California| CPMC - San Francisco: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Resident interview, and 2 faculty interviews. One was the Chair, Susan Day. All pleasant relaxed interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| Great volume (close to 200-250 phacos), location, seems like excellent clinical experience |
- Program Disadvantages:
| staggered start (2/3 of matched residents will have to spend an extra year to wait for the fellowship application season), most are volunteer faculty, there are few CPMC faculty |
| | Stanford University: | | | - Applied
| | U California - Davis: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U California - Irvine: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
| | U California - San Diego: | | | - Applied
| | U California - SF: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| prog director, faculty, chair, senior resident. all very nice and chill interviews. the chair is young, dresses well |
- Program Advantages:
| county, va, plus university hospital. good volume. beautiful location, few fellows to compete for cases |
- Program Disadvantages:
| hospitals somewhat far apart. there have been no south asian residents for several years now |
| | U So California: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 4 interviews, including Steven Ryan, Ron Smith and two others |
- Program Advantages:
| Great volume, autonomy at county hospital. Will be wonderfully trained to face anything. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Spend 2 of 3 years at LA County, not Doheny. Doheny faculty generally don't attend at LA County. |
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Connecticut| Yale University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| New chair, old chair. Most are 2 on 1 interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Chair extremely enthusiastic and energetic, Tsai from Columbia. program is building, may be among top in some years. variety of rotation sites, including va, community clinic, caribbean. the two AMD genes were identified here |
- Program Disadvantages:
| small faculty, this is probably changing |
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Florida| U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Long day, 9 interviews. including chair and program director |
- Program Advantages:
| High volume, depth (residents do even retina surgeries!). Probably the top training program out there in terms of surgical experience. Volume so large, fellows don't compete for numbers |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Georgia
Illinois| Northwestern University: | | | - Applied
| | U Chicago: | | | - Applied
| | U Illinois - Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Chair, chair's wife/faculty, prog director, 2 other faculty members |
- Program Advantages:
| great location, residents appears happy, good volume? energetic new chair Azar from MEEI |
- Program Disadvantages:
| the building, w/o windows, disrupts your circadian clock |
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Iowa| U Iowa: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| chair, prog director, and other faculty. all were 2 on 1 |
- Program Advantages:
| supportive atmosphere, plenty of public speaking (grand rounds every day), happy residents, sparkling facilities. midwest hospitality |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Saturday lectures, very difficult to park, all residents married. has a big HHMI researcher, but otherwise very little NIH funded research here |
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| | Maryland| J. Hopkins -Wilmer, GBMC: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 1 on 1 w Chair, rest were 2 on 1 (incl prog director) |
- Program Advantages:
| new building to break ground, eye ED, spectacular history and name (many chairs have been trained here), decent volume (125), fellowship placement incredible |
- Program Disadvantages:
| no VA, county, 1st year somewhat rough |
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Massachusetts| Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here
- Interview Experience:
| Several 2 on 1 interviews, incl prog director. 'Fireside chat' with Chair |
- Program Advantages:
| Eye ER, decent facilities, do consults at several top hospitals, great research. MEEI just won huge settlement |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Many fellows, disputed clinical volume (range from 80-120), Azar, D'Amico, Dryja have left |
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Michigan
Missouri| Washington University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| chair, prog director, 2 residents, young faculty member |
- Program Advantages:
| residents seem happy, beautiful facilties, dept well integrated with basic sci and clinical research. st louis is very affordable |
- Program Disadvantages:
| st louis may not appeal to everyone |
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New York| Columbia U / Harkness: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Panel (5 on 1), 2 on 1 (with chair), 1 on 1 with prog director |
- Program Advantages:
| New Chair (DAmico from MEEI), new facilities next year. Guaranteed housing, NYC. On the rise? |
- Program Disadvantages:
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North Carolina
Ohio| Cleveland Clinic Found.: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Vice chair, 3 faculty incl program director. Chair was present but did not welcome the applicants |
- Program Advantages:
| Best facilities i have seen, excellent fellowship placement |
- Program Disadvantages:
| relatively new program, cleveland, 9 mo per year at Cole eye, where there may be less autonomy. |
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Pennsylvania| Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Fireside chat with Stuart Fine, 1 on 1 w prog director, 2 on 1 with two young faculty, 2 on 1 w asst prog director and PhD |
- Program Advantages:
| Happy residents, rotate at Children's, VA, Scheie, HUP. Great fellowship placement. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Low volume? old facilties |
| | U Pittsburgh: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Wills Eye Hospital: | | | - Applied
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