Alabama| U Alabama - Birmingham: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Three panels. The one with Dr. Read seemed pretty intense to me. You have a resident-buddy who accompanies you from interview to interview, and they're all great. |
- Program Advantages:
| Large eye hospital, most clinical facilities within walking distance, good faculty, strong retina, good surgical numbers |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Most residents are from the deep South. Birmingham. |
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California| U California - LA: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
| TON of driving through LA. |
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Connecticut| Yale University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Research? Nice, happy residents with lots of time to read |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Eye clinics detached from most of the other medical facilities, average surgical numbers. New Haven potentially not the best place to live. Chair mentioned that they were losing faculty. |
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District of Columbia| George Washington U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
| | Georgetown U/Wash Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| A few panel interviews, got a weird vibe from most of my interviewers as well as the residents |
- Program Advantages:
| Trauma? They seem to have pretty brutal call, but still low surgical numbers for some reason |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Residents most spent their time bashing the other DC programs, which was annoying. WHC is far from everything and pretty run down. Financial problems mentioned? |
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Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Great VA right across the street, silly high cataract numbers, very nice PD, north Florida climate |
- Program Disadvantages:
| High cataract numbers, but at the expense of surgical breadth |
| | U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Multiple 1:1 with great faculty |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| Depends on personal preference |
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Iowa| U Iowa: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Nice people, good clinical facilities |
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Missouri | | New York| Mount Sinai SoM - NY: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| NY, decent numbers for NY |
- Program Disadvantages:
| LOTS of commuting out to Elmhurst and the VA while on call in the middle of the night. One resident mentioned feeling 'stranded' at Elmhurst while on call on multiple occasions |
| | New York Eye & Ear Infirm: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
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North Carolina| Wake Forest U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Nice people, strong clinical training. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Three residents seem to be stretched pretty thin. Winston-Salem. |
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Ohio| Ohio State University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Lots of 1:1 interviews with whole department |
- Program Advantages:
| Very, very nice attendings and residents. This program really took me by surprise. Nice eye clinic on the top floor of a new surgical sub building |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Fellowship match a little weak, but their goal is to train good comprehensive ophthalmologists |
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Pennsylvania| U Pittsburgh: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
| | Wills Eye Hospital: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Three panels with a very conversational tone. Social event between the two interview days with attendings, fellows, alumni, staff. |
- Program Advantages:
| Reputation, location, beautiful clinical facilities, lots of fellows but surgeries protected for residents, happiest residents I met anywhere who really love their program. Diverse path and great surgical numbers. |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Texas
Virginia |
