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

you need to talk to the MSPE people specifically, not your clinical coordinator (if that's who you meant by advisor)....and thank god I don't have to apply to CaRMS!!

Yea i spoke to the mspe person... i just couldn't remember the word... emailed him like a week ago and a reminder email again this week.. and nothing... i hate not being able to walk into an office and talking to a person

hmmm, that's really strange, the other one (the lady C.P.) gets back to me within an hour usually....I would send him another e-mail, is there a phone contact for him at the bottom of his e-mail? Try that too...

10 total now - 9 community programs in NY, NJ and Pittsburgh, one University program in NJ. One rejection from Yale...

One more for me (Mid Atlantic region), bringing me up to 8, and a bunch of rejections to share:

Scottsdale, AZ
UC Denver
Bayfront, FL
Mayo, MN
Group Health and UW, WA

I think it should be mandatory to provide a reason as to why you are being rejected. I guess though that I should be happy that I'm even receiving some sort of email acknowledging the failure to be selected for an interview.

If you applied to Colorado for Family Medicine you should know (unless it has changed from last year) that the programs want you to be able to be licensed starting your first year. IMG/FMG can only be licensed after completing 1 year of residency so you don't meet the minimum requirements for their family medicine programs and will not get an interview. However, this may have changed from last year.

Originally Posted by Crispy

If you applied to Colorado for Family Medicine you should know (unless it has changed from last year) that the programs want you to be able to be licensed starting your first year. IMG/FMG can only be licensed after completing 1 year of residency so you don't meet the minimum requirements for their family medicine programs and will not get an interview. However, this may have changed from last year.

I actually wasn't aware of that - I knew about the 1 year requirement but not (until now, having just looked up state-specific licensure req's) about the 3 years before licensure for IMGs. Too late for me, but hopefully next year's applicants can save the money.

If anyone else is curious, details can be found here

Originally Posted by Crispy

If you applied to Colorado for Family Medicine you should know (unless it has changed from last year) that the programs want you to be able to be licensed starting your first year. IMG/FMG can only be licensed after completing 1 year of residency so you don't meet the minimum requirements for their family medicine programs and will not get an interview. However, this may have changed from last year.

still the same this year, the reason I didn't apply to anywhere in CO....

Seems pretty criminal to take money for something you're not able to properly apply for