California| Stanford U: |  | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U California (San Diego): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Excellent program. Great, informal and relaxed interview day. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great people. Famous faculty including Dr. Bradley, Dr. Resnick. Wonderful residents. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| None. Got a location veto from my sig-o. Insane, right?? |
| | U California (San Francisco): | | | - Applied
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Georgia| Emory U: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Illinois
Maryland| Johns Hopkins U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interview speed-date style. |
- Program Advantages:
| Gorgeous facilities, lots of money and resident benefits, outstanding reputation. I think a resident would truly get a world-class education here. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Seemed a little more 'uptight' than some of the other programs. |
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Massachusetts| Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Public health/global health options, great faculty and residents. Reputation for more rigorous call-schedule etc. than Brigham and MGH. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Reputation for more rigorous call-schedule etc. than Brigham and MGH. |
| | Boston U Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
| | Brigham and Women's Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 2)
- Interview Experience:
| Relaxed, speed-date style. Lots of opportunities to talk to residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Gorgeous facilities, world-class institution, strong global and public health emphases (can get MPH!), innovative, excellent opportunities at Mass Eye and Ear, Dana Farber, BCH. Friendly and nurturing. Actually best fit for all of my wants and needs. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | Mass Gen Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice interview day. Everyone was very friendly. Well organized, a nice length - lots of opportunity to talk to residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| This is just a top-notch program all around - I think it's the most 'prestigious' program in Boston, and one of the big players nationally (along with Mallinckrodt, UCSF, etc.). Opens all doors. Ranked it first. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| One of the only New England programs that doesn't rotate at Boston Children's (though some residents don't care or see this as an advantage). |
| | Mount Auburn Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Outstanding program, great people. |
- Program Advantages:
| Can rotate at MGH, etc., but better IR experience in-house. Lots of independence. Small, intimate program, great faculty. Nice hybrid model program. Great fellowship placements. Boston/Cambridge. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Lower volume, smaller program, less academic (though opportunities for research/cross-pollination easy to come by). More call than some bigger programs (though this is arguably an advantage) |
| | Tufts-New England Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
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Missouri| WUStL/B-JH/SLCH Cnsrt: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Speed-date - lots of time to talk to residents. Overall, very friendly and kind people. Program coordinator is excellent. |
- Program Advantages:
| This is the most impressive program I visited, in my opinion. Mecca of radiology. Endless resources, top-notch reputation. Huge program, famous faculty members, excellent residents.). |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Location vetoed by my sig-o. |
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New York| Albert Einstein COM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Really nice interviewers - one 2 person panel interview, plus one solo interview. Relaxed, short interview day. Good amount of time with residents. |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| apparently residents don't get to do independent reads until later on?? |
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| | New York| Albert Einstein COM at Beth Israel Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
| | Mount Sinai SOM: | | | - Applied
| | New York Presb Hosp (Columbia): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Good, laid-back, well-organized day |
| | New York Presb Hosp (Cornell): | | | - Applied
| | New York U SOM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Enjoyable, well-organized (though long). They roll out the red carpet for you. Very impressive. Panel interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| New York City - amazing. Amazing facilities, good experiences at Bellevue and Tisch (which are very different), a lot of resident- independence, prestige, great fellowship placements |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Weaker on peds per some of the residents who were interested in peds. |
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North Carolina| Duke U Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interesting interviewers - 3 in total. 2/3 walked around hospital during interview. Short interview day. Nice, informal dinner the night before. |
- Program Advantages:
| Wonderful residents. High volume, great education at a world-class institution in a nice part of the country. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| 'Hardworking', a lot of call. |
| | U N. Carolina Hosps: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Laid back, informal, lots of time with residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Laid back, in an awesome town. |
| | Wake Forest U SOM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Really nice interviewers, lots of time with residents, great day overall. |
- Program Advantages:
| I think this program is underrated. It is an awesome education. Great IR experience, lots of independence. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Winston Salem was vetoed by my sig-o. |
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Oregon| OHSU: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Really good day. Laid back, nice interviewers. Nice dinner the night before. |
- Program Advantages:
| Wow - gorgeous, gorgeous hospital. Great faculty, awesome IR experience. Great fellowship placements. I think this is a great program. Portland would be a great place to live too. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Didn't really fit with my personality (residents almost too laid back??! WHAAT?!). |
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Pennsylvania| Pennsylvania Hosp of the U Pennsylvania: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| I loved this program. One of the best interview days. Got a lot of time with residents and faculty members. A great feel for the program. Awesome dinner the night before. |
- Program Advantages:
| Perfect combo of world-class education, innovation, prestige, yet wonderful, wonderful people. HUP was one of my favorites! I felt that I fit in the best of almost anywhere here. I honestly could not say enough good things about this program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Wasn't first on my list because of my sig-o. |
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Rhode Island| Brown U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Huge group of applicants, but well-organized. Long day though. |
- Program Advantages:
| Hardworking - great experience. Great reputation and teaching. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Hardworking (again, maybe not a bad thing). |
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Utah| U Utah: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great, laid-back speed date style. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good size, lots of volume and diversity of cases, great faculty and residents. In a gorgeous part of the country. All around strong (and another underrated! program). Has free-standing peds hosp. |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Washington| U Washington: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Virginia Mason Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
| Small, intimate. Great hybrid-model program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Wisconsin| U Wisconsin: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| One of the best. Lots of interviews, but a long day. |
- Program Advantages:
| Beautiful facilities, outstanding people (smart and hardworking + friendly), I like Madison. One of my favorite programs! |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Location vetoed by sig-o. |
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