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SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn (Downstate) Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program
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1 review
Overall rating
7.1
Staff Surgeons
6.0(1)
Didactics/Teaching
5.0(1)
Operating Experience
8.0(1)
Clinical Experience
7.0(1)
Research
6.0(1)
Residents
9.0(1)
Lifestyle
9.0(1)
Location
7.0(1)
Overall Experience
7.0(1)
SUNY Brooklyn (Downstate)
(Updated: January 25, 2017)
Overall rating
7.1
Staff Surgeons
6.0
Didactics/Teaching
5.0
Operating Experience
8.0
Clinical Experience
7.0
Research
6.0
Residents
9.0
Lifestyle
9.0
Location
7.0
Overall Experience
7.0
Program Review
Staff / Faculty / Chairman
Chairman is a sports attending, Dr. Urban. He seems to be much more involved in the program of late and is trying to make improvements in a bunch of areas. The PD, Dr. Paulino, is a down-to-earth guy that the residents say they like to hang out with. In terms of other attendings, there aren't many at the primary location Downstate but it can be deceiving because the residents cover 7 or 8 different hospitals in Brooklyn so they really get to work with a lot of different attendings in different specialties.
Didactics / Teaching
The residents do weekly didactic/academic sessions on Monday afternoons covering all sorts of topics given by residents and attendings depending on the week. There are also saw bones labs and anatomy sessions with cadavers, they work on their skills there. The 2's and 3's were getting to do most of the practice here. The 4's and 5's mostly watched/instructed.
Theres a morning conference at the county where the seniors review the juniors consults from the day and night before. I heard it used to be very malignant but it seems to have mellowed out.
Theres a morning conference at the county where the seniors review the juniors consults from the day and night before. I heard it used to be very malignant but it seems to have mellowed out.
Operating Experience
This is the program's strongest aspect. The residents develop very strong independence in the OR. This is a program where you will operate, early and often. I scrubbed in with a PGY2 and an attending on a total knee, and the 2 did the case while the attending retracted for him. He got to struggle and work through it, but he had clearly done it before and the 2 seemed to know what he was doing.
Trauma cases at the county, the attendings give the residents lots of freedom to operate. Plenty of times they didn't even scrub.
Trauma cases at the county, the attendings give the residents lots of freedom to operate. Plenty of times they didn't even scrub.
Clinic Experience
Clinic is clinic. It's resident-run essentially and likely doesn't factor into your decision to rank
Research Opportunities
Some of the residents really want to publish, and some really don't. Those that do want to have gotten some good studies done, won national recognition and awards, etc. The others don't.
Residents
The residents get along very well. They're easygoing and seem to enjoy living/working/being in Brooklyn. They hang out together in the city outside of work pretty often. Mostly male, I think there were only 2 or 3 female residents out of 30.
Lifestyle
While its a blue-collar program where you work hard, the residents seem to have plenty of time for other pursuits. Intern year does not seem especially grueling. PGY-2 looks like it can be rough. But after surviving PGY2 year, the residents seem to take it easy more or less as far as lifestyle.
The seniors take home call and when I did an overnight with the in-house junior, I got the sense that they do not get called very frequently because the juniors seem to know how to take care of whatever comes in and handle it until the morning comes.
The seniors take home call and when I did an overnight with the in-house junior, I got the sense that they do not get called very frequently because the juniors seem to know how to take care of whatever comes in and handle it until the morning comes.
Location / Housing
NYC/Brooklyn. You know what you're getting yourself into. NYC is all that, especially Brooklyn,but where you'll work is CENTRAL Brooklyn. Very different. There's a lot of driving in this program, and you unfortunately need a car in NYC which is annoying
Limitations
Working at 7 hospitals means a lot of moving around. I think they all have cars/drive, and some of the sites are 40 min away from each other, with traffic.
Also working with 7 different groups of attendings at all these different hospitals, you have a chance to meet people you gel with, and people who will go to bat for you, make phone calls to get you a fellowship you want. but you also risk not having enough time to work with attendings enough to gain their trust so you can do the cases before youre already about to switch to another hospital.
Also working with 7 different groups of attendings at all these different hospitals, you have a chance to meet people you gel with, and people who will go to bat for you, make phone calls to get you a fellowship you want. but you also risk not having enough time to work with attendings enough to gain their trust so you can do the cases before youre already about to switch to another hospital.
Overall Rotation Experience / Conclusion
The quality of the operative training here seems good. It's a shame they are in such a struggling hospital Downstate is in a very poor section of Brooklyn. But they do work at other hospitals which I didn't see that they say are a lot nicer.
Qualification
I rotated as a medical student at this program
Date of Rotation
2013
PW
Phil Winquist
Top 500 Reviewer
Contact Information
City
Brooklyn
State/Province
New York
Program Information
Residents per class
6
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