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Demographics
Match Year:  2008
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Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  242
USMLE Step 2:  259

AOA:  Selected
Class Rank:  Top 10%
Family Medicine:  Honors Internal Medicine:  Honors
Pediatrics:  Honors Surgery:  High Pass
Neurology:  Psychiatry:  Honors
OB/Gyn:  Honors Ophthalmology:  Honors
Other Information
No ophtho research ...... some other none published research

Applications
District of Columbia
  George Washington U:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Georgetown U/Wash Hosp:
- Applied
  Howard U - Wash, DC:
- Applied
- Received interview

Illinois
  Loyola U / Hines VA Hosp.:
- Applied
  Northwestern University:
- Applied
  Rush/Presby/St.Luke's/PG1:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
4 interviews.... tour of facilites
- Program Advantages:
Great surgical volume, continuity clinic, well know faculty, great fellowship opportunities
- Program Disadvantages:
Only 2 residents, transitional year at Rush, chicago is expensive
  Stroger/Cook Cty-Chicago:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 interviews... quick tour... met residents and faculty
- Program Advantages:
Good surgical volume, very friendly faculty
- Program Disadvantages:
Indigent population, non-english speaking patients
  U Chicago:
- Applied
  U Illinois - Chicago:
- Applied

Indiana
  Indiana University:
- Applied

Kentucky
  U Kentucky:
- Applied
  U Louisville:
- Applied

Massachusetts
  Boston University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 interviews with 6 faculty and residents, tour (wear a coat), nice breakfast and lunch
- Program Advantages:
Good surgical volume, approackable faculty, Boston is a sweet town
- Program Disadvantages:
1/3 patients don't speak english, compete with MEEI for open globes
  Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary:
- Applied
  Tufts/New England Eye Ctr:
- Applied

Michigan
  Henry Ford Hosp - Detroit:
- Applied
- Attended interview
  U Michigan:
- Applied
  W. Beaumont-Detroit:
- Applied
  Wayne State University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
Well known faculty, 7 resident a year, good Peds experience, Great retina department
- Program Disadvantages:
Detroit

New Jersey
  UMDNJ - New Jersey MS:
- Applied

North Carolina
  Duke University:
- Applied
  U North Carolina:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
8ish interviews, tour, nice lunch
- Program Advantages:
Great retina and cornea faculty, good surgical experience
- Program Disadvantages:
Low Peds numbers (though attending is great), Fayetville and Minnesota VA
North Carolina
  Wake Forest U:
- Applied
- Received interview

Ohio
  Case Western Reserve U:
- Applied
  Cleveland Clinic Found.:
- Applied
  Ohio State University:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
6ish interviews, tour, lunch
- Program Advantages:
Great surgical volume esp Peds (80-100 muscle cases), Strong faculty, good fellowship placement, very strong didactics
- Program Disadvantages:
VA in Dayton, 1st year consult service, no plastics 1st year
  Summa Health Sys. - Akron:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
4 inverviews, tour, lunch
- Program Advantages:
New chair is great, great benefits at SUMMA, building newer facilites
- Program Disadvantages:
only 2 residents, low surgical numbers (may change), community program
  U Cincinnati:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
Great surgical and clinical experience, well known faculty, good fellowship placement
- Program Disadvantages:
attending not always in resident clinic, Cincy is sorta dreary

Pennsylvania
  Drexel U - Philadelphia:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Geisinger MC:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
Extremely nice faculty, good surgical numbers, good clinical experience, nice facilities
- Program Disadvantages:
It's truely located in the middle of nowhere
  Penn State U - Hershey:
- Applied
  Scheie Eye Inst / U Penn:
- Applied
  Temple U - Philadelphia:
- Applied
  U Pittsburgh:
- Applied
  Wills Eye Hospital:
- Applied

South Carolina
  Med U South Carolina:
- Applied
  U South Carolina:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
Just didn't get a good feel here

Tennessee
  U Tennessee - Memphis:
- Applied
  Vanderbilt University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
Great surgical numbers, beautiful new clinic, all rotations done in Nashville, well known faculty, great fellowship placement
- Program Disadvantages:
Lost a resident last year

Virginia
  Eastern Virginia MS:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Med C Virginia:
- Applied
  U Virginia:
- Applied

West Virginia
  West Virginia University:
- Applied
- Received interview
Match Experience
Do away electives at places you have a reasonable chance at matching. Try and get some research.... an abstract or anything. If you havent heard from a program you like, call - they just might offer you and interview or move you up on the list. Enjoy it!!!

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