UNC

yes, please. There is very little information online at the program's website.

Culley Carson is stepping down. New chair. Not sure how much it will change things.

I had the opportunity to interview there this year and the program seems to be headed in a great direction.  They are making efforts to integrate their research with some of the experts in biostats/epi/study design/database management at the school of public heath and are hoping to build a strong outcomes program.  The new chair is Raj Pruthi, an oncologist out of Stanford. Eric Walen is the PD (Lap/MIS).  They just added a Duke-trained recon person (Borawski).  Nielson is an oncologist trained at Hopkins with experience in outcomes research (also relatively new to the program).  They have strong mid-level support with 4 NPs, who have started to do some of the work on the wards as well (freeing the junior resident to be learning in the OR).  There are currently 7-8 full time faculty and they are recruiting 2-3 more.  They have a strong emphasis on their collegial culture of teaching and specifically look for people who are oriented towards resident training.  They seem to get some interesting cases and to draw patients from all over the region (even with Duke nearby).  They have a 6 mo. rotation in Charlotte that is very well-liked by the residents and for which they put you up in a 2 br townhouse (about 2.5 hours away).  The facilities are state of the art and brand new (glistening cancer center, new physicians office building, dirt-pushing project in the central area where they are building yet another thing). 

Hey were recently approved to add 3 residents per year and plan to do so starting June, 2011