I'm pretty sure you're making that up. Isn't The Brigham just another community hospital in Boston?
ha, I brought it up actually. I guess its part of the harvard system. a top notch program...at least they are saying so!
I'm pretty sure you're making that up. Isn't The Brigham just another community hospital in Boston?
I concur.
Aways can do more harm than good. Rarely to they even count for anything. Most of the time you are sequestered away on some random specialty rotation and you don't really get to meet too many important people.
FWIW, I did an away rotation in a sub specialty elective at a big program and I'm pretty sure it's the reason I matched at my number one. I came from a top 50ish med school that doesn't have a huge h/0 sending people to the big 4 medicine program and I dont have a phd or patent or know lots of, well, people. Anything that can put you one spot higher on the list helps at the top programs where all the interviewees are really competitive. What have you got to lose? You'll learn how another hospital works and more about the things you value in a program.
But then again, I matched at some program in Boston that apparently people haven't heard about.
It's your funeral.
If you are a half decent candidate for IM, anything more than 1 away is a waste of time, and even 1 is probably not going to provide any benefit to you.
do you really have to be a douchebag about your responses
do you really have to be a douchebag about your responses
FWIW, I did an away rotation in a sub specialty elective at a big program and I'm pretty sure it's the reason I matched at my number one. I came from a top 50ish med school that doesn't have a huge h/0 sending people to the big 4 medicine program and I dont have a phd or patent or know lots of, well, people. Anything that can put you one spot higher on the list helps at the top programs where all the interviewees are really competitive. What have you got to lose? You'll learn how another hospital works and more about the things you value in a program.
But then again, I matched at some program in Boston that apparently people haven't heard about.
do you really have to be a douchebag about your responses
I LOL'd.
I bet you're a blast at parties.
How's being a whiny little b**** working out for you?
Questions were asked, honest truthful answers were given. If you think this is "douche-y" you've got a pretty long and painful road ahead of you.
I'm pretty sure you're making that up. Isn't The Brigham just another community hospital in Boston?
When you leave residency, do your farts makes the sound "johns hopkins", kind of like when that dog says, "i love you," Except you can do it with your ass??!
And do the farts smell like chocolate chip cookies too? I heard that.
It is a little known fact but you heard right.
I guess I can join in if this helps any future applicants out...
Board Scores: Step 1: 242, Step 2: 271
--AOA and class rank: top 20%, no AOA
--Reputation of medical school: (top 10, top 25, etc): Top 50
--Research: no publications
--Honors in clerkships: honors in most, just HP in medicine though
--# and where you did away rotations: no away rotations
--# of programs you applied to: 24 maybe? 17 interview invites, attended 12
--Where invited for interviews: UPMC, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Yale, Cornell, Emory, Mayo, UVA, UNC, UAB, Case, CCF, Ohio State, UIC, Loyola, Einstein, Wake Forest
--Applied to & no invite: Northwestern, Chicago, Duke, Penn, Columbia, NYU, Mount Sinai
--Where matched: UPMC
--Matched at what number on rank list: 1st
--Anything that helped your app: (ie: a phone call to a program, big-wig letter of recs, MD/PhD, other degree, SDN Forum, etc): luck! haha
Congrats everyone on fantastic matches/thanks for advice throughout the process!
late entry
Board Scores: Step 1: 250s, Step 2: 250s
--AOA and class rank: not AOA but ranked top 15%
--Reputation of medical school: (top 10, top 25, etc): Top25
--Research: 1 pub 1 poster
--Honors in clerkships: honors everything and 2 subI's but HP OBGYN
--# and where you did away rotations: 0
--# of programs you applied to: 13, ranked 8
--Where invited for interviews: UCSD, UCLA, Stanford, Hopkins, UMich, UChicago, Northwestern, BID
--Where matched: Stanford
--Matched at what number on rank list: 1
Advice: always drink the alcohol the night before, enjoy yourself.