Alabama
Arizona
California| Loma Linda University: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Kind of weird vibes from both the residents and the faculty. A lot of the residents were SDA and it showed. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good volume, fabulous refractive experience with the exchange with the naval program in San Diego |
| | Stanford University: | | | - Applied
| | U California - Davis: | | | - Applied
| | U California - Irvine: | | | - Applied
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Awesome residents, some faculty were rather full of themselves and were somewhat less than humble about their program. Overall good vibes however. |
- Program Advantages:
| Awesome facilities, awesome reputation, awesome volume. The total package. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| LOTS of driving in LA traffic. Two of the hospitals are ~60 miles apart. |
| | U California - San Diego: | | | - Applied
| | U California - SF: | | | - Applied
| | U So California: | | | - Applied
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Colorado| U Colorado: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Amazing institution. On a weekend morning virtually ALL the faculty were there because they cared enough about the applicants to show up. Panel interviews of 5 on 1 but they didn't feel intimidating. |
- Program Advantages:
| Location in denver, great facilities, up and coming faculty |
- Program Disadvantages:
| slightly less well known than many equivalent programs |
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District of Columbia
Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great experience, Kind of weird questions from their research associate but fun all the same. |
- Program Advantages:
| HUGE cataract volume, great autonomy, no resident run indigent clinic |
- Program Disadvantages:
| No resident run indigent clinic (it goes both ways) and in Gainesville which is a fine enough town, but 2 hours from a major airport. |
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Georgia
Illinois
Kansas| U Kansas - Kansas City: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice smaller private based program where the people seemed nice enough. |
- Program Advantages:
| Involved and caring faculty. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small program, less academic, smaller volume and concordantly less pathology |
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Kentucky| U Louisville: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Lots of interviews, some odd faculty but overall a good feel. Some of the residents seemed...slightly odd but nice enough. |
- Program Advantages:
| Louisville is a nice city. the program is reasonably well funded |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Nothing truly outstanding about this program to remember. |
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Louisiana| LSU - Shreveport: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Extremely friendly interviews and residents. I did not get to interview with the PD because he was late. |
- Program Advantages:
| Huge surgical volume, lots of autonomy. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Crappy facilities, shreveport itself wasn't that nice. |
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Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan | | Michigan| Wayne State University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Friendly and funny PD. Interviews seemed a little strained with one or two attendings like they weren't sure how to direct an interview. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good pathology, good volume. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Really freaking cold in detroit, in house call(both of which were dealbreakers for me) |
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Missouri| St. Louis University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Reasonable if unmemorable day. One extremely nice faculty member. |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| | U Missouri - Columbia: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| PD is very into the physician's mission to 'help people.' Good smaller community program. |
- Program Advantages:
| Small, tight community. Very friendly residents. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| 2 hours from a major airport, low on trauma |
| | U Missouri - Kansas City: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Terrible. The program director was extremely rude while asking questions about my application. |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| Rude and uninterested faculty. |
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New Jersey
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas| Baylor CoM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Slightly low on resident interaction, though we did meet quite a few during the day who were very enthusiastic about their program. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great volume, great autonomy. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Slightly below average facilities. |
| | U Utah: | | | - Applied
| | UT Southwestern- Dallas: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Well organized, great pitch, good interviews, enthused residents. PD was obviously very familiar with our applications. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great volume, great autonomy, large program with many locations and a lot of pathology. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Chairman can be somewhat intimidating, but he gets the job done and is a huge asset to the program. |
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Washington
Wisconsin| Med C Wisconsin: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Had to take an eye exam for stereopsis, color and VA while there. Interviewed with a psychologist whose role in the program was somewhat unclear and was slightly weird. |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| Really cold in the winter. |
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