15 Reasons to Come to Rochester1. Happiness. Our residents are happy and enjoy working with each other.
3. Two-week blocks. The rotation schedule, set up in two-week blocks, is particularly nice when you're in a more difficult rotation such as an ICU. (Hey, anyone can do something for two weeks.) 4. Reliable relief. We have a well-established night-float system. On the general medicine floors, the on-call team stops admitting patients at 8:30 p.m., and is relieved by the night-float team. After work, they go home to sleep in their own beds. 5. Work-week compliance. We have a long-standing history of compliance with the 80-hour maximum work week. Long before the ACGME introduced mandatory resident work-hour guidelines, our program recognized the importance of well-rested residents. 6. Pace. As much as possible, difficult rotations are followed by easier ones. This gives residents the opportunity to have a life outside the hospital. 7. Work environment. Attending physicians are very approachable, and treat the residents as colleagues. Residents don't feel inferior when proposing plans or asking questions. This creates a positive working environment 8. Resources. UpToDate, the online and CD-ROM clinical reference for internists and subspecialists, is free to all residents.
10. Fewer notes. Residents on general medicine floor teams are not required to write daily progress notes when on call. They are still responsible for patient rounds, but the attending physician writes the daily progress notes. 11. Focus. Interns do not cross-cover other teams' patients when on call. This makes the call days much nicer for both the intern and upper-level resident. They can focus on their new patients, and not get pulled away to see the patients of other teams. 12. Responsive leadership. 0ur program leadership is very responsive to constructive feedback. Donald Bordley, M.D. and the other associate program directors meet regularly with the residents to discuss ways to improve the medicine program. Many of the ideas from these meetings are quickly implemented. 13. Outside activities. The residency program sponsors activities outside the hospital. Some examples are the annual Intern Retreat at Letchworth State Park, the Medicine Holiday Party, the End-of-Year Picnic, poker nights, happy hours, and softball games. 14. Teaching time. Interns have protected teaching time during rounds with professors and attending physicians. They turn their pagers over to the upper-level residents during these rounds, giving them uninterrupted teaching time. 15. Quality of life. Rochester is a wonderful place to live, with a lot of great places to enjoy. Within easy driving distance are the Finger Lakes and a half dozen gorgeous state parks. Rochester has beautiful city parks, including two Olmsted-designed parks within a half mile of Strong Memorial Hospital. (Frederick Law Olmsted designed Manhattan's Central Park.) Rochester is 90 minutes from Niagara Falls and less than three hours from Toronto, the fourth-largest city in North America. Two hours to the east are the million acres of the Adirondack State Park. Rochester also has a wide selection of restaurants, theaters, and museums. And living in Rochester is affordable. Many residents buy three-bedroom homes in nice neighborhoods near the hospital, for under $100,000. Very family-friendly. |
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2. Small teams. General medicine floor teams are composed of one upper-level resident and one intern. For the intern, this means more interaction and teaching with the senior resident. For the upper-level resident this arrangement is beneficial, too. For one, senior residents only admit five patients on a call day. (If there were two interns per team, the upper-level residents would admit 10 patients.) And the small team size means upper-level residents have more time to research clinical questions and to teach.
9. Morning reports. We have excellent morning reports, generally considered the best educational conference of the day. Residents teach each other, using patient cases to facilitate learning. With such high-quality residents, morning report discussions are in-depth and educational. The free breakfast is a bonus.