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Demographics
Match Year:  2011
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Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  253
USMLE Step 2:  255

AOA:  Not Selected
Class Rank:  Top 25-50%
Family Medicine:  Satisfactory Internal Medicine:  Satisfactory
Pediatrics:  High Pass Surgery:  Honors
Neurology:  Honors Psychiatry:  Honors
OB/Gyn:  Satisfactory Ophthalmology:  Honors
Other Information
2 pubs, one Ophtho, one ENT. Some other scattered research in the works.

Applications
California
  CPMC - San Francisco:
- Applied
  Loma Linda University:
- Applied
  Stanford University:
- Applied
  U California - Davis:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Very friendly. Applicants played Wii while waiting for interviews.
- Program Advantages:
Great feel, early surgical experience, great cornea people.
- Program Disadvantages:
From a resident: 'If you want to do oculoplastics, UC-Davis isn't for you'
  U California - Irvine:
- Applied
  U California - LA:
- Applied
  U California - San Diego:
- Applied
  U California - SF:
- Applied
  U So California:
- Applied

Colorado
  U Colorado:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
- Interview Experience:
3 panels - very friendly and conversational. PD is a great guy.
- Program Advantages:
University, county, VA, and Children's all part of the package. Good surgical numbers.
- Program Disadvantages:
Lots of call

District of Columbia
  George Washington U:
- Applied
  Georgetown U/Wash Hosp:
- Applied

Florida
  U Florida - Gainesville:
- Applied
  U Miami / Bascom Palmer:
- Applied

Georgia
  Emory University:
- Applied

Illinois
  Northwestern University:
- Applied
  Rush/Presby/St.Luke's/PG1:
- Applied
  Stroger/Cook Cty-Chicago:
- Applied
  U Chicago:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Half-day. Tour, followed by 4 2-on-1 interviews. Appeared that some faculty and resident were not present for the day.
- Program Advantages:
Good retina people, lots of vitrectomy experience.
- Program Disadvantages:
Interim chair. Ophtho is not its own department here - it's a section within the Surgery dept.
  U Illinois - Chicago:
- Applied

Iowa
  U Iowa:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
4 2-on-1 interviews. Very friendly, very conversational. PD is great, chair is great.
- Program Advantages:
Everything. This place has it all. Great residents, friendly faculty. Facilities are top-notch. Iowa city is actually pretty cool - college town, progressive feel, cool downtown area.
- Program Disadvantages:
None really. Iowa city is a bit isolated, but not a hicksville by any means.

Maryland
  J. Hopkins -Wilmer, GBMC:
- Applied
  U Maryland:
- Applied

Massachusetts
  Boston University:
- Applied
  Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary:
- Applied
  Mass.Eye&Ear/Spec Program:
- Applied
Massachusetts
  Tufts/New England Eye Ctr:
- Applied

Minnesota
  U Minnesota - Mpls.:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
15 one-on-one interviews. Exhausting. Generally friendly interviews though.
- Program Advantages:
Good resident esprit de corps. Approachable faculty. Chair is an interesting, cool guy.
- Program Disadvantages:
Chair is leaving. Minneapolis is cold and dark.

Missouri
  St. Louis University:
- Applied
  Washington University:
- Applied

New York
  Albert Einstein CoM:
- Applied
  Columbia U / Harkness:
- Applied
  Mount Sinai SoM - NY:
- Applied
  New York Eye & Ear Infirm:
- Applied
  New York University:
- Applied

North Carolina
  Duke University:
- Applied
  U North Carolina:
- Applied

Ohio
  Case Western Reserve U:
- Applied
  Ohio State University:
- Applied

Oklahoma
  U Oklahoma-Oklahoma City:
- Applied

Oregon
  Oregon HSU:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
2 panel interviews, breakfast, tour, lunch. Faculty was warm and friendly outside of interviews, but poker-faced during the interviews.
- Program Advantages:
Big, broad program. Great facilities. Good numbers, good fellowship placement. Portland is a nice city.
- Program Disadvantages:
Cloudy? I'm trying to think of something bad, but it's tough to come up with anything.

Pennsylvania
  Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn:
- Applied
  U Pittsburgh:
- Applied
  Wills Eye Hospital:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 panel interviews. Fancy cocktail party the night between the 2 interview days. Faculty is super-friendly
- Program Advantages:
It's Wills. This is a stellar program. Eye ER is unique and very high-yield for learning. Surgery is back-loaded.
- Program Disadvantages:
None.

South Carolina
  Med U South Carolina:
- Applied
  U South Carolina:
- Applied

Tennessee
  U Tennessee - Memphis:
- Applied
  Vanderbilt University:
- Applied

Texas
  U Texas - San Antonio:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
8 one-on-ones. Long day. Friendly faculty though.
- Program Advantages:
Great trauma experience, lots of refractive training. Close association with the military.
- Program Disadvantages:
Not super well known.
  U Utah:
- Applied
  UT Southwestern- Dallas:
- Applied

Virginia
  U Virginia:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
4 2-on-1 interviews. Classic interview questions.
- Program Advantages:
Charlottesville is nice.
- Program Disadvantages:
Small program.
Match Experience
This is a scary process at first, and my anxiety about not matching was very high. After a few interviews, though, it was more comfortable. These programs just want to fill their spots with people who are: 1) smart enough to learn the high volume of material; 2) hard-working; 3)personable, normal people who have integrity. If you can get that across in the interviews, you should be good to go.

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