Thread: 2012 ERAS/Residency Interview Season

It's that time of the year again!

Specialty: Internal Medicine
Visa status: Canadian requiring J1
Stats: GPA (3.95), Step 1/2/CS (>240/99, pass)
LOR: medicine (2), pediatrics (1), surgery (1)
ERAS status: everything uploaded as of Sept 1, except for LOR from medicine chair uploaded Sept 16
Programs applied to: 105 programs, mainly university and university-affiliated with some community

Offers: 19
Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts
Pennsylvania: Allegheny General Hospital,
Connecticut: University of Connecticut, Bridgeport Hospital, Norwalk Hospital
New York: SUNY Upstate, Albany Medical College, AECOM – Jacobi, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Staten Island University Hospital, LICH, Morristown Memorial, NYHQ, Rochester General Hospital, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
New Jersey: UMDNJ, Seton Hall University
Other: University of Louisville, University of Hawaii

Interviews attended: 6
Interviews cancelled: 1

Rejections: 19
Requires green card: Wright State University
No reason provided: University of Vermont, Yale University, University of South Florida, Johns Hopkins/Sinai, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Medical College of Georgia, Drexel University College of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Northwestern, Lenox Hill Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, UMDNJ-RWJMS, UMDNJ-Camden Cooper, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, SUNY Downstate, University of Buffalo, Tufts, Michigan State University

great job guys! looks like this should be a good match season for us...

one question... what do people mean when they say unopposed program?

also did any of the current interviewees apply and interview in places that require ecfmg cert at the time of applying?? i've heard mixed experiences that you can apply and send out emails explaining that you will be certified and give them a timeline of expected graduation/certification etc... is this true from your experience- did you get interviews at such places? did they bring this up as an issue? i was surprised to see that maimo im does that... considering their long hx with sgu...

Unopposed mean they are the only residency at that hospital. If you are going for family, your best experience will be at an unopposed program. We don't have to fight other residents for patients or procedures. Like for our OB, we get all the delivers for the 2 OB groups here in town plus our clinic patients. I reached my required number of deliveries for the entire 3 years (40 total; I have 41 vaginal and 17 c/s) well before Christmas (less than 6 months) except for my continuity patients. We also do all the peds patients too.

Originally Posted by masalamonkey

also did any of the current interviewees apply and interview in places that require ecfmg cert at the time of applying?? i've heard mixed experiences that you can apply and send out emails explaining that you will be certified and give them a timeline of expected graduation/certification etc... is this true from your experience- did you get interviews at such places? did they bring this up as an issue? i was surprised to see that maimo im does that... considering their long hx with sgu...

I'll be honest, I didn't read far enough back into this thread to see where Maimo IM comes up with requiring your ECFMG certification already. Either way, I know first hand that Maimo IM will interview people from SGU who don't have their ECFMG certification yet but are expected to graduate in May/June 2012.

FYI -- don't really think Maimo IM should really be considered your pinnacle of IM programs out there *cough*probation*cough*...that's a matter of subjective (and ACGME) opinion