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Profile #00607
Demographics
Match Year: 2010
Medical School: Tulane University
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
Academic Information
USMLE Step 1: 219
USMLE Step 2: 242
AOA: Not Selected
Class Rank: Top 25-50%
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| Family Medicine: | Satisfactory | |
Internal Medicine: | Satisfactory |
| Pediatrics: | High Pass | |
Surgery: | High Pass |
| Neurology: | Honors | |
Psychiatry: | Honors |
| OB/Gyn: | Satisfactory | |
Ophthalmology: | Satisfactory |
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Applications
Arizona
California
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: |  | | - Applied
| | U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Bascom Palmer starts the interview day with a lecture by the program director on the program's features. Then the interviewees are divided into 2 groups: an interviewing group and a touring group. There are 11 individual interviews, 20 minutes each, with |
- Program Advantages:
| This program has some of the top clinicians, surgeons, and researchers in the field, many of whom are eager to provide their knowledge and experience to residents and students. There are faculty and fellows in every ophthalmologic subspecialty, always ava |
- Program Disadvantages:
| This program is front-loaded in that 1st year residents take first call all year. Residents sleep in the hospital and are almost always busy on call nights. |
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Georgia
Illinois
Iowa
Louisiana| LSU / Ochsner: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| The interview day was broken into morning and afternoon sessions. One group of interviewees would be interviewing while the other group would be touring the facilities at Ochsner. During lunch, everyone came together and lectures on the ophthalmology and |
- Program Advantages:
| Matching into this program provides an automatic match into the preliminary internal medicine program at Ochsner, which is excellent. The research facilities are well-staffed and well-equipped. Much has been invested to improve the technology for both res |
- Program Disadvantages:
| If you match into the program, you either need to stay with the preliminary medicine match at Ochsner and use up an elective for ophthalmology at the end of the year, or schedule vacation time during the last month of your internship at a different prelim |
| | Tulane University: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 3)
- Interview Experience:
| Tulane's program invites interviewees to an evening reception with the faculty and residents, and covers the costs for all drinks and food. On interview day, there are morning and afternoon sessions, with one group of applicants interviewing and the other |
- Program Advantages:
| Tulane's residents rotate at the eye clinics in the Tulane hospital, University hospital, the VA, and the 'Lord and Taylor' clinic, giving them a large and diverse clinical experience with plenty of autonomy. While in New Orleans, 1st and 2nd year residen |
- Program Disadvantages:
| It is a front-loaded program, with 1st year residents taking first call throughout the entire year. Call nights range from very busy to no activity. The retina department lost one of its main attendings, who was replaced with a new attending that seems to |
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Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri | | Missouri
New York| Columbia U / Harkness: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Columbia invites interviewees to participate in the Thursday afternoon Grand Rounds and a dinner on the night before the interview. I was unable to attend this so I cannot tell what the experience is like. I imagine you get to talk with faculty and reside |
- Program Advantages:
| Columbia's program has 3 residents per year, which means you get a lot of clinical and surgical experience from the large volume of patients that go to the eye clinic. Residents get home call and present new patients every morning to an attending and all |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Columbia's program is front-loaded, with 1st year residents taking first call all year. With only 3 residents, you essentially have q3 call, and it can be q2 if anyone takes some time off during the 1st year. When in subspecialty clinics, many days are no |
| | Mount Sinai SoM - NY: | | | - Applied
| | New York Eye & Ear Infirm: | | | - Applied
| | NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U: | | | - Applied
| | U Rochester: | | | - Applied
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North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington
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Match Experience
I also applied to a 55th program, University of Florida - Jacksonville, which is not on the list because it is only 2 years old. I was invited to interview and attended. The program is small, only 2 residents per class, which means you get tons of clinical and surgical experience in the high volume practice of the Shands Eye Center of Jacksonville. The caveat is that most of the faculty there are specialized in vitreoretinal diseases and neuro-ophthalmology, so your experience might be mostly retina. However, they said during the interview that additional faculty in the other subspecialties were being hired soon. There are daily didactic lectures and you are asked to teach frequently as a resident, which improves both your knowledge base and lecturing skills. Also, they are research heavy and have all the facilities and equipment for bench and clinical research, as well as full-time research staff to guide you through the process. During the interview, the program director himself gave us the tour of the facilities. They offered us dinner and a chance to talk to the residents on the previous night, who seem pretty happy about their experience with the program thus far. We were also given lunch during the interview, and the residents came to talk to us again on interview day. The interview coordinators were very accommodating to interviewees who needed to leave early due to afternoon flights. I ended up ranking this program 4th on my list after Tulane because, although relatively newer, it seemed to be much more convenient than LSU/Ochsner as far commuting went.
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