hi there hernandez
im looking at medical college of ohio / university of toledo - the main uni program.
how do u rate the pathology?
where do the residents land up? esp in terms of cards? they have 2 spots. do they take in their own? how is the faculty push?
malignancy? teaching?
any other general points from u. ru a student / resident there?
For clarification, I rotated through St V's Mercy. And it appeared that they combined the Osteopathic and allopathic programs to give them a dually accredited program, and they were just starting to have some of the UoT people to rotate through St V's. so they'd probably still have two separate pages since they still are part of the osteopathic match. I am a 4th year who rotated through a month of general teaching svc.
I can not say much in the way of fellowship placement, or how the rotations are run outside of St V's. but I can tell you that overall, it's a decent program. Pathology is great, in fact, if I would ever get home to finish up my research, I have a case report that could be published from my month there. one of the interns I was with, was actually a FMG who had already graduated a medicine program in Scotland and had practiced on his own for a few years, was always raving about how great the pathology was there.
They have separate morning reports, but at St V's, they tended to be good. They'd have a different attending every morning and a different svc would give a case presentation and the attending would lead through the differential dx and what you should do. And on Friday's they have cardio/pulm x-ray conf done by Dr V Mahajan which were very good. The main thing I disliked about the program were their didactics. They had both groups go to either the St V's or other campus on Wens for a combined didactics which were from 0900 to 1200. 3 hours once a week is horrible if ya ask me, the lecture's quality like anywhere depended on the presenter. All the presenters were attendings, but not all of them were good. They do not have a Harrison's reading club as far as I know, nor did I see any journal clubs.
St V's has a split short call/long call system with a night intern which works nicely. They have admission caps and service caps which was very nice. And for the most part the load was very manageable and almost light while I was there, but we had very high intensity pts and we weren't bogged down with Class I pneumonias or chronic back pain or other fluff pts while I was there. We frequently had SDH, a cerebellar stroke, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, and quite a few very sick pts.
I didn't meet all the Uni T residents, but the ones I did were friendly. But something to note is it is a heavily FMG program. While not a bad thing, can be a turn off for native trained students. And frankly, yes it is horrible as a student to sit in a room and listen to a FMG do an H&P on a almost deaf white guy when they can't understand each other.
But this is not a slight against FMGs or their competence, the residents there were all great and good at what they do.
The attendings I worked with were all excellent, Dr K Mahajan gave daily 20-30 minute lectures that were excellent and he genuinely loved to teach and I learned a lot from him. V Mahajan seemed to be the same way, as were the several others I met. but again, I was at St V's, not the other campus.
I believe they are going to be going through some transitional growing pains due to the changes, but they should be very short lived since both programs were already established. And I would not call this program malignant by any means
) From their list last yr, it looked like the majority stayed on afterwards for fellowships.
