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Profile #03122
Demographics
Match Year: 2013
This profile will remain anonymous for three years from the match date above.
Academic Information
USMLE Step 1: 243
USMLE Step 2: 246
AOA: Not Selected
Class Rank: Top 25-50%
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| Family Medicine: | Honors | |
Internal Medicine: | High Pass |
| Pediatrics: | Honors | |
Surgery: | Honors |
| Neurology: | Honors | |
Psychiatry: | High Pass |
| OB/Gyn: | High Pass | |
Ophthalmology: | Honors |
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Other Information
Early interest, lots of EC involvement. International service work. One or two second author ARVO abstracts, large chart review in process. Big-wig letters.
Applications
Alabama| U Alabama - Birmingham: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Outstanding clinical and surgical experience. Flexible for family oriented. Birmingham is actually a pretty nice town. Attend Wills review second year. Very personable staff with several well known individuals. Great for someone interested in Retina - |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Didactics are not a premium. |
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California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Fairly informal, short discussion on program followed by 6 one-on-one interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| Top notch clinical and surgical training. VA has one of the highest volumes in the country, spend lots of time there. Great autonomy at VA while good supervised time at the main clinics. Residents match well into competitive specialties. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Didactics are not the most well organized but seem to cover most major topics. Not many big names. |
| | U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
| | U South Florida - Tampa: | | | - Applied
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Georgia| Emory University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great presentation, tour, and short series of rapid-fire 3-on-1 interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Huge clinical volume, moderate surgical exposure, outstanding autonomy at Grady. Big names in program, particularly in Retina. Come out medical retina trained. Excellent program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Residents may be some of the hardest worked in the country thanks to Grady. Long hours and may not get out of the program what you put in, in terms of surgical training. |
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Illinois| U Illinois - Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Outstanding didactics and clinical experience. Chicago is a great city. Some very notable faculty including a new chair Dr. Varma (glaucoma) who is very approachable and an excellent resident advocate. Call is very manageable. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Saturday lectures, surgical training may not be the best as volume moderately low. VA is shared with Northwestern so time is limited. |
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Iowa| U Iowa: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
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Match Experience
Apply broadly but don't go overboard. In my experience, most people applied to about 10 more places than whey needed to. Don't apply somewhere unless you would actually go there. Unless you just really don't know where you want to go, there isn't much point in attending more than 11-12 interviews. I know people who did upwards of 16-17 and it did nothing besides empty their wallets.
If you want to do private practice, don't just apply to top 10 programs. Most of these places don't prepare you as well for the real world as the best mid-tier programs will. Talk to practicing docs for info on what programs might be best for the type of career you want to pursue.
You will be screened by geography by programs outside the top tier names. I there is a place you really are interested in but it's not near where you are in school or grew up, call them. Otherwise they may think you are just bulking up your numbers and ignore your application.
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