alright, i'm an ass. i just saw this forum subject.


http://www.orthogate.com/option,com_for ... ,2505.html


however, still wondering about everyone taking ERAS, ochsner and the next 5 year outlook. patients, attendings, etc. all leaving the area? functional hospitals there by next year?

LSU New Orleans Update

Our program is doing well. The residents are together and currently rotating at our normal hospital sites including Kenner Regional Medical Center, Children's Hospital in New Orleans, Earl K Long Hospital in Baton Rouge, and our Lake Charles Sports rotation with Dr. David Drez. We have re-opened our rotation at University Hospital in Lafayette since the storm and have residents there. The surgery schedules at Earl K Long hospital and University Hospital in Lafayette are full. Our faculty have opened their private clinics and are doing elective surgery in New Orleans. Children's Hospital has been open a little over a week now and the guys there are getting busy again. None of our faculty have left LSU. In fact a new Internationally trained shoulder surgeon joined our staff the weekend before the storm and bought a home in New Orleans just last week.

Our program is doing well - we are busy - and we look forward to an exciting future.

Charity Hospital and University Hospital are closed and will not re-open. However, in a letter from our Dean today - a new facility will be built in New Orleans to replace "Charity Hospital". Until then we are currently utilizing functional local hospitals and boosting the patient load in our pre-Katrina rotations to educate us in the meantime.

LSU New Orleans is participating in the match this year and we look forward to hearing from you.

This may not be a PC post--but people are always asking which programs may be friendly to subpar board scores or marginal applicants....well ladies and gents this is perhaps your score of a lifetime. I am willing to wager that the new orleans programs will not get top applicants this year and will either fill up on home school people or will be much less competeitive places to match this year than they would have been otherwise.

does anyone else have any thoughts on this matter? I bet a lot of people with strong apps avoided, but might not otherwise have, these programs due to the current state of chaos and turmoil in this region of the country.