Alabama
California
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia| Emory University: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| efficient interview with 6x 3on1 interviews, done by lunch |
- Program Advantages:
| strong reputation, great fellowship match, strong well rounded clinical training |
- Program Disadvantages:
| extremely long days, some residents seem tired, days typically start around 7:30 and can go as long as 8:30 pm, with several days even longer, average time of finishing is 6:30 |
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Illinois| Northwestern University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| intro by PD and subspecialty representatives followed by 5 2on1 interviews or tour, day ends around 4 PM |
- Program Advantages:
| great location, nice facilities, beautiful hospital, very strong leadership under Volpe with plans to improve reputation, India rotation in second year in which you can get 50 cataracts in addition to the 120 or so in the U.S., strong retina with Jampol; |
- Program Disadvantages:
| mostly wealthy/insured patients, limited end stage pathology without county hospital, however residents rotate through several charity clinics; currently doesn't have a huge reputation; |
| | U Chicago: | | | - Applied
| | U Illinois - Chicago: | | | - Applied
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Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana| LSU - Shreveport: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| disorganized, all applicants congregate in conference room and coordinators will come get applicants to interview |
- Program Advantages:
| strong clinical training with 250 cataracts and great variety of other procedures because of lack of fellows; good fellowship matching |
- Program Disadvantages:
| small faculty with only 5-7 full time faculties; busy; Shreveport |
| | LSU / Ochsner: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| about 5 one-on-one interviews and 1 3-on-1 interview |
- Program Advantages:
| New Orleans is a fun city, program is recovering with a new VA and county under construction; short days ending around 3-4 PM; good chairwoman |
- Program Disadvantages:
| lots of travel but decreasing over the past year and will likely decrease with the completion of the VA and county; |
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Maryland
Massachusetts
Missouri
New Jersey| UMDNJ - New Jersey MS: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| long interview day with multiple 1-on-1 interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| strong reputation in the northeast and new york area; great clinical training without fellows; the PD Langer won the teaching award several years back; may be the second best program in NYC area; nice in house call with post-call days off |
- Program Disadvantages:
| newark, hospital not too impressive; in house calls |
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New York| Albert Einstein CoM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 1 5-6 on 1 interview but can be a long day depending on when the interview is |
- Program Advantages:
| good fellowship match, high salary, cheap housing, proximity to nyc, program improving with Chuck |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not great surgical numbers although higher than average NYC programs (~120); lots of locations to cover on call; Bronx kinda crappy |
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| | New York
North Carolina
Ohio| Case Western Reserve U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| intro by PD/Chair tour then 2-on-1 interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| good combination of good clinical training without being too busy; county hospital ends at 4 pm; good surgical numbers with 150+; president of the retina society; good fellowship match |
- Program Disadvantages:
| probation, cleveland; not as academically strong as cleveland clinic but potentially have better training |
| | Cleveland Clinic Found.: | | | - Applied
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Oklahoma| U Oklahoma-Oklahoma City: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 6 1-on-1 interviews; nice lunch; pretty long day ending around 5 PM |
- Program Advantages:
| Great reputation, ranked top 10 by ophtho times recently; strong surgical training with close to 250 cataracts, but may be a little lower with the 4th resident; famous faculty |
- Program Disadvantages:
| oklahoma city; grand rounds may be a bit malignant but overall everyone is nice; some difficulty interview questions |
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Oregon
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas| Baylor CoM: | | | - Applied
| | U Texas - Houston: | | | - Applied
| | UT Southwestern- Dallas: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 3)
- Interview Experience:
| Introduction/motivational talk by PD, then 5 one-on-one interviews; nice social event the night before; tours after/before interviews; day ends at around 4-5 or earlier if you interview in the morning |
- Program Advantages:
| everything one looks for in a residency program: great clinical and surgical training with a huge county hospital and a top 5 VA with surgical numbers of >200 cataracts; large academic department with a great PD; happy and nice residents; Q12 calls |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Very few, great balance between strong training and not over-working; should probably have ranked it #1 |
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