Alabama| Baptist: |  | | - Applied
| | U S. Alabama: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very relaxed environment. Friendly residents and faculty. Some very bizarre questions during interview. Great lunch. Most questions I had going into the day were addressed without having to ask. |
- Program Advantages:
| Separate children's hospital, relaxed environment, strong board recalls (pre-format change), some strong teaching faculty, built in moonlighting. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Appeared to have less than ideal number of staff. Location +/-. PACS not standardized, some viewstations outdated. Little to no research. |
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Arkansas
Florida
Georgia| Emory U: | | | - Applied
| | Med Col of Georgia: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Good pre-interiew social. Relaxed interview day, other than some higher-stress interview sessions. Nice talk with dept. chair. |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong education, good basic sciences research opportunities. Fantastic city. Master's tickets available to residents. Good study volume. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | Mercer U SOM (Savannah): | | | - Applied
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Kansas
Louisiana | | Louisiana
Mississippi| U Mississippi Med Ctr: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
- Interview Experience:
| Relaxed environment, residents, staff. Conversational interviews. Great pre-interview social. Good program overview answering most all questions about volume, studies/resident, call, staff ratio, etc. |
- Program Advantages:
| Strong facilities, new dictation system, fabulous viewstations. New research facility in the making. High staff/resident ratio. High studies/resident numbers. Huge pathology variety. Strong conferences. Very relaxed work environment without being di |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Missouri| St Louis U SOM: | | | - Applied
| | U Missouri at Kansas City: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Mostly relaxed, very professional. Some interviews relaxed, others very hard hitting questions. |
- Program Advantages:
| Fantastic Children's Mercy hospital. There separate hospitals - good variety - academic, children's, urban/trauma, great research opportunities and support from program, good financial perks for food/presentations/call/etc. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Two different PACS, one location using transcription service. Commute could be longish to one facility or another. |
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Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas| U Texas at Houston: | | | - Applied
| | U Texas Med Branch Hosps: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Residents seemed less relaxed and/or happy than other locations. |
- Program Advantages:
| Island life if you choose. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Staff seemed weak(er), residents not as satisfied. A distinct feeling that they couldn't wait to be done with training to get out of the area. Program/hospital still in rebuilding after hurricane. |
| | U Texas Southwestern: | | | - Applied
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