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Profile #00452
Demographics
Match Year:  2009
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Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  227
USMLE Step 2:  253

AOA:  Not Selected
Class Rank:  Top 25-50%

Family Medicine:  Honors Internal Medicine:  High Pass
Pediatrics:  High Pass Surgery:  Satisfactory
Neurology:  Psychiatry:  Honors
OB/Gyn:  Honors Ophthalmology:  Honors

Other Information
1 pub. and a few abstracts (all ophtho)


Applications
California
  CPMC - San Francisco:
- Applied
- Received interview
  U California - Davis:
- Applied
- Received interview

Connecticut
  Yale University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
2 on 1 or 3 on 1 interviews. Nice chairman though some of the younger faculty seemed arrogant. I found some of the residents to be unfriendly. Many FMG residents as well.
- Program Advantages:
Good name, some great faculty and excellent chairman. Great benefits (free indirect etc)
- Program Disadvantages:
New Haven isnt the best place for most people

District of Columbia
  Howard U - Wash, DC:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Very short interview day. Panel - 5 to 1, for 10 minutes.
- Program Advantages:
Affiliation with a great va
- Program Disadvantages:
In a bad neighborhood in DC. Residents seemed overworked and the surgical numbers were low.

Louisiana
  LSU / Ochsner:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Tulane University:
- Applied
- Received interview

Maryland
  Sinai Hospital -Baltimore:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
A bunch of 2 to 1 interviews. Extremely nice faculty and program coordinator.
- Program Advantages:
Excellent teaching and very nice and friendly residents and faculty.
- Program Disadvantages:
only 2 residents per year, which some people may prefer
  U Maryland:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Half Day interview day, 2 to 1 and 1 on 1 interviews. Great faculty and residents - seemed like a friendly program
- Program Advantages:
Great Surgical Numbers and trauma exposure. Beautiful hospital/nice location
- Program Disadvantages:
Residents work hard - not a cush program.

New Jersey
  UMDNJ - New Jersey MS:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Long - lots of 1 on 1
- Program Advantages:
Great surgical numbers
- Program Disadvantages:
Residents worked to the bone and seem miserable, one even dropped out. In house call. Newark is not safe city.

New York
  Albany Medical College:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Great interview day but long. 2on 1 interviews
- Program Advantages:
Great faculty and very nice Chairman and PD. Very cool residents who seemed to know their stuff.
- Program Disadvantages:
Location isnt the best for most.
New York
  Albert Einstein CoM:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 1 on 1.
- Program Advantages:
Beautiful facilities. Nicest PD on the interview trail. Very friendly residents who love their program.
  Bronx-Lebanon Hosp., NY:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
1 panel. long wait to get interviewed.
- Program Advantages:
Busy clinic in the bronx.
- Program Disadvantages:
Bad neighborhood in the bronx, not the nicest facilities.
  Nassau University MC - NY:
- Applied
- Attended interview
  North Shore - LI Jewish:
- Applied
- Received interview
  NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U:
- Applied
- Received interview
  St. Vincent's MC - NY:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 on 1 panel
- Program Advantages:
great pd, great housing, great location
- Program Disadvantages:
clinic looked dingy.
  SUNY - Downstate:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Horrible. Stuck in a hallway all day. PD was flat out rude on the interview to many of the interview candidates
- Program Advantages:
Nice chairman. Great surgical numbers. Cool wet lab
- Program Disadvantages:
PD. residents overworked and exhausted. Hospital located in a rough part of Brooklyn.
  SUNY Upstate - Syracuse:
- Applied
- Attended interview

Pennsylvania
  Temple U - Philadelphia:
- Applied
- Attended interview

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