What are the benefits of being the only residency program in the hospital?
Being the only residency program in an advanced tertiary care facility has immense benefits. Our residents are routinely asked by subspecialists to participate in the care of their patients – opportunities which may be lost to residents who share their hospitals with other training programs. For instance, a neurologist seeing an acute stroke patient in the emergency department would page one of our residents instead of a neurology trainee. A general surgeon admitting a critically ill postoperative patient depends on the care of our ICU house staff. An oncologist admitting a patient with acute leukemia may ask our ward teams if they want to be involved. And the list goes on.
