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I know alot of people had wanted impressions built into the interview thread, but thought they might get lost since that thread is pretty long and moves pretty fast (some days).
Feel free to move this into that thread if much easier for everyone else.
I can start off with UC-Irvine
I'll be honest, since they didn't really have a mini-talk about the program, my impression was a little piecemeal.
The day starts off with conference at 7:30 which, on my interview day, was Interventional with a second year fellow presenting a case. It was a fairly bread and butter case with 3 faculty members and around 6 fellows. The first year fellows were the ones called on the most. It was pretty apparent which one's had done the cath rotations and who hadn't. Senior fellows seemed very knowledgeable and were difficult to stump.
I think the conference was almost an hour long. After that, it was five interviews with faculty + chief fellows, including chair of dept and PD. Interviews were pretty chill. They were all interested in knowing my specific interest in UCI. Some asked about research.
They were also very vocal about letting them know of my interest near ranking time, otherwise they'd assume I wasn't interested.
During the interviews, each interviewee had some down time which was spent in the conference room. For an hour or so, there was a fellow in there to answer questions. After that, it was just applicants.
Lunch was with one faculty member and then tour. Pretty short day overall.
Other pertinent facts:
They rotate at UC-I, Long Beach VA, and Long Beach Memorial, which is a private hospital. Private hospital seems pretty chill. One of the fellows mentioned that you don't necessarily need to go in for cath lab activations. UC-I housestaff at all three hospitals.
They're getting a new full time EP faculty member, who's apparently fairly well known.
Easy to do MRI rotations at Harbor or EP rotations at Scripps (or UCSD? can't remember)
Not high acuity as don't get alot of referrals.No transplant or mechanical assist device
Small-ish program with fellows that get along with each other very well. They also seem pretty close to the faculty
Young, dynamic faculty who are in the early stages of what are probably successful, academic careers
Call is from home
Moonlighting opportunities at all three hospitals
Seems like alot of graduates go on to do interventional and EP, a lot go into private practice. They have one interventional spot which always goes to internal candidates.
Feel free to move this into that thread if much easier for everyone else.
I can start off with UC-Irvine
I'll be honest, since they didn't really have a mini-talk about the program, my impression was a little piecemeal.
The day starts off with conference at 7:30 which, on my interview day, was Interventional with a second year fellow presenting a case. It was a fairly bread and butter case with 3 faculty members and around 6 fellows. The first year fellows were the ones called on the most. It was pretty apparent which one's had done the cath rotations and who hadn't. Senior fellows seemed very knowledgeable and were difficult to stump.
I think the conference was almost an hour long. After that, it was five interviews with faculty + chief fellows, including chair of dept and PD. Interviews were pretty chill. They were all interested in knowing my specific interest in UCI. Some asked about research.
They were also very vocal about letting them know of my interest near ranking time, otherwise they'd assume I wasn't interested.
During the interviews, each interviewee had some down time which was spent in the conference room. For an hour or so, there was a fellow in there to answer questions. After that, it was just applicants.
Lunch was with one faculty member and then tour. Pretty short day overall.
Other pertinent facts:
They rotate at UC-I, Long Beach VA, and Long Beach Memorial, which is a private hospital. Private hospital seems pretty chill. One of the fellows mentioned that you don't necessarily need to go in for cath lab activations. UC-I housestaff at all three hospitals.
They're getting a new full time EP faculty member, who's apparently fairly well known.
Easy to do MRI rotations at Harbor or EP rotations at Scripps (or UCSD? can't remember)
Not high acuity as don't get alot of referrals.No transplant or mechanical assist device
Small-ish program with fellows that get along with each other very well. They also seem pretty close to the faculty
Young, dynamic faculty who are in the early stages of what are probably successful, academic careers
Call is from home
Moonlighting opportunities at all three hospitals
Seems like alot of graduates go on to do interventional and EP, a lot go into private practice. They have one interventional spot which always goes to internal candidates.
