Re: Future doctor looking for poker friendly residency
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Do you really think you will have time to play poker during your residency? Especially if you do emergency medicine?
I'd stick to playing online in your spare 20 minutes a day [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Yeah, seriously. In your intern year you'll be lucky to get one 32 hour work-free period a week for the entire year. You are not going to get as much pokering in as you think you are.
Any residency in California will be pretty tough to get. If you did well on Step I that will help a lot.
Vegas is the no-brainer, but I have no idea of the quality of programs there.
Chicago is okay, kind of a pain in the ass to get to some of the casinos (Indiana, $6 in tolls round trip, 45 mins.-1 hour of traffic standard). A lot of really good residency programs, however.
St. Louis wouldn't be bad. Much easier commute, decent rooms, and decent residencies.
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