California| CPMC - San Francisco: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| high surgical numbers, staggered start is unique and wonderful, no competition with co-residents |
- Program Disadvantages:
| UCSF is nearby, small name |
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
| low autonomy, everyone expected to subspecialize so would not recommend from comprehensive ophthalmologists
faculty can be abrasive, arrogant
residents are unhappy |
| | U So California: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
| doheny is gone
program tries to shake off 'transition' but very clear that big name faculty have left |
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| | Pennsylvania
Texas| UT Southwestern- Dallas: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| big program but surgical numbers not compromised because everything is bigger in texas |
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