Brigham and Women's Hospital Reviews

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Compensation could be better but is offset by great benefits. Worth it!

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As a startup things are rapidly changing and you will not last long if you can not go with the flow and adjust on the fly

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pay is not great
little room for advancement
too big of an institution to have a sense of community

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Very big, sluggish machine. Many roadblocks in resources (pay increase, space, etc.)

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Academic advancement (promotion to faculty) involves a lot of red tape (mostly due to Harvard's bureaucracy) and the related administrative process is slow, even if you have all the "institutional criteria" down.
Overall, the environment is *very* hierarchical, i.e. it's a hospital where naturally MD is king, and as a biomedical investigator (whether junior or senior faculty), people have to work with (read: work for) physicians, which means there is less academic freedom compared to what you would get at a research university. But along with that restriction comes access to the unique resources of a nationwide acclaimed hospital and the affiliation with Harvard (see Pros above). That's the main tradeoff.

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Political, competitive with other fellows

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needs more diversity within management

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Don’t look after their staff well, people are overworked and under appreciated-unless you are a doctor bringing in a lot of money

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You are paid kindly lower thinking of your work

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No. I don’t think so, some downside working at Brigham women’s hospital