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Demographics
Match Year:  2012
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Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  242
USMLE Step 2:  234

AOA:  Selected
Class Rank:  Top 10-25%

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

Other Information
3 non-derm non-first author pubs


Applications
Alabama
  U Alabama Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
alright
- Program Advantages:
research opportunities
- Program Disadvantages:
place

California
  U S. California/LAC+USC Med Ctr:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
laid back
- Program Advantages:
awesome clinics, underserved/diverse population, 5 weeks of vaca
- Program Disadvantages:
residents more or less decide if you are 'cool enough' for 'cool LA' or not

Georgia
  Emory U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
I liked Emory
- Program Advantages:
amazing opportunities in multiple areas
- Program Disadvantages:
intensity, everyone wanted to match here
  Med Col of Georgia:
- Applied
- Received interview

Illinois
  U Chicago:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
I did not like the residents. Not that friendly
- Program Advantages:
well known program
- Program Disadvantages:
only 3 people in program. seemed intense and residents didn't seem super happy

Iowa
  U Iowa Hosps:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
amazing
- Program Advantages:
amazing staff, a lot of opportunity
- Program Disadvantages:
difficult to get in and out of Iowa city

Louisiana
  Louisiana St U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
laid back, no tour,
- Program Advantages:
laid back. bigger program, less research based and a lot more clinical
- Program Disadvantages:
some of clinics are in another city which is 1 hour away and inconvenient to get to

Michigan
  Henry Ford Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
good
- Program Advantages:
amazing vitiligo research
- Program Disadvantages:
living in detroit

Minnesota
  Mayo (Rochester):
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
good
- Program Advantages:
great training
- Program Disadvantages:
having to wear a suit, not sure of patient diversity at a place like this
New Mexico
  U New Mexico:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here
- Interview Experience:
great
- Program Advantages:
a lot of autonomy with patients, surgery every week, interesting patients
- Program Disadvantages:
smaller program (only 2 residents a year)

North Carolina
  Duke U Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
alright. a bit intense and pretentious for my style
- Program Advantages:
a lot of research and fellowship opportunities
- Program Disadvantages:
intense
  Wake Forest U SOM:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
pretty good.
- Program Advantages:
nice faculty
- Program Disadvantages:
only 3 positions and 1 seemed already filled by research fellow the year prior so kind of a waste of time

Oregon
  OHSU:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
great, awesome residents
- Program Advantages:
nice campus,
- Program Disadvantages:
little diversity of patient population

Pennsylvania
  U Pittsburgh Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
name, opportunities for fellowships, research funding
- Program Disadvantages:
I think it is pretty intense and the residents work pretty hard

Tennessee
  Vanderbilt U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
good
- Program Advantages:
the name, good for those wanting to do private practice
- Program Disadvantages:
competitive, small 3 residents

Texas
  Baylor COM:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
ok
- Program Advantages:
great training, diverse patient population, Dr. Hsu
- Program Disadvantages:
a little more hierarchal. chair interacts very little with residents

Wisconsin
  U Wisconsin:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
great
- Program Advantages:
seemed to have great faculty
- Program Disadvantages:
kind of remote

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