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Profile #00319
Demographics
Match Year:  2009
This profile will remain anonymous for three years from the match date above.

Advanced Degrees Obtained:
   - PhD

Academic Information
USMLE Step 1:  244
COMLEX Level 1:  649
COMLEX Level 2:  642

AOA:  Not Available
Class Rank:  Top 10%

Family Medicine:  Honors Internal Medicine:  Honors
Pediatrics:  Honors Surgery:  Honors
Neurology:  Psychiatry:  Satisfactory
OB/Gyn:  Honors Radiology:  Honors

Other Information
9 peer reviewed publications. Several oral and poster presentations at national meetings


Applications
Arizona
  U Arizona:
- Applied

California
  U California (Davis):
- Applied

Connecticut
  Bridgeport Hosp/Yale U:
- Applied
  Hartford Hosp:
- Applied
  St Vincent's Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
2 interviews, tour, lunch and watched 2 hour lecture.
- Program Advantages:
Strong PD who is responsive to resident needs.
- Program Disadvantages:
Location, size, teaching seemed limited, rads facilities subpar, seemed disorganized.
  U Connecticut:
- Applied
  Yale-New Haven Med Ctr:
- Applied

Delaware
  Christiana Care Svcs:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Day was fairly disorganized, limited interaction with residents. Four interviews, for which most were completely unprepared, have lunch and watch a lecture.
- Program Advantages:
Large hospital with high volume and tertiary services. Big rads dept with many scanners. Great PD
- Program Disadvantages:
Seemed disorganized. Hard to read resident's opinions of program. This city is not very exciting. Attendings are private practice group.

Florida
  Mayo (Jacksonville):
- Applied
  U Florida COM Jacksonville:
- Applied
  U S. Florida:
- Applied

Georgia
  Emory U:
- Applied

Illinois
  Rush U Med Ctr:
- Applied
  U Chicago:
- Applied
  U Illinois COM at Chicago:
- Applied

Iowa
  U Iowa Hosps:
- Applied

Maine
  Maine Med Ctr:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Breakfast, talk, tour and 4 interviews, one with resident.
- Program Advantages:
Strong conferences, friendly people, excellent ancillary staff, attendings enjoy teaching, great city, good volume and diversity of path. Very friendly and helpful coordinator.
- Program Disadvantages:
For those who want basic research not much here, more call than some programs.

Massachusetts
  Baystate Med Ctr/Tufts U SOM:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
They set you up with a room and dinner the night before, very nice. On IV day you have talk by PD, 3 interviews, lunch, lecture and a tour.
- Program Advantages:
Great PD. Many residents seemed happy with the program. Good patient diversity, lots of pathology and trauma. Faculty and staff seemed happy and friendly.
- Program Disadvantages:
Springfield is rough, alot of attending turnover, on small side.
  Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr:
- Applied
  Boston U Med Ctr:
- Applied
  Mass Gen Hosp/Harvard:
- Applied
  St Vincent Hosp:
- Applied
  U Mass:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Arrive in AM, have breakfast and then 5 interviews throughout am. Lunch, conference and then tour and you are through.
- Program Advantages:
Strong research program, strong faculty, friendly residents, moving into new offices next summer, good technology.
- Program Disadvantages:
It's in Worcester, on small side (4/yr) so more call

Michigan
  Henry Ford Hosp:
- Applied
  U Michigan:
- Applied

Minnesota
  Mayo (Rochester):
- Applied
  U Minnesota:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
I already knew the program well, but again found residents and staff very friendly. IV day consists of tour and lunch with senior residents, followed by 4 20 minute interviews. Very relaxed.
- Program Advantages:
Size, location, facilities, volume, diverse pathology, very strong program
- Program Disadvantages:
Minnesota winters are no joke.
New Hampshire
  Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Very nice program coordinator who bakes goodies for you, many refreshments. Have a tour of dept, dinner with residents night before, lecture from Chair on DHMC and area, 4 interviews, noon lecture.
- Program Advantages:
Strong name, expanding to 5/yr, strong teaching, happy residents and attendings, very strong research, beautiful location, great for those with families.
- Program Disadvantages:
Located in small town, no diversity, alot of fellows for small place, wonder if volume is enough. Not a good place for singles.

New Jersey
  Atlantic (Morristown):
- Applied
  UMDNJ-RWJ (Camden):
- Applied

New Mexico
  U New Mexico:
- Applied

New York
  Albany Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Dinner night before with residents, then come in for talk, 4 interviews and a tour. Watch lecture and then have lunch with residents.
- Program Advantages:
Happiest residents I met, they absolutely love the program. Very chill attendings. Awesome moonlighting. High volume, teachers who like teaching, great chairman.
- Program Disadvantages:
Albany is not for everyone.
  Albert Einstein COM:
- Rotated at this institution
- Applied
  SUNY Upstate Med U:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Three interviews, tour, lunch off campus. People seemed very relaxed and happy. PC and PD were very nice and I could see myself working with them.
- Program Advantages:
Good volume and diversity of path. Friendly attendings, residents seemed happy. Great PC.
- Program Disadvantages:
Syracuse, eclectic group of residents.

Ohio
  Aultman Hosp/NEOUCOM:
- Applied
  Cleveland Clinic Found:
- Applied
  CWRU (MetroHealth):
- Applied
  CWRU/U Hosps of Cleveland:
- Applied

Oregon
  OHSU:
- Applied

Pennsylvania
  Albert Einsteincare Network:
- Applied
  Allegheny Gen Hosp:
- Applied
  Bryn Mawr Hosp:
- Applied
  Drexel U COM/Hahnemann U Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Meet with PD, Chief Radiologist and Chief Resident. All very friendly people, appears to be a very supportive environment. Everyone seemed very happy and excited to have us there.
- Program Advantages:
Center city Philly, lots of diverse patients and pathology, strong faculty, separate children's hospital, few fellows. Good size with 6 residents per year.
- Program Disadvantages:
Philly not for everyone, hospital is on the older side. Children's hospital is in ghetto.
  Geisinger:
- Applied
- Received interview
  Penn St U/Milton S Hershey Med Ctr:
- Applied
  Pennsylvania Hosp of the U Pennsylvania:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 2)
- Interview Experience:
Meet with the great, great and friendly PD, go on a tour and have lunch. Then there is a talk, 4 interviews and another tour.
- Program Advantages:
Beautiful, historic hospital in a great part of Philly. Fantastic PD and excellent attendings. Happy residents, great call schedule. Can park your car at hospital 24/7/365. Out rotations at CHOP for ped rads, HUP for cardiac imaging, trauma and GI fluoro.
- Program Disadvantages:
Not a level 1 trauma center, but you do a month of trauma at UPenn.
  Temple U Hosp:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
Have a strange intro talk, followed by 3 interviews, then a tour and lunch with attendings and residents.
- Program Advantages:
High volume with lots of diversity and pathology. Friendly PD, relatively new clinical facilities and good technology.
- Program Disadvantages:
In a bad part of Philly, seems like the hospital is having rough financial times. Evidently some attendings do not like teaching.
  Thomas Jefferson U:
- Applied
  U Pittsburgh Med Ctr:
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
3 interviews plus short talk with PD, tour, lunch, watch lecture. Great intro talk from PD
- Program Advantages:
Incredible program- huge volume claiming 2,000,000 studies/yr, diverse and rare pathology, strong referral groups, friendly residents who seem very happy, comfortable and well trained. Great fellowship and job matches. Pittsburgh is actually a very fun an
- Program Disadvantages:
None for me.
  Western Pennsylvania Hosp/Temple U:
- Applied

Rhode Island
  Brown U:
- Applied

Washington
  Virginia Mason Med Ctr:
- Applied

Wisconsin
  Aurora Care:
- Applied
  U Wisconsin:
- Applied

Match Experience
Rejection letter Henry Ford 10/3,U Iowa 10/6, Bridgeport Hospital 10/14, Mayo Rochester 10/14 Interview at U of Rochester Hang in there it's a crapshoot!

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