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Profile #00092
Demographics
Match Year: 2008
This profile will remain anonymous permanently.
Academic Information
USMLE Step 1: 242
USMLE Step 2: 253
AOA: Not Available
Class Rank: Unknown
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| Family Medicine: | Honors | |
Internal Medicine: | Honors |
| Pediatrics: | High Pass | |
Surgery: | Honors |
| Neurology: | High Pass | |
Psychiatry: | High Pass |
| OB/Gyn: | High Pass | |
Ophthalmology: | Honors |
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Other Information
Several first author ophthalmology publications, posters at big meetings, a research award, some community service during med school, lots of great experience during undergrad that went on application. Worked hard on personal statement, had 2 ophtho letters, and 1 surgery letter, got my application in early, matched at my top choice.
Applications
Alabama| U Alabama - Birmingham: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| A single panel interview. Faculty was VERY nice. Wonderful dinner the night before. |
- Program Advantages:
| Surgery, Surgery, Surgery (more vitrectomies and cornea transplants supposedly available to residents than other programs). |
- Program Disadvantages:
| q5 in house call first year. |
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District of Columbia
Florida| U Florida - Gainesville: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Several 1 on 1 interviews, sandwhiches for lunch, short tour, a resident and fellow spoke to the group. |
- Program Advantages:
| Most plastics in US, 250 phakos, 50+ refracticve cases, grads have gone to Bascom and USC. Great instruction. 2 VA's, Navy station in Jax, Shands, and outpatient centers. New refractive center coming. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Some grads had trouble matching in plastics recently, small faculty, cornea and retina fellows do many of those cases. |
| | U Miami / Bascom Palmer: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
| | U South Florida - Tampa: | | | - Applied
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Georgia| Emory University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very nice, efficient, organized, easy. The residents were the most enthusiastic, outgoing, friendly, and forthcoming of all places I've been (>10), and they were happy. Interviews were very easy - six 10 minutes interviews, each with 3 people. |
- Program Advantages:
| Huge city, 1 program = lots of GREAT experience. Grads highly recruited. Great teaching and autonomy, inner city --> advanced path/trauma, busy VA, great surg including refractive, emphasis on finishing own surg cases, it's good to be busy in residency! |
- Program Disadvantages:
| More of an advantage: Lectures Fri from 7-noon. Great program for hands on, patient-centered learning with less emphasis on book time (scores on standardized tests are superb).
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| | Med C Georgia: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Prison rotation where residents can do vitrectomies and other surgeries, a great opportunity. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small faculty, some subspecialties were missing (but was much talk of hiring). |
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Illinois
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan| U Michigan: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Grand rounds, 1 on 1 interviews, chairman emphsized wanting 'nice' people. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great reputation, large faculty, new eye center is being built, lighter schedule |
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Minnesota| Mayo Clinic: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very impressive tour by the program director, Dr. Mahr. 1 on 1 interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Large faculty, excellent fellowship placements, extensive research opportunity, great teaching. Solid surgery numbers, GREAT institution! |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Must go to Minneapolis during 4th year for a VA experience, but that is only 90 min away, given condo for that |
| | U Minnesota - Mpls.: | | | - Applied
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Mississippi | | Missouri| Washington University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice coctail/dinner night before. |
- Program Advantages:
| Impressive alumni history, research block during 1st yr, department is integrated into rest of hospital. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Surgery is backloaded, but numbers are fine by graduation. |
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North Carolina| Duke University: | | | - Applied
| | U North Carolina: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Tested manual dexterity during interview while grilling with ?'s. Asked about politics. NICE lunch! |
- Program Advantages:
| Nice small city, great wet lab curriculum, great electronic med record |
- Program Disadvantages:
| 4 months in Minneapolis VA, 4 months at another VA across the state. |
| | Wake Forest U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| No dinner/event outside of interview day. 1 panel interview with ~5 faculty. Impressive. |
- Program Advantages:
| Satisfied residents, nice faculty, impressive phaco instruction. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Small class of 3 to split call with, and drive to another city (~45 min) for VA. |
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Ohio| Cleveland Clinic Found.: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Grilled about methods of doing research. Formal reception and tour night before interview (tie). |
- Program Advantages:
| Great research opportunities, strong emphasis on academic careers, constant supervision. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Less autonomy than other places. Emphasized that you should do a fellowship upon finishing residency. |
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South Carolina| Med U South Carolina: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice lunch, Wine and cheese reception after interviews, at night went to a smoky bar. |
- Program Advantages:
| Charleston is the major selling point. Peds and cornea are VERY strong, and Storm has good reputation in area. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not one of the busiest programs. Expensive city. |
| | U South Carolina: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Tennessee| U Tennessee - Memphis: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great driving tour of Memphis. |
- Program Advantages:
| Nice eye institute. Awesome wet lab with simulator. Large department. Nice residents. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| While easily above minimum requirements, surgical numbers are slightly above average to average. |
| | Vanderbilt University: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Reception is art gallery night before, followed by an expensive dinner at a lounge with shots. |
- Program Advantages:
| Nashville is nice. New eye center under construction, nice facilities. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Residents unhappy about call coverage, wished for more procedures. |
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Texas
Virginia| Eastern Virginia MS: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Med C Virginia: | | | - Applied
| | U Virginia: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Talk from PD in the lobby of clinic, few small panel interviews. Lunch in hostoric building. |
- Program Advantages:
| Charlottesville. Residents have continuity-type clinic, own offices for patient care. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Facility feels outdated. Somewhat small faculty. Park far away. |
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West Virginia
Wisconsin |
Match Experience
Applied to 41 programs, invited to 22, interviewed at 14. I sent thank you cards to the program directors. There seemed to be a very regional preference to where I was rejected for interviews - I got almost all the interviews in my area, and very few in other regions. My undergrad experiences were valuable for interviews. Matched at first choice.
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