List of NFP-Friendly OB/GYN Programs

This list is a composite of a list created in 2008 and updated in 2015. It reflects word of mouth from applicants and interviewees and does not represent program directors' opinions or desires. Not all programs on this list are equally enthusiastic, and not all programs listed here may have been honest with the applicants who passed on the word about them. Disclaimer: this list doesn't exempt you from talking to people and using good judgement at interviews!

In no particular order:

• MedStar/Washington Hospital Center (Washington, D.C.; has absorbed previously recommended Georgetown)
• Exempla St. Joseph (Denver, Colorado)
• Phoenix Integrated Residency (Phoenix, Arizona)
• St. Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri)
• Mercy Hospital (St. Louis, Missouri)
• Presence St. Joseph (Chicago, Illinois)
• Presence St. Francis (Evanton, Illinois)
• University of Illinois College of Medicine (Peoria, Illinois)
• Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
• St. Joseph's Mercy (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• Loma Linda University (Loma Linda, California)
• Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas, Texas)
• Methodist (Dallas, Texas)
• Methodist (Houston, Texas; has absorbed previously recommended St. Joseph's)
• Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas)
• Memorial Hermann (Houston, Texas)
• Texas A&M University/Scott and White (Temple, Texas)
• University of Texas Southwestern (Austin, Texas)
• SUNY, Sisters of Charity (Buffalo, New York)
• Florida State University (Pensacola, Florida)
• Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
• St. Francis Care (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Creighton University School of Medicine (Omaha, Nebraska)
• Tulane School of Medicine (New Orleans, Louisiana)
• Wright State College of Medicine (Dayton, Ohio)
• University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
• University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah)
• University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Cheap posts while I move

Continuing with the theme of fake posts of old material I'm digging up while I'm moving, here are some notes I took when I talked with a college friend about medicine.

We were talking about souls...then turned to the "reality" (heavy quotation marks) of this world. It has a purpose and it has beauty, to lead us to God. And there is no greater beauty than man, the only "very good" among all the "good." Man's beauty is in his soul, but also in his body. So, medicine! An exciting profession, to deal with the greatest beauty of physical creation.

On a related note, I remember once praying in the beautiful chapel at TAC and watching one of the sacristan a clean the floors. I was a little jealous. I was a librarian, but I wanted to be a sacristan. Then I realized that, since human bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, I would be a sacristan for the rest of my life.