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Profile #02644
Demographics
Match Year:  2012
This profile will remain anonymous for three years from the match date above.

Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  250
USMLE Step 2:  255
Step 2 score not available to residencies during application.

AOA:  Not Selected
Class Rank:  Top 10-25%
Family Medicine:  Honors Internal Medicine:  Honors
Pediatrics:  High Pass Surgery:  High Pass
Neurology:  High Pass Psychiatry:  Honors
OB/Gyn:  Satisfactory Radiology:  Honors

Applications
California
  Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr:
- Applied
  Stanford U:
- Applied
  U California (Irvine):
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Nice new hospital, small program, word on the street is that they don't have as much clinical volume. Seemed like program is trying to get stronger by hiring strong academic people from other programs
- Program Advantages:
Nice location, near to LA, obviously California
- Program Disadvantages:
Small program, Irvine (?), not connected to medical/undergrad campus
  U California (San Diego):
- Applied
- Received interview
  U California (San Francisco):
- Applied
  U S. California/LAC+USC Med Ctr:
- Applied
  UCLA Med Ctr:
- Applied

Colorado
  U Colorado:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Saturday, full with people doing morning and afternoon session
- Program Advantages:
Nice new hospitals, strong in IR
- Program Disadvantages:
Not in Denver, have to rotate at Denver community (distance?), workstations seemed like cubicles rather than open environment

Connecticut
  Yale-New Haven Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Very friendly, 4 people
- Program Advantages:
Nice new facilities
- Program Disadvantages:
New Haven

District of Columbia
  George Washington University:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Quick morning orientation, interviews (during break time, you hang out in reading room), lunch afterwards and noon conference
- Program Advantages:
DC, very committed chair (who was previously PD)
- Program Disadvantages:
Small program
  Georgetown U Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
DC, strong in IR due to Chair, PD committed to resident education
- Program Disadvantages:
Small program

Florida
  Jackson Mem Hosp/Jackson:
- Applied
  U Florida:
- Applied
  U S. Florida:
- Applied

Georgia
  Emory U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
Atlanta, nice weather, PD pushing to make this a stronger academic program
- Program Disadvantages:
I was not a fan of Grady and having to rotate through so many hospitals. Don't like the idea of 2-week rotations

Illinois
  McGaw Med Ctr of Northwestern U:
- Applied
  Rush U Med Ctr:
- Applied
  U Chicago:
- Applied
  U Illinois COM at Chicago:
- Applied

Maryland
  Johns Hopkins U:
- Applied
  U Maryland:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Nice program
- Program Advantages:
Residents were really nice and very friendly with each other
- Program Disadvantages:
2nd fiddle to Hopkins?

Massachusetts
  Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
  Boston U Med Ctr:
- Applied
  Brigham and Women's Hosp/Harvard:
- Applied
  Mass Gen Hosp/Harvard:
- Applied
  Tufts-New England Med Ctr:
- Applied

Missouri
  WUStL/B-JH/SLCH Cnsrt:
- Applied
New York
  Albert Einstein COM at Beth Israel Med Ctr:
- Applied
  Mount Sinai SOM:
- Applied
  New York Presb Hosp (Columbia):
- Applied
  New York Presb Hosp (Cornell):
- Applied
  New York U SOM:
- Applied
  St Luke's-Roosevelt Hosp Ctr:
- Applied
- Received interview

North Carolina
  Duke U Hosp:
- Applied
  U N. Carolina Hosps:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
2nd fiddle to Duke?, hospital seemed a little run down (?),

Ohio
  Cleveland Clinic Found:
- Applied
  CWRU/U Hosps of Cleveland:
- Applied

Oregon
  OHSU:
- Applied

Pennsylvania
  Drexel U COM/Hahnemann U Hosp:
- Applied
  Pennsylvania Hosp of the U Pennsylvania:
- Applied
  Temple U Hosp:
- Applied
  Thomas Jefferson U:
- Applied
  U Pennsylvania:
- Applied
  U Pittsburgh Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Disadvantages:
Pittsburgh, having to rotate through so many hospitals

Rhode Island
  Brown U:
- Applied

South Carolina
  Med U S. Carolina:
- Applied

Tennessee
  Vanderbilt U:
- Applied

Texas
  Baylor COM:
- Applied
  Baylor U Med Ctr:
- Applied
  U Texas at Houston:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
Texas medical campus
  U Texas Southwestern:
- Applied

Virginia
  U Virginia:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Strong radiology program
- Program Advantages:
Strong in IR, very collegial environment, radiology section being renovated, reading room is very open (space room!)
- Program Disadvantages:
charlottesville (?)
  Virginia Commonwealth U:
- Applied

Washington
  U Washington:
- Applied
Match Experience
I was extremely lucky I felt, the process was a little hit or miss, but you will end up a program that fits your personality and interest. Just make sure to express your interest to your #1.

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