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Profile #00182
Demographics
Match Year:  2008
This profile will remain anonymous for three years from the match date above.

Advanced Degrees Obtained:
   - MA
Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  267
USMLE Step 2:  264

AOA:  Selected
Class Rank:  Top 10%
Family Medicine:  High Pass Internal Medicine:  High Pass
Pediatrics:  High Pass Surgery:  Satisfactory
Neurology:  High Pass Psychiatry:  Satisfactory
OB/Gyn:  Honors Ophthalmology:  Honors
Other Information
- 3 ophtho publications, 1 first author - school awards (based on performance, research, etc...)

Applications
California
  CPMC - San Francisco:
- Applied
  Loma Linda University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Positive
- Program Advantages:
4 residents, california
- Program Disadvantages:
cover lot of territory on call
  Stanford University:
- Applied
  U California - Davis:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U California - Irvine:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Great
- Program Advantages:
Great staff, warm program, growing program
- Program Disadvantages:
Not top tier
  U California - LA:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Fair
- Program Advantages:
Name and volume
- Program Disadvantages:
Felt malignant, more of an independent environment
  U California - San Diego:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U California - SF:
- Applied
  U So California:
- Applied

Connecticut
  Yale University:
- Applied

District of Columbia
  Georgetown U/Wash Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Fair; potentially a lot of waiting
- Program Advantages:
DC location, wide variety of cases, lower call load b/c 5 residents
- Program Disadvantages:
not top tier

Florida
  U Miami / Bascom Palmer:
- Applied

Georgia
  Emory University:
- Applied

Illinois
  Northwestern University:
- Applied
  U Chicago:
- Applied
  U Illinois - Chicago:
- Applied

Iowa
  U Iowa:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Great; attend the dinner
- Program Advantages:
5 residents, great staff and facilities, reputation
- Program Disadvantages:
iowa, bring a jacket

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

Massachusetts
  Boston University:
- Applied
  Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Fair
- Program Advantages:
Boston, name
- Program Disadvantages:
Low volume, have to go out of country
  Tufts/New England Eye Ctr:
- Applied

Michigan
  Henry Ford Hosp - Detroit:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U Michigan:
- Applied
  Wayne State University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Great, had espresso and soup
- Program Advantages:
6 or so residents, good teaching and friendly chair, good retina fellowship
- Program Disadvantages:
detroit

Minnesota
  Mayo Clinic:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Positive
- Program Advantages:
Mayo name
- Program Disadvantages:
Rochester, MN
Missouri
  Washington University:
- Applied

New Jersey
  UMDNJ - New Jersey MS:
- Applied

New York
  Albany Medical College:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Positive
- Program Advantages:
Apparently almost top 10 in ophtho times, friendly chair
- Program Disadvantages:
albany, ny; lacking in some in house departments (retina)
  Albert Einstein CoM:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Columbia U / Harkness:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Fair
- Program Advantages:
Columbia, NYC
- Program Disadvantages:
Old facilities, not the warmest environment, felt snubbed on interview
  Mount Sinai SoM - NY:
- Applied
- Received interview
  New York Eye & Ear Infirm:
- Applied
  New York Medical College:
- Applied
- Received interview
  New York University:
- Applied
  NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U:
- Applied
- Received interview
  St. Lukes/Roosevelt-NY:
- Applied
  St. Vincent's MC - NY:
- Applied
  SUNY - Downstate:
- Applied
  SUNY Upstate - Syracuse:
- Applied
- Received interview

North Carolina
  Duke University:
- Applied
- Received interview

Ohio
  Case Western Reserve U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Positive; played cleveland jeopardy
- Program Advantages:
large program of 6 residents
- Program Disadvantages:
lot of hospitals to cover
  Cleveland Clinic Found.:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 2)
- Interview Experience:
Positive
- Program Advantages:
Facilities, staff, fellowship opportunities, eased into pgy2, research
- Program Disadvantages:
cleveland, still growing program
  U Cincinnati:
- Applied
- Received interview

Pennsylvania
  Drexel U - Philadelphia:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
poor, was like a turnsyle
- Program Advantages:
philly
- Program Disadvantages:
questionable if chair is staying
  Geisinger MC:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn:
- Applied
  Temple U - Philadelphia:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Wills Eye Hospital:
- Applied

Tennessee
  Vanderbilt University:
- Applied

Washington
  U Washington:
- Applied

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