Interview Offers Thread 2009-2010

so any idea when the texas (-JPS), Louisiana, Florida, mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Missourri, Cali, Colorado, Utah, New York, Mass, schools are going to start notifications?? Has anyone heard from any of these??

yale question: yes, emailed contact early on and she said they were not required for app to be considered.

next question about southern schools: look at last years thread and check the dates that interview invites were sent out for each program. pretty similar so far.

I'm sooo bummed out about yale

Two years in a row from them. C&Hobbes, I hate you, you stole me spot arggh! haha

Anyway..

Akron General: email 11/3 - interview any Wednesday in Nov/Dec/Jan
Atlanta Medical Center email 10/27 - interview 12/10, 1/8, 1/15
Case Western Reserve email 9/15, 10/7,10/15 - interview 11/7, 12/12, 1/9
Carolinas Medical Center email 10/26, 11/3 - interview 12/7, 12/11, 12/18
Duke - email 10/27, 11/3; interview 11/20, 12/18
Forth Worth/JPS email 10/7 - interview 11/20, 12/4, 12/11, 1/15
Geisinger email 11/2 -- interviews on 12/10 and 12/16
Georgetown email 11/2 - interview 12/11, 12/12
Henry Ford email 11/2 - interviews 11/17, 12/3, 12/11, 1/15, 1/19
Iowa email 10/29 - interview 12/11-12, 12/18-19, 1/8-9
Marshall snail mail 10/5, 10/15 - interview 11/20-21, 12/11-12, 1/8-9
Mayo Clinic 11/6 - Interview 12/12
McLaren email 10/13 - interview 12/9, 1/13
Medical College of Georgia email 10/30 - interview 12/5, 1/9
Michigan State/Kalamazoo phone call 11/2 - interview 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 1/2, 1/9
Penn State-Hershey email 10/23 - interview 12/4, 12/7
South Alabama email 10/01 - interview 11/30, 12/07, 12/14
SUNY at Buffalo email 10/22 - interview 12/3, 1/7
SUNY Upstate (Syracuse) email 11/4 - interview 12/19, 1/9
Texas Tech email 11/3 - interview 12/3, 12/9
Thomas Jefferson email 11/3 - interview 12/12
University of Arizona email 11/4 - interview 12/4, 12/12
University of Arkansas email 11/3 - interview 11/24, 12/1, 12/8
University of Chicago email 11/6 - interview 12/4, 12/5
University of Cincinnati email 11/4 - interview 12/5
University of Missouri-Kansas City email 11/3 - interview 12/3, 12/17, 1/7
University of Nebraska email 10/26 - interview 12/5, 12/19, 1/9
University of Vermont, email 11/2 - interview 12/4, 12/7
University of North Carolina email 11/2 - interview 12/12, 1/16
University of Wisconsin email 11/3 - interview 12/8, 12/14, 1/5, 1/11
U Pitt email 10/12 - interview 12/3, 12/4
UCONN email 11/3 - interview 12/4, 12/5
UCSF-Fresno email 10/28 - interview any Thursday or Friday between November 6th and January 31st
Wake email 10/05 - interview 11/20, 11/21, 12/11, 12/12
Wayne State email 9/18, 9/21 - interview 10/2, 10/30, 11/13
West Virginia email 11/4 - interview 12/12, 1/9
Yale email 11/6 - interview 11/20, 12/11

Same here.
I was 'ranked to match' at pitt last year.. no interview from them this year.

Go figure.
Mayo is the first duplicate. I almost don't want to go

Iliiz, did you like Mayo when you interviewed there last year?

Turning down Case Western and Mayo for Jefferson...I hope they are worth it...

mayo is mayo.. it's a great place to train.. but I think it's one of those specialized places that you really have to decide if that's what you want.

it's highly family oriented.. I guess it has to be. It's cold and lonely up there.. not much around. That's why it's good to have a wife (or husband) or something along those lines...

The every day case load (and hot trauma) is very low.. lots of revisions and complex cases, etc. etc.

Like every program.. it has its plusses and minus.. and those pluses, etc. are really determined by you.. the applicant.

Like, they follow the preceptorship model. You work with one attending at any given time. Not as part of a team. I'm sorry, they're not attendings, they're 'consultants'.

They have a beefy orthopaedic curriculum in your second year (i believe) where for 6 months (or something like that) you only learn orthopaedics.. It's like going back to med school.. for othopaedics.

Because it's mayo, a lot of the medicine aspects of what you're doing are taken care for you. Ie, if you have a patient with diabetes, they automatically are managed by another team. On one hand, that's great, because in a situation like that, you get to focus on ortho.. on the other hand, you could be construed as getting soft because you're not doing it yourself.

It's push and pull with all of the programs. The truth is, they're all great in one way or another. Some may not work out for you for whatever reason (it's in a big city, blah blah.)

When I approached this last year.. in my mind I went down and analyzed every program to the most bitter detail. I approached it systematically. In the end, every program was totally different, so much so that you couldn't analyze it. But, despite these mega differences... they're really all the same!

So you go with your gut.. which place gave you a good vibe. Who cares about all of the other hooplah. It doesn't mean anything. Sure, going to a top 10 place is nice...but how much you want that needs to be determined by you, and what your career goals are.

But in the end... be happy to have anything, don't split hairs.

I'll be happy to train at East Bumble University (which is even further away that Bumble University