Recent content by blackbird03

base salary for socal kaiser around 215K, sounds a bit low to me, especially compared to northcal kaiser, is the 275K figure the base salary, do you guy know? anybody else working for socal kaiser group?

Hi I was wondering if anyone here is interested in combining public health with EM. I would think working as an EM physician would provide with a special position to affect public health in the community. I am personally interested in access to health (uninsured), prevention, quality...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. The fight goes on and on. I don't mean to take one side vs the other. But as an intern you're simply relaying what one attending wants to another attending. Of course you care about your patient and wants what is best ... but regardless the ultimate...

Working in the ED, I keep getting stuck in the fiery arguments between services. Trauma doesn't want to admit, Neurosurg says discharge, ED says admit, be a patient advocate. Seems like as an intern you are set-up to be the town's idiot. Or sometimes I get yelled at cuz i don't give a patient...

how is this going to affect LA area ERs? Harbor UCLA is obviously gonna get slammed, what about USC, what about UCLA-Olive View?

Can u also receives pages from ur palm? I'm looking for a PDA/smartphone that can allow me to redirect text pages from my current pager to my phone, is that possible? Thanx

Thanks for the info. I guess if you tried to get a waiver before Jan 15th and get denied, it would have an awkward situation for you and the PD. Although I would think that's a really low probability

Do you mean that before Jan 15th, there will not be a match violation if the PD agrees for me to withdraw from the program?

I matched in a 234 EM program with a PGY 1 in prelim medicine. So during the prelim i will have time (a year) to seriously think about all aforementioned options. I just wanna be happy is all.

I would think that you would have to run it by your PD, then NRMP then apply in that order. It sounds like a big mess. It seems like, in residency, you have to sacrifice a lot for the pursuit of happiness. :(

Is it a match violation if you decide to change residencies based on family circumstances? Is it a match violation if you find another resident to trade spots with you for residency?

I have no idea why this year was so competitive. But I can say that you can't bet on a magic number because next year might even be more competitive. Are we catching up to radiology? :scared:

Some residency programs deliberately choose to have small rank lists. My guess is they do so to have their pick of scramblers (some of them are extremely good candidates who made poor rank list choices). Before march 15th, I would never have thought matching was such a political game...

Thanks for the advice guys. I have a year to think about it... I certainly am ecstatic about matching in the first place.

Family reasons. My mother is in poor health and I'd like to be around in case anything happens. I realize that it will be poor form to transfer and it is unlikely that I will able to transfer. However, what if I find an open PGY 2 spot? (I think there was one last year at loma linda) Would I...