Galveston program

[Guest guest]

Hi,does anybody know about the program in Galveston? Looks like their two hospitals are 30 miles away and they make the residents  shuffle almost everyday or on alternate days between the two hospitals? Should I consider them?

[Guest]

Doodoo

[Guest]

Poop program.

[Guest]

Ya, kind of very low quality program. Can't say how the ABNS still accredited it. I interviewed last year , did not rank it. Driving 30 miles between hospitals the same day is crazy. And as you are posted randomly every week of the day between two places, you have to have two places to stay, one near each hospital. And the program director just blatantly ignores this, telling a different story.

[Guest]

Do they still make you pay for drinks on the interview?

[Guest]

If that's true, that's amazing and should happen more often. Screens out the entitled applicants. They don't owe you anything.

[Guest]

^^ 100% agreed. Gen Z/millennials want free food, free drinks, free vacations, free air-travel, free birth control, free needles, free cocaine etc. They never want to ask: Who is going to pay?

[Guest]

Why wouldn’t they owe you anything? It’s part of the social contract for an interview. I pay for the middle seat on the plane, you get me a beer. This is America, land of the free, and I am free to suspect a program that is that cheap also cuts corners in other aspects.

[Focus]

Just always remember that how they treat you as a guest is the high bar. The won't treat you any better than that when you are an indentured servant, so make sure there's some room to drop.

[Guest]

Not sure who told you that story, but sounds like you are angry because you did not match. I rotated in that program.
They are pretty new, and the program director is one of the best in the country.
They have TONS of open/endovascular cases, 3 top-notch translational labs (oncology, epilepsy, vascular) and NO, you do NOT alternate between campuses all the time. Campuses are 30 min away from each other, so most people live in the middle.
You rotate between campuses every 2 months as a junior, and the chief resident does 6 months in each campus.
The spine and vascular exposure they have is massive, tumor and functional is moderate. Trauma exposure is good but not massive, so call is not terrible as in other programs.
They also take care of the whole Texas Correctional Department patients...who are essential full surgeries done by juniors with very hands off attendings.