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Due to rapid changing of plans by the New York State Department of Health to
re-configure Brooklyn's health care system, we are presently not interviewing
candidates for residency positions in our Internal Medicine residency program.
However, we are keeping all applications on file and continuing to accrue
both new applications and updates and additions (USMLE transcript updates,
ECFMG certificates, Letters of recommendation, etc.) to already submitted
applications.

Since we are not entering the NRMP match, we will not be interviewing
candidates before the date of the match. However, after the match, we may
call selected applicants for interviews.

Please do not contact us either by e-mail, telephone, or by mail as to the
status of your application since we currently have more than 3,000
applications and we cannot respond to everyone who contacts us.

If there are any changes in our status, we will contact all applicants by
e-mail.


Eric A. Jaffe, MD, FACP
Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center



Found this on another forum. Not sure how it affects the fellowships. Anyone with more info?

Members don't see this ad.
 
Due to rapid changing of plans by the New York State Department of Health to
re-configure Brooklyn's health care system, we are presently not interviewing
candidates for residency positions in our Internal Medicine residency program.
However, we are keeping all applications on file and continuing to accrue
both new applications and updates and additions (USMLE transcript updates,
ECFMG certificates, Letters of recommendation, etc.) to already submitted
applications.

Since we are not entering the NRMP match, we will not be interviewing
candidates before the date of the match. However, after the match, we may
call selected applicants for interviews.

Please do not contact us either by e-mail, telephone, or by mail as to the
status of your application since we currently have more than 3,000
applications and we cannot respond to everyone who contacts us.

If there are any changes in our status, we will contact all applicants by
e-mail.


Eric A. Jaffe, MD, FACP
Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center



Found this on another forum. Not sure how it affects the fellowships. Anyone with more info?


I got an invite from them a month ago ?? and program director explictly stated in our class meeting that they started interviewing nondownstate students in october
 
Interesting. I had an interview scheduled there for November 15th and I never received any notice resembling this.
 
Members don't see this ad :)
Could be a sham. A friend brought this to my attention after he found it on the usmleforum
 
Could be a sham. A friend brought this to my attention after he found it on the usmleforum

at least for GI fellowships, 4/6 spots were filled internally last year with most not requiring a chief year .
 
I highly doubt the veracity of that. I did not find anybody by name Jaffe in downstate email directory. A quick Google search doesn't reveal any connection with downstate, infact a couple of webpages associating him with Interfaith.
 
I highly doubt the veracity of that. I did not find anybody by name Jaffe in downstate email directory. A quick Google search doesn't reveal any connection with downstate, infact a couple of webpages associating him with Interfaith.

Downstate as a whole is on a protested-probation status and is in discussions with other hospitals about mergers, but I'm sure this is fake for a number of reasons and the person perpetuating this deserves a smack upside the head.
 
Yeah I received that email via eras too. Subject heading says "Currently not interviewing at Interfaith Hospital"

How exactly is this fake, considering its directly via eras? Not agreeing/denying it is fake, just wanted to know how one comes to that conclusion.
 
Yeah I received that email via eras too. Subject heading says "Currently not interviewing at Interfaith Hospital"

How exactly is this fake, considering its directly via eras? Not agreeing/denying it is fake, just wanted to know how one comes to that conclusion.

Right. Interfaith - NOT Downstate University.
 
I believe that is regarding Interfaith. The PD of Interfaith is a Professor at Downstate. That may be what is confusing people. But this is clearly regarding the Interfaith program, not Downstate.
 
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