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Intern Overall Rating: 18-Oct- 2008 Teaching: Atmosphere: Research: Schedule On the floors we have to preround, starting at 6am to 6:30am. And our days end from 5pm to 7pm on non-call days, 8pm - 10pm on call days. We come in every saturday morning on the floors, even on our "golden weekends" to write notes, round, and admit patients, however technically we can sign out to the call team by noon if we can finish all our work. Electives are usually pretty easy with weekends off and no call. There's only 1 1/2 - 2 months of elective. The MICU and CCU months can be very difficult, usually working >90hrs/week, with 27hr call on the weekends. Teaching Noon conferences are usually ok. However you often get paged out of most of them making it very difficult to get much out of the lecture. Atmosphere There is good camaraderie about the co-residents. While it's great living in manhattan, working long and unpredictable hours can obviously make it difficult to find the time to enjoy manhattan or meet up with friends and family. Conclusion Drawbacks: Expect to do all of your own stat blood draws, stat EKGs, all ABG's. Expect to have to redraw blood everyday when phlebotomy doesn't come by or the lab loses the blood sample. Put in IV's when the IV nurse decides not to come in. The computer system is barely existent. All it has are lab results. All orders and notes are handwritten. It's impossible to read most of your attendings' handwriting. It's the policy of our ER to admit every patient who walks in the door. The hospital is constantly packed with unnecessary admissions. The information they give you at your application interviews is not entirely truthful: ie, we got less elective time than we were promised. Nothing gets done and you have to call again and again to make sure your orders actually happen. You'll fax slips for ultrasounds etc and the person on the receiving end pretend they just never got it. Part of this problem goes back to the hospital not having a computer system. Translator phones are almost never available b/c they're too expensive They no longer have the manhattan housing that made this program so attractive a few years back. Living near the hospital in manhattan will cost most of your salary. I would not apply to this program if I could do it again.

Intern Overall Rating: 15-Nov- 2004 Teaching: Atmosphere: Research: Schedule Schedules vary for each intern in the program. Generally speaking, you're looking at 8 months of call, 4 months of no-call. Every transitional intern will do one month of surgery and one month of ICU unless you find people who want to take those from you in exchange for a general medical floor month. Everybody really does have their own preferences, so these switches do happen. One of your call months is a selective (can do peds, ob-gyn, surgery, medicine, or a unit). Teaching in the units is excellent, and it is less so on the floors, but is attending dependent in both locations. On the floors you will work from 7:30am-4pm on non call days, and until 8pm or a little later every fourth night. In the units, it is definitely longer hours. Night float you are on from 8pm-7:30am on Sunday night through Thursday night (sweet weekends Fri, Sat, Sunday all off until sunday night). ER is between 7-10 shifts in each two week period. You can manipulate the schedule to do all nights, all days, or any combination and can also switch with others to group them all in a row and create an extra vacation week if you want. 4 weeks of paid vacation. 2 months of electives where you can choose between any subspecialty or even an extra ambulatory month if you so desire. Ambulatory month is also non-call, you don't have a clinic day the rest of the year, so you're sort of filling in and this makes it pretty laid back. People who complain about scut are those who came from Cushy med schools where nothing was expected of them. The fact is that I do far less scut as an intern here than I did as a medical student at my school. Yes, sometimes it is easier to do your own blood draw than to get phlebotomy back to the floor to make up for their errors. However, it is all in frame of mind.....there are interns who spend a half hour complaining about the fact that they are going to have to do the blood draw, make themselves and everyone around them annoyed and then they do the draw anyway, and there are others who just do it and it's over in 5 minutes. Teaching Like I said, units are prime teaching locations and the floors are more variable. The fact is that if you are looking for a good core internship where you will work a bit, learn a bit and have some good time off, this is a great program for you and you can't beat the location. If you're looking for a strict academic environment or a place where you can hide for the year, this is not either of those. It is balanced and if you are balanced, you'll like it here. Atmosphere People are great, location is great, administration is not the evil big brother watching all the time or the cracked out mother with the babies in the street. Drug rep happy hours and lunches as well as the occasional dinner make for a social atmosphere. You do have a life outside of work and the dollars end of things is that your take home without housing is 2610 a month and a little less if you get the housing. Housing is great if you get it and runs around 1100. If you don't, you should expect to pay anywhere from 1100-2000 depending on what kind of an apt, if you have a roommate and what part of the city you decide to live in. Either way 600-1500 a month is your range for spending cash and while you can't live like a king, you can make it work for the one year you will be here. We're supposed to be looking at a raise for either late this year or early next year which should also help. Conclusion I would pick this program again and I think most of the residents would (even the last reviewer who was mostly negative still admitted he would consider coming back). It is not an all out pleasure cruise all the time, but would you want it to be? Would you prefer to have to pay for a car in the city so you could drive to NYH Queens everyday to hide in a closet and hope no one asks you to do that. Would you prefer to be in St. Barnabas or Morristown with your brain on ice and your butt in New Jersey? Would you prefer to be at Sloan Kettering with your privates in an academic vice and your mouth full of zoloft trying to get over the depression that comes with that patient population. These are all questions the NYC area transitional year intern candidate must ask themselves. SVH was my number one choice and would be again without a doubt.

Medical Student Overall Rating: 10-Nov- 2004 Teaching: Atmosphere: Research: Schedule 2-3mo medicine wards 6:30-5short call, til 8 long call, overnight if q4 falls on weekend; 1mo surg, 5-6, q4overnight, 2mo elective, 1mo peds/ob/extra surg or med, 1-2mo units hrs depend on unit Teaching The chiefs are variable. Overall, the dept of medicine is very preferential to prelims and categoricals. The department is non-responsive to our needs for end of year transition (having to move to other cities) and many transitionals were placed on units and wards on their last months. No system is in place to help avoid this and no assistance given to us in helping to make arrangements. Teaching is average at conferences and morning report varies by the chief leading it. Teaching on the floors is minimal (much less than my med school), and varies by the attending. Atmosphere During the electives, free time abounds and you will very much have a life. You probably have about as much free time as anyone else while on the wards, or non-elective services, but the catch is how worn down you get at work. Nurses do not do blood draws or IVs and the calls are full of nonsensical calls and scutwork. I have never seen scut like this anywhere. Conclusion I don't know if I would choose this program again. The biggest draw is the location. IF you get the housing (about 50% of transitionals) then it is a great deal and makes the pay pretty good, which makes life in new york much better. If not, you will end up broke very quickly, or living VERY far from work. The people are very friendly for the most part, but you forget about that sometimes when you are up in the middle of the night to clarify a med frequency order that "needs to be done now (@3am)" after not being done in the er, or calling to check on every requisition you send to make sure the dept in question got your fax and paid attn to it, or drawing blood on half of you patients in the morning because even though you ordered it, the phlebotomist didn't draw it the one time they come by in the day and now you have to do blood draws on half of your patients before rounds. The non-geographic system also makes everything less efficient.

med student Overall Rating: 21-Mar- 2004 Teaching: Atmosphere: Research: Schedule 4 months of no call. 8 months of call. Peds and OB are not required. Teaching Standard community hospital internship teaching. Atmosphere Community hospital environment. Transitionals are more accomplished than the categoricals. There are lots of interns, categorical, prelim medicine, and transitional, so interaction and social life among them is great. Conclusion Not the easiest transitional program, but you get to be in the middle of Manhattan, which makes this place very competitive to get into. Other positives: No weekly clinic for transitionals, and subsidized housing is available to most interns (but not guaranteed). Negatives: 1 month of night float and 1 month of ICU are required. There is no book or moving allowance. Free lunch happens about 2-3 times/week.

Medical Student (Interview) Overall Rating: 10-Nov- 2001 Teaching: Atmosphere: Research: Schedule The workload seems pretty mild for an intern year. Seems that most days are 8am to 5:30pm. Call on medicine services is every 4 days, 5pm to 9pm. Has a true night float, so after 9pm, you don't have to stay overnight. Teaching Unknown from interview Atmosphere Allegedly very high. The residents hang out a lot together in the West Village. The high quality of life makes for a very competitive internship (to get, not to while in the internship). Conclusion Positive, lots of elective time.