California| Stanford University: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice limo tour of campuses, somewhat intense interviews with weird ethical scenarios |
- Program Advantages:
| Amazing facilities, strong retina dept |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Fairly small department, relatively weak on cornea |
| | U California - LA: | | | - Applied
| | U California - SF: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Nice facilities, SF is a great city, lots of Heed fellows due to excellent fellowship match; top notch translational research |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Faculty seems very young and maybe not too well known |
| | U So California: | | | - Applied
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Connecticut| Yale University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Poorly organized, rapid-fire interviews |
- Program Advantages:
| Excellent fellowship match this year (plastics at UCLA; retina at Cal Pacific; cornea at Doheny, cornea at MEEI; medical retina at Bascom); very nice chairman |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Young, developing program; New Haven is a con |
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Florida| U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Lots of interviews (9?), nice faculty |
- Program Advantages:
| Amazing training in all ways. Any fellowship you want |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Patients all speak Spanish |
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Georgia
Illinois| Loyola U / Hines VA Hosp.: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Strong surgical training, new facilities |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Little research (but improving with Dr. Bouchard), few faculty in certain specialties |
| | Northwestern University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Michigan Ave, new chair (Volpe) trying to build reputation |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Low cataract numbers; decent fellowship match |
| | Rush/Presby/St.Luke's/PG1: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Faculty are volunteer and part-time so it seems like they want to teach |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Required PGY-1 (but seems fairly easy now, much different than in the past). Some good research going on, but probably difficult to be involved as a resident |
| | U Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U Illinois - Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Dr. Azar is awesome, surprising number of big names (very well published faculty), good surgical volume for a big city, excellent fellowship matches & top notch home fellowships (ASOPRS plastics, top 10 cornea, strong retina), free iPads! |
- Program Disadvantages:
| old facilities, but most of the department is being renovated |
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Iowa
Maryland| J. Hopkins -Wilmer, GBMC: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Bunch of 2-on-1's. Nice faculty |
- Program Advantages:
| Huge department with one of the best reputations. Any fellowship you want; pump out chairmen |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Very little support first year and work extremely hard that year. Residents seemed overworked and unhappy |
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Massachusetts| Boston University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Amazing brand new clinic, well-trained faculty |
- Program Disadvantages:
| No research (but new Chair Dr. Christiansen trying to improve), very young faculty |
| | Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Research, good training, a couple huge names (but mostly have left in recent years) |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Lot of residents stay for fellowship (but haven't taken several of their own in recent years. 2 unmatched in 2011 for peds and uveitis, which aren't even hard fellowships to get), low surgical volume |
| | Tufts/New England Eye Ctr: | | | - Applied
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Michigan
Missouri| Washington University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Odd questions (ethical scenarios, how to fix national issues, etc.) |
- Program Advantages:
| Best research opportunities of anywhere I've seen/heard; very good clinical training |
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| | New York| Albert Einstein CoM: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Columbia U / Harkness: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small program, old facilities, NYC surgical volume |
| | Mount Sinai SoM - NY: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | New York Eye & Ear Infirm: | | | - Applied
| | New York University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Disorganized; match politics brought up during interview |
- Program Advantages:
| Pretty good fellowship match |
- Program Disadvantages:
| OK facilities, NYC surgical volume |
| | NY Presb. Hosp-Weil MC/Cornell U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Enjoyable, awesome faculty |
- Program Advantages:
| Dr. D'Amico, happy residents |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small program, very young faculty from MEEI, NYC surgical volume |
| | SUNY - Downstate: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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North Carolina| Duke University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Felt like applicants were pre-ranked? |
- Program Advantages:
| Great clinical training (up to 280 cataracts??), amazing fellowship match, large department |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Name not quite like Bascom or Wilmer |
| | U North Carolina: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Ohio| Case Western Reserve U: | | | - Applied
| | Cleveland Clinic Found.: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Beautiful hospital, program on the rise |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Some residents didn't seem happy; decent surgical volume, little autonomy at Cleveland Clinic |
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