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Hi,
I understand you have interviewed at baylor peds.....I would very much like your thoughts on the program....I am planning to apply next year for peds and ii is one of my top choices.
I would like to know the atmosphere, workload and the competitiveness for imgs...Also if you could share some thoughts on other peds programs that you had interviewed.....
Thanks a lot ....you have dooing a great job on this forum and congrats on your prematch.....
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Well, I know a lot about Texas Children's and the Baylor program. Personally, I think it is excellent, and they are as IMG friendly as a major academic program can be. TCH is the largest pediatric hospital in the USA, and comprises 5 of the most beautiful buidlings you have ever seen. This has got to be one of the poshest hospitals ever built (I have heard Vanderbuilt is nicer, but I didn't go there). As a freestanding children's hospital (this is in general better than prorgams where there is only a floor for kids), the whole place is dedicated to caring for kids. The ancillary staff is excellent, and the housestaff is equally nice. It is a large program with ~40 residents/year, which means that they are not as close as the residents at a smaller program, but they seem to get along quite well. The department chair, Dr. Feigin is world renowned, and knows each resident personally. He invites them over to his house for dinner on their birthdays, and is always available. He even shows up in the ER everymorning at 5:30 am or so to check on the residents. The PD, Dr. Lorin is equally nice and approchable. The faculty are all excellent and if you like research, this place lives for it. So you can see if I had chosed pediatrics, I would have gone to Baylor. It was the best pedi program I interviewed at. The pay is also great, as TCH gives each resident $5,000 extra a year (over the Baylor salary, making you the highest paid residents in Houston), as well as free parking. The downsides are that the program is quite large, and is very competitive (as far as pedi programs go). You will work very hard here, but it is 80 hours compliant. They do take IMGs, I think most have done clinical rotations or done research at Baylor, but IMGs are there.
As far as the other peds programs I interviewed at, I liked Rainbow at Case Western, Cinicinatti children's, and U Rochester. Rainbow and Cincinatti children's are free standing children's hospitals and highly ranked (though not as high as TCH). I liked them both a lot. Excellent choices. I also liked ROchester, even though it is not a free standing children's hospital. I will say that Rochester takes very few IMGs, and they are all US citizens. In general pedi is not as competitive as IM, but it is getting tougher for IMGs, as is everthing else. Scores matter less than LoR, although scores help.
I hope this helps. Please look at scutwork.com for other comments. I wrote something up for most programs I went to, and other people's comments are also revealing.
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