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Demographics
Match Year:  2010
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Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  226
USMLE Step 2:  218
Step 2 score not available to residencies during application.

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

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

Other Information
4 ophthalmology publications


Applications
Arizona
  U Arizona:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
5 interviews.. very laid back. breakfast and lunch provided
- Program Advantages:
excellent chairman who really looks out for the residents. great faculty. very strong in optics
- Program Disadvantages:
retina doc questionable on staff. plastics doc recently left for private practice but still takes residents in the second year for the plastics rotation

California
  U So California:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
doheny.
- Program Disadvantages:
county - very busy - overnight in house call. rounds start at 6am

Illinois
  Stroger/Cook Cty-Chicago:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 interviews. great pizza lunch!
- Program Advantages:
great chairman, nice faculty, very laid back friendly staff/techs, lots of exposure
- Program Disadvantages:
county.. busy? no full time plastics doc

Louisiana
  Tulane University:
- Applied
- Received interview

Maryland
  Sinai Hospital -Baltimore:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
6 panel style interviews.
- Program Advantages:
every doc used to be staff at wilmer so lots of big wigs and contacts.. great teaching
- Program Disadvantages:
small program?
Massachusetts
  Tufts/New England Eye Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
4 interviews... lunch provided.
- Program Advantages:
big wigs... boston. beautiful wet lab

Missouri
  U Missouri - Columbia:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
7 interviews... long day but very friendly people
- Program Advantages:
friendly faculty
- Program Disadvantages:
columbia, MO?

New York
  Nassau University MC - NY:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
horrible! 'first come first serve' so if you get there the time they state you're already way low on the list and end up sitting in the 'eye clinic' which is a trailor all day (i heard my day people were there until 8pm)
- Program Advantages:
none... unless being close to nyc is an advantage?
- Program Disadvantages:
everything about it.. poor faculty interest in teaching, chairwoman seems disinterested in resident feedback. eye clinic is a trailor

Virginia
  Eastern Virginia MS:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 panel style interviews. they keep you there until 2pm with no lunch!

Match Experience
matched in my top 3 program. don't let your score dictate your decision - apply widely! LORs and working hard is just as important!

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