2019 Externship Survey 07242019 FINAL

2019 Externship
Survey
A Survey Examining Podiatric Clerkships
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July 23, 2019
Dear APMSA Members,
Welcome to the American Podiatric Medical Students’ Association 2019 Externship Survey*. The Survey is
compiled from direct responses from 4th year podiatric medical students obtained after Match Day. This new
publication was developed to help guide you in the clerkship selection process. The program listings provide a
direct link to CASPR which includes further pertinent information.
The 2019 Externship Survey was conducted via an online survey. Approximately 625 4th years students
received a link to the survey in late March. A total of 230 responses were received by the end of May. The
survey results were compiled and this report was released in late July 2019.
The usefulness of this survey is directly proportional to the number of students who participate and the
number of programs they evaluate. We hope you will recognize the value and participate in this important
endeavor during your 4th year of podiatric medical school.
The APMSA is pleased to provide this new member benefit to you and trust that you will find this survey useful
in your clerkship selection process. We wish you continued success in your endeavors.
Sincerely,
Heather
Heather Keith
APMSA Executive Director
APMSA 2019 Externship Survey Editor
*The APMSA does not make any claims to the accuracy or validity of the information reported. The information is collected and shared
as a service to our members.
The Externship Survey is provided as a member benefit, included in APMSA member dues. It is a compilation of surveys by 4th year podiatric
medical students.
Statements of opinion expressed in the publication are not necessarily endorsed by the APMSA.
2019 Externship Survey
Table of Contents
Arizona
DVA-Phoenix (Carl T. Hayden)
California
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Chino Valley Medical Ctr
DVA Greater Los Angeles Hlthcare Sys
DVA-Loma Linda (Jerry L. Pettis)
DVA-Palo Alto Healthcare Sys
DVA-San Francisco
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Ctr
Kaiser Permanente-Vallejo
Kaiser SF Bay Area Foot & Ankle
Lakewood Regional Medical Center
Long Beach Memorial Med Ctr
Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
Colorado
DVA-Eastern Colorado Health Care System
Highlands/Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Ctr
North Colorado Medical Center
Connecticut
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Yale New Haven Hospital
District of Columbia
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Delaware
Christiana Care Health Services
Florida
Bethesda Hospital East
DVA-Tampa (J.A. Haley)
Florida Hospital East Orlando
Jackson North Medical Center
Jackson South Community Hospital
JFK Medical Center
Kendall Regional Medical Center
Larkin Community Hospital - Palm Springs Campus
Mercy Hospital/BUSPM
Northwest Medical Center
Palmetto General Hospital
UF Health Jacksonville Podiatric Residency
Westside Regional Medical Center
Georgia
DeKalb Medical Center
Illinois
Advocate Christ Medical Center
DVA-Chicago (Jesse Brown)
Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital
Loyola University Medical Center
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center
Presence Saint Joseph Hospital/Chicago
Rush University Medical Center/Oak Park
Weiss Memorial Hospital
Indiana
Community Health Network
Franciscan Alliance St. Margaret/MWU
St Joseph Regional Medical Center
St Vincent Hospital Indianapolis
St Vincent Evansville
Kentucky
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's/KentuckyOne Health
Norton Audubon Hospital Podiatric Residency Program
Louisiana
Christus Saint Patrick Hospital
Maryland
DVA-Maryland Health Care System/Rubin Institute
Massachusetts
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston University Medical Center
Cambridge Health Alliance
Saint Vincent Hospital/WMC
Steward - St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Michigan
Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills - Botsford Campus
Central Michigan University Education Partners in
Health Detroit Medical Center
Genesys Regional Medical Center
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital
Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital
Michigan Surgical Hospital (Kern)
Providence-Providence Park
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
St. John Macomb Oakland
St. Mary Mercy Livonia
Minnesota
HealthPartners Institute/Regions Hospital
Hennepin County Medical Center
Missouri
SSM Health DePaul Hospital Podiatric Residency
Truman Medical Center
New Jersey
Cooper University Hospital
DVA-New Jersey Health Care System
Hoboken University Medical Center
Inspira Medical Center Vineland
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Morristown Medical Center
New Mexico
DVA-New Mexico Hlthcare System
New York
Catholic Health Sys/Sisters of Charity Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital Northwell
Long Island Jewish Northwell
Montefiore Mt. Vernon Hospital
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
New York-Presbyterian/Queens
Metropolitan Hosp Ctr/NYCPM
NYU Langone Brooklyn
Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital
South Nassau Communities Hospital
St. Barnabas Hospital - NY
North Carolina
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Ohio
DVA-Cleveland (Louis Stokes VAMC)
Grant Medical Center
Jewish Hospital - Mercy North
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Med
Oklahoma
Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma & Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Oregon
Legacy Health
Pennsylvania
Aria Jefferson Health
Crozer Chester Medical Center
Geisinger-Community Medical Center - PA
Heritage Valley Beaver
LECOM Health/Millcreek Community Hospital
Nazareth Hospital
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Phoenixville Hospital
Temple University Hospital
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
West Penn Hospital
Rhode Island
Roger Williams Medical Center
Tennessee
DVA-Mountain Home
Texas
Hunt Regional Medical Center
John Peter Smith Hospital
Scott & White Memorial Hospital
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Utah
Intermountain Medical Center
Virginia
Carilion Clinic
DVA-Richmond (McGuire)
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
Washington State
Franciscan Health System - St. Francis Hospital
Swedish Medical Center - Cherry Hill Campus
Wisconsin
Ascension Wisconsin (formerly Columbia St. Mary's Hosp)
DVA-Madison
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center
Arizona
DVA-Phoenix (Carl T. Hayden)

Phoenix, AZ
https://www.casprcrip.org/html/casprcrip/pdf/Dir_Pgs/0239.pdf
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Housing Provided: No
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Phoenix
Living near the program facility is safe: Yes
List any areas of the city that should be avoided:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range:
Opportunities to interact with residents after hours: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 8-5
Required to work weekends: No
Required to be on call with residents: Yes
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Based on experience, type of ED cases on-call residents were paged for [A. Podiatric emergencies, fractures, and
serious diabetic wound care; B. Minor issues (ingrown nails, plantar fasciitis)]: Both
Level of involvement at clinic: Able to perform all clinical procedures
Academic structure at the program: Light (1 day per week)

Comments:
Best description of program: Heavy clinic
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Wound debridement, Amputations
Other:
Level of role in surgery: Allowed to suture
Other:
Level of program "pimping": Rare

Comments:
OVERALL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT
Program strengths: Wound care, Elective surgeries

Other:
Would recommend this program: Yes
Additional comments: Transition period with new director. Can be a solid program.
Program rating (1-5, 5 is highest): 4

California
Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived:
Car needed: No
Opportunities to interact with residents after hours: Yes

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am-5pm, but this varied
Required to be on call with residents: Yes, but nothing after evening
serious diabetic wound care; B. Minor issues (ingrown nails, plantar fasciitis)]: Podiatric emergencies, fractures, and
serious diabetic wound care
Level of involvement at clinic: Moderate hands-on experience
Academic structure at the program: Heavy (3+ days a week)

Comments:
Best description of program: Heavy surgery

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Amputations
Other:
Level of role in surgery: Retracting and suctioning
Other:
Level of program "pimping": Moderate, comfortable

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments:

California

Chino, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Other (please specify)

Other Comments: Mix of both, OR days can wear scrubs in clinic between cases
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with family
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: West Covina, Ca
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Avoid Pomona where the clinic is. Surrounding cities are safer, about 2
miles in any direction.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Never over 30 minutes, everything was about 5-10 min

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am-5pm
Required to work weekends: Yes, but not often
Academic structure at the program: Moderate (2 days per week)

Comments:
Best description of program: Balanced in clinic and surgery
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Rearfoot trauma
(ankle, pilon), Wound debridement, Amputations
Other:
Level of role in surgery: Trusted to throw screws and suture
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other:

California

Chino, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Professional attire

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: WesternU student
Living near the program facility is safe: No
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Anywhere near Mission Blvd
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Daily. Hospitals are within 15 minutes of each other.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Surgery days- 6:30am start, clinic days 7:45am start. Finish clinic and surgery by 5pm, academics end
around 7.

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California

Los Angeles, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: At the VA they provide lunch; at Olive View you have a meal card with a couple meals/week on it
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with family; UCLA is close to VA so should be able to find a sublet or
rotating room
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: spend two weeks at the VA, two weeks at Olive View which is about 30 minutes away

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon), Wound
debridement, Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California

Los Angeles, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There's 2 different locations that you go to

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6am-5pm M-F but hours varied

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care

Other:

California

Los Angeles, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Santa Monica
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Inglewood, Compton.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30 minutes

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Dr. Nouvong and Dr. Aungst know how to run a program. They are talented and well respected
podiatric surgeons within the profession and the community. Rotate with UCLA residents and are treated equal to all the
other surgical residents.

California
DVA-Loma Linda (Jerry L. Pettis)

Loma Linda, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with relatives
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived with relatives
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Just drive from living to VA

Explain:
Daily work hours: 8-5 M-F
serious diabetic wound care; B. Minor issues (ingrown nails, plantar fasciitis)]: Minor issues (ingrown nails, plantar
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Would recommend this program: No

California
DVA-Palo Alto Hlthcare Sys

Palo Alto, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Relatives
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 8am-4pm M-F

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California
DVA-Palo Alto Hlthcare Sys

Palo Alto, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: East Palo Alto
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Depends on where you live. Can live close but you will pay an arm and leg.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other:

California
DVA-San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Family
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Wound debridement, Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California
Kaiser Permamente Santa Clara

Santa Clara, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both scrubs and professional attire dependent on your daily schedule.
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Occasionally residents would offer to buy lunch for you or there would be department lunches.
Comments: Housing in that area can be difficult and expensive especially because they have you at 3 local Kaiser
locations and traffic can be bad during rush hour.
If no, explain how you found housing: Housing in that area can be difficult and expensive especially because they have
you at 3 local Kaiser locations and traffic can be bad during rush hour. I used Rotating Room but ended up staying with a
family friend.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Depended on where you lived but you rotate at 3 locations - Santa Clara, Fremont, and
San Leandro

Explain: Evening dinners
Daily work hours: 6am - 7pm

Comments:
(ankle, pilon), Amputations
Other:
Other:
Level of program "pimping": Moderate, aggressive

Comments:
Program strengths: Trauma, Elective surgeries

Other:

California
Kaiser Permamente Santa Clara

San Jose, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Fremont. Furthest hospital was Santa Clara but drive wasn’t bad. Very close to
Fremont, 30minute drive to San Leandro
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No, beautiful area
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving often. Especially for consults between Fremont and San Leandro, which is
exhausting with traffic.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7:30am-5pm, occasionally later with consults or surgeries. Hours are great here.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Trauma, Elective surgeries

Other:

California
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Ctr

Sacramento, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Stay farther than a few miles from the hospital
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7 am to 4pm. It varies depending on the surgery schedule

Comments:

Other:
Level of role in surgery: Skin to skin
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Dermatology, Elective surgeries
Other:

California
Kaiser Permanente Vallejo

Vallejo, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both: Scrubs for surgery. Clinic attire for clinic
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Most days. Check with the residents
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Suisun City for Vallejo weeks and Santa Rosa for those two weeks
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Vallejo has some decent areas but to be safe, avoid it
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most days I drove about 30 minutes

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am to 6pm m-f Depends on the day though

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Trauma, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other:

California

Vallejo, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes


Explain:
Daily work hours: hours varied every day
Level of involvement at clinic: Mostly shadowing with minimal clinical hands-on experience

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California

Vallejo, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Sonoma, between all hospitals.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Avoid Vallejo.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Daily. Sonoma is 20-25minutes to each hospital. Generally stay at one hospital all day
unless academics.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 8am-5pm, later if surgeries run later. Latest night was 11pm and residents and attendings were
insisting students should go home.

Comments:
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon), Wound debridement,
Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California

Oakland, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: A mix of Airbnb and hotels due to changing locations
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Lots of driving depending on where you are that week and where academics are.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Variable. Never too early or too late

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:
Level of program "pimping": Nonstop, aggressive

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Trauma, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: Amazing pathology.

California

Oakland, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You drive every day for this program over 30 minutes.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am-7pm but hours varied M-F

Comments:

Other:
Level of role in surgery: Not allowed to scrub in
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Trauma

Other:

California

Oakland, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rented a room from a CSPM student
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Lots of driving. Sometimes 2 hours per day.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Long hours, ignored a lot as as student, sitting in call room and doing nothing for a few hours a
day not abnormal. In surgeries, get to watch (not scrubbed in) or help retract. Lots of pimping.

California

Oakland, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb at Walnut creek for 2 weeks and Airbnb in the Oakland area for 2 weeks
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Airbnb at Walnut creek for 2 weeks and Airbnb in the Oakland area for 2 weeks
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: There are parts of Oakland that can be shady, but if you book through
rotating room, it should be safe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: At least 30 minutes a day.

Explain: We went to a happy hour every week after journal club.

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Best hands I have seen throughout externships, and I have learned a lot through this externship.
Yet, you will definitely encounter extremely cocky personalities. Also be mindful that not all externs will get an
opportunity to interview at the program.

California

Oakland, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with a friend's family
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Rockridge, Oakland- it was a bus ride away from the Oakland location. Was a long
commute to the other locations (SF, Walnut Creek, Antioch, Richmond)
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Avoid parts of Richmond, and certain parts of Oakland
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Drove over 30 minutes to get to hospitals/surgery centers for 10 days of the rotation.

Explain: Once at a bar after journal club- limited interaction with majority of the residents (they tended to keep to
themselves as a group).

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Trauma, Elective surgeries

Other:
Would recommend this program: Unsure
Additional comments: This is a strong program, where one will get excellent training. However, I personally could not see
myself there because of my experience as an extern because of the constant, aggressive pimping and lack of interest in
me by the residents and attendings.

California
Lakewood Regional Medical Center

Lakewood, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: If at the hospital
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with family nearby
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Huntington Beach, CA
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: I don’t know
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most days about 15 minutes

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7-5 m-f

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

California
Long Beach Memorial Med Ctr

Long Beach, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived at a relatives house
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 30 miles away
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: N/A
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: About 10 mins at most between 2 locations (Hospital/Sx center)

Explain: Academics 2x/week
Daily work hours: 6-7 am to 4-5 pm M-F One weekend call

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Resident will relay any work/patient notes that they don't want to do to students. Students
expected to pre-round every morning, while on-call, 1 hour earlier than designated time, even on patients that will not be
seen that day. Communication can be improved between resident and student to decrease tedious work load.

California

San Diego, CA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs mostly but professional attire maybe once a week
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Can get free food at the Scripps hospital but very limited
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb, EM residents renting out a room in SD
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived near Ocean Beach
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Depending on the rotation you are on, you could be driving as much as 30-45 mins to
get to the hospital. The Residents cover from as south as Chula Vista and 30 minutes north of Scripps Mercy.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30am-6pm

Comments:
(ankle, pilon), Wound debridement,
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other: Biomechanics

California

San Diego, CA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: FREE FOOD EVERYWHERE - AWESOME
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating room
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Hillcrest
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There are a lot of different outpatient centers you will go to and you will definitely need
a car.

Explain: Taco trips and karaoke hang outs!

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Well rounded program with strong biomechanics. With Dr. Cullen projected to lead the residency,
I am sure the program will get even better and better.

Colorado
DVA-Eastern Colorado Hlth Care System

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Family's house
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I only externed
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Only was at the VA

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7 am - 5 pm

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program:
Other: I was not in surgery, but I saw that would go back and forth to the OR
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths:
Other: Unknown
Additional comments: Everyone is very nice at this program!

Colorado
Highlands/Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Some
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Family in the area
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Highlands Ranch, very nice area.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Lots of driving. Minimum of 30-50 miles per day between surgery centers and hospitals
all over Denver.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7AM - 2PM
Academic structure at the program: Other (please specify)

Comments: Minimum of 10 articles read per week with summaries
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great for people who want heavy surgery and no or little wound care.

Colorado

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for surgeries, professional attire for academics
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with a family member
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived in downtown Denver
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving every single day. Sometimes you would drive from one hospital to another, to
another and then to another. Definitely driving over 30 minutes at least 3 times a week.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am-5pm, and then 7/8pm if there is academics.

Comments:
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions)

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other:

Colorado

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for cases, professional attire for academics
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Montclair area. It was nice, pretty close to everything.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Drive a lot, definitely need a car.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Variable, depending on the surgeries. Monday and Thursday had academics, which went until 7-8pm.

Comments: 2 days per week, reading 10+ journal articles per session

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Sports medicine, Dermatology, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: Great, well rounded program. Heavy on academics and surgical volume.
Program rating (1-5, 5 is highest):

Colorado

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Family but lots of Air BnB's in the area
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived near the Central Park
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Honestly, Denver is very safe and I did not see a bad area.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving a lot. Each case is around 15-45 minutes of a drive at least and lots of times you
drive to a hospital located 45 minutes south of the city.

Explain: I did not during my month
Daily work hours: Not horrible, lots of times when morning cases are done you are too.
fasciitis)

Comments: Lots of journal articles each week 10+ on every Monday.

Other: Pretty much all Elective Forefoot, some attendings do rearfoot
Level of role in surgery: Other (please specify)
Other: Scrubbed in 3 times the whole month

Comments:
Program strengths: Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: All surgery centers and elective cases. Residents are retracting at a lot of times even as a third
year. Great city and good cases but mostly Forefoot driven. Some attendings have a huge attitude.

Colorado

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Depends on the schedule, but can go to doctor's lounge with residents
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating rooms
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived in Aurora which was great. 15 minutes from pretty much everywhere.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 15-30 minutes from Aurora

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other: Scrubbed with 3 attendings and rest was not allowed

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Wound care clinic was hands off. Community clinic was cool. Academics was skimming through
articles to get needed info to present because they give roughly 10/week. Can only scrubs with a few attendings and even
still just retracting IF that.

Colorado

Denver, CO
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Glendale, Co
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: About 4 times in the 4 weeks drove more than 30 minutes.

Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other: Rear foot recon
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Colorado

Greeley, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both scrubs and professional depending on day
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Housing Provided: Yes

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 5 mins from hospital. Next to frat house at local college
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Mostly not much driving unless you have a surgery in Denver.

Explain: Residents took time to chat with you during lunch and give you lectures.
Daily work hours: 8 am-3 pm
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Sports medicine, Dermatology, Elective surgeries
Other:
Additional comments: Well balanced program with surgery and clinic. Less trauma-heavy.

Colorado

Greeley, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Occasionally had to drive to Denver, which was about a 45 min drive

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Colorado

Greeley, CO
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both, dependent on schedule
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Access to every doctors lounge! GREAT FOOD

Comments: Able to get a room in a local house for a small fee. Very clean, safe, parking available.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Dependent on schedule but you could be driving to Denver and to Fort Collins.

Explain: Group Dinners

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Elective surgeries

Other:

Connecticut
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center

Hartford, CT
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Close to the hospital less than 5 mins but felt unsafe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Drove about 25 mins to wound care center and surgical center.

Explain: Always went out
Daily work hours: not scheduled and random short hours

Comments:

Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Connecticut

New Haven, CT
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotatingroom.com
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Hamden
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Some areas of New Haven
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Often have to drive long distances especially when at certain VA locations.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Connecticut

New Haven, CT
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: From CT. Lived with family
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Hospitals are within ten minutes of one another. Some surgical centers, such as
Newington VA or MidState are about 30 minutes away. Traffic isn’t bad.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Usually 8-5, sometimes surgeries run later. Academics 5-7 once weekly. Yale St campus is a 5:45am
start.

Comments:
Other: Not a lot of trauma. Orthos fight for ankles and most trauma goes to St Francis.
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Dermatology

Other:


Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Occassionally
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Silver Spring
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Depends on where you live. But you spend two weeks at the hospital center and two
weeks at Georgetown.

Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:


Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs mostly; occasional professional for clinic
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Residents offer occasionally; didactics has food
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating room, residents with extra rooms
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Washington DC has some "not so safe" areas so make sure to do your
research with housing and walking around.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving between Washington Hospital Center and Georgetown Hospital is about 20
minutes. You spend 2 weeks at both locations.

Explain: Invited you out on weekends and to events

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: Did get questioned a lot but more for your own learning. There is a practice interview at the end of the
rotation.

Other:
Additional comments: Program director is amazing. Residents are like one big family. It is a larger program - take 8/year.


Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating Room
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Georgetown
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Needed to drive to academics on Wednesday while at Georgetown

Explain:
Daily work hours: 4:30 AM- 6pm on limb 6:00AM - 5:30 pm on WHC

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries
Other:
Additional comments: Phenomenal program.


Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rental apartment from family
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Takoma Park MD
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Yes
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 2 weeks are spent at each location; one hospital was 15 minutes away and the other
was about 30.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5 to 7-8ish

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:


Washington D.C., DC
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Family member of a friend
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Takoma Park
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Where I was staying was about 30 min away from Medstar Georgetown University
Hospital and 15 minutes from Medstar Washington Hospital Center. Once you arrive at the hospital you don’t leave to
drive to another hospital.

Explain: Several cadaver workshops
Daily work hours: 5am - 6pm at Georgetown University Hospital and about 6am-4-5pm at Washington Hospital Center
Required to work weekends: Yes, every weekend

Comments:
Surgical strengths of the program: Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon), Wound debridement, Amputations
Other: Xfix, Charcot, orthoplastics, flaps
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma

Other: Orthoplastics


Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: The residents often buy you meals
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Georgetown
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: On Wednesday for academics you have to drive to hospital center when at GUH.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 4:30AM -7pm M-F at GUH 6am -4pm WHC

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Phenomenal program that is well rounded. Great recon cases and some of the best limb salvage in
the world.


Washington, DC
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb- 1 central location between the 2 hospitals
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Tenleytown
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Every day to either WHC or the Georgetown Hospital. Did not hit DC traffic due to very
early mornings and very late nights. Had to drive to WHC for academics 2 times during rush hour which can take up to 45
mins.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 4:30am - 9 pm M-F Take every other weekend call (7-12)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other: In-patient care
Additional comments: Extremely long hours and rarely got a chance to eat food (lost about 10 pounds during the
rotation). Great limb salvage/plastic surgery experience with Dr. Attinger. Learned a lot about inpatient care. Rarely was
there an elective case.

Delaware
Christiana Care Health Services

Wilmington, DE
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Meals are not provided for residents or students

Comments: Yes, but not for Temple students
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb in Newark, DE. They consider TUSPM "commutable distance" so TUSPM
students are not provided free housing; however, I would recommend living near the hospital and not commuting from
Philadelphia.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Newark, DE
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Wilmington, DE is more urban, so be careful if you stay near there.
There are many Airbnb options near Christiana Hospital that are safe and affordable
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You alternate between Christiana Hospital and Wilmington Hospital every week. There is
clinic on T/TH afternoons at Wilmington Hospital, which everyone attends. The distance between the hospitals is about 20
minutes. As a student, you do not go to any outside surgery centers besides the one at Wilmington Hospital.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Depends a lot. Can be as early as 5:30 or 6 AM but you will typically be done by 3:30 - 4 PM.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Don't let the "one resident per year" thing scare you! This is a great program and all the residents
act as one team and are friendly. They have plenty of cases for each resident and they are often able to choose which
cases they would like to do. There is no pressure to cover all the cases. As a student, you will have the chance to scrub in
as first-assist when they have a lot of cases going on. All the residents here are happy and Christiana had some of my
favorite attendings! Very nice hospital (that is HUGE, but also very organized). Downsides: not as much diversity of
pathology seen in clinic - mainly diabetic foot care.

Florida
Bethesda Hospital East

Boynton Beach, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Airbnb
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Maximum 20 minutes

Explain:
Daily work hours: 4am- any hour (tons of late cases)
Required to be on call with residents: Yes, at any time

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida

Tampa, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with family
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: I drive 20 minutes to the Hospital every morning, and once to the private practice in
south Tampa.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:45-4:30

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Dermatology

Other:

Florida

Tampa, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating Rooms.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Neighborhood 10 minutes away. Would recommend a car, as not many living
areas near the hospital.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Needed a car due to housing not being close, but everything was done at the VA.

Explain:

Comments:

Other: TAR
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida

Orlando, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Surgery centers are all over Orlando, and you spend time in a few of the Attending's
offices so a car is needed. Drive time can be anywhere from 10 minutes to 45.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5:30- 6

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida

Orlando, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: ~15 min from hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Probably
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You travel to several different hospitals within the system, up to 45 min away.
Opportunities to interact with residents after hours: Unsure

Explain:
Daily work hours: OR most days until you are finished, will have one day of scheduled clinic with occasional clinic of
surgeries are light. Other times you have study days where you are free to explore Orlando.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida

Orlando, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Doctor's lounge
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Home
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Multiple hospitals. Driving times ranging from 20 minutes to 45 minutes.

Explain: Journal Club events, labs, workshops
Daily work hours: 4 am - 5 pm (or earlier if not on call) *If on call, you will be asked to come at night. You have the
ability to scrub all cases after 5pm as well.

Comments:
Other: High surgical volume and load, high complexities including TAR. 30-50 cases per week. Residents display a high
level of autonomy and surgical competence.
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Residents finish their surgical numbers in the first year. Usually between December and February.
Heavy focus on surgery.

Florida

Orlando, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Friend
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Not sure
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not sure
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Just to hospital

Explain: Rep dinner
Daily work hours: 7-4pm

Comments: One presentation at the end of the month

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Director will pretend you don't exist. Legit will just walk by you and not acknowledge you saying
good morning or introducing yourself. Then he will act like you're besties at interviews even though they already know
who they want as residents. But the other attendings and residents were really cool for the most part. I got to the do the
most here scrubbed in. No clinic (MAYBE one day with Dr. Shane). They will also ask you to get fit for a mask which you
pay $50 and never use or see. You'll have one call week and that's fun because there's a lot of trauma. If you want surgery
only, I'd definitely try for this program.

Florida

Orlando, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb. There are lots of inexpensive, beautiful apartments and hotel rooms on
AirBnb.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Near East Orlando campus.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There are so many surgical centers, you will drive a lot but it’s worth it. Furthest surgical
centers can be 30mins away max.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Call week is 4:30am-8-9pm Monday to Sunday. Otherwise, 7:30am-3pm for the rest of the month.

Comments: No academics.
Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Other:
Additional comments: Externs do 2d clinic. Residents do very little clinic. Amazing surgical experience. Beautiful weather.
First year call schedule is extremely intimidating but just added a third first year to offload. Excellent program.

Florida
Jackson North Medical Center

Miami, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: varied

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida
Jackson South Community Hospital

Miami, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Residents will pay for meals when eating together
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb-recommend rotating room though since it is much cheaper than Airbnb
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Palmetto bay
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Northwest of downtown Miami
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Everyday to clinic, back to hospital, and sometimes back to clinic.

Explain: Residents invited me multiple times to hang out with them.
Daily work hours: 8 am -8 pm

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Dermatology, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: Great surgical exposure both trauma and elective. Less clinic heavy

Florida
JFK Medical Center

Atlantis, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments: Holiday Inn
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: The drive from the hotel to the hospital is about 10 minutes, there is also a surgery
center that students rotate through that is about 20 minutes away.

Explain:

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida
JFK Medical Center

Atlantis, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments: Amazing hotel
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: The hotel
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Maximum 20 minutes

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30 am- whenever surgery ended

Comments: HEAVIEST ACADEMIC PROGRAM, ITS OVERKILL AND TOO MUCH

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Heavy on academics: journal club, book club, radiology rounds, & presentations every thursday
on top of everything else.

Florida
JFK Medical Center

Atlantis, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: In a hotel provided by the hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Yes, but that’s not where you are housed
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Once or twice a week to a surgical center, maybe a twenty minute drive.

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida
Kendall Regional Medical Center

Miami, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 5 min from hospital
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon), Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida
Larkin Community Hospital - Palm Springs Campus

Hialeah, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Kendall
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: About 20-25 min to and from hospital everyday

Explain:
Daily work hours: 9am - 12 pm
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other: Ex fix
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Dermatology, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: New hospital, so program is still notifying EMS to bring cases to residency program, but I
anticipate this to be a strong program very soon. Also recommend knowing Spanish as almost all of clinic are Spanish
speaking patients

Florida
Mercy Hospital/BUSPM
Miami, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I lived near there naturally
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived near there naturally
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Like all cities, yes, just google it
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Other: Ex fix
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Sports medicine

Other:

Florida
Northwest Medical Center

Margate, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I lived at home, but there are tons of Airbnb's that are inexpensive in the area!
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived at home!
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You are usually placed at the hospital or a surgery center! Not much driving.

Explain: Lots of dinner, FUN journal clubs
Daily work hours: 6:30am everyday, end time anywhere from 3-7 depending if you are on surgery or off surgery

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other: Dr. MacGill works for an spine & ortho group and gets all cases from the knee down, so its heavy surgery!
Additional comments: Well rounded program with amazing residents and the greatest director. The academics are
enjoyable and not stressful. Great group of attendings to work with!

Florida
Palmetto General Hospital

Hileah, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Partially, if the residents had money on their accounts they would buy most of your meals. Otherwise, you
pay at the cafeteria for what you want.
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I lived in the area, most people did Airbnb/ stayed at a friends.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Wynwood, 20 minute drive
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Between 2 hospitals and a clinic. all were about 10-20 minutes driving.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Rounding is early, 5-6am Depending on surgeries you leave anywhere from 6-7. Program didn't force
anyone to stay past 7pm, unless you wanted to stay.

Comments:
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon),
Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: I learned a lot and was very hands on with rounding and bed-side procedures. Long hours but it
prepared me for the rest of my clerkships.

Florida
UF Health Jacksonville Podiatric Residency

Jacksonville, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Housing list provided by program coordinator.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving often 20-30 min daily minimum.

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Florida
Westside Regional Medical Center

Fort Lauderdale, FL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I had family that lived nearby.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Plantation, Florida
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Georgia
Dekalb Medical Center

Decatur, GA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: In Decatur very close to the hospital. There’s a lot of traffic in Atlanta I
recommend staying close to the hospital.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There was three surgical centers and each 30 to 40 minutes away.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7:45-5

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Some of the faculty were very rude and had the tendency to belittle the residents.

Georgia

Decatur, GA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You only report to one hospital and the drive to the hospital was 5 min.

Explain: Residents were very friendly
Daily work hours: 6:30am - 7pm M-F

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments: Not a lot of pimping. Students were expected to know their anatomy well.

Other:
Additional comments: You well learn scrub technique, attend cadeavor labs, and attend academics every evening. Great
programs especially if you go here at the beginning of your externship experience.

Georgia

Decatur, GA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments: $100 for a 3 bedroom apartment between the students rotating
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with Family
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Near Midtown, would recommend living near the Hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Don't live in downtown Atlanta.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving to attending clinic (2x a week sometimes 30-1hour drive)

Explain:
Daily work hours: Very long, lots of time standings around waiting and doing nothing. 6am-9pm
fasciitis)

Comments: Not strong but average

Other: Pretty much all Bunions and Hammertoes
Other: Scrubbed in but usually the doctor and 3 residents were scrubbed in so your role was minimal.

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: This was a brutal month. You barely get to do anything and have to work crazy hours sitting
around doing nothing. The program treats students horribly and the residents do not get along at the program.

Illinois

Oak Lawn, IL
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You go to the hospital for rounding and surgeries, and spend time in Dr. Grady's private
practice.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30-4/5

Comments:
Other: rearfoot reconstruction
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: , Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other:

Illinois

Oak Lawn, IL
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: $50 equivalent dollar meal voucher
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Subletted from a friend; Rotating room
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Some parks of Oak Lawn are safer than others; some parts of Southern
Chicago should be avoided.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: If you live close enough to the main hospital you could get by without a car; parking at
the hospital is free.

Explain: Evening dinners, weekend events
Daily work hours: 8a-5pm

Comments:
Other: Charcot Reconstruction; TARs
Other:

Comments:

Other: Charcot Reconstruction, TARs
Additional comments: Minimal clinic experience; great program with lots of room for growth.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: West loop
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: West loop is good area, about 15 mins away. Don’t stay right next to
VA, it’s a bad area.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 15-30 mins driving, depends on traffic

Explain: Rep dinners and happy hours
Daily work hours: When have to round: 7am- 4/5 Normal day: 9am-4/5

Comments:

Other: Only saw 2 surgeries: one bunion and one AKA with vascular surgery
Other:

Comments:

Other: Not a lot of trauma from what I gathered
Additional comments: Typical VA, lots of clinic, heard residents were struggling to get surgical numbers. Dropped down
to 2 residents this year to get more surgical #’s/resident.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I lived at home
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Chicago is a large city, so there are certain areas that should be
avoided, but Jesse Brown is in the Medical District by Rush, Cook County hospital, and DePaul university's campus so it is
safe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: During externship you were only allowed to scrub cases at the VA. The residents do go
to offsite locations for cases.

Explain:
Daily work hours: M-F 7:30 am - End of clinic generally around 5:00

Comments:
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Wound
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Medical district is an easy place to live and is walking distance.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: South side of Chicago- depends on the city
Car needed: No

Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Residents did not appear to enjoy their roles in this residency program and feared the attendings.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: rotatingroom.com
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: North Chicago, IL
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: West Chicago should be avoided.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: You are just at Jesse Brown VA.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5:40am - 5:00PM

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Illinois
Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital

Dixon, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: House across from the hospital
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6am-5 pm

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Illinois
Loyola University Medical Center

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: They had some off site surgery centers not accessible by metro.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Residents and attendings are very kind.

Illinois
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center

Rockford, IL
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for OR, professional attire for clinic
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Parts of downtown Rockford can be dangerous
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Minimal driving. Hospital, surgery center, and wound care clinic are all walking distance
from each other.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Lots of elective surgery and good clinic associated with ortho group. Attendings and residents are
easy to get along with. Not a lot of rearfoot exposure.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Apartment
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving every day 15-30 mins there and back.

Explain: Rep dinner

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other: External fixation, nerve surgery with Dr.Rodriguez

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: South loop
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Don’t live near St Anthony.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: About 25-30 mins between clinic and hospital

Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments: Schedule was academic heavy but the schedule changed so often and got cancelled a lot.

Other: External fixation
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Communication lacked in this program between residents and attendings, and residents work
heavily in ortho clinic with other IM and family medicine doctors.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes


Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am to 7pm

Comments:

Other: did not see much surgery during my month, often the residents did surgery at centers students can not go to
Other: retracting

Comments:

Other:

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Apartment Airbnb
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Have to drive a lot, 30-45 mins to other hospitals and surgery centers

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30-6/7 pm, long days

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Don’t recommend going here if you’re a girl, big boys club.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Friend sublet
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived in Edgewater which was about a 45 minute commute to the hospital.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: South side Chicago and the medical district are not the safest areas.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Everything was at the hospital

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths:
Other: Nail care
Additional comments: It is not a good program in my opinion and the attendings are disinterested in teaching.

Illinois

Chicago, IL
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Downtown Chicago
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not sure. I went everywhere without being concerned.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 3-4 hours per day.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30am -5pm

Comments:

Other: Nothing impressive
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Work horse program. Required to go to two clinic per day that is very far apart. Learned nothing.
Entire externship is purely for pushing patients through with externs as the workhorse.

Indiana

Indianapolis, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Only when resident is with you, but lounge is open for snacks etc..
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Fishers area, lots of driving on this rotation so it’s hard to pick a spot that’s close to
everything.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Central and west side
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 1-1.5 hrs a day everyday

Explain: But they stick to themselves
Daily work hours: 7-5 , no am rounding

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments: Never

Other:
Additional comments: They pick their top students well before interviews and make side deals. Then interviews is a time
for them to party and get drunk. Also very rude and disrespectful in the interview if you're not their top pick, it was a total
waste of my time to even interview there. I had a lot of respect for this program while I rotated there, but after interviews
have very little left for them.

Indiana

Indianapolis, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Heavy driving. Community has hospitals all over Indianapolis and you will go to all of
them.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Very chill environment. Everyone is nice and accommodating. Residents seemed well trained.

Indiana

Indianapolis, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Lunch
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Northwest suburbs
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: East side
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Surgery centers and clinics located all around the city. Furthest drive is Anderson, IN.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Indiana
Franciscan Alliance St. Margaret/MWU

Hammond, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I had an apartment in chicago which I drove from everyday.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Crown point and Merrillville IN are great cities to live.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: If you live around the hospital everything is a 20 min drive maximum.

Explain: Attendings can buy their residents and students lunch during which time you get to interact with everyone.
Daily work hours: 6am - 6pm M-F

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments: Pimping was for the benefit of the student, it was not meant to be mean or spiteful.
Other:
Additional comments: This was by far one of the best programs I attended as an extern. The program is only 8 years old
and on the rise. The hospital does not have any orthopedic residents therefore, podiatry is trusted with all the foot and
ankle trauma. Resident led academics are held twice a week and they help out in the clinics of various attendings. When
the residents are not in clinic they are in surgery but priority given to surgical cases.

Indiana

Mishawaka, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: The residents get free food in the cafeteria, and they will grab you anything you want.
Comments: The program coordinator rents part of her house to students if needed. Her house is about 20 minutes away
and it's $400 for the month
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: My family is from Elkhart, which is only 15 minutes away
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most cases were at the main hospital but you got to go to cases at Memorial if you
wanted to, which was about 20 minutes from the hospital.

Explain: Rep Dinners
Daily work hours: 9-5ish usually M-Th and Fridays were big case days so 7-5ish, sometimes later

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Indiana

Mishawaka, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: The administrative assistant opens her home to students for around 400 dollars a
month
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: See answer 6
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: None that I experienced
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most of the cases were at St Joseph's hospital. Mild driving about 15 minutes twice a
week.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7AM-3PM

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program, very hands on for students.

Indiana
St Vincent Hospital Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with a friend of school's family. Rotatingroom.com also had lots of options
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 20 minutes away. Commute was very manageable.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: The immediate south end of the hospital is not very safe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30 minutes 2-3 times a week

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6AM-6PM

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Indiana
St. Vincent Evansville

Evansville, IN
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both scrubs and professional
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments: $500 for provided housing
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Never over 30 minutes

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Indiana

Evansville, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments: $500 per month
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Right by the hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Max 15 min away

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6-4 m-f

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Indiana

Evansville, IN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Car would be preferred but residents are happy to provide rides

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7AM - 4PM usually

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Trauma, Sports medicine, Dermatology, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: By far the best program I visited.

Kentucky
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's/KentuckyOne Hlth

Louisville, KY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived in St Matthews neighborhood, minutes from the East surgery center, 20
minutes from the hospital downtown. Very nice, suburban area.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Only drove over 30 minutes twice to get to one of the surgery centers. Everything else
was very easy to get to.

Explain: Lunch

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other: retraction, suction, suture, injecting

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Strong program that is very well balanced in all aspects. Heavy ortho rotation in addition to being
on podiatry service. Not a lot of academics. Tend to favor male resident candidates.

Kentucky

Louisville, KY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: St. Matthews area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: West Louisville
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Approximately 30 minutes

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7-4pm

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Director said 5th met fracture is notorious for healing because nutrient artery is right there. Also
missed abscess formation in wound clinic. Residents will forget you in clinic sometimes. You'll spend half the time in
wound care clinic and other half in surgery. A few days in private clinic and at ortho surg. Chill for the most part. 1 journal
club a week.

Kentucky

Louisville, KY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Not all but if you are at Hospital you do
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived near River Road north of the city
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: I would not live West of the Hospital and would avoid living downtown.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30 Min+ to lots of cases, Lots of surgery centers around the city. One location was over
an hour away.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Not bad at all, all dependent on surgery schedule and how many cases there are.

Comments: Practically None
Other: Plenty of Cases, trauma heavy on trauma rotation
Other:

Comments: Zero

Other:
Additional comments: Great residents, Louisville is a cool city. Good attendings but all surgery center and no academics
and barely any clinic. Not spending much time at a hospital setting.

Kentucky

Louisville, KY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Cereal, toast for breakfast and soup, salad, sandwich bar for lunch if at the main hospital

Comments: Hotel accommodations for all externs
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Every day from the hotel to the hospital, sometimes we would have to go to a further
hospital about 20-25 minutes away.

Explain: social activities after academics every week
Daily work hours: 6:45am - 5pm, but a lot of days we finished up early around 2/3pm

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Trauma

Other:

Kentucky

Louisville, KY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Sandwiches, salad, soup. Not very good, but it is free.

Comments: Hotel 7 minutes from hospital
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Hotel provided by hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: West Louisville
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Every morning to hospital

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30-6pm

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Cool program. Bro-fest and then they complain about not having a lot of girls apply. Very
surgically proficient and a resident run clinic we don't see. Residents can be stand-offish at times. And the ones on call are
always tired. They also taper their surgeries (aka first year is debridements, second is more elective and fractures, third
year is complex stuff)

Lousiana
Christus St. Patrick Hospital

Lake Charles, LA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Meals are covered when you are the hospital, when you are in clinic meals are not provided.

Comments: Room at the hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You are just driving between the Center for Orthopedics and the main Hospital. It is
about a 10-15 min drive each day.

Explain: They may take you out for drinks.
Daily work hours: 8-5 Monday-Thursday unless a surgery runs late 8-afternoon on Fridays. Fridays are generally shorter.
Time you get out depends on how busy they are.

Comments:
Other: Lots of sports medicine and ortho exposure
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program for anyone considering sports medicine or ortho as their field.

Maryland

Baltimore, MD
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Meals are not provided for residents or students
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I lived with family
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived with family
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Living near the hospital is safe, depending on where you stay. Canton
and Federal Hill are typically safer areas.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You will either be at Baltimore VA, Sinai Hospital, or Washington DC VA. Commute
between Baltimore and DC can be a lot.

Explain: During my month, there was not, but I heard during other months there were.
Daily work hours: 8 AM - 4 PM

Comments:

Other: Limb deformity correction, clubfoot, charcot
Other:

Comments: Depends. Some attendings and residents are more aggressive than others.
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care

Other: Minimally invasive bunions
Additional comments: This program is often overlooked as "just another VA", but I would argue that this program is a
hidden gem. If you are someone who wants to be surgically aggressive, then this is a good program for you. The
attendings at Rubin Institute (Sinai Hospital) provide exposure to limb deformity correction, clubfoot, charcot, TAR, etc.
Dr. Siddique does a lot of percutaneous bunions. The VA provides a lot of exposure to wound care and clinic. Many of the
attendings at this program are young and fellowship trained and like doing a lot of surgery. If you want to be trained in a
surgically aggressive way, then I wouldn't pass up this program.

Maryland

Baltimore, MD
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Baltimore in general is not safe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30 minutes

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program with a lot of potential. Dr. Siddiqui and Dr. Abawi and Dr. Wynes are phenomenal.
All fellowship trained and are the brightest minds in the profession. There is a fellow at the Rubin institute. Keep that in
mind. Great program nonetheless.

Massachuetts

Boston, MA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Professional Attire for clinic (3 days a week), Scrubs for surgery days (2 days a week)
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rented out a friend of a friend's room.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived about a 10 minute walk away from the hospital. It was a very safe and lively
area.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not that I experienced, but I did not explore outside of walking distance
of the hospital.
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5:30am - 5pm

Comments:
Other: Charcot Reconstruction
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great well rounded program. As an extern you only get to see the work the residents do at BI, not
much exposure to the other hospitals that the residents cover such as the VA.

Massachuetts

Boston, MA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Fiance
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30-45 minutes. Traffic sucks.

Explain: Rare
Daily work hours: 5:30-5pm

Comments:

Other: Recons
Other:

Comments:

Other: Recons
Additional comments: I loved being at this program. Residents went out of their way to teach during the month and they
tried to be super accommodating. All attendings are super nice as well. They try to make sure you enjoy your month.
However, they (residents) also gave a lot of really strong positive feedback to a lot of candidates (like "you're exactly what
we are looking for here", "you have a good shot at this program" and "you were the best student we had all year") with
only 2 spots. So take that for what it's worth. However, I loved this program and think it was a great experience.

Massachuetts

Boston, MA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Brookline
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6-5pm M-F

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program, going places.

Massachuetts
Beth Israel Deaconnes Medical Center

Boston, MA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Brookline, MA
Car needed: No

Explain: social happy hours & rep dinners

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Massachuetts
Boston University Medical Center

Boston, MA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed at home
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Stayed at home
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Area is dangerous so living outside of it is best.
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5:30am-5pm

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Massachuetts
Cambridge Health Alliance

Cambridge, MA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Waltham area but anywhere is safe around (Cambridge,Somerville, Medford,
Watertown)
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 3 different hospitals which require moving around

Explain:

Comments:
debridement
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Massachuetts
St. Vincent Hospital/WMC

Worcester, MA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 15 minutes, residents drive you after the hospital

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Wound debridement
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Amazing wound care and everyone is so cool and respectful. "On call week" doesn't really exist,
but it can if the resident wants you there. Hung out with residents on many occasions. Great program and they are
building research opportunities and resident run clinic. A few attendings don't give up blade, but others don't even scrub.
Students can do all wound care as well.

Massachuetts
Steward - St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

Brighton, MA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Stayed at home but area is safe
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Sports medicine, Dermatology

Other:
Additional comments: A lot of clinic.

Michigan
Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills - Botsford Campus

Farmington Hills, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Apartments.com
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived in an apartment in Farmington Hills.
Car needed: Yes


Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Michigan
Central Michigan Univeristy Education Partners In Health

Saginaw, MI
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs and professional attire
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Some residents allow you to stay with them, there is also cheap Airbnb in this area
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: From where i was staying it was about a 25 minute drive. The hospital is only 5 minutes
from one of the attendings private office and 10 minutes from the others. Once you got into Saginaw everyone was within
15 minutes of each other. Barely any driving at all.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Daily hours varied from day to day. Some days I worked 7 hours, other days I worked 14 hours. Never
on the weekends.

Comments:
Other:
Other: scrub in, retracting and suctioning, allowed to suture, skin to skin

Comments:

Other:

Michigan
Detroit Medical Center

Detroit, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Yes, immediate area around the hospital.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 2 weeks were spent driving between surgery centers. 30-45 minutes/day

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Wound debridement, Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Michigan

Detroit, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Avoid area south of I-696
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Fair amount of driving between Detroit Receiving Hospital and Sinai-Grace. Berry
surgery center and Dr. Schwartz private office is around 40 minutes away from the main hospital, but you don't go there
often.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am- 3pm M-F

Comments:
Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Residents work independently and have a lot of autonomy, but sometimes don't have enough
guidance. Academics are disorganized and surgical cases seem to have decreased. However, there are many well trained
attendings residents can learn from.

Michigan

Detroit, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Royal Oak area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Detroit outside of midtown
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: About 20 min/day

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Excellent program, high surgical volume with quality balance of clinic about 1 day/week. Seniors
have very high levels of confidence in the OR compared to other programs and first years are performing cases skin to
skin.

Michigan
Genesys Regional Medical Ctr

Grand Blanc, MI
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for OR; clinic attire for private practice
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments: Student housing at an affordable cost.
If no, explain how you found housing: Through medical education
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Through medical education
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 20-30 minute commutes to different surgery centers.

Explain: Residents took us out to dinner at the end of the month.

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program with outstanding resident/attending relationship. The attendings are very invested
in teaching residents.

Michigan
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital

Clinton Township, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
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Car needed: No

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Michigan
Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital

Wyandotte, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
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Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: I drove 25 minutes to another surgery center and clinic a couple of times.

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Michigan

Warren, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
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Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I Lived in Farmington hills . Livonia, Royal Oaks are a good areas.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 20 min away to a clinic once a week

Explain:

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(ankle, pilon)
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Additional comments: Very smart and brilliant attending. Extremely nice residents.

Michigan

Warren, MI
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both scrubs and professional attire
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
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Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Once a week drove to a clinic 25 minutes from the main hospital.

Explain:
fasciitis)

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Michigan
Providence - Providence Park

Southfield, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: However, Residents will usually buy most of your meals.
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I rented from a 3rd year resident at DMC. Usually if you contact the program
there's a list of residents who rent out rooms.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I am currently looking to rent a house.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: I lived right in southfield while I did this externship and felt perfectly
safe. However, most residents live in surrounding areas, such as Berkley or Royal Oak. This areas are nicer and there's
more things to do.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: During the day there is no driving once you get to the hospital. They usually assigned the
students to be at the Southfield or Novi location and had us switch every week.

Explain:
Daily work hours: It varied. I was there in June and the residents said it was a slow month because it was starting to get
warmer and people usually don't have elective surgery during these months. I was there usually at 6:30 am for surgery or
7 am on days I had to round on the inpatients. After surgery, which varied from getting done at 9 am to mid/late
afternoon, I asked the on call resident if they needed help with any of the inpatients. If they did not need assistance they
sent us home. The latest I was done during my month was 6 pm, but some students who went there in the fall had longer
days and more surgeries.


Comments:
Other: Charcot reonstruction and ankle implants
Other:

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Michigan
Providence - Providence Park

Southfield, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
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Car needed: No

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Michigan
St. John Hospital And Medical Center

Detroit, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
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Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Every day driving 30 minutes between hospitals and surgery centers

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc) Wound
Other:
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Michigan
St. John Macomb Oakland

Warren, MI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Housing provided
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Housing on Oakland hospital campus
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Not far. Only 20 mins between hospitals.

Explain: Journal club
Daily work hours: 6:30am- 5pm

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Additional comments: Great hands on program.

Michigan
St. Mary Mercy Livonia

Livonia, MI
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
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Car needed: Yes


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Minnesota
Health Partners Institute/Regions Hospital

St. Paul, MN
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Professional Attire in clinic; Scrubs at the hospital/surgery
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Every so often there would be evening meeting dinners/ friday morning didactics breakfast
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Two-three main facilities. Main hospital and clinics are about a mile but if you are there
during a winter month you would want to drive due to snow/cold.

Explain: Didactics at breweries

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments: More of conversation related topic discussion.

Other:
Additional comments: Wonderful program. Program director is big into research and requires residents to perform
research. Residents are all good friends and very friendly. MSP area is very fun and affordable

Minnesota
Health Partners Institute/Regions Hospital

St. Paul, MN
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs most days, clinic attire on clinic days (~2 a week)
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
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Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Along I-94, across from new soccer stadium.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 5 minutes between main hospital and surgical centers. 30 between main hospital and
affiliated hospital.

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Minnesota
Hennepin County Medical Center

Minneapolis, MN
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both scrubs and professional
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with a friend in the area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No. It’s all relatively safe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Once per week.

Explain: They never invited me anywhere.

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc), Amputations
Other:
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Other:
Additional comments: A lot of strong personalities. They didn’t seem fond of male students.

Missouri
SSM Health DePaul Hospital Podiatric Residency

Bridgeton, MO
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: St Charles
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: North and eastern St. Louis
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: About 40 minutes minimum per day

Explain: Residents invited me to coffee before or after surgeries.
Daily work hours: 6:30 am-12 pm

Comments:

Other:
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Additional comments: Great amount of surgical experience but found communication to be poor.

Missouri
Truman Medical Center

Kansas City, MO
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived in an RV
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: RV park in Merriam, KS (a 30 min drive away)
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Daily driving 30+ minutes between surgery centers and hospitals

Explain:

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Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Dermatology, Elective surgeries
Other:

New Jersey

Camden, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Sublet apartment from classmate
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Philadelphia, PA
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: From what I've heard, Camden itself is not safe, but most of the
surrounding areas are (ex: Philadelphia; Cherry Hill, NJ).
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: The furthest you have to drive is about 30 minutes to one of the clinics.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Usually meet in the morning at 8:00 AM, unless academics, then meet at 7 AM.

Comments:
Other:
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Other:
Additional comments: Very excellent program. Highly recommend to all students from any school. Nice hospital facilities,
friendly residents, attendings, and staff. Residents do surgeries skin to skin and students are often allowed to do a lot in
cases as well. Good program for someone who sees the value in a quality clinic experience during residency. Not a high
stress program and great quality here.

New Jersey

Camden, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: For residents - yes; for students - no
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Stayed in Philadelphia
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: No driving in the middle of the day. Once you are at a location, you stay there for the
day (whether it's the hospital, clinic, or surgery center). Never drove more than 30 minutes.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Varies based on where you are assigned. Typically start at 8 AM.

Comments:
Other: Foot trauma goes to podiatry; ankle trauma goes to ortho
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program that will provide well-rounded training. Highly recommend!!

New Jersey

Camden, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Residents receive money for food, but students do not.
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I stayed at a classmate's sublet in Philadelphia. The hospital is located right across
the Ben Franklin Bridge and is a very easy commute. There is a $5 toll. I would not recommend living in Camden, NJ.
Airbnb in other townships in South Jersey would be options too.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Chinatown, Philadelphia. Safe area. Parked at TUSPM.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Camden, NJ is not considered a safe area. Try Philadelphia or other
towns in South Jersey.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: To the hospital was less than 10 minutes. Furthest I drove was 30 minutes for one of the
clinics. Not bad at all, especially since you are usually driving the opposite direction of traffic.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Depends on if you are in clinic, surgery, or at the hospital. You will get a weekly schedule and you will
be able to gauge your daily hours that way. There is one weekend on call, where you help round in the morning and then
go home.

Comments: Varies month to month. Typically once per week.
Other: They have foot & ankle orthopedic surgeon they work with who does a lot of rearfoot cases. As students, we
didn't see those cases.
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths:
Other: Good balance of surgery, clinic, and inpatients
Additional comments: I would highly recommend this program!! They truly have a good balance of surgery, clinic, and
inpatients. You are able to have continuity of care with your patients (pre-op to surgery to post-op), which is hard to find
at a lot of programs. They let students do a lot in the OR so be prepared to inject, suture, etc. Clinic is busy, but mostly
shadowing for students because they want the residents to learn, as opposed to making the students see all the patients.
You will get to help with procedures in clinic, like nail avulsions. Always have bandage scissors and tape on you! The
attendings are all great teachers and they do a lot of cool cases, but are chill about it, so low stress. The hospital has nice
facilities. It's an underrated program in my opinion! You will be prepared for the "real world" upon graduating from this
program.

New Jersey

Camden, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived at home
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Camden as a whole is not safe, but the area around the hospital was
fine. Clinics are further out in suburban New Jersey.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Distance between clinics and the main hospital is about 15-20 min.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7:30-5pm M-F
fasciitis)

Comments:
Other:
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Other:
Additional comments: Decent program, and I enjoyed my month. Lots of downtime so I had time to study for boards.
Residents were friendly and respectful, as were attendings. One thing of note-- I did not like how they charged a $30
interview fee when they do not participate in CRIP. Seems like they are taking financial advantage of interviewees.

New Jersey
DVA-New Jersey Health Care System

East Orange, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Hoboken 20-30 minute drive
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: West Orange, Newark are unsafe
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Entire rotation took place at hospital

Explain:

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Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Wound care, Dermatology, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: Very good program, better than majority of other VA programs. Covers multiple hospitals and
surgery centers. Highly recommend.

New Jersey

Hoboken, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Meal cards
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Hoboken in apartment, 8 min walk to hospital
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: I walked to hospital every day, when had to go to other surgery centers resident picked
me up and drove.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am- 4/5, a lot of days was done at 11/12, they don’t make you stay if there’s nothing to do

Comments:

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Additional comments: GPA matters, really only take 3.9-4.0 students for residency.

New Jersey

Hoboken, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
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Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Try to live in Hoboken during your externship. It is pricier but if you book early
enough you should be able to get a deal. It will save you a lot of time trying to fight traffic against commuters going to
NYC.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: There is an affordable housing project on the far edge of the city, but
you can avoid it easily.
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: M,W,F 7am-6pm T,Th variable depending on number of surgeries

Comments:
Other:
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Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Trauma, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: Very strong NYCPM bias by the director. Not impossible to land a spot if you are from another
school, but significantly more difficult. It is a good program but think hard before risking an externship month.

New Jersey

Hoboken, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
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Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
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New Jersey

Hoboken, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Jersey City- found a cheap airbnb in a more sourthern part of Jersey City, but the
area was a bit shady, and street parking was not always easy. Was a 20 minute drive to the hospital.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Just had to drive from my Airbnb to the hospital. Only once had to drive to one of the
surgery centers on my own (35 minute drive). Every other time that we had to drive elsewhere to another hospital or
surgery center, the residents drove us.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30am-2pm M-F

Comments: journal club and radiology rounds, sometimes workshops, frequency depends on the week
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other: retracting, suctioning, suturing, injecting

Comments: very constructive and helpful

Other:
Additional comments: Wonderful program with a lot of different learning opportunities (8 surgery centers, 3 hospitals,
workshops with reps, multitude of attendings to learn from, resident-run clinic, healthy learning atmosphere from upper
years, abundant trauma and elective surgery exposure).

New Jersey

Hoboken, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Some days
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Can look for Airbnb on the website.
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5:30 am to 4 pm and some days 5am to 10 pm, other days 6 am to 10 am. Very variable depending
where you were assigned. In general not intense. Very often we left like at 12-1 pm.

Comments:

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Other:
Additional comments: All residents double or even triple scrub, so as a student you probably will scrub in like 4 cases in
entire month. You will "observe" a lot, but you cannot see anything.

New Jersey

Vineland, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: There is a very reasonable hotel 5 mins from the hospital.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: from hospital you have to drive 35 mins to an office once a week

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5:30/6:30 am M-F

Comments:

Other:
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Other:
Additional comments: Great Program; They have a very fun group. Lots of rounding on Patients, Multiple Hospitals
privileges; They do TARS; Director is great.

New Jersey

Vineland, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: The residents receive money for meals, but as a student you do not. The residents almost always eat
breakfast and lunch together, so be prepared to spend money on meals at the hospital.
Comments: I believe you can contact the program for housing suggestions. Sometimes a resident will rent out a spare
room.
If no, explain how you found housing: I stayed at an Airbnb. One of my co-externs stayed at a hotel (expensive!) and
another was able to stay with a current resident in their extra room.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I stayed in Glassboro, NJ. Most residents live in Glassboro near Rowan University.
Most residents drive about 20 minutes to the hospital. Some residents lived in Philadelphia.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not that I know of.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There is a lot of driving for this program in terms of mileage! There really isn't traffic in
this area, so that is not a concern, but I would drive 20 miles to the hospital in the morning. Then when you go to the
director's clinic, that is another 20-ish miles. I would drive anywhere from 40-60 miles per day. Keep in mind, this would
be more for the residents because they cover cases at hospitals and surgery centers where students are not allowed.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Typically 6 or 7 AM until 6 or 7 PM. One weekend on call (you help them round and then you go home.
Most won't call you back).


Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: This is resident-dependent, but they do ask a lot of questions and expect you to email them back with an
answer. Be thorough with your emailed responses because they are judging your effort!
Program strengths:
Other: A lot of crazy cases. They have an attending that works at an ortho group, but as students we were not really
exposed to his clinic or his surgeries too much.
Additional comments: I think this program is fairly balanced in terms of clinic and surgery. They go to the director's clinic,
which is a classic podiatry practice and they learn billing/coding. They also do clinic with Dr. Brant who works for an ortho
group, so they are exposed to a variety of clinic. Inpatient cases are a lot of gas and osteo. They work with a lot of
attendings, but I would say only a few are really good and respected by the residents. The hospital is very nice. The
surrounding area is a lot of farm land, so not too much to do.

New Jersey

Neptune, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes


Explain:
Daily work hours: 6 AM - 6 PM
fasciitis)

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Rearfoot trauma (ankle, pilon), Amputations
Other:
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Comments:

Other:

New Jersey

Neptune, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Certain parts of Asbury Park
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You almost always meet at the hospital in the morning and if you are going to a different
surgery center, the resident will often drive you. Sometimes you drive on your own, but nothing more than 30 minutes.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Always meet at 6:00 AM in the morning. Some days can run as late as 10 PM if there are academics at
the end of the day.
fasciitis)

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: The director likes to pimp a lot during clinic. Some attendings will also ask a lot of questions. Most of the
residents didn't really pimp much.

Other:
Additional comments: This program can have long hours, but I failed to see how it necessarily translated to better
training. The residents are bogged down with a lot of floor work due to a high inpatient list and in my opinion,
unnecessary consults. Most ED and floor consults were very minor issues that often were not even podiatric issues. There
was a lot of micromanaging from upper year residents. The best part of the program was probably the free food.

New Jersey

Neptune, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with friend in her apt.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 5 mins away
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 10 mins every day, residents would drive you to surgery centers that were far away

Explain: Rep dinner
Daily work hours: 6am-6pm or later, really long hours!! Have to be on call one weekend.

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments: So much pimping, memorize prism before you go

Other:
Additional comments: Dr.Sullivan is awesome, grades/GPA matters if you want to end up here.

New Jersey

Neptune, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments: But if you reach out to the coordinator, she will put you in contact with some potential housing nearby.
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb/hotel
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Tinton Falls
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Never had to drive over 30 minutes. Hospital was 8 minutes from the hotel I stayed at
primarily.

Explain: Rep dinner
Daily work hours: 5:45am-6 or 7pm, sometimes later

Comments:

Other:
Other: retracting, suctioning, suturing

Comments:

Other: a lot of wound care clinic to cover
Additional comments: This is a very good program, with great attendings, and a lot of opportunities in a very well-
rounded atmosphere. Large inpatient volume, large surgery volume, all around great training.

New Jersey

Neptune City, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: $350 per month, even for students!
Comments: They can offer suggestions
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb. Housing here is hard to find and can be expensive since it is close to the
beach.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Ocean, NJ. Less than 10 minutes from the hospital.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Asbury Park is an up and coming area, but has its sketchy sides.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Often you will drive to the surgery centers with the resident if its convenient. Sometimes
you will have to drive on your own. At most, 30 minutes from the hospital.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6 AM - 6 PM or later. Academics can often run very late at night. Some cases can run very late.
Mondays are the short days.
fasciitis)

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: The director likes to ask a lot of questions during clinic and rounding (know your recon!) Most other times, it
was not bad at all.

Other:
Additional comments: I have to be honest...I truly found this program to be overrated. I had heard so many good things
about it, so maybe my expectations were too high? Not sure, but I struggled to see what made this program so great or
honestly that different from other programs. The ratio of surgeries to residents is what makes people think they do a lot
of surgery, but the day they take 3 residents per year (which the director wants to do), it will be like any other program.
The hands-on involvement for students in the OR is very minimal and depending on who the attending is, the residents
may not be do much more than you. Don't be fooled by big-name attendings like Fleming at this program. The residents
hardly do anything in his cases. I understand why the residents don't want there to be more than 2 residents/year - they
want to be able to double/triple their numbers...makes sense because for half the cases they log, they hardly did anything
(ex - Polowczyk lets them retract and then close skin for his ankle ORIF's). They also don't really have a true private
practice clinic experience until their third year. There is a lot of floor work and the residents lack autonomy with their
inpatients. They must always round with the attendings when the attending wants (i.e. - some attending will stop by
randomly in the middle of the day to see his patients. You will run around the whole hospital for his 3 patients...none of
them will be in their rooms because it's the middle of the day and they are having procedures done, etc...this happens a
lot). Most ED consults or floor consults were unnecessary. Their EMR system is very outdated. They must dictate
everything. I liked their wound care center, but the residents dreaded it (probably because they have to dictate those
wound care notes). Their academics were very good and engaging. Final thought: Form your own opinions about
programs. Go see this program for yourself to see if it's right for you and don't be fooled into thinking that if you spend 16
hours at the hospital that you are at a better program than someone who spends 8 hours - look at how the residents
spend their time.

New Jersey

Morristown, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments: Provide student housing right next to hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Had to drive about15-25 mine to overlook hospital when you were assigned there

Explain: Rep dinner/ happy hour
Daily work hours: 7am-4/5 pm

Comments:

Other: Only saw one ankle fracture my month but can depend, I saw a lot of bunions, hammertoes, amps
Other: Depends on attending you are with

Comments: LOTS of pimping, know prism in and out

Other:

New Jersey

Morristown, NJ
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Meal Card of $50 is given for the month

Comments: Student Apt is provided right behind the hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving almost everyday. Drove as far as an hour to 1 surgery center. Average driving
per day is about 20-30 min.

Explain: Social happy hour with residents 1x/month

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

New Mexico
DVA-New Mexico -Hlthcare Sysetm

Albuquerque, NM
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments: A couple residents have rooms to rent
If no, explain how you found housing: A couple residents have rooms to rent. The residents here will have
recommendations.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I stayed with a resident in a room they rented.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Along Central Ave south of I-40 isn't the safest. High crime/poverty.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: You don't need a car because you spend the whole month at the VA but I would not
recommend living within walking distance of the VA. Not the nicest area.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30 Am - 5pm M-F

Comments:
Other: Honestly did it all. This is NOT your typical VA.
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: This is not your typical VA. This is a very busy program that sees it all. Ortho in the hospital does
not touch ankles. Podiatry takes all ankle fractures and ankle injuries. As a student you are only at the VA but the
residents at this program scrub at multiple area hospitals and surgery centers. Highly recommend checking this program
out.

New York
Catholic Health Sys/Sisters of Charity Hospital

Buffalo, NY
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: The residents often give you their meal cards though

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: West Seneca
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Drove everyday between hospital centers

Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

New York
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

New York, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Already lived within a short distance from hospital
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: My home
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Everyday. 20 minutes to other centers.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Program is strong surgically, however, 2nd and 3rd years are a little self-centered. I was told that
they began ranking students for match in front of several externs, they started promising positions to certain students
who didn’t end up matching there, and their interview was absolutely one of the harshest I’ve had of all the places I’ve
been to. It’s still a phenomenal surgical program but there are some very rival personalities putting people down in front
of students. I was even privy to one attending stating: “I don’t even know how he even works here or how he does
surgery” about another attending. It went from a program I considered strongly to one of my lowest choices to avoid
drama.

New York
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

New York, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rent house, Travel by MTA
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Rent house
Car needed: No

Explain: They were acting as friendly
Daily work hours: 6:30 am - 6 pm

Comments: Nothing

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: You will not learn anything from the program.

New York

Forest Hills, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived near hospital
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: My home
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Every week and some times over 30 min

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:15 to 4pm

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Program director likes to bully students during interviews to state outright if they will be ranking
the program 1. Surgically, the program is lacking in forest hills. Assistant director is amazing.

New York

Forest Hill, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Home
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Home
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There are 3 different hospitals. Student needs to stay each in each hospital for 1 week. It
can be 30 mins drive or 45 mins drive but you can directly go there without going back and forth between hospitals.

Explain:

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

New York

Forest Hills, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Commute is doable since you can get subways.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Long island
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Don’t know
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Yes, you will be driving to different locations but not with in one day usually.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:15 am to 3 pm

Comments:

Other: Good mix of all cases since they have multiple locations
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: No

New York

Forest Hills, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Meal card for residents
Comments: Easy to find an Airbnb for cheap even though you are near NYC.
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb worked well. You can live close or further out On LI.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Neighborhood within walking distance of the hospital.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: The region near the LIJ Forest Hills is kind of an upper middle class
neighborhood according to online searches.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: I had a car, but depending on where you live. If you go to NYCPM then you would need a
car I believe.

Explain: Some. Depends on what events are going on.
Daily work hours: Monday, wed, and fri 6:15am. Other days start closer to 8am. The time you finish is variable and
depends how much extra you want to try to do.

Comments:
Other: A lot of variability
Other: Retracting and suctioning, help before and after the cases, workshops, depends on the attending

Comments: It’s more of a learning “pimping”

Other:
Additional comments: Great work life balance. While it is a fast paced New York environment, nobody wants to waste
any body’s time. You can get out of it what you put into it.

New York

Forest Hills, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived nearby at home, but Airbnb is available.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Home. Can live anywhere in Queens or Long Island and commute.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No, very safe area.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30-45 minutes driving between FH hospital in Queens and NUMC and Southside in Long
Island. Can be commuting to the other hospitals 1-3x per week or they may divide your month for 1 week at each
location.

Explain: Eat together at times...they are overall very social but not much outside.
Daily work hours: 6:15am-5/6pm sometimes case would run late.

Comments:

Other: You see other stuff but 3rd years are very case-hungry which is worrisome. Also many attendings don't pass the
knife. Meanwhile they will often be double scrubbed residents, even triple scrubbed with an extern.
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: I did not enjoy my time at this program because I was looking for a heavy surgical exposure place
where residents are trained and do skin to skin. Also all the pimping was medicine because that is what the residents
know...meanwhile I know more surgery and fixation. So I didn't get a chance to shine. Wound care is more here, and
some great attendings such as Cirlincione and Stabile will give you great skin to skin exposure but it just isn't enough.
Wound care clinic is hard work as we are scrubbing the feet, plus in the OR. Pay, benefits, and lifestyle is great here for a
routine podiatrist to train but if you want heavy surgery low clinic, this is not the place for you. Also they are
PRETENTIOUS but plenty of students realize 1 week in that they act much more sought-after than they are.

New York

Forest Hills, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 2 hospitals were 30-50 minutes away from Forest Hills depending on the traffic. If you
were assigned to the other hospitals, you have to go there everyday. Some people had to be in the other hospitals 3
weeks out of 4. So there is a lot of driving.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30 am to 4pm
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: This program is very heavy on wounds, so if you like that, it is a program for you. Also program has
lots of clinic, mostly wound clinic, but regular clinic also exists.

New York
Long Island Jewish - Northwell

New Hyde Park, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: At home near by
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: A lot of driving. Rotate between 3 hospitals (within 20 mins of each other). Also, rotate
at a wound center 5 mins from LIJ.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Depended on the surgery schedule 7-4 M-F. Later if there were add ons on later cases.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Other:

New York
Montefiore Mt. Vernon Hospital

Mt Vernon, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: $17 per day meal allowance for residents
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Under 30 minutes

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program, very academic. Highly recommend!

New York

New York, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived at home
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7:30 am -4 pm M-F sometimes earlier

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great balanced program with opportunity to learn from different attendings. Rare opportunity to
learn a lot about Charcot patients and doing surgery on this specific patient population.

New York

New York, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7 am to 6 pm on a busy day, 7am to 1 pm on a light day

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Wound debridement,
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

New York
New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Brooklyn, NY
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Students receive 50% discount on food
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb or Commute
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Jersey City, NJ
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: n/a

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6am to 5pm M-F

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

New York

Brooklyn, NY
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Commuted from Queens, where I live. But if possible, AirBnB nearby or take train
because parking is horrible in Park Slope (barely any street parking, garages cost $40+ for the day).
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Most residents commute from somewhere, some live in park slope.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No, it's a beautiful safe residential area of Brooklyn.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Rarely ever left the main hospital. If you go to 1 day of clinic, the director/resident can
drive you or you can take a train/Uber.

Explain: They have a social, you eat lunch together at times.
Daily work hours: 6am-6pm, sometimes longer.

Comments:
Other: Insane amount of surgical volume with podiatry attendings and incoming patients. Also lots of ortho because
there are no ortho residents. But you are not doing surgery 1st year for the most part, and 3rd year surgery is also
shunted to the 2nd years. I think a more gradual system may be more beneficial.
Other:

Comments:

Other: LOTS of medicine. Inpatient lists are 30-50 patients at times....it is a lot of patient management.
Additional comments: I would hesitate to recommend this program to someone who wants a more balanced experience
between workload and academics. I feel they need to improve their academics and monthly grand rounds. Up the pace.
Residents need better understanding of fixation. Surgery should be done more scattered through the 1st and 3rd year as
well. Living in the OR for 1 year (2nd year) isn't as good as starting with amps and dirty cases, moving up to a high volume
of elective and trauma in the 2nd and 3rd year. Inpatient management and volume is great for the right person, and
makes you learn a lot, but really I think the podiatry residents are used for this purpose more than they should be. But I
will say, the anesthesiology residents have said we optimize our sick patients best for surgery compared to many other
specialties.

New York

Brooklyn, NY
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6 am to 6 pm every day and sometimes until 8 pm or 9 pm

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Elective surgeries

Other:

New York
New York Presbyterian/Queens

Flushing, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: You receive a meal card

Comments: Option to stay in the call house across the street from hospital.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Fresh Meadows, Queens about 9 min from hospital.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No, this is a very safe area in Queens.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: I had a car, but you can get away without one for the month. You are at the main
hospital 90% of the time. 1-3 days you could be at their clinic nearby (they have 2 half days of clinic only, and you won't
always be assigned there) or at Flushing hospital. 1 day of the month you may be sent to shadow at the director's busy
office. Uber may be used those few times or you may hitch a ride with another extern/resident.

Explain: Some rep dinners. This program isn't very "sit around all day with us then go out and drink with us." It is very
active when you're there, and when you're done you can go home. Residents were super responsive to any questions or
inquiries. I was invited after the month was over for several workshops/rep dinners.
Daily work hours: 7am rounds daily, cases can go until 12 or until 5 depending on the load. Residents often go over
concepts and teach during down time. You are dismissed in the later afternoon if not much going on, but some days when
a lot is happening you will stick around into evening. Tuesday is usually the heaviest day. Tuesday nights academics until
8:30pm. No weekend call, no night call for externs. Overall the hospital is busy and efficient, but the hours aren't stupid
long like at some other places where you are required to sit around for no reason until 7pm even if everything you can do
is done. Residents here are very practical with time, and you have plenty of work to do (things to look up, emails to send,
presentation to work on, journal articles to summarize) that you will be doing when done with your day.


Comments: One of the more academic programs in the area. Tuesday night grand rounds include journal club, radiology
rounds, and lecture usually by a renowned accomplished pod or other specialty doc. Super efficient academics, learn a lot.
Director, attendings, and multiple other residency programs attend their academics. Residents teach externs throughout
the week, assign things to look up occasionally. Residents have recently started their own academics one morning of the
week for presenting on topics. Never a wasted day in this place...
Other: Super varied surgery here. Elective and recon cases brought by attendings both in Lombardi's practice and the
others who are involved in the program. Plenty of trauma coming into the main hospital, all foot trauma is given to
podiatry. Ankle trauma at main hospital split between ortho and podiatry depending on the day, but we get a fair
amount. Flushing ankle and foot everything goes to podiatry. Plenty of interesting infections and amputation and
wounds/skin flaps stuff comes into the hospital. Attendings are well versed in different surgical concepts so willing to do
many things for resident exposure. Overall incredible surgical variety and volume.
Other:

Comments: The residents are never mean and you learn A TON at this place. Externs are pimped by residents and some
attendings, and pimped during radiology rounds. Sounds way more intimidating than it is. Easily learned the most at this
program.

Other:
Additional comments: Very worthwhile to extern here. There is a false misconception that because they are very
selective with who is ranked, and because it's possible to be ranked with high grades and a strong interview then the
month is not necessary...but I very much disagree. 1. You will learn more in this month than most others because they are
so into teaching. 2. OR exposure is great, will scrub so many different types of cases here. 3. Unless you are top 10 and
have an incredible interview (plenty of top 10ers don't interview well that CRIP day), the month is super necessary and
will help the residents and faculty decide if you fit. 4. You will see how incredibly efficient the place runs, and appreciate
the facility. Hands down shortest OR turnover time! 5. It has happened every year or 2 that someone with not the highest
GPA is ranked, and matches here. As long as you know your stuff and show it, you have a shot. Worth spending a
month!!! Will change how you see other places.

New York
Metropolitan Hosp Ctr/NYCPM

New York, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived at home in Queens, but plenty of AirBnB in the city
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: most residents live in the city or Queens/surrounding buroughs
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: 20 blocks below Harlem in the upper east side, and some parts of
Harlem, are fine to live in. Some areas near the school at 125th street are a little shady...but nothing too crazy and plenty
of police around.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Everything is accessible by train. Car is helpful and I had one, parked in school lot and
took shuttle from school to hospitals plus train in between if needed.

Explain: Ate together, call room chatting. But busy most of the time.
Daily work hours: 8 or 9am- 4 or 5pm. Not crazy hours.

Comments: Grand Rounds on Friday mornings, Journal Club on Wednesday mornings, and monthly cadaver workshops.
Plenty of other lectures and workshops scattered throughout, and many renowned pods and docs come to speak at the
College.
Other: Lots of elective forefoot and really varied bunion procedures, plenty of recon and lots of Charcot. Younger
attendings doing rearfoot, plus Ortho attendings let our residents do a lot. Varied infections and amps exposure. Lots of
new exposure at Queens Hospital Center as well during residency.
Other:

Comments: Will learn a lot.
Other:
Additional comments: One of the best programs in NY. Academics, attendings, exposure is amazing. Patient population is
great to learn in. Sadly the salary is on the lower side but it's only 3 years, and that shouldn't be a determining factor.
Students in clinic are doing all the routine boring stuff so residents are basically attendings, come in for the good stuff.
***SKIN TO SKIN in everything during OR cases**** They teach like no other place.

New York

Brooklyn, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb, yikes expensive
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Looking at apartments in Fort Hamilton, required to be 20 mins of the hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Sunset Park, where the program is located is an industrial area so it's a
little sketchy at night time, wouldn't recommend living near the hospital. Public transportation is a really easy.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Cover cases in Manhattan and academics are in Manhattan as well, so maybe 2-3 times
a week

Explain:

Comments:
Other: Scrub rearfoot with orthopods
Other:

Comments:
Other: Level 1 trauma center

New York

Brooklyn, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Area around the hospital is not safe and as a resident you have to live
15 minutes from there.
Car needed: No

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6am to 6-7 pm
fasciitis)

Comments: it was almost non-existent, no attending ever present during academics, only chief was trying to read some
articles, and make students present.

Other: NONE
Other: all externs had to stand in OR regardless, even if you cannot see anything

Comments: completely unrelated questions from some random book
Program strengths:
Other: none
Additional comments: Attendings almost never present in the hospital. All clinic is resident run. Lots of very low quality
clinic. Hospital is very dirty.

New York
Our Lady Of Lourdes Memorial Hospital

Binghamton, NY
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs and professional attire
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: The program referred me to a family who rents a room just a couple of blocks
from the hospital.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Right off Riverside Drive
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Only had to drive to clinics ~10 min drive.

Explain:

Comments:
Other: Reconstructions
Other:

Comments:

Other: Reconstructions

New York
Our Lady Of Lourdes Memorial Hospital

Binghamton, NY
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Mostly scrubs, clinic attire only needed for Dr. Laporta's clinic
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 5 mins from the hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 15 mins to the clinic. 15 mins to Dr. Laporta office

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

New York
South Nassau Communities Hospital

Oceanside, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: But food is cheap in the cafeteria, and great food. Lots of rep lunches. As a resident, food is paid for.
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived at home in Queens. Parking is good, easy commute. But plenty of places in
Long Island to sublet or AirBnB that month.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Queens, NY
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No, very safe residential area.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: You stay at 1 hospital all the time.

Explain: Invited to Rep dinners at times, can go out to grab lunch with residents. Nice group.
Daily work hours: 6:30am to anywhere from 3/4pm to late night if cases going in late.

Comments: Very light, resident run academics weekly. They are working on becoming more academic. Residents do
research if they want, and hospital pays for conferences and posters and such.
Other: Ankle exposure via Ortho, as there are no ortho residents in this hospital. Well rounded variety. Volume isn't too
heavy but enough for 2 residents. All cases are done skin to skin by residents.
Other:

Comments: They like to teach. Pimping happens depending on the resident, not very aggressive at all. Director and
attendings ask questions at times.

Other:
Additional comments: Great program for someone who wants balance, not insanely hectic, good numbers, and skin to
skin surgery. Clinic is 1 half day of variety pod clinic and 1 half day of wound care clinic at a wound care center next to the
hospital. Attendings and facilities are great. Hidden gem.

New York
St. Barnabas Hospital - NY

Bronx, NY
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Don't live near the hospital.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: The externship is based at the hospital, residents do offsite cases at other NYC hospitals

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:50 am - 5 pm M-F

Comments: There was no academics when I was there

Other: The podiatry residents are the orthopedic residents therefore scrubbed all orthopedic cases
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: A lot of hard work and there are 6 residents per class so a lot of interpersonal drama.

North Carolina

Winston Salem, NC
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating room/Airbnb
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Family friend
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: East Winston. Crime
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30 min a couple of days

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program

North Carolina

Winston-Salem, NC
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Very little driving. Occasionally to a clinic 20 minutes away.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Overall a phenomenal program that has a lot of growth potential. Interesting relationship with
ortho residency. They work well together, but seems questionable sometimes.

North Carolina

Winston Salem, NC
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with Friends in the area
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Ardmore. Very close to hospital. Safe.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: West of the hospital is better than East.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Daily. Drive around 30 minutes one week or of the month.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7am to 5pm m-f

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Other:
Additional comments: Excellent program. Great balance of surgery and clinic. Relationship with Ortho allows for unique
opportunity to learn their experiences and techniques as well as the podiatric surgeons.

Ohio

Cleveland, OH
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: I was close to my townhome that i was renting for medical school so i stayed there
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Because i stayed at my town home in parma heights and drove to the hospital everyday,
it was roughly a 30 minute drive there and up to an hour or so drive back home. Heavy traffic in Cleveland in the evenings.

Explain:
Daily work hours: varied. Most days were 5:30am-5:00pm

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Ohio

Cleveland, OH
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Shaker Heights
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Shaker Heights, No where east of the hospital
Car needed: No

Explain: Great residents

Comments:

Other: Takes all trauma with no ortho battle. Phenomenal Program.
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: By far, the best program in the midwest and eastcoast. Very underrated program. Don't sleep on
this program. Dr. Whitaker and Dr. Lowell know how to run a successful program. If you want great training, go to this
program. You will come out strong and prepared to take on any challenge.

Ohio

Columbus, OH
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Wear professional attire into hospital, change into scrubs; unless clinic day always professional attire
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Discount provided

Comments: The program gave me $550 to spend on housing for the month; AirBnB cost me $550.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Upper Arlington; safe quiet neighborhood 6 miles from DT Columbus
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Yes, any city has unsafe areas. I would live downtown, Upper Arlington,
or Grandview.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: I needed one because I choose to live farther away, but there are extended stay hotels
within walking distance of hospital. They were just more expensive.

Explain:

Comments:
Other:
Other: Depends on attending, there are a ton of them. mostly retracting but I did more on certain cases like suturing etc.

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: This program was in my top 2.

Ohio

Columbus, OH
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: rotatingroom.com
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived in Hilliard (20 mins away) through a living situation I found on rotating
rooms. The commute was not bad at all.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: None that I encountered
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most of the rotation was spent at the main campus- Grant Medical Center. Traveling 30
minutes was about 2-3 times a week.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6-3 T, Th, F. M/W 6-6PM. You do walk week of call which was 5AM-5PM.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Very good programs, lots of elective surgery, good environment to learn and see lots of surgery.
Highly recommend.

Ohio

Columbus, OH
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs mostly (in the hospital); Professional attire for clinics
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments: They do give a reimbursement for some of the cost of housing.
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating rooms; some residents have extra rooms they rent out, housing was very
affordable
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: The main hospital is downtown so not as safe as surrounding
communities but I was never worried about my safety walking around.
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: You could probably get away with uber for the outside locations but having a car would
make things easier.

Explain: Invite you to hang out on the weekends
Daily work hours: M-F 6am-6pm

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: More conversational, less of a test of your knowledge

Other:
Additional comments: Great program. Residents are all very nice and get along well.

Ohio

Columbus, OH
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Give a discount

Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Given a list and reimbursed
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: With a resident- use the resources they send you.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Like all cities yes, just ask.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Drove to different offices within 20 minutes of the main center.

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Ohio
Jewish Hospital - Mercy North

Cincinnati, OH
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Best food in the world, all you can eat!! Like we are talking free muscle milk and ice cream.
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Facebook connections
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Loveland area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Downtown
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 25-30 mins each way

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Residents are trusted to do skin the skin every time no matter the year. Very good surgical
exposure, very nice hospitals, the BEST food ever!!

Ohio
University Of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Med

Cincinnati, OH
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Facebook connections
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Loveland area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Basically all of downtown
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30- 45mins both ways

Explain:

Comments:

Other: Muscle and skin flaps all the time
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Very busy with diabetic/limb salvage type procedures, the director is very good at this area of
Podiatry.

Ohio
University Of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Med

Cincinnati, OH
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Some neighborhoods near downtown are bad but easy to avoid.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 1-2 times a week to West Chester Hospital about 30 minutes away with traffic

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7-4pm M-F

Comments:

Other: Midfoot and rearfoot elective
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Oklahoma
Surgical Hospital of Oklahoma & Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Oklahoma City, OK
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: North Oklahoma City
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No, Oklahoma is pretty safe
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 10-15 minutes

Explain: n/a
Daily work hours: Varies each day. Some days were only a few hours and some days were 8-5. Each day is different.
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: As a student you will spend a lot of time scrubbing ortho and plastics cases. Sometimes the
residents will have you cover cases they don't want to do. Clinic is laid back. Not much hands on experience in clinic.

Oregon
Legacy Health
Portland, OR
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Sister
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived in Vancouver, WA across the bridge. Usually wasnt terrible getting into
Portland in the mornings, but traffic in the PM was a nightmare.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Lots of driving

Explain:
Daily work hours: Variable, generally: 7-7 or so

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Portland is an awesome city!

Pennsylvania
Aria Jefferson Health

Philadelphia, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Apartment from school
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Lots of driving, about 20-30 minutes between hospitals

Explain:

Comments:

Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Lots of trauma at this program, but the residents work very long hours. Overall though this is a
strong program.

Pennsylvania

Upland, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: But usually you get out before lunch
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: PA
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Every day. You need to drive 15 mins between hospitals and surgery centers.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Pennsylvania

Upland, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments: A resident and an attending rent out rooms in their homes.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I only externed, but I lived at the residents home.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving up to 45 mins per day, they cover 5 hospitals within their system and 2-3 surgical
centers

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Great program, with good training.

Pennsylvania

Chester, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments: Attendings did offer housing for affordable price
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived with family
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Yes
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 20 min-30 min depending on cases and surgery centers

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7a-3p

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Pennsylvania

Chester, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Intermittently
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Find it yourself
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Center city
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Chester bad Delco good
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Daily 30 miles

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6-3 or 4

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Well balanced and excellent all around.

Pennsylvania
Geisinger - Community Medical Center - PA

Scranton, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Meal vouchers

Comments: $500 for the month
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Very little driving. You are mainly at the hospital or the office only 15 minutes away from
each other.

Explain:
Daily work hours: as early as 4:30am if rounding, sometimes as late as 9pm in OR
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:

Comments:
Program strengths:
Other: reconstructive surgery
Additional comments: Great training in foot and ankle surgery. Not a lot of clinic exposure. Attendings and co-residents
are not very supportive.

Pennsylvania

Scranton, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Both scrubs and professional attire
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Close to the hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving to off site surgical centers and to private hospitals

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Director was an alpha male who made students feel uncomfortable.

Pennsylvania

Scranton, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Not very good either

Comments: $500/mo
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived in an Airbnb
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not necessarily, but not a very good place to live regardless.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Cases at other Geisinger facilities besides the main hospital were around 30 minutes
away.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5am-7pm M-F with two weeks and two weekends on call
fasciitis)

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Additional comments: Too many residents, unrealistic call expectations for students, inter-resident drama, not a great
place to live, not a nurturing learning environment.

Pennsylvania
Heritage Valley Beaver

Beaver, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Professional attire required for clinic
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc)
Other: Charcot and reconstructive surgery
Other:

Comments: Questions focused on literature.

Other:
Additional comments: Low surgical numbers. Residents often double or sometimes triple scrub cases. Despite that,
residents seem to be well trained. Attendings are knowledgeable and great at teaching.

Pennsylvania
LECOM Health/Millcreek Community Hospital

Erie, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Two main hospitals Millcreek Community Hospital and UPMC Hamot are less than 15
minutes away from each other.

Explain:

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Very well balanced program. Strong clinical and surgical experience. Residents are well trained
and confident in their skills.

Pennsylvania
Nazareth Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Pretty good too
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Live in the area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: The hospital area is safe, but Dr. Anaim's clinic is in a very dangerous
part of town.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Distance between clinic and the hospital was about 20-30 minutes

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Pennsylvania
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Philadelphia, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: West Rittenhouse Square
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Do not live West of the Hospital
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Never Driving

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30 am until 5pm most days, some surgery days are longer depending on the day

Comments:

Other: Lots or Recon (Flat foot, cavus, Met adductus), Ankle scopes, Triples and FF elective Procedures
Other: Lots of suturing

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Other: Scopes and Recon
Additional comments: Penn is a primary service. That means they manage patients throughout their hospital stays and
requires more management and rounding. Residents are very intelligent and the atmosphere is relaxed and a family-like
atmosphere. Downey and Malay are some of the premier surgeons in the Podiatric community and you get plenty of 1 on
1 interaction with them.

Pennsylvania
Phoenixville Hospital
Phoenixville, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs at hospitals; clinic attire for clinic
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Residents do receive free meals at some hospitals, but not for students
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb. Would recommend moving closer to the hospitals. The drive from
Philadelphia can be a lot (high traffic areas).
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I stayed near Phoenixville Hospital in an Airbnb.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: There are many different hospitals, surgery centers, and clinics that you could be at. I
lived near Phoenixville hospital and the furthest I would have to drive was 30 minutes to one of the hospitals.

Explain:
Daily work hours: When you are at the hospitals: 7 AM - 3 PM When you are in clinic: 8:30 AM - 5 PM

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: "pimping" was rare, but I also felt like I didn't learn as much at this program as a result.

Other:
Additional comments: Phoenixville is a well-rounded program that has more of an emphasis on clinic as opposed to
inpatient hospital floor work. The residents seem very happy. It should be noted that Dr. Miller has a fellow who does all
of his cases. The residents don't do much at all in the surgery because of that (but this also depends on the fellow, who
changes yearly).

Pennsylvania
Temple University Hospital

Philadelphia, PA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Kept apartment from school
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Philly area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: North Philadelphia
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Pennsylvania
University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Mostly professional unless in surgery
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: The area next to the hospital isn't the safest but many local safe area
short distance away.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: usually meet at the main hopsital and residents would drive you to UPMC East or the
VA; needed car for outside private clinics

Explain: evening and weekend events/dinner

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments: Was conversational or to help me learn; nothing degrading

Other: Charcot Recon
Additional comments: They are very family oriented and all enjoy spending time with each other.

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Professional Attire in Clinic, Scrubs for surgery or if at the VA
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with a resident who was a friend from school
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: in downtown Pittsburgh, nice area that I could walk to a lot of things
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Only a couple of times did I have to drive over 30 minutes to an attending's office
outside Pittsburgh.

Explain: Halloween party, socials after academics

Comments:
Other: Charcot Reconstruction, specifically IM nailing
Other:

Comments:

Additional comments: Lots of academic opportunity. Only program I saw where they were trained in TARs.

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Sometimes
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Neighborhood
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You drive to the hospital parking lot that is far away from the hospital building everyday.
A first year resident will then give you a ride to designated office/hospital. This means that you will never leave before the
first year resident is done with his/her day.

Explain:

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other: TTC arthrodesis and ankle fusions
Other:

Comments:

Other: Charcot reconstructions
Additional comments: Sexist comments were pretty rampant at this program. Female residents at this program have a
regular brunch by themselves. There are a lot of locker room talks, and it is a culture for them to talk badly about
residents that are not with them at the moment. It was pretty common to hear an attending or a resident refer to
someone else as "stupid." The silent competition between each resident is pretty crazy here as there are so many
residents in the program. I did not want to spend three years of my life in such an unhealthy environment.

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for surgery days/VA, professional for clinic days
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Residents bought our breakfast/lunch most of the time
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Met every morning at the main hospital. Residents drove us to outside hospitals/VA.

Explain: At least 2 outside activities with residents per week
Daily work hours: 5am-7pm on average. Since the residents drive you to outside hospitals, you have to wait for them to
finish their notes before you can go home, which takes 1- 2 hours.

Comments:

Other: IM nails
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Clinic has a lot of routine care, especially the VA clinic which is basically all nails/calluses (which
you are at for half the month). During surgery there would often be at least 4-5 people scrubbed in (fellow, 2-3 residents
and a student). Did not feel like a "top notch" program.

Pennsylvania

Pittsburg, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: The Hill (About 1-2 miles from the hospital)
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: The Hill
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Just to parking lot, so depends on where you live

Explain: Cadaver labs and social outings

Comments:

Other: Charcot
Other:

Comments:

Other: Recons
Additional comments: Great program and the residents make you feel very comfortable. You're doing something all of
the time.

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: The Hospital is located in an "ok" area of Pittsburgh. Do NOT live in the Hill
district. I would recommend South Side or Squirrel Hill or Shadyside.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Shadyside, very quick drive to the hospital and very easy to get around. Walkable
area and felt safe.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Hill District
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You drove to the Hospital daily and one week on rotation you drove around 30 minutes-
1 hour each day.

Explain: Lots of planned events! (ie Hikes, parties, dinner, cookouts)
Daily work hours: Usually 6am (or earlier) to whenever you were done. Most weeks were around 5 pom but it was not
unusual to be there past 9pm.

Comments: 3 Academics a week, 2 at 6 am Monday and Friday

Other: Lots of Charcot Recon, Limb Salvage, HAV Fusions, Lapidus
Other:

Comments: Depends on resident, very academic citing journals and articles

Other:
Additional comments: Great program, learned a lot, lots of Charcot and big cases, amazing city with great residents and a
welcoming family environment.

Pennsylvania
West Penn Hospital

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived in the provided housing across the street from West Penn Hospital. Dorm
style rooms.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving 2-5x per week roughly 20-30 minutes between hospitals.

Explain:

Comments:

Other: Rearfoot elective/reconstruction
Other:

Comments:

Other: Elective rearfoot reconstruction
Additional comments: Excellent program. Dr. Catanzariti and West Penn have been doing this for years and are
extremely well respected. Alumni have gone on to hold leadership positions as program directors and in national
organizations. The training at this program is a little more traditional than the newer programs but it speaks for itself.
Very specific personality and work ethic that not everyone will understand or mesh with.

Pennsylvania
West Penn Hospital

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for surgery days, professional for clinic days
Meals Provided: No
Comments: Got a weeks worth of lunch tickets, residents occasionally gave extra tickets

Comments: Dorm room in the nursing dorm across the street
If no, explain how you found housing: May have to share a dorm room so some students got an Airbnb.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 2 weeks at West Penn- walk across the street from dorm 1 week had to drive to
Jefferson hospital (~45 mins) 1 week had to drive to Forbes hospital (~30 mins)

Explain:
Daily work hours: 5am-4pm on average (without travel time) Some days got done as early as noon, rarely stayed later
than 5:30.

Comments:

Other: Flatfoot reconstructions, Charcot reconstructions, RF elective cases
Other:

Comments: Pimped before cases to see if you prepared for them

Other: Flatfoot reconstructions (Dr. Catanzariti)
Additional comments: The nicest and most caring attendings that love to teach. Residents are top-notch. Clinics have
very diverse pathologies (no routine care). Though lots of shadowing in clinic, I felt I learned the most clinically out of all
my externships. Very early mornings.

Pennsylvania
West Penn Hospital

Pittsburgh, PA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Spend 2 weeks at a facility that requires 30 minutes of driving each way

Explain:
Daily work hours: 4 AM- 5 PM

Comments:

Other: Rearfoot reconstructions
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Rhode Island
Roger Williams Medical Center

Providence, RI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 10 mins away from hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: went to 3 hospitals sometimes in one day

Explain:
Daily work hours: varied upon surgery and in house pts

Comments: once a month

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: heavy surgery and VA experience.

Tennessee
DVA-Mountain Home
Johnson City, TN
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: They work a strict 7am-3pm. Overall seemed like a decent training for a VA.

Texas

Greenville, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Family in Dallas area
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: McKinney, Texas. Very safe and nice part of Dallas.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: A lot. Between 30-90 minutes each day.

Explain: n/a
Daily work hours: 8-3 most days. Sometimes done earlier

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: This is a great program. It requires a lot of driving.

Texas

Greenville, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Heavy driving. You cover most surgery centers from Dallas to Greenville, which is about
45 minutes east.

Explain:

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Dr. Brancheau is hard to work with, but his residents are trained well.

Texas

Fort Worth, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: near the hospital in the historic district
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Students only go to JPS, so depending how far you stay you may or may not need a car

Explain:

Comments: 1-2 times a month

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Texas

Fort Worth, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating room in Edgecliff village (10 mins south of JPS)
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Certain parts south of the hospital
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Only really drove to JPS, if you lived close enough didnt need a car

Explain:

Comments: 1x / month

Amputations
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Texas

Fort Worth, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Very large meal budget
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Lived near 7th West area
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Do not live South of the Hospital
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: All at the hospital, I ubered every day

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6am- finish--Entirely dependent on the surgery schedule and clinic

Comments: One session where you summarize an article, residents ask you to look up cases and find articles daily

Amputations
Other: All Trauma
Other:

Comments:

Other: ALL TRAUMA
Additional comments: Great program, very hands on especially in clinic. You are treated like a resident and trusted to do
everything! Great residents and great attendings. If you want trauma this is your program.

Texas

Fort Worth, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived 3 minutes drive from the hospital down Main street with an Airbnb host.
There are plenty of living options in the area.
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not to my knowledge
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Everything takes place at the hospital. No outside surgery centers or additional driving
necessary other than to and from the hospital.

Explain:

Comments: 1 journal review during the month, no presentations
Amputations
Other:
Other: Highly variable based on capacity of each individual student. I threw screws, sutured, performed forefoot
amputations, etc.

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Absolutely one of the strongest programs. Hands on experience is second-to-none. HIGH
VOLUME. Must be able to learn quickly, take criticism, and handle high patient surgical and clinic load.

Texas
Scott & White Mem Hosp/Texas A&M Health Sci Ctr

Temple, TX
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: When on call week
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Have to commute to surrounding areas up to 30 minutes away. Doubt that there is uber
as this is a very small town.

Explain: Not that I experienced.
Daily work hours: 0600-1600/1700

Comments:

Other:
Other: Scrub in and observe/cut suture

Comments: Usually only during academics. Sometimes during clinic/surgery depending on the attending.
Program strengths: Pediatrics, Elective surgeries

Other:
Additional comments: Tons of clinic. Similar with the OR some attendings are very hands on and residents are doing very
little. As a student you will only do anything with Dr. Sadoskas and maybe Dr. Lynch. The rest of the time you are
shadowing either an attending or a resident. This goes throughout the entire program though. When on call as a 1st year
you must have a 2nd or 3rd year resident with you at all times essentially. A LOT of hand holding here. Decent program.
They get a lot of exposure to every aspect of podiatry from basic clinic, bread and butter podiatry, big recons and charcot
(Sadoskas is a UPMC grad and did Dr. Wukich’s fellowship), and TARs (Shibuya). But there is a lot of hand holding
throughout all 3 years here which can be extremely frustrating and limiting to a resident. Good prep for private practice.
They have had a couple grads go on to complete high level fellowships (Cottom and Lamm). I think that Dr. Sadoskas could
really turn this program into a high level program if given the opportunity but only time will tell.

Texas

Temple, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Current Resident
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: With a first year resident
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Farthest drive was maybe 25-30 mins, typical day was only 15-20 mins total!! Everything
in close together and zero traffic.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Pediatrics

Other:
Additional comments: Good program, but residents have zero freedom. An attending is always holding their hand and
watching over there shoulder. Very little surgery time! Lots of case stealing to complete numbers. Too much clinic time.

Texas

Temple, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived in Belton, which is 15-20 minutes from the Scott and White clinic
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most drives where 15-30 minutes depending on what clinic you are assigned for the day.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 6:30AM-5PM M,T 7-8AM-5PM WThF

Comments: Monday Morning Surgery Conference, and Tuesday Morning Conference, occasional Journal club or Lab in
the evenings

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Texas

Temple, TX
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating room.com
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 10 mins from hospital in Temple
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: No pretty safe in Temple
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 15 mins to and from hospital every day

Explain:
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Other:
Additional comments: Very well balanced program and very organized and coordinated program. Good academics as
well.

Texas

Temple, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Mostly just around the Temple area. Occasionally we went to a clinic 20-30 minutes
away.

Explain:

Comments:

Surgical strengths of the program: Forefoot elective (hammertoes, bunions), Forefoot trauma (Lisfranc)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Fantastic pediatric experience. Probably the best I’ve heard of at any externship. I did feel like
there was a lot of “hand-holding” with the residents and they weren’t pushed very much.

Texas
The Univeristy of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

San Antonion, TX
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: San Antonio
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 3 different cites that need to be attended. approximately 20-30 between places

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other: TMA procedure

Comments:

Additional comments: Has fellow at program and will do all charcot recons with Zgonis.

Utah
Intermountain Medical Center/DVA Salt Lake City

Murray, UT
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments: During your week at IMC, you might go to the physician’s lounge with your resident where they have food.
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with family, but I found most my housing on rotatingroom.com and AirBnb
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Neighborhood
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: I stayed with family 30 minutes away so I drove a lot every day. All the cases and
locations I had to go to were in Salt Lake City.

Explain: Mostly lunch breaks and meeting before cases.

Comments:
Other: The residents get TONS of surgery (many attendings). This may or may not be your experience as an extern but
you should be paying attention to what the residents do anyways.
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Lots of good changes have been made this last year to make this program one of the best
programs out there. Come ready to work hard and have a good attitude and you’ll do great. Programs like people who like
and want to be there. If you stay positive and be personable, you’ll show your potential to be trained as a resident and
this is really what they’re looking for!

Utah
Intermountain Medical Center/DVA Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, UT
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with relative
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Stayed with relatives
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Driving every day to and from SLC VA for 4 weeks. 1 week driving to IMC. Every Thursday
academics at IMC. Drives to neighboring surgical center as well.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 7 am - 6 pm M-F
fasciitis)

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Incredible program with incredibly diverse surgical cases and faculty. Triple and quadruple your
numbers. Incredible, warm and welcoming director.

Virginia
Carilion Clinic
Roanoke, VA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs for surgery days and clinic attire for clinic
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: The hospital provides a list of individuals in the community that are willing to
provide housing.
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: I lived with one of the individuals on the hospital list. Very nice/safe area in a
beautiful area. About 10 minutes from the main hospital without traffic.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Most days at the main hospital/clinic which is 5 minutes from downtown Roanoke. On
days where the commute was longer the residents offered to drive you.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 0600-1700 most days. Call obviously varies each week.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: One of the most well rounded programs in the country. Relatively unknown powerhouse program
but I think it is gaining a lot of attention.

Virginia
Carilion Clinic
Roanoke, VA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Contacted the student liaison who gave housing recommendations
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Very little driving. Once a week went to Blacksburg, but the resident drove.

Explain:

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Solid program all around. Very busy clinic and surgery schedule. Expect to work hard.

Virginia
DVA-Richmond (McGuire)
Richmond, VA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Rotating rooms.com
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Downtown
Car needed: No

Explain:

Comments:

debridement
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Virginia
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus

Fairfax, VA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 30 min

Explain:

Comments:

Other: I
Other:

Comments: Pimping

Other:
Additional comments: No

Washington
Franciscan Health System-St Francis Hosp

Federal Way, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with one of the residents who rents out extra rooms
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You are at different hospitals everyday. Besides the main hospital St. Francis, most
hospitals/surgical centers are at least 30 minutes driving.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Variable based on surgery schedule. Only attend cases, no clinic or rounding.

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths:
Other: all surgery

Washington

Federal Way, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 3-4 times a week 30 min driving

Explain: visiting their house, out for happy hour

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Washington

Federal Way, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Stayed with a resident
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: 5 minutes from the St. Francis hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Not that I know of
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Drove over 30 minutes about half of the time to get to different hospitals

Explain: Christmas events, dinner

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other: retraction, suction, suture, skin-to-skin for simple procedures

Comments: Very constructive and helpful

Other:
Additional comments: Very strong program with excellent training, and very nice people. Very respectful to students and
helpful in academics and mock interview. As a student, you only do surgeries, and no clinic or rounding. One week "on
call" where they will notify you if there's any add-ons, but nothing after hours. Academics included grand rounds,
presentation, mock interview, and resident case presentations.

Washington

Federal Way, WA
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Scrubs (hospital provided) most of the time and professional attire for academics (1-2x/week)
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: My parents house
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: During the externship I lived in Seattle.Was about a 40 minute commute to the
main hospital each way.
Car needed: Yes


Explain:
Daily work hours: Changed every day depending on surgical schedule. Longest days were 7-5.. Not terrible hours.

Comments:
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Washington

Seattle, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Airbnb is the best option
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Neighborhood about 15 minutes from the hospital
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: South Seattle
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Every Wednesday you travel 30 minutes to an amazing hospital.

Explain:
Daily work hours: Start time usually between 4:45 and 5:30. You could finish at noon or midnight. You stay for all cases.

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Excellent cases. Teaches you how to be an extern. Great topics for conversation. Lots of cases.

Washington

Seattle, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Seattle U
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Capitol hill
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: 1/week

Explain: none

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Too much sitting around for students, lots of free time in middle of day where you "sit in the
library". Loved residents and attendings and great program, just not a great extern experience.

Washington

Seattle, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Right by the hospital
Car needed: No
Frequency of driving and range: Students are always with the other externs and only drive to a hospital that is far away
once a week. Car is not needed as long as one of the externs has a car.

Explain:
Daily work hours: 4am - 10pm M-F

Comments:
(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: Old gangster program - All calc fractures and open fractures are stolen by the Harborview ortho
program, but Swedish was still the most academic program I have been to. Learned a lot and would highly recommend.

Washington

Seattle, WA
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Cherry Hill
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Anywhere east of cherry hill
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Once or twice a week about 30 minutes away

Explain:

Comments:

debridement
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Wisconsin
Ascension Wisconsin (formerly Columbia St. Mary's Hosp)

Milwaukee, WI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Stayed in main hospital as offered by program
List any areas of the city that should be avoided: Avoid staying in same area main hospital is in. Stay outside of 20th-
50th st.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: 20 minute drives between all facilities for most part from main hospital

Explain:

Comments: Some academics at bars which made it more fun

Other:
Other:

Comments:
Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Dermatology, Elective surgeries
Other:
Additional comments: My favorite Externship- residents were all very inclusive with students and were always willing to
help you and teach you. Residents and attendings let students get very involved in both clinic and surgery.

Wisconsin
DVA-Madison
Madison, WI
LIFESTYLE
Dress code: Scrubs

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: No
Comments:
Comments:
If no, explain how you found housing: Lived with a friend in Middleton, 20 minutes away
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Great area, great neighborhood, many food options and safe.
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Only one hospital, driving to work and one other surgery center 8 minutes away.

Explain: Went to many happy hours together
fasciitis)

Comments:

Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: The doctors and residents are all easy to work with, but the program itself is structured poorly.
There aren't enough outside doctors that allow you to scrub cases with them.

Wisconsin

La Crosse, WI
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments:
Meals Provided: Yes

Comments: Given a stipend for on-call week

Comments:
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: On the hospital campus, down the street
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: Once a week a 15 minute drive

Explain:

Comments:

(ankle, pilon)
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:

Wisconsin

Lacrosee, WI
LIFESTYLE

Other Comments: Professional attire in clinic, scrubs when on call or rounding
Meals Provided: No
Comments: $25 stipend to the cafeteria

Comments: You may have a roommate, but you work a lot so won't see them
Neighborhood/Area where you lived: Right across the street from the hospital
Car needed: Yes

Frequency of driving and range: You drive to one other clinic in Onalaska

Explain:

Comments:

debridement,
Other:
Other:

Comments:

Other:
Additional comments: A lot of research opportunities through Dr. Roukis. Dr. Dawson runs an amazing program.

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2019 Externship

A Survey Examining Podiatric Clerkships

Dear APMSA Members,

DVA-Phoenix (Carl T. Hayden)

Dress code: Scrubs

Meals Provided: Yes

List any areas of the city that should be avoided:

Car needed: Yes

Opportunities to interact with residents after hours: No

Daily work hours: 8-5

Required to work weekends: No

Required to be on call with residents: Yes

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Level of involvement at clinic: Able to perform all clinical procedures

Academic structure at the program: Light (1 day per week)

Best description of program: Heavy clinic

Level of program "pimping": Rare

OVERALL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

Program strengths: Wound care, Elective surgeries

Would recommend this program: Yes

Program rating (1-5, 5 is highest): 4

Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Dress code: Scrubs

List any areas of the city that should be avoided:

Opportunities to interact with residents after hours: Yes

Daily work hours: 7am-5pm, but this varied

Required to work weekends: No

Required to be on call with residents: Yes, but nothing after evening

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Level of involvement at clinic: Moderate hands-on experience

Academic structure at the program: Heavy (3+ days a week)

Best description of program: Heavy surgery

Level of program "pimping": Moderate, comfortable

OVERALL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Elective surgeries

Would recommend this program: Yes

Program rating (1-5, 5 is highest): 5

Chino Valley Medical Ctr

Dress code: Other (please specify)

Meals Provided: Yes

Car needed: Yes

Opportunities to interact with residents after hours: Yes

Daily work hours: 7am-5pm

Required to work weekends: Yes, but not often

Required to be on call with residents: Yes

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Level of involvement at clinic: Able to perform all clinical procedures

Academic structure at the program: Moderate (2 days per week)

Level of program "pimping": Moderate, comfortable

OVERALL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

Program strengths: Wound care, Trauma, Sports medicine, Elective surgeries

Would recommend this program: Yes

Program rating (1-5, 5 is highest): 5

Chino Valley Medical Ctr

Dress code: Professional attire

Car needed: Yes