Yeah, that may not be the worst thing... good surgeon and thinker, but you just can't act and treat ppl the way Schu and Rush and etc do anymore (unless you want basically no friends and to know the CMO or chief of surgery on first-name basis and not in a good way). If most new attendings had that arrogance and abrasiveness, they'd be in real trouble. It's a different era, though.
...they have trained and picked up some other good docs, though. Patel is very good. One of my classmates is big there now, and they've actually gained more than they've lost. Hamilton and Schuberth were monsters in different ways, though. I can't believe Hamilton left such a nice place for a hole in Texas, but who knows, lol.
I would say that's probably a definite top 5 or 10 program yearly, could argue as top DPM residency... esp with Grant residency now unfortunately out of the mix. Kaiser's main weakness is same as most others: inbreeding, but they are more diverse and better depth chart of teachers than many other top programs. I think when you get to that level of Kaiser Oak, Inova, UPMC, Swedish, former Grant, etc all are fantastic.... kinda just depends what the student wants for training type/emphasis.
