Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida| U Florida: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Pretty standard. Very nice faculty. One just talked to me about surfing and rock bands the whole time. |
- Program Advantages:
| Location, weather, good training, decent cost of living, good book fund ($1500/yr). |
- Program Disadvantages:
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Illinois| McGaw Med Ctr of Northwestern U: | | | - Applied
| | U Illinois COM at Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| One of the least repute Chicago programs; didn't like Chicago. |
| | U Illinois COM at Peoria: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice. Good lunch provided. |
- Program Advantages:
| Nice perks. Free food every day. Cheap cost of living. $1200 book fund/yr. Categorical. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not a very high reputation. Location. |
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Iowa| U Iowa Hosps: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Program Advantages:
| Great training. Solid program. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Expensive parking. For me I just wanted to get away for awhile. |
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Kansas
Massachusetts| Mass Gen Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Pretty good. Some of the residents had strong personalities, somewhat to my disliking, but some were great. Faculty interviews went fine. |
- Program Advantages:
| MGH name. Decent moonlighting. Awesome city. They give you a laptop and $700/yr education fund. Not too overworked for a premier program. 80% go into private practice. Super easy to do research. 4-5 weeks of vacation per year. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Perhaps less quality experience first year. Expensive city. Not an excellent place if you want to get good IR training during residency. |
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Michigan| Oakwood Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | St Joseph Mercy-Oakland: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | U Michigan: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Okay. One interviewer was very antagonistic, but otherwise was pretty good. Nice pre-interview dinner. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great program. 4 weeks vacation. Good moonlighting. Get some kind of $5000 bonus each November. $1200/yr book fund. Fairly nice city. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Very hierarchial. Seemed kind of arrogant to me. Crappy PACS. |
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Minnesota| Mayo (Rochester): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Matched here (Ranked # 1)
- Interview Experience:
| Nice interviewers. This was my second interview and I think I probably came off really bad, but I guess it worked out alright. Great dinner the night before. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great reputation. Most studies and faculty of all of the 186 or however many programs there are. Best facilities (although OHSU had a more beautiful campus). Relatively laid back. Great moonlighting. Super cheap cost of living. Give you a laptop. H |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Rochester, MN-not much going on here other than Mayo and IBM. |
| | U Minnesota: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Missouri
Nebraska | | New Mexico| U New Mexico: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Super friendly and they interview 2 people per day, and you don't really encounter the other applicant. |
- Program Advantages:
| Sweet categorical year (only have to do like 3-4 months of clinical rotations 1st year). Solid program. Decent moonlighting. Super cool residents and faculty. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Relatively high crime rate of city. Rather small program. Kind of low base pay. |
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North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon| OHSU: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Too many interviews and they were only 13 minutes each. Otherwise not too bad. |
- Program Advantages:
| Beautiful city. Solid program. Great IR-IR originated here. Extremely laid back, definitely don't stress doing research. Most beautiful campus of any I saw, hospitals are up on a huge hillside and VA is connected to OHSU via 660 ft catwalk with beauti |
- Program Disadvantages:
| No real moonlighting. Parking is $60/mo. Not many overall. |
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Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas| Baylor COM: | | | - Applied
| | U Texas at Houston: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Fairly standard interview day. Pre-interview dinner they had SO much food! |
- Program Advantages:
| Pretty solid name and training. Largest medical center in the world. Best moonlighting of any place I went. Something like 4-5 weeks of vacation/yr. Nice weather. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not too many that I recall. |
| | U Texas Southwestern: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very friendly laid back faculty and residents. Low stress interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great reputation. Only place where you get a lot of OB ultrasound/MR training. Lots of moonlighting. Effectively like 6-7 weeks of vacation per year. $500/yr book fund + paid AFIP + $2000 stipend for AFIP. Cheap cost of living. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Hospital is in a bad looking neighborhood. Otherwise no other negatives. |
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Virginia
Washington| U Washington: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Probably the friendliest faculty I met. Really nice pre-interview dinner. |
- Program Advantages:
| Seattle rocks. GREAT training. GREAT program name. $1500/yr book fund. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Multiple different hospitals to rotate at. Worked more hours than other programs. Semi-expensive cost of living. Maybe pushed research a little too hard. |
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Wisconsin| Aurora Care: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Med Col of Wisconsin Hosps: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Pretty standard. Program director takes you around on the tour of the facilities. |
- Program Advantages:
| Solid program and training. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Minimal moonlighting. I didn't really like Milwaukee. |
| | U Wisconsin: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | Wheaton Franciscancare-St Joseph: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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