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Profile #00676
Demographics
Match Year: 2011
This profile will remain anonymous permanently.
Academic Information
USMLE Step 1: 245
USMLE Step 2: 250
AOA: Not Selected
Class Rank: Top 25-50%
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| Family Medicine: | | |
Internal Medicine: | |
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| OB/Gyn: | | |
Radiology: | Honors |
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Other Information
Mix of HP/H in third year clerkships. Got lucky and worked hard and have some first-author rads publications. Otherwise pretty standard mix of ECs, etc. I figure I am the average med school candidate so decided to make a profile for next year's non-AOA kids.
Went to med school in Midwest (not RF, but close) but have very strong family ties to NY/CT area and am trying to go back there.
Applications
Connecticut
Massachusetts| Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr: |  | | - Applied
| | Boston U Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great day. Fun place. Good lunch, nice PC. |
- Program Advantages:
| A strong academic center with a large class of residents. PD very enthusiastic and positive about direction of program. Some of nicest residents on trail. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not many. BU does a good job of not being overshadowed by the other programs in the area. Hospital not in the greatest of locations but not so much that it's a dealbreaker. |
| | Brigham and Women's Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
| | Mass Gen Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
| | Mount Auburn Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Excellent. Great food (breakfast and lunch provided). Vaguely remember 3 interviews, 1 with resident. |
- Program Advantages:
| Cozy program, but set up so that residents aren't necessary. Focus is on learning and call isn't as bad as it otherwise would be with such a small program. Very good faculty. Harvard affiliation allows you great fellowships. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| | Tufts-New England Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
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New Jersey| Atlantic (Morristown): | | | - Applied
| | Newark Beth Israel Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
| | St Barnabas Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice coordinator. Lunch and candy. 1 interview with 2 interviewers. |
- Program Advantages:
| Close to NYC. Very friendly residents. Coordinator clearly helps a lot. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Facility is older and so is the equipment. IR and peds particularly weak compared to local programs. Lots of guest supplemental lectures to cover weak spots. |
| | UMDNJ-New Jersey: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Nice, but you might want to know that you will be hanging out in the resident room all day while interviewing. Two interviews. |
- Program Advantages:
| Mid-tier university program in NYC area. Free MPH program for residents, easy to complete by graduation. On-campus gym, popular. Some of the best trauma in northeast. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Newark. Older physical plant. |
| | UMDNJ-RWJ: | | | - Applied
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New York| Albany Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
| | Albert Einstein COM: | | | - Applied
| | Albert Einstein COM (Jacobi): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Okay. Three interviews. One was with somewhat hostile attending, don't know if they are a usual interviewer. Otherwise good. PC very friendly. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good pathology, shiny newer hospital with recently updated equipment. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Seriously weak IR that seems to do mostly PICCs. A few places rotate here for peds and there is not a lot of room for them. Strange, strange interview with faculty member. |
| | Albert Einstein COM at Beth Israel Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great bagels. Interview day is split morning/afternoon with both groups going to conference. 2 attending interviews, 1 chief resident interview. |
- Program Advantages:
| PD has worked hard to fill weak spots in staff and teaching. New combined lectures with SLR allows better lectures. Amazing housing. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Lots of outside rotations. Lectures done one day weekly, can't decide if good or bad. |
| | Bronx-Lebanon Hosp Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interview room very hard to find. Given bottle of water and taken to eat lunch in cafeteria. First half of interview group will get to leave an hour earlier. |
- Program Advantages:
- Program Disadvantages:
| Questionable board pass rate: PD's presentation says 63% but then claims that is no longer the case. Lots of part-time faculty who don't appear to do much teaching. Advice for fellowship application appears to be lacking. |
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| | New York| Harlem Hosp Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Interview cleverly timed to avoid both breakfast and lunch (you will leave 1:30, hungry). Told to help myself to coffee only to find coffee machine off and never stocked. Have yet to talk to applicant who met PD; was always gone during interviews. Only me |
- Program Advantages:
| Manhattan location. Looks like lots of recent faculty turnover resulting in very young full-time faculty (I think of this as a plus). Columbia fellowships due to relationship. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| HHC hospital, which probably takes some getting used to. I rotated through Bellevue so was less surprised. Workhorse program, expect most learning through reading and not teaching. |
| | Lenox Hill Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very nice. Somewhat erratic scheduling due to heavy snow (not their fault). Decent lunch. Somewhat hard to meet residents as it was a large interview day and a smaller program (they mostly clustered together and it was hard to speak to more than a couple) |
- Program Advantages:
| Manhattan location on the UES. Subsidized housing second only to St. Luke's and Beth Israel. Very friendly smaller program. Enjoyed meeting all faculty and residents, with no exceptions. Recently purchased by NS-LIJ system which means they will not lack f |
- Program Disadvantages:
| One of the smaller programs in the area with the disadvantage of being a community hospital sandwiched between two large academic programs (who take the tertiary cases). Low on trauma if you care. Still, it gets better pathology than other community hospi |
| | Long Island Col Hosp: | | | - Applied
| | Maimonides Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Good. In my informal ranking of PCs I thought this program had one of the best. Well-organized. Delicious pizza and lots of it. |
- Program Advantages:
| Very strong MSK PD's name helps boost almost all fellowship applicants. Lots of improvements to cancer center, etc, and new IR hires. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| No night float. Very busy call with tons of ultrasound. Other applicants thought residents were tired; they were fine when I was there. |
| | Mount Sinai SOM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Wonderful, but didn't expect less. A top research institution in NYC. Appreciated the smaller interview size and the real effort to make sure interviewees met a broad spectrum of residents. PC was extremely nice as well. Good lunch. Slightly disappointed |
- Program Advantages:
| Sinai is already spectacular, but is clearly taking steps to make it more competitive in the area. Strong, mostly younger faculty. Beefing up its body imaging section, which was previously a weakness (according to residents). |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Not any off the top of my head. Program recognizes its weak points and tries to correct. Slightly smaller than other academic programs if you are looking for a large class. |
| | Nassau U Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | New York Presb Hosp (Columbia): | | | - Applied
| | New York Presb Hosp (Cornell): | | | - Applied
| | New York U SOM: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
| | NSLIJHS-Albert Einstein COM at Long Island Jewish Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Extremely efficient. Very nice dinner the night before, with the chance to speak to residents away from attendings (but see some of the attendings as well beforehand). Overall, very smoothly run for such a large interviewee group. Great food! |
- Program Advantages:
| Like Sinai, a top class program. Other applicants extremely well-qualified; felt lucky to be there. Research is truly world-class with separate biomedical imaging center. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| If you don't like research, probably not the program for you. Slightly more formal than other programs, so if you enjoy lounging in scrubs also probably not for you. |
| | NSLIJHS-N. Shore U Hosp/NYU SOM: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Smooth interview day. Only surprise was being pulled out from conference room for interview (had not been previously told when interviews would start, was making coffee when interviewer showed up). Pizza lunch at noon conference. |
- Program Advantages:
| Very strong academic center. Residents very happy. North Shore shares a program director with LIJ and will likely eventually merge and become a large, strong, two-hospital program. Many residents commute from city. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Rotate through LIJ for peds but have full privileges there. My only problem is that I am unsure how the eventual merger will shake down, although shared PD will likely make things smooth. |
| | NYMC (Richmond): | | | - Applied
| | NYMC at Westchester Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very nice. Enthusiastic PD and organized, friendly PC. |
- Program Advantages:
| Program continues to improve. Did not know Westchester had beautiful pediatric hospital or such extensive catchment area (to Albany). Only place outside of top five NYC programs that does almost all organ transplants and has great trauma. New chairman fro |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Westchester not my favorite area. But lots of residents commute from the city and it's a shorter drive than I realized. |
| | St Luke's-Roosevelt Hosp Ctr: | | | - Applied
| | Stn Island U Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
| | SUNY Ctr at Brooklyn: | | | - Applied
| | Winthrop-U Hosp: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Match Experience
10/11/10: Lucky so far.
10/15/10: Be careful about too many prelim apps, I've received all of them so far and my calendar is in trouble.
10/24/10: A lot of great programs have offered interviews, and I am happy they thought of me.
10/26/10: Pleasantly surprised. Was not expecting any Philadelphia love.
11/1/10: MSPE day, good stuff.
11/2/10: It is becoming clear I owe my advisor far more than I realized.
11/4/10: So far this season has gone far better than I thought. I hope anyone reading this next year realizes that 250 AOA is not required, but you do have to work hard to convince people you deserve a chance.
11/10/10: I think that except for the last of the NYC/Boston programs to offer, I am probably sitting on waitlists waiting for people to cancel.
11/15/10: If anything is obvious to me now, it's that programs are extraordinarily generous.
11/30/10: Post-Thanksgiving week should probably be named Radiology Rejection Week. Still had a little movement with late programs. Too bad this website doesn't let you list programs that completely rejected you, it'd be educational.
1/2/11: End result: 25 interviews of 46 applications. But no matter what you think when you're dreaming of where to apply, just know that of 18/25 interviews I have only encountered 2 programs where I think I'd be unhappy. Unless you're a superstar, don't think you're too good for local community programs if location is what matters.
3/18/11: Matched! For privacy's sake, will not post, but it was in Manhattan so I will be close to family after all. Updating my interviews for next year's reference. If you are reading, good luck!
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