Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Georgia
Illinois| Loyola U / Hines VA Hosp.: |  | | - Applied
| | Northwestern University: | | | - Applied
| | Rush/Presby/St.Luke's/PG1: | | | - Applied
| | Stroger/Cook Cty-Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interviewed with PD and Chair and a few others. Very nice core staff. Residents were very accessible on interview day. Great Pizza lunch! |
- Program Advantages:
| Great Pathology and unreal surgical numbers (250ish Cataracts! and all other numbers usually double or more than requirements). Great PD who really looks out for his residents. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| BUSY BUSY BUSY. LONG DAYS. Busiest clinic I've ever seen. Very little time to read. Morning lectures but other than that not good didactics. |
| | U Illinois - Chicago: | | | - Applied
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Indiana
Kansas| U Kansas - Kansas City: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great interview day plan. Efficient. 1/2 Day. Drinks/Appetizers at the Chairman's house after with residents and staff. Super nice and friendly. |
- Program Advantages:
| New chair from Iowa who is definitely putting program on up and up. Strong Peds. Small and friendly. Beautiful new eye center. Two VA's (one if 45 min away). Solid #'s. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small, poor research, VERY poor glaucoma, not diverse patient load at eye center (located in affluent Prairie Village, KS). Eye Center is located not on main medical campus. Not geared to fellowship if so desired. |
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Kentucky| U Louisville: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Long and lots of sitting around between 7 interviews. Nice PD and eclectic group of faculty. Breakfast and Lunch served buffet style in lobby. Low key for sure. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good Pathology. Busy but not too busy. Good academics. Great Plastics guy and Peds. Match good fellowships. Residents seem very happy. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Louisville? Poor neuro. Cover a ton of ER's. |
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Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan| Henry Ford Hosp - Detroit: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Longer day but meet with good amount of faculty and residents. Very low key. Want you to get a good idea of the program and experience in Detroit. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great group of residents. Very nice faculty. Decent #'s. EyeSI simulator and nice wet lab. Good pathology but not overwhelming days. Call can be busy but can stay at APT attached to hospital. Go home post call at noon. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Poor research. Poor/Avg fellowship placement. No VA (although #'s are ok). New hospital opening in suburbs...not sure how it will affect program. Detroit can be tough unless meet the right people to show you around. |
| | W. Beaumont-Detroit: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 1/2 day but interviewed with 9 faculty/residents for only 8 min each! Very low key but make sure you have questions otherwise you 'don't seem interested.' |
- Program Advantages:
| Well treated. Great connection to community ophthalmologists and training that leans towards community ophthalmologists. Good continuity clinic. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Mostly based on private practice volunteer staff. Seems like you shadow a lot. Do not see indigent population at all. |
| | Wayne State University: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 4)
- Interview Experience:
| Great interview day. PD puts on a great lecture. Interviews were pretty chilled out. Asked a few random questions and did ask about other interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Fantastic faculty and fellowship placement. Enthusiastic PD and great chairman. Very solid pathology. Residents clinic with relatively good continuity. Ligon research center. Top notch retina. New and solid VA. Great reputation locally and nationally. q7 |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Overworked. Super high daily patient load. Very tough call covering 4 major ER's, one of which is 20 min drive (and you have to drive there on call). Not attached directly to medical center. Issues with medical center and medical school, unknown future. |
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Minnesota | | Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New York| Albert Einstein CoM: | | | - Applied
| | Bronx-Lebanon Hosp., NY: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Mount Sinai SoM - NY: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Nassau University MC - NY: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | New York Medical College: | | | - Applied
| | North Shore - LI Jewish: | | | - Applied
| | SUNY - Downstate: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Sat in a nasty hallway all day. Residents had little to say other than they hated life and get worked to the bone. Interviews were low key although PD lambasted me for having 'grades below what they normally would consider'. Then why interview m |
- Program Advantages:
| Great Pathology. Historically strong faculty. Good fellowship placement. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Residents seems miserable, overworked and angry. Most couldn't recommend coming to the program. Program requires you to have a car. RESIDENTS ARE ALL PAID DIFFERENT AMOUNTS within the same year! Makes no sense. |
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Ohio| Ohio State University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interviewed with most of the faculty (2 on 1), well organized. Great program coordinator. Able to talk with most of the residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good clinical experience. Moving to brand new facility off medical campus with ENT in near future. New Columbus VA with more surgical volume. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Sent to Dayton for multiple months. Most residents do not do fellowship. |
| | Summa Health Sys. - Akron: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interviewed with program director/chairman and a few others. Pretty easy and nice. Lunch with residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great PD, lots of new changes on education and lectures. Very involved but small core staff. Good Peds. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| SMALL, poor specialties, most don't do fellowship. Akron... |
| | U Cincinnati: | | | - Applied
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Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Wisconsin| Med C Wisconsin: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Too long. 'optional' lecture at 7 AM then sat from 8 until 9:30 to start very long tour. Interviews were not until 1 PM and was totally wiped. Interviews were friendly and low key however. Try and interview on days that offer morning interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Very solid chair (glaucoma) and retina faculty. Tons of research if desired but not forced. Very strong fellowship placement. Good VA. Residents seem happy. Decent #'s. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| VA is located a few miles away. 3 residents means call for 1st/2nd years. No residents clinic. 3rd year is ALL at VA. |
| | U Wisconsin: | | | - Applied
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