The city: I pretty much already stressed how much I love the city of Minneapolis, and visiting again just reinforced this. This time I stayed with my cousins, which was an adventure, and I also went to TwinsFest 2008, another adventure. :) HCMC is literally, right across the street from the Metrodome, which is kind of fun.
The program: So the Hennepin County program is pretty solid at training general surgeons. Even the specialty surgeons at HCMC do general surgery, and part of that is because they only have 20 faculty. The program also has the option of a surgical critical care fellowship between the third and fourth year (this is shared with the University). HCMC gets about 60% of the trauma in the twin cities, and is well known within Minnesota. However, I'm not sure HCMC is known outside of the state of Minnesota.
The residents: The HCMC program takes 4 residents per year, and they are really happy. About half go on to fellowships and half go into practice. During the research year, some residents go other places, since HCMC is not as academic as some programs. There is also one intern that went to OSU for medical school.
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