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Profile #00001
Demographics
Match Year: 2007
This profile will remain anonymous for one year from the match date above.
Advanced Degrees Obtained:
- Other Degree
Academic Information
USMLE Step 1: 253
USMLE Step 2: 259
Step 2 score not available to residencies during application.
AOA: Selected
Class Rank: Top 10%
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| Family Medicine: | Honors | |
Internal Medicine: | Honors |
| Pediatrics: | Satisfactory | |
Surgery: | Honors |
| Neurology: | Honors | |
Psychiatry: | Honors |
| OB/Gyn: | Honors | |
Ophthalmology: | Honors |
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Other Information
ARVO poster, presentation at Pediatric Academic Societies. One article in medical informatics in submission during application process. Several merit scholarships during clinical years. Few leadership activities. Administrator of MDapplicants.com. Unremarkable first and second-year grades.
Applications
California| CPMC - San Francisco: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Three one-on-one interviews, one with Dr. Day, one with a faculty member, and one with a current resident. |
- Program Advantages:
| Dr. Day is well-known in the Ophthalmology world. Good mix of county and private practice. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| The commute to Highland is not convenient. |
| | Stanford University: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U California - Davis: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Three small panel interviews, two with faculty, one with residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Excellent surgical volume with two VAs, four residents a year now, friendly atmosphere. |
| | U California - Irvine: | | | - Applied
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| National reputation, excellent hands-on training in multiple VAs and county hospitals. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Driving, driving, and more driving. |
| | U California - San Diego: | | | - Applied
| | U California - SF: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Good County and VA experience. Great location in San Francisco. |
| | U So California: | | | - Applied
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Colorado| U Colorado: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Three panel interviews with faculty. I appreciated that many of the faculty came in on a snowy day in Denver to make quick presentations to us and introduce themselves. |
- Program Advantages:
| Beautiful new facilities and upgrades to hospital and clinic space rolling out in the near future. The new locations will also reduce some on-call driving. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Two years of primary call. |
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Connecticut
District of Columbia
Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nine one-on-one experience. |
- Program Advantages:
| They may offer the best and varied surgical volume of any program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not a lot of mentoring first year. |
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Georgia
Illinois
Iowa| U Iowa: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Three interviews with two faculty each. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great commitment to education from all faculty. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Iowa City may not fit everyone. Some Saturday didactics. |
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Maryland
Massachusetts | | Michigan| U Michigan: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Five one-on-one interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Very friendly faculty. Good surgical volume with light call. Resident unionization is awesome. New facility coming soon. |
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Missouri
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon| Oregon HSU: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Beautiful facilities, friendly faculty, lots of NEI money, dedicated research time in curriculum, now five residents. |
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Pennsylvania| Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Very friendly atmosphere, supportive faculty. |
| | U Pittsburgh: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Program director is very interested in improving the educational experience, particularly through technology in their great wet lab curriculum. |
| | Wills Eye Hospital: | | | - Applied
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South Carolina
Tennessee| Vanderbilt University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Program director is committed to one-on-one surgical tutoring in their wet lab. |
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Texas
Utah| U Utah: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Beautiful new building, 25 minutes to world-class skiing. |
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Virginia
Washington |
Match Experience
Did not match. I ranked all twelve programs at which I attended interviews. I sent nice, personalized thank you cards to the PD of each program I interviewed at. When submitting my rank list, our Dean, who was formerly the chair of our ophthalmology program, said "Your rank list looks great and appropriate. I'm confident you will end up at one of your top choices. There really is nothing more you should do... - I'm sure your application will speak for itself." Feedback from the programs that were nice enough to respond about how my application was evaluated have not mentioned any red flags, simply that they filled quickly and did not get to me on the list. I think if I were a boorish, unattractive, abrasive, offensive person that would totally blow every interview, I would have had some sort of warning throughout my clinical years. So, I have no idea. Be very afraid.
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