WesternU/COMP DO 2002 MATCH RESULTS

[drfeelgood]

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[GoForIt]

drfeelgood

Thanks for the post. COMP's matching is really impressive. What catches my eyes is not one, but two PEDS at Children?s Hospital L.A. which is one of the most, if not the most, competitive PED program in the country. You make COMP proud.

Some of the other mathces such as IM at Cleveland Clinic(2), UCLA; Gen Surg at Loma Linda University; PEDS at U.C. San Francisco; RAD at Loma Linda University are all very impressive.

I am sure that your matching could have been even more impressive if you were willing to give up the nice warm Southern California weather to go out of state. For example, I heard that someone ranks very high in your class, passed COMLEX and USMLE in the 99 percentile (or very close to it). For cry out loud, he could practically pick and choose any program (AOA or AMA) in the country. Because he married a COMP 2001 graduate and she is doing her PDT in LA. He decides to do his rad program in Kaiser-LA to be close to his wife.

I am not a COMPer, and I am trying to maintain my objectivity. Despite all the childish bitching from some of the COMP crybabies, COMP did train you guys properly, do doubt . Need any convincing, just look at the match list.

 

[GoForIt]

Sorry for the typo. What I really mean is COMP did train you guys properly, NO doubt

 

[drfeelgood]

goforit...

I myself am a COMP Crybaby, In fact... my nick name in school was "BITTER".

anyways i got my 3rd Choice for anesthasia at Tufts-New England Med. Center in Boston, so I'm not so bitter anymore.

Lates... Dr FeelGOOD (2 puffs for you and 1 puff for me!!!)

 

[GoForIt]

drfeelgood aka Khanh Pham, D.O.

Congrat on finishing up your med study at COMP (NO puff for you!!!). You make it!!!!

Cry baby as you might, looking back, you cannot deny that COMP had done right by you, though.

I heard that COMP has been growing by leaps and bounds that past few years. I think it is growing in the right direction. Sure, you got pissed when it took away your library, but then later it gave you a brand new library which is bigger and better. You might get upset with the construction for the Vet school, but I think it's a good addition to the school. Prospective students might ridicule about COMP's campus, but then how many campus have they looked at? Compare COMP's campus with NYU, I will take COMP's anyday. Yet tons of people would LOVE to go to NYU med school b/c it's one of the best.

Someday when you work at Tuft (I was there. It was near Chinatown, Boston) with snow falling down like crazy, you might eventually wake up and CHEERISH the good time you had at COMP .

Take care and good luck with your PDT. Hope you will say a few good things about COMP to the easterner every once in a while.

 

[Careofme]

I'm curious to know why there arent that many university-affiliated matches this year.

Also, most of the matches seem to be on the west Coast -does this mean a decreased chance of match on the east coast?

Careofme

 

[drfeelgood]

Most people from WU/COMP are from UCI,UCLA,or UCSD (and other west-coast schools) so they tend to remain in the WEST-SIDE!!!!!!

as for non-university based programs....

a lot of my classmates are holistically inclined, some of the top students are doing OMT in small DO FP programs.

I have shady grades so I had to go east-coast (bOSTON).

iF I HADN'T been such a SLACKER, i could have remained in LA.

lates...

 

[Careofme]

Oh okay..I didnt realize that Tufts-New England Medical Center was not as competitive as other programs...sorry you "had to go" to the East-Side..its not all that bad here though. 😎

 

[melancholy]

I wouldn't mind going to Tufts.. Massachusetts isn't a bad place to live although I'd probably be freezing for quite a few years. 😛

 

[psyche]

To leave smog-shrouded, dreary, culturally challenged Pomona for Boston does not seem like much of a hardship. How provincial can you get? The nation's finest doctors happen to train in Boston...that may take some of the sting out of leaving the charms of the "Inland Empire."

 

[drfeelgood]

LOL

 

[YellowRose]

the 2002 class did get into some good places.

 

[MOZ]

hey drfeelgood, i'm interested anesthesiology and have a few questions for you. did you take the usmle and would you recommend taking it for ama programs? did you face any difficulties being a DO applying to MD programs? any light you can shed on these questions will be much appreciated. congrats on getting into a great program!

 

[drfeelgood]

•••quote:•••Originally posted by MOZ:
•hey drfeelgood, i'm interested anesthesiology and have a few questions for you. did you take the usmle and would you recommend taking it for ama programs? did you face any difficulties being a DO applying to MD programs? any light you can shed on these questions will be much appreciated. congrats on getting into a great program!•••••Yeah I took USMLE step 1 and Comlex 1 and 2. I didn't take USMLE 2 because i did good on Comlex 2. plus I didn't want to shell out another $350. I think a solid score on USMLE would be a 205-215. Plus... try to do a rotation at the place you want to go and shine. I didn't rotate in Boston and i only had a generic Anesthesia Rec. Letter. About being a DO and applying Allopathic... They were pretty cool with me being a DO except for the program director at Univ. of Pittsburg. She was pretty hostile and kept on complaining that one of her co-workers who is a DO is not board certified by the MD boards. (Only the DO Anesthesia boards) anyways... Pitt is a great program, but i can'T imagine how it would be like for a young Asian male to live in THE PITTS. Hope this helps.