Washington U vs. Johns Hopkins programs.

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I know both residency programs are excellent, but I would like to know your sincere thoughts in terms of strenghts, weaknesses, etc. Which one would you pick?

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Hopkins has to be one of the all time overrated programs that has relied on the name and strength of the hospital system for a long time. The residency in a nutshell:

1. VIR: The strength of the fellowship detracts significantly from the resident experience. You can go weeks without touching a catheter, and nobody would care. The angio suite is frequently 3 people deep, with the resident straining to see WTF is going on.

2. BODY MRI: Even worse than angio. With a multitude of fellows packed around 1-2 monitors, you may get to see only a few cases the whole day on your own. If you dictate 8 cases the whole day, that's alot.

3. MSK: Much improved, was a joke (non-existent) a few years ago. Still you may see the MSK MR attending for all of an hour a day. Otherwise you get stuck reading plain films with some dinosaur who has no idea what the indications are for an MR of the knee. You hope that the fellows teach you something. Admittedly, this section is better than it was.

4. US: Overall, one of the stronger sections, it's hard to complain about anything specifically. Although, again, very fellow driven.

5. CT: lots of great cases and volume. Most of the attendings are excellent. Some are sloppy and hate working with residents.

6. Plain films: Lots of clueless gomers. You 'learn' tons of obsolete misinformation, but NOT how to correctly interpret a chest radiograph. You will certainly learn to literally measure the cardiothoracic ratio on every patient - how tremendously useful that is!

7. Neuro & Nukes - both very good.

8. Baltimore is a dump.
 
Charles said:
Hopkins has to be one of the all time overrated programs that has relied on the name and strength of the hospital system for a long time. The residency in a nutshell:

1. VIR: The strength of the fellowship detracts significantly from the resident experience. You can go weeks without touching a catheter, and nobody would care. The angio suite is frequently 3 people deep, with the resident straining to see WTF is going on.

2. BODY MRI: Even worse than angio. With a multitude of fellows packed around 1-2 monitors, you may get to see only a few cases the whole day on your own. If you dictate 8 cases the whole day, that's alot.

3. MSK: Much improved, was a joke (non-existent) a few years ago. Still you may see the MSK MR attending for all of an hour a day. Otherwise you get stuck reading plain films with some dinosaur who has no idea what the indications are for an MR of the knee. You hope that the fellows teach you something. Admittedly, this section is better than it was.

4. US: Overall, one of the stronger sections, it's hard to complain about anything specifically. Although, again, very fellow driven.

5. CT: lots of great cases and volume. Most of the attendings are excellent. Some are sloppy and hate working with residents.

6. Plain films: Lots of clueless gomers. You 'learn' tons of obsolete misinformation, but NOT how to correctly interpret a chest radiograph. You will certainly learn to literally measure the cardiothoracic ratio on every patient - how tremendously useful that is!

7. Neuro & Nukes - both very good.

8. Baltimore is a dump.
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Awesome advice.

Being that the deadline for ROL submission was last night at 9pm (and you posted today) lets hope the OP ranked Wash U higher!
 
MIR is a MUCH stronger program. Believe me.
 
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