Trauma, trauma, and more trauma. Did I mention trauma??!! Liked the people a lot out there when I interviewed last year. One problem for me is that you had to travel a lot to get to the four different hospitals. Make sure to see the slide show (ie. every slide is like...this guy got his leg ripped off on the LIE and they flew him here in the middle of the night!). Overall, seems like a program on the rise with nice faculty.

Any new info on this program? got an interview there and would like to hear from someone who has rotated or interviewed in the past. Thanks in advance.

PS: LSU-NO is going to be interviewing this year and is a strong program. I have gone on a few interviews already and would rank LSU above any of them. Strong residents and an faculty. Our facilities aren't pretty, but there is more to a training program than what color the wallpaper is. PM if you have any serious questions about the program.

I'm a 3rd year resident here...

You can email me at gambit21@optonline.net any questions you might have otherwise I'll try to put this in a nutshell.

We work out of three main hospitals now: Stony Brook 60%, Winthrop 30%, VA 10%. By far the biggest pain of the program is driving to winthrop if you live at stony brook in long island traffic. Both SB and Winthrop are level 1 trauma centers so we see a ton of trauma. I'm in the middle of my 3rd year and I feel very comfortable nailing a tibia, plating a forearm, etc.. The second year is mostly covering the ER. NPs and PAs help out with floor work at both main hospitals. The 3rd/4th/5th years you rotate through services. Right now I'm on a hand service. I do all his cases with him and spend a full day in clinic with him. It's just me and him and no other residents on the service. Next two months I move on to a spine rotation where its just me and the spine attending for all his cases. Lots of operative experience.

As far as residents goes, we have a very diverse group. In my year we have two from New York, one from Colorado, one from Arizona and I'm from Tennessee. The only drawback I have with them is they all are NFL fans. I need another hardcore college football fan to join the program.

As far as academics, In the past our OITE scores weren't that great because the residents were up all night nailing a femur, working 120 hours a week. Now with the 80 hour rules and a new academic program (conference every morning, half day of lectures every wednesday) we have alot of guys that do very well on the OITE. We do some but not alot of research. However we just hired two new attendings who are very big on research so you should see more papers coming out of Stony Brook in the future.

Hope this helps,
Gambit