didactics
Free Parking: yes!
Salary: $2-3k higher than average
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Can start in-house PGY-2
Southern Illinois U
Interview Structure: x4 30-min interviews for ~6 applicants after ~1 hour introduction and program info, mostly behavioral questions on IV.
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Residents seem friendly and engaged, facilities look great and wellness is a priority; laid back schedule with intermittent "tough spots".
Negative Impressions: Not many changes seem resident-driven despite residents clearly being engaged in the program. Smaller city/location, Springfield not for everyone.
Other Comments: IMG-friendly. Very "fit"-oriented and into community/rural candidates with research as being nice to have, but less emphasized.
Schedule: EMR: Epic, Cerner, proprietary for outpatient
Free food for residents: YES, chef in 2nd hospital will cook as well; otherwise $50/mo stipend
Free Parking: Yes!
Salary: 58 @PGY-1
Benefits: Standard
Moonlighting: Starting PGY-3
U Chicago
Interview Structure: x5 30 min interviews
Hotel Compensated for: no
Dinner: yes
Positive Impressions: Residents talked a lot about program's responsiveness to feedback (starting electives, changing schedules, etc). Family friendly. Lots of non-immediate supervision (weekly with mentors). Big focus on teaching. They said they had a big emphasis on psychotherapy training, not sure how much more it really is than other programs. Lots of C/L -Residents were open and genuine, didn't try to hide anything. Were open to talking about good attendings, not so good attendings, good experiences, difficult experiences (e.g. personality disorders clinic).
Negative Impressions: Residents said that faculty will jump in if needed, but can be hands-off for actual evaluations and let residents figure things out on their own. good for some personalities/learning styles, but not all. Commute to inpatient units 30-60+ minutes for a few months per year. Primarily serves population in southside of Chicago Other Comments: Seemed like 4th year was very open to doing whatever you want. Residents were friendly, seemed happy to be there EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: 60k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes, starting in PGY3 (get paid for taking overnight call or 24 hr shifts as PGY3!) Many opportunities!
UIC
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: no
Dinner: yes
Positive Impressions:
Residents were fairly approachable overall, interesting bunch, cohesive classes, focus on the underserved. PD very experienced and seems to have a good vision for the program. Mission focused, with abilities to do research. Chicago is a great city > to add my persepective, the residents seemed incredibly happy and were very close knit, they plan activities together outside residency weekly, "interesting bunch" just sounds like a weird way to desribe them (potentially negative connotation?) ++Dr. McDreamy as tour guide.
Negative Impressions: Somewhat call heavy per the residents Other Comments: Really strong women's health, med-psych, and neuropsych components.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes starting PGY3
U Illinois-Peoria
Interview Structure: 4 interviews-1 w/ PD, 1 w/ APD, 1 with other faculty and 1 w/ resident. some behavioral questions, some personal, others may just ask you what questions you have about the program. There is no formal overview of the program. You go on a very short tour with the chief resident, have a Q&A with a small group of residents, and then you end the day with a 1 on 1 lunch with one of the residents since there is no dinner the night prior.
Hotel Compensated for: yes
Dinner: no
Positive Impressions: Very friendly residents and faculty. A few awkward resdients but overall nice to talk to. Strong focus on psychotherapy and wide range of therapy modalities. Very good 1v1 exposure with attendings, small program, all residents get along (they're looking at expanding to 6 residents in the future).
Negative Impressions: Everyone said they wished there was more faculty. Only take call from home. No emergency psych opportunity. The city seems somewhat dull. PD acknowledged lack of ECT was due to conflicts of interest and lack of support from ANES group; does not use esketamine therapy (could be positive depending on your position).
Other Comments: Inpatient psych you start with 8 patients and maintain that throughout the years. 8 seemed like it would be very overwhelming to start with as an intern, especially if they are lacking faculty to supervise Schedule: No call PG1. Home call during other years.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes, anytime, as much as you want
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Can start as PGY3
INDIANA
Community Health Network, Inc.
Interview Structure: 3 interviews, with PD, Associate PD, and one faculty member. 25 minutes long. Groups alternate with tour and interviewing. mostly conversational interviews, some behavioral
Hotel Compensated for: yes
Dinner: yes, one of the best IV dinners I been on at Seasons 52
Positive Impressions: Very friendly residents and faculty. Good benefits. Free starbucks/food. Affordable city. In house CAP unit and Crisis Unit.
Negative Impressions: Not very strong research opportunities.
Other Comments: Very turned off by interview style. All interviewers have 4 or so behavioral questions they ask everyone. Took up the majority of the time with each person. No time to really get to know the people you will be working with. Personally was the worst interview experience I had all season, others on interview day expressed annoyance too. The program may get decent info from this style, but it doesn't make an applicant want to be part of their (very new) program. +2
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: Yes. Free in cafeteria, free starbucks, and free "convenience store" supplies
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Indiana University
Interview Structure: 4 30 min interviews- PD, associate PD, faculty member, chief resident
Hotel Compensated for: Yes - Omni in downtown Indy Dinner: Yes - fancy steakhouse Positive Impressions: Diversity of clinical sites/ opportunities, PD seems to make effort to individualize the program based on resident's interests, many research opportunities, academics. Super friendly people. Residents seem very happy. < Great benefits and moonlighting opportunities. Cheap COL.
Negative Impressions: PGY2 nearly weekly overnight call shifts. Large number of clinical sites could feel disjointed, during later years could potentially do a half day at a different site each day of the week.
Other Comments: PGY3 resident here! Regarding the pgy 2 call schedule it's Q(#of people in your class) so usually Q8 until the Triple Board residents enter the pool at the end of the year. Last year's call totals for the categorical people ranged from 39-41 for the year. Regarding the clinic schedules for 3rd year and beyond you can work in a different site in the morning vs afternoon if you build your schedule that way. Generally things are pretty close to each other and you may do about a 15 minute door-door transition via walking or driving for the far apart clinics. Nearby sites are a 5 minute walk. Hope this helps! I'll post it on the Reddit sheet too.
EMR: Epic, Cerner, CPRS
Free food for residents: For call nights and weekly didactics
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: $56,329
Benefits: Free health & dental insurance for resident, spouse, and all dependents w/ low copay. IU tuition benefit
Moonlighting: Yes--no in house yet, but program working on it. Can start PGY2 I believe.
** Program was on the "Recommended Programs" tab ** : I liked this program so much more than I was expecting (thought it would be solid middle rank, ended up at #2). It's such a comforting and warm environment and residents are really nice and SO happy. The opportunities you would want in a program are available. Good work/life balance (second year is a little rough with 24 hour call). Real estate is super cheap in Indianapolis if you're looking to buy a home. Added bonus: they pay for your hotel
Indiana University-Vincennes
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
KANSAS
U Kansas
Interview Structure: There is a written response part where you answer some generic interview q's.
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: New inpatient unit is amazing, faculty is supportive and approachable. Call is night float 2 weeks instead of night call.
Negative Impressions: Night float, if that's not your thing; consults is an incredibly busy service due to size of hospital. Residents spend a substantial portion of training at the VA, to the point where I worry if it limits breadth of training experiences.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic, CPRS
Free food for residents: $60/mo
Free Parking: discounted
Salary: $55,700
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: After 2nd year, but most don't until 4th; minimum PRITE score requirement.
U Kansas-Wichita
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes, and lunch at restaurant day of interview.
Positive Impressions: Residents seem happy, newer psych units are nice. Has stellar faculty member who did a didactic session on interview day which was great. Has special physician cafeterias the residents get to use with free food.
Negative Impressions: Got odd vibes from the PD here. One of the chief residents was continuously rude to the waiter at dinner. Seems to be low threshold to send behaviorally challenging patients to state hospital--may limit opportunity to learn how to handle this population.
Other Comments: odd vibes?
EMR: Cerner, CPRS
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: NO maternity leave>>> you do get Maternity leave
Moonlighting: After 2nd year, but most don't until 4th
KENTUCKY
U Kentucky-Bowling Green
Interview Structure: 4 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Residents seem happy, their schedule isn't too bad no overnight call// program seems nice, does allow fast tracking, has 4 spots next year thanks to someone fast tracking.
Negative Impressions: Their inpatient unit is only voluntary. New PD apparently would like for overnight call to be added, however seems unlikely due to program size. No GME money, board money, food money or extras. Your salary is what you get.
Other Comments: PD is just flat out weird. He's new and his inexperience shines through. //+1 on the odd vibes.
EMR: Meditech
Free food for residents: No
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: $55,080
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
U Kentucky College of Medicine
Interview Structure: Six 25 min interviews
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Friendliest program I’ve ever seen. People are so genuine and sweet and Lexington is beautiful. -Agreed!
Negative Impressions: Lexington is nice but small. Not much going on or great job opportunities for spouses. Very dominated by college sports. Kentucky in general is very poor.
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: 2 neuro, 1 outpatient peds, 1 inpatient FM, 2 inpatient IM
EMR: Eventually will be epic
Free food for residents: Monthly stipend added onto your check to help pay for food
Free Parking: No, but reimbursed through salary
Salary: $55,080
Benefits: 10 days plus 8 holidays and 4 bonus holidays
Moonlighting: After 2nd- Eastern State Hospital, + opportunities at another hospital in Corbin, KY (with child psych).
U Louisville
Interview Structure: 3 30 min interviews. PD, faculty member, and resident + "group" interview
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, CPRS
Free food for residents: Sometimes - Free doctor's lounge at Norton, meal vouchers for night float
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes
LOUISIANA
Louisiana State University - OLOL
Interview Structure: 5 interviews with PD + faculty
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Supportive PD and amazing faculty and staff. Happy residents. External moonlighting available mid 2nd year. No call intern year. Home call 2-4 year. Free breakfast and lunch daily! Very affordable COL. 100% board pass rate.
Negative Impressions: Addiction services are lacking but PD actively working to improve. BR traffic. Residents didn't seem too keen on call and night float into 4th year.
Other Comments: PD's goal to keep doctors in Louisiana so she tries to recruit residents from Louisiana & neighboring states.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: 53k
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes starting Mid-2nd year
Louisiana State University - Oschner Clinic Foundation
Interview Structure: 3 interviews with PD + faculty, 1 interview with chief resident
Hotel Compensated for: Discount
Dinner: Pre-Interview Social at Resident's House - was DOPE, was legit like a house party
Positive Impressions: Super friendly residents who genuinely get along and are happy; Psych ER is def the nicest I've seen and UMC is new and super nice. Lots of moonlighting opportunities (internal moonlighting); no call as PGY-3 and PGY-4; lots of different clinics (HIV, OBGYN, Heme/Onc, GI, Trauma, Addiction, Primary Care). Good CAP experience (will have a brand new 51-bed CAP hospital) and Forensics experience. New Orleans is a fun city.
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: 2 neuro, 2 inpatient IM, 1 IM specialty, 1 ED, 1 Psych ER, 1 night float, 4 inpatient psych
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes, internal moonlighting starting 2nd year
Louisiana State University - Shreveport
Interview Structure: 4 or 5 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: 2 neuro, 2 inpatient IM, 1 IM specialty, 1 ED, 1 Psych ER, 1 night float, 4 inpatient psych
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Meal plan
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: 3rd year for US grads, 4th year for IMG
Tulane University
Interview Structure: Interview with resident, 3 interviews with faculty (including PD)
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Tulane Medical Center has Meditech; UMC has Epic; VA has something else
Free food for residents: Yes
Free Parking: Yes
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes starting 2nd year (internal moonlighting)
MASSACHUSETTS
Berkshire Medical Center: No responses
BI Deaconness
Interview Structure: 4 or 5 20-30 minute interviews, 1 with PD, and most seemed to meet with some mix of APD, chair, or psych clinical director
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Phenomenal 3-course pre-interview dinner! Residents were warm and eager to answer questions. Rich psychotherapy curriculum. Strong diversity of training sites. Moonlighting opportunities pay well per upper levels.
Negative Impressions: More call (though residents seem happy and well-supported) and unable to moonlight until PGY3 but it doesn't seem like many take advantage of it due to call requirements? Facilities not the best. Psych unit did not have double lock door. // I did not enjoy interacting with my co-applicants - very uptight and took themselves too seriously. I don't know if that's jst the type of person the program attracts or if I just got unlucky. Didn't get warm vibes from PD although I liked the aPD. Manic energy from the residents. Most admitted they did not have any hobbies "I like to watch Netflix and go to breweries." Boston is $$$.
Other Comments: Strengths in psychodynamic psychotherapy and community psychiatry (Mass Mental), but also well-rounded and strong in CL and interventional psychiatry. Residents are tight-knit and happy. There were earlier comments about a male PD but these were accidentally copied and pasted from umass impressions. The PD of BIDMC is female and very welcoming.
Schedule: PGYI: 4 months medicine-wards; 1 month neurology; 1 month substance/addictions at VA; 3 months inpatient at BIDMC; 3 months ED
EMR: Not epic
Free food for residents: Card with cash for hospital cafeteria
Free Parking: LOL < I assume that means no
Salary: high 60's
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Brigham and Women's
Interview Structure: 5 30 min interviews (6 if research track) including chair, PD, APD; 6 applicants
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Big research institution with basically every kind of subspecialty care. Rotations at Boston Children's, so excellent C&A psych. Lots of focus on resident education and responsiveness to feedback. Moonlighting PGY3, residents and faculty were friendly, chair of psychiatry was particularly wonderful. Dedicated psychotherapy and psychopharm patients starting in PGY2. Emphasis on residents as individuals and providing flexibility, mentoring, and support.
Negative Impressions: Less focus on communty-based psych or systems (though have 3 months at Mass Mental, the community mental health center, and can do more there if you want). Inpatient psych is at satellite hospital (Faulkner). Commute to Mclean.
Other Comments: Super yummy bougie dinner beforehand with drinks.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: 60s
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Starting PGY3 after you get your license
BU
Interview Structure: 2 30-min with residents, 1-2 30 min with faculty, 1 15 min with PD
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Friendly, laid back residents. Also strong focus on social justice, underserved populations, and have opportunities in global mental health. Call schedule is reasonable but includes 24 hr calls (about 10/yr) and night float (6 weeks total if I remember correctly). Call doesn't start until PGY-2, and no call in PGY-4. Excellent training in Addictions and psychotherapy. Many clinical sites are at VA hospitals but also have a variety of exposure to other populations. MOST DIVERSE RESIDENT CLASS AND FACULTY I'VE SEEN YET.
Negative Impressions: No inpatient psych unit at BMC's main hospital. Clinical sites are very far from each other so the commute can be long to some of the sites (if no car then max time to farthest site could be 1.5 hours but even with car Boston traffic is terrible). No moonlighting until PY-4. Expensive city. If you're into intense biological research then it seems lacking here. Facilities are far and very difficult to transport to in the Boston area.
Other Comments: Definitely a good program! Wish I could've learned more about the PD on the interview day considering how important it is to know about fit. You only get a 15 minute interview with her in addition to an overview of the curriculum and mission statement of the program. Would've been nice to just hear more about her and her vision for the program. >> Wish the interviews had been more coordinated: had 3 interviews back to back that asked me 'why boston' and 'why psychiatry'. once, twice, maybe. By the third time, I was like, 'really?".
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Meal allowance each academic year
Free Parking: No
Salary: 60's
Benefits: Unionized. 4 weeks vacation, 2 personal days. 12 weeks Maternity leave
Moonlighting: 4th year only
Cambridge Health Alliance
Interview Structure: 4 interviews. 2 with program directors (30 minutes), 1 with faculty member (1 hour), 1 with resident (1 hour).
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes - at resident's house
Positive Impressions: Residents seem VERY happy with the program. Very famiilial/friendly atmosphere from everyone, including faculty. Strong focus on social justice, health disparities, marginalized populations. Call schedule seems reasonable (1:16 overnight call PGY-2 and 3 with no "real" call 4th year, only backup). Backup call moonlighting opportunities. Benefits are great. Unionized. Snacks + frozen meals in the call room for call nights. 6 weeks of elective time during PGY-1 where you can do literally anything you want, it seems like. Family friendly.
Negative Impressions: Facilities aren't super nice, but I didn't think it was that bad. Just not very fancy. Since it's a community hospital system, you will not have as nice of amenities (i.e., food provided seemed to be snacks and lean cuisines). Overnight call instead of night float :/ (positive for some?) Supervision is extreme (5 hours a week +??) and I thought that seemed like too much, which a lot of residents admitted to.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Frozen meals on call
Free Parking: No
Salary: Starting in low 60s ending in low 70s
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes, mostly internal starting PGY2
Harvard South Shore
Interview Structure: N/A
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: PD very friendly, seems eager to implement positive changes and like an awesome badass woman. Good vibe from residents, chill and friendly, spoke of helping each other out (e.g. chanigng call schedule). Good pay (over 70k to start). Harvard name. Flexible fourth year electives. Full day of protected didactic time even when on off-service rotations.
Negative Impressions: Driving between sites. Would be difficult to live in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville (where younger and single folks would likely prefer to live) due to traffic getting to Brockton and Roxbury, which are the biggest sites Other Comments: You work at the VA for most rotations, and are a VA employee, unlike many residencies where you are employed by your program and rotate through the VA.
EMR: CPRS at the VA, varies between outside sites
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: yes
Salary: starting at $73k
Benefits: everything except retirement
Moonlighting: yes, starting PGY-3
MGH/McLean
Interview Structure: 5 interviews (30 minutes each) throughout the day
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: yes - depends on day if it's the night before or night of the interviews
Positive Impressions: PD super friendly, emphasis on diversity and inclusion. Lots of opportunities for child/teaching/research. Residents seemed really nice. They all emphazie the rigor of the first two years in the program but seem to be happy with how much they learned during that time. Outpatients starting in PGY2, moonlighting in PGY3. Increasing flexibility in PGY3 in choice of sites.
Negative Impressions: Rigor of the first two years. No real dedicated time for research, need to do it on your own unless you're in the research track. The 2 clinical sites are kind of far from each other. COL in Boston.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: EPIC everywhere
Free food for residents: Lunches 2 days / week
Free Parking: Not at MGH - most people take the T
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: yes starting PGY3
St. Elizabeth's
Interview Structure: 3 30 minute interviews (one with PD)
Hotel Compensated for: N/A
Dinner: N/A
Positive Impressions: N/A
Negative Impressions: N/A
Other Comments: Haven't interviewed here but this is the only psychiatry residency program currently on probation with the ACGME.
EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
Tufts
Interview Structure: Two groups per day (morning and afternoon) crossover for lunch and case conferece. Afternoon is 10:45-5:00. Three interviews, PD interview is 15 minutes, other two are 25
Hotel Compensated for: No - discounts, call the hotels
Dinner: Yes - food and non-alcoholic drinks are covered
Positive Impressions: A lot of child psych exposure (if that's what you like), and a pretty cool and seemingly unusual forensics exposure. Very collaborative with the other services in the hospital. Many faculty have a “pedigree” and are well connected in the psychiatry world.
Negative Impressions: Weaknesses stated by residents include poor didactic structure and content, lack of research emphasis and opportunity, some of the attendings aren't as pro-active about teaching, so you have to ask for it, old facilities. Also, some of those "well connected" faculty were not so wonderful in the interview.
Other Comments: N/A
Schedule: PGY-1 - “long day” until 8pm; weekends 8am - 8pm; interns are always with a senior while on call PGY-2-3 - 24hr call spread throughout the year - no qX system; PGY-4 - no call
EMR: Cerner. Sounds like multiple different ones within the same hospital (different for outpatient vs inpatient vs ED).
Free food for residents: meal tickets only for 24hr call only
Free Parking: Not at TMC, but discounted T pass and free parking at off-site rotations
Salary: Low 60
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: yes starting PGY3 - listed as 3 calls per month limit, resident said this isn't enforced.
UMass
Interview Structure: 4-5 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: $50 towards 1 night stay (final cost ~$145 so don't get too excited)
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Happy residents, supportive of each other. In house fellowships, has a brand new state hospital that actually is the most impressive hospital I have ever seen. Solid program with a variety of electives, good exposure. Full day protected didactics with no clinical responsibilities.
Negative Impressions: No in-house inpatient child exposure --> they contract with another hospital to send residents for inpatient child, which you can do as an elective if you are on the adult track, but it's not baked in to the curriculum for adult.
Other Comments: On SDN there have been some comments of weird interviews with the PD: can confirm, PD likes to challenge people in the interview. One applicant during my interview day was asked for a source on something they said and I myself was challenged on something in my application and kind of lectured in the middle of my interview. PD is a VERY knowledgable guy so maybe he's helping you learn and grow and this is just his style of doing it. Either way it is definitely odd and if your personality doesn't mesh with this style could be a negative. >> +1, had a really odd experience interviewing with him//had a similar experience with PD. I felt like he was trying to get some sort of rise or reaction out of me. Definitely the least welcoming faculty member I've encountered on the trail so far.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: Money per call shift
Free Parking: $16/month; close parking fills by 8am, definitely seemed like a struggle
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: 2nd year opportunities in emergency mental health on a fluctuating basis depending if the EMH service becomes overwhelmed (not scheduled ahead of time), paid per pt seen (~$125). 3rd year for normal moonlighting, many opportunities.
** Program was featured on the "Recommended Programs" tab **: Residents were awesome and the program has a huge emphasis on neurology. Most psychiatric attendings are duel board certified which adds a whole new perspective to psychiatry. The amount of opportuntiies the residents have is astounding and the State hospital is the most beautiful hospital I have ever seen. I started the interview figuring this would be a middle of the list program and when I submitted my rank list it was in my top 3.
UMMS-Baystate
Interview Structure: 4 30 minute interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Program was a pleasant surprise, faculty and PD seem very into resident wellness and teaching, hospital facilities very nice, clean, and modern, resident were laid back and seemed like a bunch that I would get along with, also just started moonlighting opportunities.
Negative Impressions: Springfield is super ugly, would not want to live there. However, seems like most of the residents live in the surrounding areas minutes away.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Cerner
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: Yes-just started
MARYLAND
Johns Hopkins University
Interview Structure: 5 30 min interviews
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes, night of interview
Positive Impressions: Hopkins gets a rep of being a kinda intense program, but I was pleasantly surprised at how open, kind and down-to-earth residents and faculty were. Intern year at Bayview seems like a great, supportive environment to do medicine. While you do have to do those ICU weeks, residents finish intern year feeling confident and with a strong foundation in medicine. Cool specialty units including chronic pain; new specialty tracks (public mental health, clinician educator, research) that builds in 1 month during first year, 2 months PGY2, 1 month PGY3 to just explore. Decent sized program so call shakes out to about q13 24-28 hour call.
Negative Impressions: Though it seemed not as intimidating after talking to residents, ICU still sucks; 24-28 hour call (vs night float), no dedicated day/half-day for didactics; no free parking; no moonlighting :.( Probably one of the worstly organized interview days (for me) - Also I didn't really vibe with their "Perspectives" model. It just doesn't add anything to the biopsychosocial model, and I didn't feel like it would be generalizable outside of Hopkins. Also Baltimore.
Other Comments: N/A
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: No
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
U Maryland/Sheppard Pratt
Interview Structure: 4 formal interviews then an “informal exit interview” with the PD that the residents swear isn’t an interview but is totally an interview
Hotel Compensated for: No
Dinner: Yes
Positive Impressions: Was honestly blown away with their curriculum and the facilities at SP. SP has many specialty units, including Trauma, Eating Disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, I mean the list goes on. The residents were very relaxed. Lots of changes to improve work hours recently implemented at resident request. PD is very receptive to feedback (recently added more night float during 2nd year to ease the 24 hr call burden). Parking is free at all the sites. Baltimore seems like a cool up-and-coming city (+/- for some people).
Negative Impressions: Not sure I would want to live in Baltimore. 2nd year is rigorous, but that is pretty typical of all programs. There are a few months with q4 24 hour call- that's pretty unhead of in psychiatry. Residents admit to working harder than other programs. Would have to drive a fair amount depending on where you decide to live. Not guaranteed to have outpatient at SP. Did not enjoy my interview with the PD- he seems a bit cold and distant. // second not enjoying talk with PD // thirded feeling like I bombed my interview with the PD// Fourth enjoyed my interview day up until meeting with PD, concerned he wouldn't be approachable if I encountered problem during residency. // fifth loved my interview day and ended it with my meeting with the PD and it plummeted down my rank list// met almost no residents between the dinner and interview day - only PGY-3 & 4s, no interns. All my interviews were very bland with not the most engaging faculty. // sixth program was decent but the PD is so cold and judgmental // 7th yup same here, glad i'm not the only one who felt like my interview with the PD was off-putting and the other faculty interviewers weren't engaging at all [you can't just invalidate other peoples opinions just because you don't agree with them, please do not mark through].
Other Comments: Highly opinionated impressions that have been heavily disputed, consume with a boulder of salt. Class size is extremely large, and the residents don't seem as close as some of the other programs, which for some people is a positive and others is a negative.
EMR: Epic
Free food for residents: At Mercy (internal med rotations during intern year).
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
MAINE
Maine
Interview Structure: 1 person per day. Need to uber/taxi (reimbursed) or find own way to psych hospital, though someone may kindly offer a ride.
Hotel Compensated for: Yes
Dinner: No
Positive Impressions: Small program, residents seemed happy, DO-friendly (UNE students train there). Call is reasonable, 3-4x/month PGY-1, with some weekday and weekend. Night float is actually "evening float" and goes till midnight (if later coverage isn't available, then 10 pm - 8 am). Portland has a great food scene, skiing within two hours drive, ocean for summer.
Negative Impressions: Small program, residents seemed happy, DO-friendly (UNE students train there). Call is reasonable, 3-4x/month PGY-1, with some weekday and weekend. Night float is actually "evening float" and goes till midnight (if later coverage isn't available, then 10 pm - 8 am). Portland has a great food scene, skiing within two hours drive, ocean for summer.
Other Comments: Usually a one-person interview day. Teaching opportunities with students from UNE and Tufts Maine program. Inpatient pscyh split between main hospital (geri) and stand-alone psych hospital for adult and child inpatient. New rural track starting in two years (~2022), two spots, something for future readers to consider. EMR: N/A
Free food for residents: N/A
Free Parking: N/A
Salary: N/A
Benefits: N/A
Moonlighting: N/A
