uc irvine residency q

[neurotrancer]

Have any of you interviewed at UC Irvine or have any thoughts in general about it for AP / CP? It has a heavy emphasis on AP and was the only program I interviewed at which has 12 months of q4 grossing for the first year, they have nice facilities and a nice residenct room, they have higher AP board scores than some of the other top residencies in LA area, it is in beautiful OC area, the people are ultra nice, you can do as much or as little research as you want, it has fellowships in cytopath, surg path, and this year GI path, they may start a heme path fellowship in the next few years, they have general sign out (no subspecialty sign out thus mimicking the real world better I think), they really are all about emphasizing resident education at the main UCI medical center, their graduates regularly place into fellowship at UCSF and MD Anderson and Sloan Kettering, and you start out in the friendly teaching environment and afterwards move on to much faster paced practice at Long Beach Memorial after the first year or towards the end of first year.

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[pathstudent]

Have any of you interviewed at UC Irvine or have any thoughts in general about it for AP / CP? It has a heavy emphasis on AP and was the only program I interviewed at which has 12 months of q4 grossing for the first year, they have nice facilities and a nice residenct room, they have higher AP board scores than some of the other top residencies in LA area, it is in beautiful OC area, the people are ultra nice, you can do as much or as little research as you want, it has fellowships in cytopath, surg path, and this year GI path, they may start a heme path fellowship in the next few years, they have general sign out (no subspecialty sign out thus mimicking the real world better I think), they really are all about emphasizing resident education at the main UCI medical center, their graduates regularly place into fellowship at UCSF and MD Anderson and Sloan Kettering, and you start out in the friendly teaching environment and afterwards move on to much faster paced practice at Long Beach Memorial after the first year or towards the end of first year. I am also considering Yale but I really don't think prestige is enough to outweigh my misgivings about subspecialty signout on a 1 month rotating basis, and living in New Haven, and functioning in a very hierarchical environment.


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It sounds like you are already sold on the place.

But what gives you away as BS (or that you have been told BS) is that there are no scores for AP boards. It is just P/F.

If you want to do a fellowship at UCSF or MDA why not just do residency there to start with.

 

[Path or bust]

But what gives you away as BS (or that you have been told BS) is that there are no scores for AP boards. It is just P/F.

I don't know about the OP but on a few interviews I was shown aggregate RISE percentile scores. The sheet compared program vs national scores.

 

[gungho]

I don't know about the OP but on a few interviews I was shown aggregate RISE percentile scores. The sheet compared program vs national scores.

i believe the OP mentioned Board scores which is not the RISE.
also, don't think MDA has Path residencies.

 

[neurotrancer]

I came on this forum looking for info only. I have no interest in anything apart from friendly discussion so if you are not going to post anything especially constructive, then please do not post in this thread.

 

[DarksideAllstar]

I came on this forum looking for info only. I have no interest in anything apart from friendly discussion so if you are not going to post anything especially constructive, then please do not post in this thread.

Within the last 3 years, I haven't seen nor heard of anyone from UCI pathology in a fellowship position here.

And I didn't think that the ABP actually released the numerical scores for boards. I thought that you got a pass or fail.

 

[clancy81]

When I was at UCI interviewing I met one resident who is starting a Surg Path fellowship at UCSF this coming summer.

neurotancer--What did they tell you about the fellowships there? The PD told me that they did not have Surg Path fellowship there, that they might re-start it. He did mention GI starting and that they have Cyto. Is this different than what you were told?

 

[Path or bust]

i believe the OP mentioned Board scores which is not the RISE.
also, don't think MDA has Path residencies.

Fair enough, but since you are so keen on the "precise", the OP mentioned MDA path fellowships (which they have many) and not MDA path residencies. 🙂

 

[gungho]

Fair enough, but since you are so keen on the "precise", the OP mentioned MDA path fellowships (which they have many) and not MDA path residencies. 🙂

in the interest of "precision" (don't know why i have that reputation), i was referring to pathstudent's recommendation for the OP to do residency at UCSF or MDA to start with

 

[neurotrancer]

I have been told that for the purposes of private practice, going to a really prestigious place really doesn't make a whole lot of difference really, what matters, I think, is whether you are fellowship trained in an area that is needed by the particular group practice. For academics, I definitely think it matters that you go to a top name place.

 

[oxygen]

it sounds like you are sold on the place for sure.

 

[neurotrancer]

I like UC Irvine but I have similarly strong feelings and numerous reasons for feeling strongly positive about other programs as well though. I am more interested in obtaining any more information I can about this program.

 

[pathstudent]

why don't you call up their coordinator and have them put you in touch with some of the residents there or recent graduates? It sounds like you already know way more than 99% of the people here.

The only thing I know about the program is that it is near NEWPORT BEach. That should go into the plus column.