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Website: http://www.dhmc.org/webpage.cfm?site_id=2&org_id=540&gsec_id=0&sec_id=0&item_id=28266
City: Lebanon
State/Province: New Hampshire
Residents per class: 4
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program


User reviews

Average user rating from: 2 user(s)

Overall rating
9.1
Staff Surgeons
9.0
Didactics/Teaching
9.5
Operating Experience
8.5
Clinical Experience
8.0
Research
8.5
Residents
10.0
Lifestyle
10.0
Location
9.5
Overall Experience
9.0
 

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

DHMC by Away Rotator, Thursday, 18 December 2008

Written by LaxFury   -  View all my reviews  - #1 Reviewer

Overall rating
8.9
Staff Surgeons
8.0
Didactics/Teaching
9.0
Operating Experience
8.0
Clinical Experience
8.0
Research
8.0
Residents
10.0
Lifestyle
10.0
Location
10.0
Overall Experience
9.0
Program Information
Staff/Faculty/Chairman: Staff is great. Weinstein (Spine) is great chair. Vice chair (Mirza- spine) recently arrived from Seattle. Top to bottom, staff seems to enjoy teaching and has great relationship with residents.

Representation: 4 spine, 2 trauma, 2 hand, 2 UE/shoulder-elbow, 2 peds (Dr. Cook is new), 4 (6) joints, 1 (4) sports, 1 (3) foot/ankle ((some attendings have mixed/general practices).
Didactics/Teaching: A strong point. Daily x-ray/ER rounds, daily rotating conferences representing all areas.
Operating Experience: Strong, varies by service. As a benchmark for comparison- PGY-2s doing primary joints. No fellow interference. Almost always resident/attending, with maybe trauma being exception (often R4/R2, attending around).
Clinic Experience: Nice clinic with homegrown EMR system that is being replaced in the near future. Staff and mid-levels a great help.
Research Opportunities: Strong point. Have a 6-year track that provides a masters through the Dartmouth Institute. Big on cost analysis, outcomes research.
Residents: A great group. Very happy. Outdoorsy. Many have spouses, families. Always help each other out from R5 down.
Lifestyle: Hanover/NH great place to live and the residents get to enjoy it. Q6 approximate junior call, All call is home call from the beginning. Many get to ski post call in the winter. Have time for family, friends.
Location/Housing: Very affordable. Rural, and not for everyone. Most own homes on big lots of land. Tons of great outdoors activities.

Facilities-- DHMC is one of the most intelligently designed, beautiful hospitals I have ever been to. Would be great place to work.
Limitations: Location not for everyone. Trauma experience is somewhat limited, despite the level one status and large referral base. Patient population is NOT diverse at all. Rotate in Boston for Tumor, Peds.
Overall Rotation Experience/Conclusion: All in all a true gem in a rural location. Great lifestyle/family/outdoors activity. Strong training, good fellowship opportunities. Not for everyone, but would be a fantastic opportunity to work with gifted surgeons and happy people. Great life!
Qualification
I rotated as a medical student at this program
Date of Rotation: 2008
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Tuesday, 05 February 2008

Written by steepler   -  View all my reviews  - Top 50 Reviewer

Overall rating
9.3
Staff Surgeons
10.0
Didactics/Teaching
10.0
Operating Experience
9.0
Clinical Experience
8.0
Research
9.0
Residents
10.0
Lifestyle
10.0
Location
9.0
Overall Experience
9.0
Program Information
Staff/Faculty/Chairman: Excellent faculty in all sub-specialty areas. It is apparent that they care deeply about their responsibilty for teaching and training and are successful at it. There is a great deal of mutual respect and affection between the residents and faculty.
Didactics/Teaching: Teaching occurs every weekday morning and is a seemless part of the routine with all residents able to attend without compromising other responsibilities. The faculty are present and involved. Thursdays(?) are devoted to sub-specialty conferences in small groups with the faculty within that sub-specialty.
Operating Experience: Very good- sufficient little and big trauma to satisfy, even if someone comes from a more urban program. Very broad exposure. Junior residents get to operate a big chunk of the time.
Clinic Experience: A self-professed weakness of the program because of the volume of OR cases and resident preference for operating. However, ED experience, resident-run varsity sports clinics, resident clinics, and the time they spend with the attendings in their personal clinics are very strong.
Research Opportunities: Offers a 6-year track that allows those residents to obtain a masters and as part of the curriculum somewhat automatically complete outcomes based research and during that time away from clinical duties perform other research. Strong support for 5-year track residents to do research as well and most do quite a bit.
Residents: The residents are happy and friendly. They care about and are supportive of each other.
Lifestyle: Good. The call schedule is relatively benign, with home call permitted, but you still are an ortho resident. A lot of the residents have families and get to see them.
Location/Housing: Depends on what you like- if you like outdoor activities the upper valley is a hard place to beat with the appalacian trail, skiing nearby, and rivers and lakes for water activities. If you want an urban environment that it is not, but it does have a cute town and cultural activities. Housing affordability is middle of the road- not like NY or LA, but also not like the midwest.
Overall Rotation Experience/Conclusion: A great place to rotate. I really liked it and would be very happy if I matched there.
Qualification
I rotated as a medical student at this program
Date of Rotation: 10-07
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