[HSF] Current Requirements for the ABTS

[ebender001 at charter.net]

I don't know how everyone else decided to go into our field, but I didn't know what I wanted to do until my 5th general surgery year.  (Sometimes I still don't know what I want to do.)  Most of my fellow trainees in Colorado came to Colorado to be involved in liver transplantation (Starzl was our chairman), but not one ended up pursuing that route. Twenty interns started, and 6 chief residents finished in my class - 3 went into CT surgery, two plastics, one general surgery. 

Ed Bender, MD


---- Hgrmd at aol.com wrote: 
> John,
>   Basically, all that does is make it so that the future CT surgeon  merely 
> goes through the paces of the general surgery residency.  He  completes his 5 
> years and moves on to cardiothoracic residency no matter  what.  What a farce!  
> I can't tell you the untold hours I spent  reading Schwartz, journals, and 
> whatever I could get my hands on as a  general surgery resident, knowing that I 
> had to excel on the In Training Exam if  I was going to beat the pyramid. We 
> went from 10 interns to 4 chiefs at the Univ  of Maryland and I was the only 
> one from out of state who survived the cut.   Let me tell you, those first 
> couple of years were scary as heck, because I new  that I could easily end up as an 
> anesthesiologist or ER doc.
> Hal  
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