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I was looking over the criteria that psych applicants used to choose which programs to apply to:
And I'm wondering how applicants evaluated a couple of different qualities:
I was looking over the criteria that psych applicants used to choose which programs to apply to:
And I'm wondering how applicants evaluated a couple of different qualities:
- "Quality of educational training and curriculum"
- Beyond a prestigious name, how can you evaluate this? What relevant information should I look for on their website, and what questions should I ask residents?
- "Appropriate balance between faculty supervision and resident responsibility for patient care"
- First: is this a component of what makes a program a "workhorse" program? Or is that more related to call schedule?
- Second: I haven't really seen much variation on this during my third-year rotations. The resident pre-rounds, the team rounds with the attending, the resident presents the case, resident and attending discuss the plan, resident writes the note, the attending signs off and usually doesn't change or add anything, and admissions throughout the day operate in a pretty similar manner.
- How much does this actually vary? I guess it must be a lot for applicants to rank this factor so highly?
- What are other ways that the balance of responsibility might manifest in a program's culture?
- How do I learn more about this culture in an individual program?
- How do applicants learn their preferences regarding level of supervision vs. autonomy? For example, I think I would like a lot of hand-holding, discussion, and hmming and hawing now, but I'm only a medical student, so most of this is still very novel to me.