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I had to change room the next day because the smell was terrible, like humid not mold. The second room the smell was different, not as bad as the first. The condition of the bathroom on the second room was not good, the tub had a couple of cracks and chipped and there was black mold between the tub and on the tile.

I agree with Tica, not worth the money.

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The conditions at the Tropicana were not worth the money spent. There was no refrigerator in the room. Normally, there would be amenities in the room which we did not have. The bathroom looked dirty when we first walked in and outdated and you can hear the toilet flush from the adjacent room which I have never experienced before. I understand it is a casino and people smoke, but the ventilation was horrible especially for someone like me that has asthma. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone.

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Yes, we have an oncology rotation, 3 months in the PGY3 year. The physician is our primary tumor surgeon and does adult reconstruction as well.

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Carol!!!
We heard you! This will be a topic of our round tables a the ARCOS Conference in Las Vegas. We will also touch on it during the New Coordinator Session that anyone is invited to attend. Please email me at llewis8@wellspan.org if you want more details about either!
~Laurel

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Yes, we have a rotation during our PGY4 year that is recon/oncology. The physician is a part of our department faculty but practices outside of our institution.

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I am the Residency and Fellowship (2) Coordinator. We just went through our 10 year site visit and we received a citation for not having an additional person.

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From my PD…This is a broad question with more than one answer. A person who has not matched needs to identify the short-coming and remedy it, be it research, interview skills, performance and LoR, etc.
Most overcome this with a year of research. Some improve their package with a surgical internship and strong letters of recommendation. Some do other degrees (phD, masters, MPH, etc).

Artina

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My PD read this over and contributed the following info:

-I would recommend for the unmatched applicant complete a year of research over general surgery. Reason for this, this shows me their determination in sticking with ortho rather than the possibility of switching programs. I will look at an application of a previously unmatched applicant and see what they have done to advance themselves in the world of orthopaedics even if they did not match into it initially. I also believe if they are taking a high risk chance of trying again to get into ortho, they are very committed to becoming an orthopaedic surgeon. I appreciate their perseverance.

Hope this helps. I tend to agree with Laurel in that I personally think a GS year is particularly helpful in developing surgical skills required. Either way, in my personal opinion, the ones we have accepted into our program that had to wait a year to try again, are some of the more outstanding performers in that they were able to gain a bit of life experience before getting into Ortho.

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We would opt for the GS year. They are still honing skills in surgery. Performing research in that year would also be important. Everything is a piece of the puzzle as far as the application goes…The statement explaining what they did to improve in order to match the next time, board scores, how did you stand out in the GS year? NEW Letters. In this highly competitive specialty, you need to have what our PD calls the X-Factor. My heart still goes out for those that do not match.

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We also send our Chiefs to this every year. They love it.

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More males for us as well.

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We have had more male applicants cancel.

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We have seen an increase as well. Just curious, are you getting more cancellations from female applicants or male?

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I have had close to twenty cancel in a week, while I was off for the holiday. My interviews are next week, so going to see what the PD wants to do. We sent ours out early only with the amount of spots we had and then had a list of the ‘next in line’. I am at the end of this list too. I have never had this many cancel either.

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I recently addressed this issue with my PD this year as I have noticed the same. There has been a significant increase in interview cancellations this year for my program, even some just a week before the interview date. We actually extended interview offers a little late this year, but every candidate pretty much accepted almost immediately. I am wondering if many programs are offering later interview dates this year, or if the applicants are accepting offers until they receive the interview offer they really want. Either way, this is frustrating and presents more work for the coordinator. For me, the candidates are cancelling so late, that it is hard to fill the spot due to such late notice for the applicant. Glad to see we are not the only program experiencing this.

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