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Profile #00022
Demographics
Match Year:  2007
This profile will remain anonymous for two years from the match date above.


Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  219
USMLE Step 2:  243

AOA:  Selected
Class Rank:  Top 10-25%

Family Medicine:  High Pass Internal Medicine:  High Pass
Pediatrics:  High Pass Surgery:  High Pass
Neurology:  Honors Psychiatry:  Honors
OB/Gyn:  High Pass Anesthesiology:  Honors

Other Information
I had several research projects, one of which I presented at the ASRA annual pain meeting, and was selected as "Best of Meeting." I also shadowed an anesthesiologist in Guatemala the summer after my 1st year.


Applications
Connecticut
  Yale-New Haven Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Two interviews with strange attendings. Large group of interviewees. Amazing grand rounds by Baresh
- Program Advantages:
good overall program with ok schedule, great faculty
- Program Disadvantages:
Very limited pain management experience, and mandatory CA-3 rotations (including pain, only available during 3rd year).

District of Columbia
  Georgetown U Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
nice interview day, but no hotel. great food, very personalized.
- Program Advantages:
solid program, good pain program, good fellowship placement
- Program Disadvantages:
small program

Maryland
  Johns Hopkins U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
great experience, liked the program and residents. long tour
- Program Advantages:
great program, facilities, research experience, pain program
- Program Disadvantages:
program director leaving

Massachusetts
  Baystate Med Ctr/Tufts U SOM:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Beth Israel Deaconess:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
- Interview Experience:
great interview day, dinner with residents also. five interviews, but all relaxed
- Program Advantages:
great overall program, excellent hospital, schedule is desirable. residents happy. one of the best pain programs (many residents go into pain).
- Program Disadvantages:
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  Brigham and Women's Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
long, but great. lots of interaction with residents, who appeared friendly, fun, and very happy
- Program Advantages:
excellent program with strong didactics, great harvard simulator, great pain program
- Program Disadvantages:
the chair told me 'you will not be able to start and finish your own research project here.' quite a turn off. residents work very long hours (>70), which will increase with the addition of more ORs this year.
  Caritas St Elizabeth's Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Mass Gen Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
short interview. many nerdy residents--it is MGH though. one interview (out of three) with exceptional female faculty member who made a great impression.
- Program Advantages:
MGH name, great experience, research. pain program being revamped
- Program Disadvantages:
antiquated didactics, program appears to be relying on name
  Tufts-New England Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U Mass:
- Applied
- Received interview

New Hampshire
  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
nice interview day, but no breakfast. apparently i could have ordered room service at the hanover inn...fantastic room
- Program Advantages:
great pain program, great regional anesthesia, lots of research, strong didactics and excellent teaching
- Program Disadvantages:
very small program in the middle of nowhere. no ob, trauma

New Jersey
  UMDNJ-New Jersey:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Interviewers were friendly, basically chatted.
- Program Advantages:
Residents get great fellowships. New Chair (Delphin) has been bringing in some great faculty from excellent institutions (MGH, Columbia, Sinai, etc). Great research opportunities, and amazing pain management experience.
- Program Disadvantages:
Not very competetive, older attendings not very good

New York
  Albert Einstein COM:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Mount Sinai SOM:
- Applied
- Received interview
  New York Presb Hosp (Columbia):
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Long, painful presentations, food terrible during day. REsidents friendly, normal
- Program Advantages:
great research, location, overall great experience
- Program Disadvantages:
terrible pain management experience.
New York
  New York Presb Hosp (Cornell):
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
STrange attendings--very quirky
- Program Advantages:
good overall program, but not on par with columbia. best pain program in city
- Program Disadvantages:
called in from home.
  New York U SOM:
- Applied
- Received interview
  NYMC at St Vincent's Hosp and Med Ctr of New York:
- Applied
- Received interview
  St Luke's-Roosevelt Hosp Ctr:
- Applied
- Received interview
  SUNY Upstate Med U:
- Applied
- Received interview

North Carolina
  Duke U Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
disgusting hotel turned me off immediately. the area was also not very desirable. my boyfriend came with me, and went to a local duke bar while i was at the dinner; he was assaulted by a white supremacist for talking to a black gentleman, and then calle
- Program Advantages:
great research, top regional anesthesia program, great overall program
- Program Disadvantages:
location, location, location
  U N. Carolina Hosps:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
fantastic interview experience, residents were friendly and fun, dinner was a blast. interview day was smooth, very personalized
- Program Advantages:
good program, great location
- Program Disadvantages:
not top tier program

Pennsylvania
  Drexel U COM/Hahnemann U Hosp:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Mercy Hosp of Pittsburgh:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Temple U Hosp:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Thomas Jefferson U:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U Pennsylvania:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
great interview day; hotel is fantastic. friendly residents, all seem happy. chair and program director seemed strange to me. the pd went through this 'teaching' bit with me, which was more like forcing teaching down my throat, and scared me off.
- Program Advantages:
peds, great pain program, lots of new faculty, research
  U Pittsburgh Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Western Pennsylvania Hosp/Temple U:
- Applied
- Received interview

Virginia
  U Virginia:
- Applied
- Received interview

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