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Profile #14245
Demographics
Match Year: 2016
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Advanced Degrees Obtained:
- PhD

Academic Information

USMLE Step 1: 260
USMLE Step 2: 249
Step 2 score not available to residencies during application.

AOA: Not Selected

Family Medicine:		Internal Medicine:	High Pass
Pediatrics:	High Pass	Surgery:	High Pass
Neurology:	Honors	Psychiatry:	High Pass
OB/Gyn:	High Pass	Ophthalmology:	Honors

Other Information
PhD unrelated to ophthalmology

Applications

Alabama

U Alabama - Birmingham:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

Half day, 3 panel interviews of 3-5 faculty. Dinner the night before

- Program Advantages:

- Eye ED - in house call first year, post call days off - clinical and research tracks - excellent surgical numbers - all training sites in one location, within walking distance - Birmingham is a decent medium-sized city

- Program Disadvantages:

- Eye ED (pro and con) - didactics aren't the strongest

California

Stanford University:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

about 7 one on one interviews, dinner the night before, bus tour to different campuses

- Program Advantages:

- new chair seems to be aggressively expanding program - solid fellowship matches - VA and County hospital

- Program Disadvantages:

- cost of living

U California - Davis:

- Applied
- Received interview

U California - Irvine:

- Applied

U California - LA:

- Applied

U California - San Diego:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

6 or 7 one on one interviews, dinner the night before, bus tour of la jolla

- Program Advantages:

- huge surgical numbers - county and VA hospitals - San Diego - glaucoma and retina research centers

- Program Disadvantages:

- low stipend relative to cost of living - busy call

U California - SF:

- Applied

U So California:

- Applied

Colorado

U Colorado:
		- Applied

Connecticut

Yale University:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

~6 one on ones dinner the night before bus tour of new haven

- Program Advantages:

- rotation in bahamas? - nice mix of young/experienced faculty

- Program Disadvantages:

- New Haven - lowish surgical numbers

District of Columbia

George Washington U:
		- Applied
Georgetown U/Wash Hosp:
		- Applied

Florida

U Florida - Gainesville:
		- Applied
U Miami / Bascom Palmer:
		- Applied
U South Florida - Tampa:
		- Applied - Received interview

Georgia

Emory University:
		- Applied
Med C Georgia:
		- Applied

Illinois

Loyola U / Hines VA Hosp.:

- Applied
- Received interview

Northwestern University:

- Applied
- Received interview

Stroger/Cook Cty-Chicago:

- Applied

U Chicago:

- Applied

U Illinois - Chicago:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

6 interviews, some 2-on-1 met for apps and drinks the night before

- Program Advantages:

- large faculty - residents incentivized to do research -exchange program with Sao Paolo and Japan (1 week each) - excellent fellowship matches

- Program Disadvantages:

- saturday lectures - older facilities

Indiana

Indiana University:
		- Applied - Received interview

Kentucky

U Louisville:
		- Applied - Received interview

Louisiana

Tulane University:
		- Applied - Received interview

Maryland

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

Massachusetts

Boston University:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

half day interview, 4 interviews

- Program Advantages:

- excellent numbers - nice updated facilities - unionized residents - strong emphasis on underserved pop

- Program Disadvantages:

- busy call, 'busy program'

Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary:

- Applied

Massachusetts

Tufts/New England Eye Ctr:
		- Applied

Michigan

Henry Ford Hosp - Detroit:

- Applied
- Received interview

U Michigan:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

grand rounds, 6 interviews, tour of campus, dinner after

- Program Advantages:

- 8 story eye center - just about everything on one campus - unionized residents - 7 week research rotation PGY3 - technician and PA during weekend call - no call first 6 months - huge faculty - graduate chief resident

- Program Disadvantages:

Ann Arbor weather

Wayne State University:

- Applied

Missouri

Washington University:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:

~5 interviews including 2 on 1 with PD and chair casual dinner night before

- Program Advantages:

- low cost of living near campus - 20 weeks of research half days during first year - graduate chief resident - County and VA

- Program Disadvantages:

- maybe too heavily academic - soso surgical numbers

New Jersey

UMDNJ - New Jersey MS:
		- Applied

New York

Albert Einstein CoM:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:

- night float - friendly faculty - procedure driven = good numbers - no fellows

- Program Disadvantages:

- car recommended in NYC for call - no fellows (pro and con)

Columbia U / Harkness:

- Applied

Mount Sinai SoM - NY:

- Applied
- Received interview

New York Eye & Ear Infirm:

- Applied

New York University:

- Applied

NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U:

- Applied
- Received interview

SUNY - Downstate:

- Applied

North Carolina

Duke University:

- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
- Interview Experience:

3 1-on-1 interviews, grand rounds, dinner

- Program Advantages:

- brand new eye center - combination of excellent surgical numbers and research opportunities - huge faculty - all training sites on one campus except for rotations at asheville VA - no call 3rd year except at Asheville - graduate chief resident - 8

Ohio