California| Stanford University: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| really nice resident dinner |
- Program Advantages:
| VERY happy residents,
location,
high surgical volume |
- Program Disadvantages:
| small program (residents and faculty),
primary call as Y1 AND Y2 |
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| very aggressive recruiting,
interviewers knew applicants without looking at files |
- Program Advantages:
| high surgical and clinical volume,
location |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | U California - SF: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| focus is to become research powerhouse,
very happy residents,
diversity: VA, county, private;
high surgical volume,
residents NOT over-worked |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | U So California: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| horrible,
very poor recruiting effort,
only possible resident interaction was at optional resident dinner (no residents during the entire interview day),
grumpy program coordinator |
- Program Advantages:
| PD loves his job,
high clinical and surgical volume |
- Program Disadvantages:
| financial difficulties (not enough money to purchase simulator),
in-house call,
no permanent wet lab facilities
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Florida| U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| very friendly,
LONG,
9 individual interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| name,
innovation,
clinical research,
very high surgical and clinical volume |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Miami is very humid and expensive |
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Georgia
Maryland
Massachusetts| Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| name,
innovation,
research,
India elective |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Michigan| U Michigan: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| low surgical diversity (high cataracts, low retina, low glaucoma) |
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Missouri| Washington University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| RESEARCH, faculty member who studies economics of ophthalmology |
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| | North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania| Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn: | | | - Applied
| | U Pittsburgh: | | | - Applied
| | Wills Eye Hospital: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 3 friendly panel (5-6 person) interviews |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| lower surgical numbers (hence rotation in Arizona) |
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Texas| Baylor CoM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| residents chummy with faculty |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | U Texas - Houston: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | UT Southwestern- Dallas: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
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