California| Stanford University: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 2 one-on-one interviews and 1 two-on-one interview |
- Program Advantages:
| nice facilities (amazingly beautiful VA), well known faculty covering all of the specialities, great location NoCal, excellent surgical numbers |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
| | U California - SF: | | | - Applied
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Connecticut| Yale University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 2 one-on-one interviews and 2 two-on-one interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| Dr. Tsai (new chairman) looks like he will turn this program around and make it great again |
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Illinois
Iowa| U Iowa: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| multiple 2-on-1 interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| Wow! What an amazing program. Wonderful sense of collegiality. Faculty were very invested in teaching. Grand Rounds every day. Solid all around. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| No resident run clinic (as far as I could tell), Iowa City is a great college town, but it is small and might not be for everyone |
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Maryland| J. Hopkins -Wilmer, GBMC: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Four 2-on-1 interviews and one 1-on-1 interview with Dr. Miller |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong investment in teaching residents, world class faculty in every field, fair surgical numbers, excellent fellowship matching (everyone pretty much gets their top choice) |
- Program Disadvantages:
| moderate amount of travel time between sites. This is not a program for people who want hand-holding. |
| | Sinai Hospital -Baltimore: | | | - Applied
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Massachusetts| Boston University: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here
- Interview Experience:
| 5 2-on-1 interviews . Also meet the chair Dr. Miller (who is not on the admissions committee) in a small group and receive a T-Shirt! |
- Program Advantages:
| Amazing world-class faculty, great exposure to a wide variety of pathology through the MEEI ER (staffed 24/7 by residents), excellent fellowship matches, excellent research opportunities |
- Program Disadvantages:
| average surgical numbers, lost a few key faculty recently (Dr. Azar new chair at UIC, Dr. D'Amico new chair at Cornell, Dr. Dryja to industry), but they will have space to hire new faculty |
| | Tufts/New England Eye Ctr: | | | - Applied
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Michigan
Missouri
New Jersey | | New York| Albany Medical College: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Albert Einstein CoM: | | | - Applied
| | Columbia U / Harkness: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
| | Mount Sinai SoM - NY: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 3 interviews - one with Dr. Fischer and Dr. Friedman, one with Dr. Gagliuso, one with 2 current 1st year residents |
- Program Advantages:
| great exposure to an amazing amount of pathology (especially at Elmhurst hospital), great faculty who are invested in teaching (and also very nice), strong research which will likely get even stronger with the new chairman Dr. Jabbs. Good surgical numbers |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | New York Eye & Ear Infirm: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Best surgical numbers of any program in NYC. Amazing faculty (though most are voluntary). Very nice housing. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| very little research (most is at NYMC - their academic affiliation). most faculty are voluntary |
| | New York Medical College: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 3 interviews, 2 1-on-1 and 1 2-on-1 with current residents |
| | New York University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 1 panel interview (15-on-1? I couldn't count how many...) |
- Program Advantages:
| NYC, MEETH is one of their hospitals, nice housing |
- Program Disadvantages:
| traveling between the 5 hospitals they cover |
| | NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 3 interviews: two panel interviews (3-4 on 1) and one 1-on-1 with Dr. Starr the PD |
- Program Advantages:
| new chair (Dr. D'Amico) and new PD, very nice housing, residents were the happiest I saw anywhere, new building, excellent fellowship matches |
- Program Disadvantages:
| low surgical numbers, small program (3 residents) |
| | St. Lukes/Roosevelt-NY: | | | - Applied
| | U Rochester: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| the new chair is in the process of turning this program into a research powerhouse. They just moved into a Eye Institute. This program is definitely on its way up |
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North Carolina| Duke University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| be prepared for an extremely long interview day! |
| | U North Carolina: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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