Program Name and Location: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Positives and negatives of the interview day and the program?
I have to agree with the previous poster about the night before dinner. While I always enjoy having drinks on someone else's tab
I just think that a bar is not the best place to have a night before dinner b/c it is hard to talk and hard to hear. Plus you aren't able to interact with everyone. I think a private room somewhere would have been better, but that's just my pref.
Positives:
1) Practically 100% fellowship placement rate
2)PCOS center of excellence, which I think is cool.
2) In the upper 85% for Abd hys, 80% vag.
3) Surgeries are done in a non-pyramid format, so as soon as you have the skills and the knowledge to do a surgery, you can do it, even if you aren't the 3rd or 4th year. More surgeries than can be covered, which is great
4) Hospital is nice!
5) Big on making sure you get the knowledge to MANAGE patients, kept stressing that over and over.
Negatives:
1) Night before dinner
2) 1-2 FMGs a year, which some think are a negative, some say positive
3) I'll but the new faculty change, but they now have a permanent chair and most of the changes will be done if not all before you start 7/1, so if you were a current res it would probably suck, but as fresh interns we won't know the diff, so I don't think its that much of a biggie.
4) You only have like 5-7 mins to meet with the PD and Chair privately, so if you want more time with him you'll probably have to keep in touch via email.
Does the program have a specific focus? Well they have a MFM and REI fellowship right there that consistently places folks into fellowships both in and outside of Cincinnati. LOTS of gyn surgery, which is great for getting confidence.
Specific interview questions you were asked? Nothing too much.
What did you wish you knew before you went there? That even though the night before dinner sucked, I REALLY liked the program. Pleasantly surprised, especially with the comments on the forum about the program, but I liked it and feel like I'd be very well trained here.
I liked Cincinnati, though I'm not sure how the whole conservative thing would affect living there, but the downtown is nice, there is an area Hyde Park which is really nice, you see folks out running at night and all that good stuff, a little more pricey, but its the midwest, lol, so its still pretty cheap