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Wash U Invite. Multiple dates in February and March offered.
Haven't heard from many of mine including umich, mgh/bwh, hopkins or ucla
Rejection from Columbia.
Not that surprised. Don't really have the pedigree to be considered there.
Heard today via email:
February 9, 2011
February 16, 2011
February 23, 2011
March 9, 2011
March 16, 2011
March 23, 2011
March 30, 2011
April 6, 2011
Rejection from UCSD
I got UCI as well today.
What is the reputation of UCI among California schools?
Rejection from Columbia.
Not that surprised. Don't really have the pedigree to be considered there.
Same here.
Got invite from Brown today.
Hello all,
So I am on day 3 of interviews ! And got a rejection from Columbia today and an invite from Brown. I got a "we are processing" email from Hopkins and Mayo.
Interviews at MCV in Virginia for med-peds ID: Very impressed with the faculty, there are 7 + docs there doing hospital epi work and I get the feeling that the research and program will be focused on that work. The chairman is an Epie/SHEA guy. For med-peds, they have you do adult for 2 yrs then 2 yrs of peds. Met with 2 fellows, one looked very very tired and harried due to the 24/7 call covering MCV for one month ! Consults ranged from 5 to 18 not including all the follow-up patients. They have a pretty sophisticated VA hospital that you spend a lot of time at where they have spinal cord rehab and heart/kidney/liver transplants. They have a seperate month where you just do ortho infections. Also have a cancer center. They have an abroad program called "Hombre" in Honduras but not a whole lot from a tropical ID perspective.
Heard from another applicant applying to MCV that his first interview was in South Carolina where he was asked the night before to prepare and present a case at their conference !
Currently interviewing at LA State U and Tulane:
For med-peds they have a joint peds program between LSU and Tulane that is pretty wondeful with a great children's hospital, excellent faculty and oodles of opportunities for research in TB, dengue/Lassa, HIV, malaria for the peds research part.
The adult is a little bit more tricky- For combined they prefer you do adult thru LSU which covers 4 hospitals- Ochner, University (former Charity), Kenner, and Touro. There is some basic research but LSU is just starting their public health school so that is still in progress. The have very well qualified faculty and really a sister relationship with Tulane (fellows peds/adult from Tulane and LSU attend conferences together and are friends outside the hospital). Got the impression that adult ID at LSU was pretty laid back and very family friendly. Will learn more about Tulane soon.
Heard that Ochner, takes one fellow a year and works them to tears- sort of simulating a private practice experience and that fellow appears to get burned out quickly due to volume. Incidently heard that Shrevport was "not the place to be."
Questions so far:
Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
What kind of practice/clinical setting?
Asked infrequently about specific items on my CV, abroad experiences or publications
Do you have a research topic yet?
If you could go to a dinner party, who would you invite, dead or alive, no one you worked with/family/friends?
Why ID? When did you know you were interested in it?
General: tell me about yourself....
SO there are some thoughts... will be working on arranging the Chicago interviews soon !
Good luck to all and please share your experiences !
Heard from Hopkins, University of Maryland, University South Florida, University of Florida. Hopkins only offered one day for interview.
Congrats on the interviews. Hopkins has a really nice webcast of their ID grand rounds. I like to listen to that at times when I'm not busy with inpatient rotations.
http://cases.hopkinsidrounds.org/
Just started the interview trail at Cleveland Clinic on Monday...heading to Mt Sinai and NYU the week of March 21, so too early to pick a favourite. CCF I found was pretty comprehensive in what it was offering...mainly a heavy, but quite varied clinical program with a lot of "depth" in pathology.So here are the places I have been so far:
UC-Davis-med
U Hospital Case -med
Cleveland Clinic-medpeds
LSU-medpeds
Tulane-medpeds
MCV-medpeds
And the these dates are the last leg of my interview saga:
NorthWestern-med
March 16th
Rush/Cook County-med
March 17th
Brown-med
March 8
U of Alabama-medped
March 10th
I would have to say so far, the places I have been most impressed with is Case Western and Tulane mostly because of their outstanding faculty, international opportunities and overall happiness of the fellows. I have excluded some places from my list after I found out they aren't able to do combined programs for one reason or another.
Will write more soon....Anyone know what their number one is ?
Can anyone comment on Harbor, USC, UCLA, Cedars-Sinai/VA, or San Diego?