Arizona
California| Stanford U: |  | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Single day, only interviewed with faculty. Most residents did not come to the dinner. |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong research, vascular. Good placement in academics. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Weak operative experience/independence until 6/7 years. Chiefs of varying quality. Emphasis on research>operative skills. |
| | U California (San Francisco): | | | - Applied
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District of Columbia| George WUStL: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 2 days, painful waiting around for a few faculty at GWU one day and NIH the next. Very boring. |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small faculty, low volume. |
| | Georgetown U Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Single day with lunch with the residents, interviewed with all faculty. |
- Program Advantages:
| DC, decent volume, great chairman (McGrail), fantastic group of residents, 6y program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Tough call schedule (q3), volume could be better. |
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Illinois| Loyola U: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Single day with faculty plus dinner. |
- Program Advantages:
| Decent volume, Origitano is Al-Mefty-trained skull base, good didactics, not too much trauma. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Weak endovascular, single hospital experience, no dedicated peds rotation, not a big name. |
| | McGaw Med Ctr of Northwestern U: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Best in Chicago - Batjer is a fantastic, hands-off chair and one of the best in the world. Strong skull base with Chandler, lots of endoscopic. Good functional, strong tumor. Politically connected (Batjer, Getch, Fessler). |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Somewhat malignant atmosphere, at least the way the service is run. Minimal if any truama. Cover Cook County hospital (sounds great, but is actually a poor experience due to the way the hospital operates). |
| | Rush U Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| strong epilepsy/functional with Bakay and Byrne, and endovascular with Lopes. New hospital. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small faculty, not great volume. |
| | U Chicago: | | | - Applied
| | U Illinois COM at Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Maryland | | Massachusetts
Missouri| WUStL/B-JH/SLCH Cnsrt: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Evening + saturday morning. |
- Program Advantages:
| Fantastic, world-renown faculty, high volume, great support from other departments within WashU, rotation in Ireland. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Insular (all one hospital), seemed that the operative independence was not strong, St. Louis is not for everyone. |
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New York| New York Presb Hosp (Columbia): | | | - Applied
| | New York Presb Hosp (Cornell): | | | - Applied
| | New York U SOM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Single day plus fantastic dinner. |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong faculty, great former chairman (Patrick Kelly), Bellvue hospital with operative independence, ability to do infolded fellowships. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Seemed pretty hands-off in terms of operative experience especially at the University hospital, have to contend with entitled NY patients who pay cash and expect the attending to wipe their asses. |
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Oregon| OHSU: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Single day + dinner, interviewed with PGY5s as well as faculty. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great location, nice hospital connected to VA and pediatrics hospital, great operative experience with Delashaw, strong endovascular with Barnwell and Nesbit, politically connected chairman (Burchiel) who is the de facto US expert of functional neurosurge |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not fantastic volume, somewhat limited depth of faculty, lots of international fellows working with Burchiel. |
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Pennsylvania| Thomas Jefferson U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Highest volume (especially aneurysms) of almost any program in the country, Rosenwasser is politically connected, lots of endovascular cases and spine. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Philly not for everyone, seemed like a very malignant atmosphere with several residents leaving/getting fired. |
| | U Pennsylvania: | | | - Applied
| | U Pittsburgh Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Washington| U Washington: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
- Interview Experience:
| Long, 2-day process (which has subsequently been changed to a Friday afternoon-Saturday morning program, much more efficient and pleasant). Interviewed with it seemed like every faculty member as well as most of the researchers (this has also been improve |
- Program Advantages:
| Harborview provides operative independence early, especially with trauma since it's a major county hospital. Large catchment area (5 states) means very high volume, primarily vascular/endovascular, trauma, open spine, skull base, epilepsy. Separate electi |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Hospitals not near each other, harborview can get very busy especially in the summer with trauma. |
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