California| Stanford U: |  | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great place. Chill interviews. Awesome weather |
- Program Advantages:
| Chill program with good location and awesome residents. Great opportunities for research/academics. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Palo Alto is an expensive suburb. Poor volume: 300,000 studies |
| | U California (Davis): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Strange day. Sit in a room for half the day doing nothing. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good location, great clinical training. Close to Tahoe. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Smaller class size = more call. Research not emphasized. |
| | U California (San Diego): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Beautiful day in January. Low key interviews and very well organized. Don't see any of the clinical sites (which doesn't matter to me). |
- Program Advantages:
| Amazing location with varied sites and world-class faculty. Research is there if you want it. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Spread out due to the different sites. |
| | U California (San Francisco): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| No dinner which is strange. Starts later in the day (10:45). Interview w/ big time faculty. No tour! |
- Program Advantages:
| The best clinical training of any place I interviewed at. The county and the VA are sweet opportunities for residents. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Residents aren't as happy as you'd think. MSK is not great. SF is expensive. |
| | UCLA Med Ctr: | | | - Rotated at this institution
- Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Have to pay for parking (ironic considering it's in LA). Interviews very chill, almost too chill. A nice lunch though longish. |
- Program Advantages:
| Amazing PD. Great location if LA is your thing (residents did not complain about the commutes). |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Expensive, residents were LA people. |
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Colorado| U Colorado: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Saturday with lots of applicants. Two very chill interviews and an informal session with the chairman during the break. Residents seemed like great people during the dinner. |
- Program Advantages:
| Program imploded 5 years ago. New chairman seems to have turned thing around. Residents seemed content (though that might just be Denver). Great resident IR training |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Recent faculty implosion. Spread out sites (though residents did not mind this). |
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Connecticut
Illinois| McGaw Med Ctr of Northwestern U: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Very chill interview, short and to the point |
- Program Advantages:
| PD is awesome. Great location. High volume center. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Lots of fellows. Location is expensive. Residents were not overwhelmingly happy. |
| | Rush U Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
| | U Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| 6 laidback interviews and noon conference. Tour led by uninspiring residents. Great pre-interview dinner w/ very cool residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Good name, chill call schedule. New affiliation w/ Northshore is a plus. Fewer fellows than you might expect. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| In Hyde Park. Lack of bread and butter. |
| | U Illinois COM at Chicago: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Maryland
Massachusetts| Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Starts early (7am). Lasts through lunch. Very nice interviewers. Really try to sell academics and how hard-working they are compared to MGH and BWH. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great clinical training. Work harder than the other Boston programs. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| BWH and MGH are next door and better. Boston isn't for everybody. |
| | Brigham and Women's Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Amazingly welcoming department. The best vibe I got from a department. Efficient and well-organized. They even give you a cab voucher. |
- Program Advantages:
| BWH offers the best educational emphasis of any department in the country. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Boston isn't for everybody and no VA or county. Other than that, none. |
| | Mass Gen Hosp/Harvard: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great pre-interview dinner. Residents were good people. Afternoon session with 4-5 low-stress interviews and an abbreviated tour. |
- Program Advantages:
| MGH sells itself. PD is great. R4 year well-adapted for the new boards. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Lots of fellows, strange set up of interventional. |
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| | Michigan
Missouri
New York| New York Presb Hosp (Columbia): | | | - Applied
| | New York Presb Hosp (Cornell): | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great pre-interview dinner. Went to morning session of interview. Very chill laidback interviews after a large information session. Free thumb drives |
- Program Advantages:
| Great chairman and PD committed to improving the institution. HSS and MSK are a net positive. Most stay for fellowship or go west. Good moonlighting opportunity. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| NYC is expensive and Cornell is hard to get to if you don't live nearby. IR used to be a weakness, now improving. |
| | New York U SOM: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island| Brown U: | | | - Applied
- Received interview
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Virginia
Washington| U Washington: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Dinner was great, lots of time for mingling and asking questions. Tons of interviews but well-organized and brief. Dr. Beauchamp was a hoot and the PD was beloved by the residents. |
- Program Advantages:
| Crazy good clinical training. World-class research. Amazing city if you are into the outdoors. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Spread out sites. Lots of call. The only place where residents continually emphasized how bureaucratic the institution was. No NBA team. |
| | Virginia Mason Med Ctr: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Great combined TY/radiology day |
- Program Advantages:
| Most underrated program I interviewed at. Program would run without residents so you only do things to further your training. Great benefits, great city. Get UW lectures and most do fellowships there. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Lesser known and small class, Might not be the place if you're gung ho for academia. |
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Wisconsin| U Wisconsin: | | | - Applied
- Attended interview
- Interview Experience:
| Long day with a lot of interviews and a tour of Madison. PD was cool, reading room stops were not necessary, but appreciated. |
- Program Advantages:
| Great clinical training in a city that a lot of people love. MSK is particularly good. IR up and coming. |
- Program Disadvantages:
| Madision is a good place for undergrad. Not sure about Madison for residency if you don't have kids. |
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