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I like the template from a prior thread and feel free to be as general or specific as you feel comfortable ....

1. Matching hospital/university
2. Your home institution
3. Your statistics/honors
4. Research experience
5. Any pearls of wisdom to future doctors

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Hi all,

Just wanted to say congrats to all who have matched! Enjoy your time before the craziness starts!
 
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1. Matching hospital/university: Columbia
2. Your home institution: Middle tier private school in NYC
3. Your statistics/honors: Steps 251/274; honors in med, surg, obgyn, psych
4. Research experience: Some experience, one minor pub.
5. Any pearls of wisdom to future doctors: It's a lengthy process and one bound to be studded with disappointments along the way.
 
1- University of Washington (#1 choice)
2- top tier west coast med school
3-only 3rd year honors was medicine, no AOA
4-260/270 usmle
5-phd, one high profile first author paper
 
1. Matching hospital/university: UAB
2. Your home institution: Top tier school in the South
3. Your statistics/honors: Steps 262/281; honors in med, peds, surg, obgyn, neurology, family med; junior AOA
4. Research experience: One publication, some research, not much though
5. Any pearls of wisdom to future doctors: Go where you want and you feel you could thrive!
 
jeez! This years stats are insane
 
1. MGH
2. Top tier school in the North
3. Steps 265/276; top 10% in class
4. Research experience: A few pubs as 2 or 3rd author. Nothing major.
5. Book your interviews ASAP. Doing back to back interviews is a bad idea.
 
1. Wash U (#1 pick)
2. Top/Middle tier from the south
3. 232/244. Honored all of 3rd year except for ob/gyn. No AOA
4. 1 First author paper, handful of presentations/conferences
5. Proof that mortals do exist and you don't have to have crazy stats to get a great IM residency.
 
1. Matching hospital/university: Montefiore (#1)
2. Your home institution: Middle tier school in midwest
3. Your statistics/honors: Steps 241/242; no honors
4. Research experience: Radiology research with pub, prior derm research pub pending
5. Any pearls of wisdom to future doctors: Don't read this board! Your experience in residency will be what you make it despite the program you match into.
 
Congrats to everyone but especially to all the new UCSF interns. It's a great place and we are excited to have you.
 
1. Matching hospital/university: UCSF (#1)
2. Your home institution: Harvard
3. Your statistics/honors: Steps 250/261; (honors not awarded)
4. Research experience: None
5. Any pearls of wisdom to future doctors: Do well on the boards, and be yourself on the interview trail :)

6 people from Harvard matched to UCSF internal medicine this year - west coast fever?
 
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^That's pretty interesting that you matched to UCSF with no research publication when I've always heard/read that people almost all have to have PhD's or extensive research backgrounds for them to even consider you. Besides the great board scores and coming from a top med school, what else do you think made you stand out?

Oh and congratulations of course! :)
 
1. MGH (#1)
2. Top/Mid
3. 266/270 / AOA / All honors
4. MD/PhD c/ some pubs
5. Aim high! Get your department chair on your side.
 
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1. Yale (#2)
2. Mid tier private
3. >245/>245, not AOA
4. several pubs
5. Honor your medicine clerkship, it really makes a difference in the interviews that you get.
 
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1. UChicago
2. Top 30 Midwest Program
3. 254/268, all honors, not AOA
4. Lots of research, no publications
5. Apply broadly.
 
rosiean86 said:
^That's pretty interesting that you matched to UCSF with no research publication when I've always heard/read that people almost all have to have PhD's or extensive research backgrounds for them to even consider you. Besides the great board scores and coming from a top med school, what else do you think made you stand out?

Oh and congratulations of course! :)
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UCSF is definitely looking for a diverse class in terms of backgrounds, experiences and interests. My application mainly focused on clinical experiences, and international service/consulting that I've done - research is definitely a plus, but it can certainly be replaced by other aspects of your application. (The same is definitely true for the Harvard hospitals from my experience.)
 
Mateodaspy said:
UCSF is definitely looking for a diverse class in terms of backgrounds, experiences and interests. My application mainly focused on clinical experiences, and international service/consulting that I've done - research is definitely a plus, but it can certainly be replaced by other aspects of your application. (The same is definitely true for the Harvard hospitals from my experience.)
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UCSF calls themselves the Harvard of the west coast so it goes without saying that nothing reinforces that dogma than having a lot of Harvard students match there. There is an open conduit between Harvard and UCSF for both residency and fellowship. There's a pattern that can't be ignored.
 
not to jack this thread but I would disagree with souljah1 on this one. I don't think that UCSF or the people in the medicine division think of or call themselves the Harvard of the west coast. It is certainly not a dogma. Some things we do better and some things we do worse than the Harvard hospitals but to aspire to be Harvard I can tell you is certainly not in the game plan. Different hospitals, different culture, different coasts as you well know. Many people elect to come to or leave UCSF from/for Harvard for this reason. I understand that as a medical student at UC there may have been a strong focus on the boston programs as residency training sites, but within the medicine division itself, I have found that in many ways we are the anti-east coast which has better and worse sides.

We tend to match a fair number of harvard students but mostly because these are some of the most talented and interesting applicants across the country and also because so many HMS grads want to come to UCSF. I would agree with you that there is a long and established connection for both residency and fellowship.
 
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1. Hopkins
2. Northeast School
3. 99/99, all clinical honors except one
4. 7 first-author publications
5. work hard, play nice, treat every patient like your parent
 
1. WashU (Physician-Scientist Training Program for Hem/Onc)
2. MD/PhD at northeast, non-ranked (in anything) med school
3. 99/99, honors in a couple clerkships, mostly high pass
4. 3 first author publications, 1 review, two collaborative papers, multiple talks at meetings and other stuff you do as a scientist
5. Don't believe that everyone in the room at interviews for top places got a 270 on step one. Work hard, and good things will happen for you.
 
1. Wash U (Physician-Scientist Training Program for Hem/Onc)
2. MD/PhD at an average state school (unranked by US News)
3. 99/99, honors in all but one clerkship
4. Several basic science publications and one review
5. I think what you do is usually more important than where you do it.
 
1. Matching hospital/university: Wash U (#2)
2. Your home institution: Wash U
3. Your statistics/honors: 252/248, Honors in all clerkships except OB/Gyn, no AOA
4. Research experience: 1 summer, 1 poster/presentation
5. Any pearls of wisdom to future doctors: Enjoy fourth year!
 
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1. WashU (Physician-Scientist Training Program for Hem/Onc)
2. MD/PhD at northeast, non-ranked (in anything) med school
3. 99/99, honors in a couple clerkships, mostly high pass
4. 3 first author publications, 1 review, two collaborative papers, multiple talks at meetings and other stuff you do as a scientist
5. Don't believe that everyone in the room at interviews for top places got a 270 on step one. Work hard, and good things will happen for you.
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Selectinologist said:
1. Wash U (Physician-Scientist Training Program for Hem/Onc)
2. MD/PhD at an average state school (unranked by US News)
3. 99/99, honors in all but one clerkship
4. Several basic science publications and one review
5. I think what you do is usually more important than where you do it.
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Couples match?
 
:eek: this thread has got to be the most depressing thread I have ever read on Student doctor. I have never seen so many high scores like that!! If I need scores like your to get looked at I am gonna be so FU****.
For the sake of my sanity can someone please post who does not have a 250+. :D

Congrats though, ya clearly deserve it!!!
 
1. Yale (#3, couples matched)
2. Mid-tier Southeast school
3. 98/99, all clinical honors except two (HP in surg, P in OB/GYN). Not AOA.
4. mix of first author and other - but all in health policy/global health/leadership stuff (no basic science)
5. Gotta agree with Mental Gymnast ;) - pursue your passions and make it clear in how you present yourself. If you can do that - and you clear the baselines of H in medicine and 230+ - you'll get strong consideration from a ton of places.
 
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mochief2000 said:
:eek: this thread has got to be the most depressing thread I have ever read on Student doctor. I have never seen so many high scores like that!! If I need scores like your to get looked at I am gonna be so FU****.
For the sake of my sanity can someone please post who does not have a 250+. :D

Congrats though, ya clearly deserve it!!!
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Calm down. Look at the 2009 IM match thread - several people ended up at top programs without 99/99. USMLE is one part of your application.
 
mochief2000 said:
:eek: this thread has got to be the most depressing thread I have ever read on Student doctor. I have never seen so many high scores like that!! If I need scores like your to get looked at I am gonna be so FU****.
For the sake of my sanity can someone please post who does not have a 250+.
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I mean seriously!

1) JHH
2) Midtier school.
3)~250/~260. All honors but 1. Not AOA.
4) Few minor pubs.
5) Interviews are tiring. It is hard to believe but talking small talk is exhausting. I canceled a few interviews that I would have loved to have gone to but I was too tired. In retrospect it could have easily not worked out for me. Luckily it did but I would have totally canceled some of the early safety schools to go on those interviews that I canceled.
 
mochief2000 said:
:eek: this thread has got to be the most depressing thread I have ever read on Student doctor. I have never seen so many high scores like that!! If I need scores like your to get looked at I am gonna be so FU****.
For the sake of my sanity can someone please post who does not have a 250+. :D

Congrats though, ya clearly deserve it!!!
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IMforme2010 said:
1. Wash U (#1 pick)
2. Top/Middle tier from the south
3. 232/244. Honored all of 3rd year except for ob/gyn. No AOA
4. 1 First author paper, handful of presentations/conferences
5. Proof that mortals do exist and you don't have to have crazy stats to get a great IM residency.
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See previous post. :)
 
1. Penn
2. "Top ten" med school
3. Steps >250; All honors except one HP.
4. Research experience: Lots of research in med school, but no pubs.
5. Best advice I received was to try to enjoy the interview days. I think the more successful I was at this, the better I did.
 
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Proteasome said:
1. Penn
2. Top ten school in the Northeast (not Penn)
3. Steps 255/256; All honors except HP in surgery.
4. Research experience: Lots of research in med school, but no pubs. Two minor pubs before med school. Two patents in biotech stuff before med school.
5. Best advice I received was to try to enjoy the interview days. I think the more successful I was at this, the better I did.
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1. Penn
2. Mid tier public school
3. ~270/~280. All honors in basic science and clinical yrs. Junior AOA.
4. Research experience in basic science, translational, and clinical with 2 publications, several abstracts, 2 national presentations.
5. Best advice is not to put much weight on post-interview feedback!!! I heard from the majority of schools I interviewed at except for Penn and BWH which I put #1 and #3 respectively so that made me pretty nervous. Yet did not matter one bit as I am going to Penn! Just put the order you want, not what you think the residency programs want.
 
I'll be average here.

MSU. My #1 pick for various reasons, but it all boils down to a good fit. I'm terribly average (at least I think so - other people tell me I'm definitely not average). No research; I spent my extra time being wife and mother to two children, and building an addition to our house (yes, we built it - no contractors. Every nail, every wire, every pipe we put in ourselves, including the hardwood floor and raising the 28 foot rafters with a pulley system by hand). My board scores were average as well. I didn't honor many courses first two years, but never failed any either. No remediations. Clinical grades were pretty damn good though.

I think I'm the total opposite of what medicine has turned into. I know I'm smart, but I'm very humble. Everyone is better than I am at something, whether it be bacteriology or plain old geography - and that makes me consider myself perfectly average.

So. I'm not an upper-tier top 1% student. And I'm SOOOOOO happy where I matched!!! (really, like giggling, crying, screaming happy) Let's hear it for the average people who got exactly what they wanted! :woot:

Next?
 
1. MHG/B&W/Hopkins combined program (will do one year at each place)
2. Average Top 4 school
3. ~297/292 (was really worried about the drop-off on Step 2, but guess it was cool)
4. MD/PhD/MPH/JD/Masters of Library Science, 12 First author pubs no biggie + co-founded several scientific journals
5. Anything less than perfection is failure


This thread is getting out of control...seriously! :D
 
ID15 said:
1. MHG/B&W/Hopkins combined program (will do one year at each place)
2. Average Top 4 school
3. ~297/292 (was really worried about the drop-off on Step 2, but guess it was cool)
4. MD/PhD/MPH/JD/Masters of Library Science, 12 First author pubs no biggie + co-founded several scientific journals
5. Anything less than perfection is failure
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I think your Masters of Library Science probably made up for some of your other inadequacies. :D
 
ShyRem said:
I'll be average here.

MSU. My #1 pick for various reasons, but it all boils down to a good fit. I'm terribly average (at least I think so - other people tell me I'm definitely not average). No research; I spent my extra time being wife and mother to two children, and building an addition to our house (yes, we built it - no contractors. Every nail, every wire, every pipe we put in ourselves, including the hardwood floor and raising the 28 foot rafters with a pulley system by hand). My board scores were average as well. I didn't honor many courses first two years, but never failed any either. No remediations. Clinical grades were pretty damn good though.

I think I'm the total opposite of what medicine has turned into. I know I'm smart, but I'm very humble. Everyone is better than I am at something, whether it be bacteriology or plain old geography - and that makes me consider myself perfectly average.

So. I'm not an upper-tier top 1% student. And I'm SOOOOOO happy where I matched!!! (really, like giggling, crying, screaming happy) Let's hear it for the average people who got exactly what they wanted! :woot:

Next?
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More posts like this please.
 
1. OHSU
2. "New" DO branch campus
3. Top 10%, consistently solid clinical evals, strong LORs, USMLE Step 1:251, COMLEX I: 680, II: 770, led a couple campus clubs, lots of previous non-medical life experience
4. No research/pubs
5. Just work hard to achieve your best at every stage of the process. DOs: IMHO definitely take USMLE -at least Step 1 - and apply broadly. I went to 13 interviews and afterward felt tired but happy I checked out all the programs I did. In the end, I couldn't be happier with where I ended up!
 
DragonWell said:
1. OHSU
2. "New" DO branch campus
3. Top 10%, consistently solid clinical evals, strong LORs, USMLE Step 1:251, COMLEX I: 680, II: 770, led a couple campus clubs, lots of previous non-medical life experience
4. No research/pubs
5. Just work hard to achieve your best at every stage of the process. DOs: IMHO definitely take USMLE -at least Step 1 - and apply broadly. I went to 13 interviews and afterward felt tired but happy I checked out all the programs I did. In the end, I couldn't be happier with where I ended up!
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Congratulations. Matching at OHSU is pretty sweet for a DO! Enjoy your residency.
 
Here is to Mediocrity!!

1. Stanford (#1 Choice)
2. Top Tier Southern California school (Atleast I think it is)
3. 225/230 Honors only in Medicine, High pass in everything else
4. 2 publications (no 1st Authors)
5. Don't be discouraged by the super humans that post on Student Doctor, even us mortals can get nice programs.
 
1. Virginia Commonwealth University (#1 Choice)
2. UNECOM (D.O. school in Maine)
3. USMLE Step I 241 / Comlex 691 & USMLE 2 243 / Comlex 620
4. No Pubs but research project; Lots of Honors clinical years
5. Work hard , apply to a lot of programs, and TRUST your gut feeling about programs on the interviews. Also, pick the program that will train you to become the best internist. The best subspecialist is a great internist.
 
verbalassasin said:
Here is to Mediocrity!!

1. Stanford (#1 Choice)
2. Top Tier Southern California school (Atleast I think it is)
3. 225/230 Honors only in Medicine, High pass in everything else
4. 2 publications (no 1st Authors)
5. Don't be discouraged by the super humans that post on Student Doctor, even us mortals can get nice programs.
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Is Stanford a mediocre match? I always hear that it is a pedigree school.
 
It's interesting about authorship . . . we too often make a bigger deal than we should about the order of authorship on a paper. We tend to assume that whoever is the "first author" did most of the work not only in writing, but all conducting the heavy lifting of the study, and the design of the initial investigation - there isn't some sort of "official" order. Also of note many of the old dogs who not longer need anything else added to their CV and likely did most of intellectual work on any project take their names on the end as "last author". Furthermore, it's a bit of an academic game, names often get added to projects to toss someone a bone - let them add it to their CV when they actually contributed enough to warrant an acknowledgment but not necessarily an authorship position. And then to top it all off, as far as the ethics and academic honesty is concerned regarding authorship (if any of you actually paid any attention the to the ubiquitous research tutorials you were supposed to do prior to starting work) every author is considered equal, as they all bear equal responsibility for everything contained therein . . . including any shenanigans that may eventually come out. There is more than one story where some famous guy tacking his name onto a publication, got his ass in a can because of nonsense that he didn't even know about.

I think academics makes too much ado about publications, and spends not enough time paying attention to experience, because at the end of the day anyone can add your name to the authorship list, but if you lack the experience, then you are as useless as the next guy. I'd rather have a guy with two years lab tech experience doing something I can use than someone with a few publications any day because now that I now the game better, outside of the PhD guys, I'm skeptical anyone actually did much of the work to which their name finds its way on the CV - NOT saying they didn't, but the skepticism kicks in hard.
 
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