California
Connecticut| Yale-New Haven Med Ctr: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Chairman, PD, and faculty sit with you in small groups so you can ask questions while people leave to do interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Very strong clinical and research apparatus with lots of grants. Do everything but Lung transplants. Everyone had fellowship matches at top programs. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| New Haven isn't everyone's cup of tea. |
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District of Columbia
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
New Hampshire| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| People are very close knit |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong Cardiac and Regional exposure. In terms of cardiac, most graduating residents had Basic TEE certification and hundreds of blocks under them. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| It's in Dartmouth which is a very quiet and small town. It's not everyone's cup of tea. |
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New Jersey| UMDNJ-New Jersey: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| PD didn't inspire the most confidence in program, but he was honest. |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong clinical anesthesiology exposure thanks to being in level 1 trauma center in Newark. Rotate through diverse centers including HUMC (more advanced placed for cardiac exposure) and the VA. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Newark isn't the nicest place to live. Community program and UH has terrible ancillary staff. |
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New York | | New York| Mount Sinai SOM: | | | - Applied
| | New York Presb Hosp (Columbia): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Residents didn't seem particularly happy. |
- Program Advantages:
| Huge number of solid organ transplants and very strong peds and cardiac. Enormous research opportunities especially with APGAR Program. Very well connected program. You're still in NY. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| You're going to work ~65-70 hours/week. Campus is in crap part of NY. |
| | New York U SOM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| You sit in an conference room with chief residents and get 2 interviews from faculty. |
- Program Advantages:
| Residents are very happy, strong peds, regional, and trauma exposure. Strong research opportunities without being overbearing. Cool craniofacial surgeries are done here. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Living in NY is expensive, advanced program |
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North Carolina
Ohio| Cleveland Clinic Found: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| They do everything under the sun, especially heart related stuff. Program is wealthy. Living in area is pretty cheap. Faculty seem pretty vested in improving program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Area around hospital is dead. Cleveland isn't the nicest place to live but not terrible either. |
| | CWRU/U Hosps of Cleveland: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Pennsylvania |
