A typical day
Structured, and finished at a reasonable hour.
- Arrive between 6:45 and 7:00 to set up the room and see your first patient
- 7:00 — morning conference, about fifteen minutes
- 7:30 — first case starts
- Breaks are part of how we run the day, not an afterthought: a mid-morning break, a lunch break and an afternoon break
- You are relieved from the room for didactics
- Residents not on call are usually finished by around 5:00 pm
- Call averages five per four-week block, with most blocks including two free weekends
Resident life and wellbeing
A residency that does not exhaust the people in it.
- Predictable schedules, a low overnight call burden and wellness days
- Confidential counselling and mental health resources, independent of the program
- Wellness seminars and stress-management workshops
- Conference time and funding for residents presenting accepted work
- A close-knit class and a department that eats together more often than it probably should
- Training alongside residents in internal medicine, emergency medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, podiatry and dentistry
Resources and scholarly activity
- TrueLearn question bank and American Board of Anesthesiology resources
- Core anesthesiology textbooks available online
- Faculty support for clinical and translational research
- Quality improvement projects with departmental sponsorship
- Funding to present accepted work at national meetings
- Resident-initiated projects actively encouraged
Living here
You will train three blocks from the Atlantic Ocean.
Coney Island is not a medical district. It is a real Brooklyn neighborhood with a beach at the end of the street, and it is one of the few places left in New York City where a resident’s salary comfortably covers a good apartment.
- The boardwalk and the beach — two and a half miles of Atlantic shoreline, minutes from the hospital
- Brighton Beach Avenue — one of the great food neighborhoods in the country, for Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian and Central Asian cooking
- Luna Park and Deno’s Wonder Wheel — the original Coney Island amusement parks, open spring through fall
- The New York Aquarium — next door to the hospital
- Sheepshead Bay — waterfront dining, fishing and kayaking, ten minutes away
- Brooklyn Cyclones baseball at Maimonides Park, on the boardwalk
- Rent that makes sense — substantially below Manhattan and northern Brooklyn, in Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and Bay Ridge
- The whole city, still — the Q, B, F and N trains run to Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, and residents live across both