"Major con: Location (Cooperstown, NY - very small town with very little to offer as far as shopping, restaurants, activities/nightlife, or even basics like groceries. Have to drive like 30 mins to get to a decent grocery or clothing store, or even walmart) and schedule/hrs/call. Also, housing is very hard to get if you don't get one of the townhomes. - Decent salary ($66,600), moving stipend, orientation stipend, edu stipend ($1000/year), gas reimbursement for sites off of main campus, on-call meal stipend of $15/shift, residents say you can essentially not pay for groceries the whole time is you're careful with your spending (So maybe there's more meal $ besides the on-call stipend?), and free parking. **4 weeks of vaca (4 one-week blocks) plus four days that you can use for interviews if needed. - Schedule sounds exhausting, especially surgery. Early mornings. 4 weeks of nights (2 medicine and 2 surgery, but residents said it isn't too terrible). 26 weeks total between medicine and surgery. Surgery sounds the worst, but the resident from surgery did say that they treat the TY residents very well and appreciate their help at least, just a sucky schedule. Guaranteed to work 6 days a week, usually 12-hour shifts...But blocks are only 2-3 weeks at a time, so at least when you're on a crappy block it's short. The output and elective rotations are easy the residents said. Medicine is not great but at least you have a set schedule, unlike surgery which is variable. - Offer away electives - will find you the elective you want if they don't have it. 10 weeks of electives total. - 180-bed acute care hospital, comprehensive cancer and heart care, dialysis, most medical and surgical specialties. Level II trauma center. Most of the clinical time is on the ame campus, only a few off-site. - Assoc with Columbia Univ and Albany Med College = good resources and work with their med students. Few fellows, so no competition there really. - High specialty board pass rates. - Good # and variety of resident events - Christmas caroling at the hospital, floatillas (Kayaking/canoeing on the lake at night), Halloween party in the Sugar Shack, annual softball game, new resident welcome picnic, end-of-year resident party, resident goodbye and awards ceremony, massages, pet therapy, monthly movie nights, yoga, etc. - GME housing (townhomes) - A really good option, but they are first come-first serve basis and they go very fast, esp to families or those with significant others, being single decreases the chance of getting one. Housing outside of this can be very difficult. - Per residents, the didactics are very chill and easy-going, and we don't have a whole lot of responsibility. - Residents indicated that there wasn't a lot of required research involvement, and when you do participate, you can come up with your own project or you can usually jump on with an ongoing project. The residents suggest doing a 4-week research rotation bc it's easy and all you really have to submit is like 1 case presentation or something (just something small). - Per residents, none of the attendings are "malignant", some can be tough but they always want you to learn. Overall, it is a welcoming and tight-knit group with comradery. They celebrate everyone's birthday and whatnot, but if you're an extrovert, they don't hold it against you. You're treated like a TY - meaning they don't expect a super lot from you haha. - Good responsiveness/receptiveness to resident feedback per residents and interviewers - they seem very friendly (PD, APD, program coordinator, and residents), and the admin/staff seem committed to making the experience tailored to each resident as best as possible. *They provide resident kayaks for our exclusive use on the lake. - 5 pt cap first few months, then goes up to 7-8 pt cap, which isn't too terrible I guess (middle of the road as far as responsibility). - "

"The night before, the residents did a Q&A for the interview candidates. The morning of, the program coordinator shared a little bit about the program while waiting for the Program Director to give a powerpoint presentation about the program. We then moved into a waiting room with the other candidates and had the chance to chat with each other and occasionally with the program coordinator. We interviewed with the PD, faculty and the program coordinator. "

"Virtual interview, the PD and faculty are lovely people. Interview was very conversational and chill."

"Very kind interviewers. No medical questions. Long day though! But good. "

"it was a virtual interview! the first one was with APD which went really well, we connected very quickly and talked about many things i think she was impressed by me another one was with PD which also went well. he seems really nice and genuine doctor"

"It was a decent interview. It was virtual due to the times of COVID and all. Had a good time with every one."