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In a message dated 13-Apr-03 13:38:49 Central Daylight Time, 
mmcbridemd@yahoo.com writes:

> Each year, in escalating amounts, we lose the most talented, hardworking 
> applicants to the surgical subspeciaties. Not because general surgery isn't 
> the most engaging work - they readily admit that it is - but rather because 
> they wish to avoid working with the boorish personalities. So the 
> competitive students escape to ENT, ortho, plastics...or to nonsurgical 
> disciplines, and the program directors wail and gnash their teeth over the 
> poor quality and low numbers of general surgery applicants. Meanwhile, many 
> historically strong university surgery programs go unfilled or fill during 
> the scramble with IMG applicants. 

Dr. Thompson and I go aways back on this subject...back when we were interns, 
there were two openings in the Surgical Program of LSU Shreveport Medical 
Center...both of us had finished rotating internships at one of the LSU 
satellite programs, including 3 months on surgical services, three months on 
medicine, and two or three months each on Peds and OB (Errington got the 
shorter stays, and had two months of electives, which he took in surgical 
rotations). 

Despite the fact that both of us had done well in our internships and had *at 
least* 6 months of Surgical related experience at that time, we were told 
that we would have to do another *full year* as interns if we wanted to be in 
the program. ET was willing to go back through the hassle, but I was 
not...especially after meeting several folks who proudly proclaimed that "the 
only problem with being on call every other weekend is that you miss half the 
good cases."

>From talking to some of the folks who trained under him, he managed to 
overcome that kind of attitudinal training, and was considered 'almost 
human'....(Sorry, ET, couldn't pass up the chance...)

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO
KC5EVN

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ut rather because they wish to avoid working with the boorish personalities.=
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cal disciplines, and the program directors wail and gnash their teeth over t=
he poor quality and low numbers of general surgery applicants. Meanwhile, ma=
ny historically strong university surgery programs go unfilled or fill durin=
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Dr. Thompson and I go aways back on this subject...back when we were interns=
, there were two openings in the Surgical Program of LSU Shreveport Medical=20=
Center...both of us had finished rotating internships at one of the LSU sate=
llite programs, including 3 months on surgical services, three months on med=
icine, and two or three months each on Peds and OB (Errington got the shorte=
r stays, and had two months of electives, which he took in surgical rotation=
s). <BR>
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Despite the fact that both of us had done well in our internships and had *a=
t least* 6 months of Surgical related experience at that time, we were told=20=
that we would have to do another *full year* as interns if we wanted to be i=
n the program. ET was willing to go back through the hassle, but I was not..=
.especially after meeting several folks who proudly proclaimed that "the onl=
y problem with being on call every other weekend is that you miss half the g=
ood cases."<BR>
<BR>
>From talking to some of the folks who trained under him, he managed to overc=
ome that kind of attitudinal training, and was considered 'almost human'....=
(Sorry, ET, couldn't pass up the chance...)<BR>
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ck<BR>
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