We received this email through our student affairs today, might end up being a good site.
Included in this email is some info regarding a service
() which allows you to share resources/expenses
with others on the interview trail. I have at least verified that Dr.
Adam J. Oppenheimer is indeed a PGY1 in Plastic Surgery at the
University of Michigan. The service should be available beginning next
week. --Steve
My name is Adam Oppenheimer and I am an intern at the University of
Michigan. Having just experienced the interview trail last year, I know
what a daunting, exhausting, and expensive process it can be.
Somewhere between Baltimore and Buffalo, I realized that it was
difficult to
network with other applicants, making it hard to pool our resources. On
more than one occasion, I found myself in a rental car caravan with 4 or
5
other applicants, each of us driving separately to the same event, only
to
return to the same hotel and stay in separate rooms!
This kind of inefficiency was costly; I personally took out an
additional
"residency relocation" loan for the very purpose of travel expenses
along
the trail. I know many of my friends and colleagues have done the same.
As a solution, I have developed a TOTALLY FREE website that allows 4th
year
students to network and share their resources along the interview trail.
This site allows members to enter their "trailstops" into a secure,
protected database. (The only requirement is a "school.edu" email
address
for the purposes of added security.) Through an internal search engine,
the
site matches applicants based on shared interview dates, locations, and
subspecialty programs. Email listings are then provided to applicants
with
matching interview plans. This website provides a means for applicants
to
pool their resources and share their interview trails with each other.
In
so doing, this site saves money for 4th year medical students, and
allows
them to connect with their future colleagues along the trail.
The website will go live next week, at which time I will send out
another
email as a reminder.
This is a service that we need. Please forward this email to the 4th
year
class and let them know about this exciting new resource.
Or, check out the following link next week when the site is fully
operational, and share it with your 4th years at that time, as you see
fit.
I wish I had this resource during my interview trail.
If you have received this email in error, please forward it to the
student
affairs office. And please feel free to contact me directly with any
questions or concerns that you may have.
Best,
Adam J. Oppenheimer, MD
Surgical Resident
University of Michigan Hospitals
[url=mailto]adamoppe@med.umich.edu[/url]
