ouortho Registered User Posts: 1 (5/2/01 9:15:36 pm) Reply UT Southwestern Just wanted to ask how Parkland compares nationally (top ten, third?). Is it extreme academics? Are the residents well trained for private practice? I am currently finishing second year at Oklahoma and want to know if I should consider an away there. Anyone interviewed there? Thanks, ouortho crazy joe davola Registered User Posts: 31 (5/3/01 10:45:23 am) Reply Re: UT Southwestern I rotated at Parkland. The residents are trained very well in trauma, which is definitely the medical center's strength. UTSW is a huge referral center for pelvis/acetabuluar trauma. Academically, the program is working to improve their conferences and research, which is not on the same playing field as a Duke or even Vanderbilt. However, very few of the residents are there because of the academics. Dr. Bucholz is very well-known (they call Rockwood and Green "RGB" because he's the third author) and the residents have a good relationship with him. The residents train at Parkland for PGY-1 and 2. They leave Parkland for an entire year during PGY-3, though, and do several private rotations, including one at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (one of the most sought-after peds fellowships in the US). I'd advise you to rotate there if you guess you would rank it highly. I think I've posted about this before, but they interview about 50-60 people for five spots during two days. One day is for "knowns" = rotators or UTSW students, and the other is for "unknowns" = nonrotators. Usually they go with 4:1 knowns to unknowns on their final choices. Most of the male residents seemed to fit into a pretty consistent mold. There were a couple of rare exceptions, so I'd guess they don't look to branch out too often in their selection of new residents. Regarding research/academics, there is a PGY-2 there who did a lot of high-powered research at HSS who interviewed at about 26/28 places he applied to and ranked UTSW first, so go figure.