Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado| U Colorado: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Intro from full faculty and then interaction with residents
Tour of facilities
Lunch
Three panel interviews with faculty. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great facilities
Great City |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Surgical volume below average
Lots of driving to cover all hospitals
Not really impressed with presentation of program by faculty or residents. |
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Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Breakfast followed by intro from PD
Time with residents
Interviews (8) with faculty, and residents
Tour of BPEI
Lunch
Dinner on Miami beach night of interview |
- Program Advantages:
| REPUTATION
Great diversity in procedures and great surgical numbers
Strong faculty and residents
Great facilities
A lot of really nice, really smart people
Can get any fellowship you want
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- Program Disadvantages:
| Program not in the nicest part of town
Miami is expensive
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Georgia
Illinois| U Chicago: | | | - Applied
| | U Illinois - Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Intro by program director and then time with residents
Interviews with most of the faculty
Lunch
Great presentation by chairman |
- Program Advantages:
| The chairman is extremely enthusiastic about the program and resident education |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Facilities a bit old and outdated
Surgical volume seemed low
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Indiana
Iowa| U Iowa: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Grand rounds in the morning followed by three interviews with faculty and chief residents.
A few minutes in clinic and tour with resident
Lunch
Dinner with residents the night of the interview |
- Program Advantages:
| Reputation
Strong didactics with daily Grand Rounds
Great Facilities
World class faculty and great residents
Everyone seemed to get along really well |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Iowa city not the most appealing place to live
Lack of resident run clinic |
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Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
North Carolina | | North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma| U Oklahoma-Oklahoma City: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Pre-interview dinner night before.
Grand rounds in the morning followed by time with residents including presentation and lunch.
Five interviews in afternoon with faculty |
- Program Advantages:
| Great surgical volume
Great faculty and residents
Great facilities with new building coming soon
Everyone seems to get along well |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Oklahoma City may not be for you |
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Oregon
Pennsylvania| Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn: | | | - Applied
| | U Pittsburgh: | | | - Applied
| | Wills Eye Hospital: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Informal meet and greet with residents followed by three panel style interviews
Tour of facilities
Lunch with residents |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong reputation
Great faculty and residents
Great facilities |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Average surgical volume
No resident run clinic
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South Carolina| Med U South Carolina: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Breakfast and intro by PD
Long interview day (8 interviews) followed by tour and lunch |
- Program Advantages:
| Good comeraderie among residents and faculty
Nice city
Strong clinical training program |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Charleston is expensive
Older facilities |
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Tennessee| U Tennessee - Memphis: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Breakfast followed by introduction from PD
Lots of interviews with faculty and residents
Tour of facilities
Lunch
Tour of Memphis and HSC campus |
- Program Advantages:
| Great facilities including wet lab and simulator
Strong in plastics and oncology
Good numbers |
| | Vanderbilt University: | | | - Applied
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Texas| Baylor CoM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Intro from PD
Time with residents in between four interviews with faculty
Tour of facilities |
- Program Advantages:
| Great reputation
Great chairman and faculty
New facilities coming in '08/09
Residents place well in fellowships |
| | Texas A & M/Scott & White: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Breakfast followed by interviews with faculty
Lunch
Tour of Temple |
- Program Advantages:
| Solid clinical training
Good surgical numbers
Great facilities |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Temple, TX is not for everyone
Not much research at all
Program not for everyone |
| | UT Southwestern- Dallas: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Well organized interview day
Breakfast followed by five interviews with faculty and fellow
Lunch
Tour of facilities |
- Program Advantages:
| Dallas is a great city
Good surgical numbers
Great program director |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Cover lots of hospitals far from each other
Concern with esprit de corp |
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Virginia
Wisconsin |
