I canceled my WVU interview, but I can tell you from rumor that it is supposed to be a pretty blue collar kind of place with work hard play hard mentality. I know they have had a lot of staff turnover recently, so I am not sure where they stand there.

UK was a sweet program. Then ended up in my top five overall. They are another blue collar like program. The residents seemed like a great group of guys and it sounds like they had a great operative experience. They also had some major turnover recently. I believe they are still looking for a joints guy, but they do have a general pod that does a fair ammount of joints. If you want sports, their Chair, Johnson, is a young up and coming sports guy. From what I understand, you get a great experience with him.

Thanks a million ortho2003. Do you have any information on the Univ. of Texas health science center in San Antonio?? Thanks again man.

I went to Med school at WVU (I'm a PGy 2 at another institution) I really liked the program. The strength is the residents. A tight knit group of people who do "work hard and play hard". The prior Chairman, Dr Blaha, was at WVu for about 15-18 years. Due to political differences with the Dean (who is stepping down this year) he left to go to Michigan. New chairman is Dr. Emery, who is well respected guy from Case. Trauma and spine are strong, good community side to the program by rotating at a private hospital (Monongalia General- bread and butter ortho) Level 1 trauma center that is only 1 of 2 in the state. plenty of drunk good ol' boys wrecking on ATVs to take care of. Joints is in flux as Blaha did tons as did another faculty member who recently left, but all the private guys do them. overall nice program
Hey ortho 2003, just wondering why you cancelled your interview?

After 14 interviews, I was ready to be done. I had actually scheduled the interview for the middle of february thinking I would be refreshed and ready for one more, but I knew it would end up in the middle of my rank list and I had already gotten some really good feed back from my No. 1 choice. I didn't have any problems with the program. I had actually inquired about doing an away there early in my third year.