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Demographics
Match Year:  2008
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Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  243
USMLE Step 2:  252

AOA:  Selected
Class Rank:  Top 10%
Family Medicine:  Satisfactory Internal Medicine:  High Pass
Pediatrics:  High Pass Surgery:  Satisfactory
Neurology:  High Pass Psychiatry:  Satisfactory
OB/Gyn:  High Pass Ophthalmology:  High Pass

Applications
Alabama
  U Alabama - Birmingham:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
The interview day consists of a presentation by the chair/residency director, an interview with an 8-person panel, and a tour.
- Program Disadvantages:
Eye ER that requires q5 in-house call your first year.

Colorado
  U Colorado:
- Applied

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

Florida
  U Florida - Gainesville:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U South Florida - Tampa:
- Applied

Georgia
  Emory University:
- Applied
  Med C Georgia:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Presentation from the chair/res director, interview with 3 attendings, lunch, and tour
- Program Disadvantages:
Augusta

Illinois
  Loyola U / Hines VA Hosp.:
- Applied
  Northwestern University:
- Applied
  U Chicago:
- Applied
  U Illinois - Chicago:
- Applied

Iowa
  U Iowa:
- Applied

Maryland
  J. Hopkins -Wilmer, GBMC:
- Applied
  U Maryland:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 3)
- Interview Experience:
Presentation by the chief resident, tour, interview with 4 attendings and one resident, and lunch
- Program Advantages:
high volume of ocular trauma, history of good fellowship matches
- Program Disadvantages:
only 3 residents/yr, and the program could definitely support more residents per year.

Massachusetts
  Boston University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
  Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary:
- Applied
  Tufts/New England Eye Ctr:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
Tufts' VA is New Mexico. As a third year resident, you spend 3 straight months in New Mexico.

Michigan
  Wayne State University:
- Applied
- Attended interview

Minnesota
  Mayo Clinic:
- Applied
- Attended interview
  U Minnesota - Mpls.:
- Applied
Missouri
  St. Louis University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
The program struggles for their cataract numbers. They send their residents to a VA in Southern Illinois, but they don't consistently devote time to going there.
  Washington University:
- Applied

North Carolina
  Duke University:
- Applied
  U North Carolina:
- Applied
  Wake Forest U:
- Applied
- Received interview

Ohio
  Case Western Reserve U:
- Applied
  Cleveland Clinic Found.:
- Applied
  Ohio State University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
  U Cincinnati:
- Applied

Oregon
  Oregon HSU:
- Applied

Pennsylvania
  Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn:
- Applied
  Temple U - Philadelphia:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U Pittsburgh:
- Applied
  Wills Eye Hospital:
- Applied

South Carolina
  Med U South Carolina:
- Applied
- Attended interview

Tennessee
  U Tennessee - Memphis:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Vanderbilt University:
- Applied
- Attended interview

Texas
  UT Southwestern- Dallas:
- Applied
- Received interview

Utah
  U Utah:
- Applied

Virginia
  Med C Virginia:
- Applied
  U Virginia:
- Applied

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