Cardio application discussion thread: '08-09 version

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synergy32 said:
Did anyone else get this email from Montefiore:

"There have been a few questions posed in reference to the email that I sent out yesterday, so I am going to clarify.
By now you have received notice that you have been selected to interview at Montefiore Medical Center and hopefully you have been scheduled for that interview.
At this time I ask that if you have an addendum (something added, or a
supplement to) to your ERAS application please email it to me..."

Just curious, did they send this to everyone or just people they are interviewing. I never received a notice about an interview and can't get ahold of anyone there.
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I did not get it - I think it means you got an interview. Call first thing in the morning EST to verify.
Members don't see this ad.
 
I received this e-mail as well. I don't know what to think, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. I will call first thing tomorrow morning to get to the bottom of this.
 
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California said:
I received this e-mail as well. I don't know what to think, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. I will call first thing tomorrow morning.
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I got this email also. a surprise, among best programs on my list if it is true.
 
synergy32 said:
Did anyone else get this email from Montefiore:

"There have been a few questions posed in reference to the email that I sent out yesterday, so I am going to clarify.
By now you have received notice that you have been selected to interview at Montefiore Medical Center and hopefully you have been scheduled for that interview.
At this time I ask that if you have an addendum (something added, or a
supplement to) to your ERAS application please email it to me..."

Just curious, did they send this to everyone or just people they are interviewing. I never received a notice about an interview and can't get ahold of anyone there.
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Hi Synergy,

I have an interview from Montefiore and received this email too.
This email was sent in response to an email yesterday, which had a typo making it confusing to understand. I believe that people called and emailed her after yesterday's email and then she sent out this email to clarify.

But in any event, you should clarify with them.

Hope it helps!!
 
roxid said:
Hi Synergy,

I have an interview from Montefiore and received this email too.
This email was sent in response to an email yesterday, which had a typo making it confusing to understand. I believe that people called and emailed her after yesterday's email and then she sent out this email to clarify.

But in any event, you should clarify with them.

Hope it helps!!
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It seems like another mistake by PC. Thank you for the info.
 
Did Goergia medical college send IV? I remember their plan is to send first week of March.
 
Not sure how true, but I heard from a friend that med.coll of georgia plans to send out invites sometime around the 3rd-4th week of this month...
 
i'm assuming university of kentucky already offered interviews?
 
First report of UK giving out interviews was Jan 17th
 
Just FYI. I recall some time back someone stated that USC no longer has a program. Just thought I would clarify that.

USC lost their accreditation during the July 2009 interview season and did not match a class for July 2009. They lost it over inadequate supervision during call at 1 of their 3 hospitals (the private USC University Hospital). The issue was remedied by fellows no longer taking call at that hospital (now covering 2 [County USC and Norris Cancer Center] instead of 3 hospitals - separate fellow on call for each). This is my understanding from what I have people within the division have told me. As of early February, the ACGME reinstated their accreditation and they have already recruited a class of 5 for July 2009 (not through match). They are currently interviewing (not sure if they sent out yet) for the July 2010 class which will be through the match. They also have a new PD (Dr. Matthews)
 
USC has not started handing out interviews yet. They just finished interviews for 2009 class. They plan to start offering interviews in the next couple of weeks. (i called)
 
Members don't see this ad :)
Looks like ERAS has quited down!!!
At least give me some rejections..............
 
has Cedar Sinai sent interviews??

- rejection from Scripps in California..
 
EPADHA said:
has Cedar Sinai sent interviews??

- rejection from Scripps in California..
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when did u apply to scripps and did u get snail/email? thanks. haven't heard anything from scripps. nutting from cedars.
 
Cook County: Rejection
 
does anyone know if indiana is still sending out interviews?
 
Rejection Cook county
 
FYI: Yale offered interviews to a number of people already.
I have not hear from them, so you can probably assume its a rejection just waiting to happen.
 
synergy32 said:
FYI: Yale offered interviews to a number of people already.
I have not hear from them, so you can probably assume its a rejection just waiting to happen.
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Thanks. I guess I'll place that one on my "ignored, assume rejection" pile.
 
Rejection from Cincinnati. Seems like March is all about rejections.
 
there are only a handful of programs left. I think interview offers are about done, given most interviews occur in March and April. Major disappointment for some of us.
 
Rejections:

U cin
Ut Houston
Cook County
Montefiore
Scripps
 
dragonfly99 said:
My thoughts are that the US state and national governments need to stop being such cheapskates and actually fund some more medical school spots for US students so that we actually produce some number of graduating med students that is a bit closer to the number of residency spots that we have.

I have nothing against FMG's and in fact have several FMG friends, but our system in the US is just crazy. We have all these US college students who are qualified to go to med school, yet every year we are rejecting a whole bunch of them just because we have not nearly enough spots in med school to fill our residencies. We have people who got some of the highest academic honors in their colleges and then scored >> the national average on the MCAT and did all these volunteer hours in hospitals, etc. plus other service hours, yet still some of them just won't be able to get into ANY med school. They may give up, just wait another year, or become desperate and go to the Caribbean or some other country just to try and get a medical education. This is despite the fact that these students and their families have been paying taxes to the US and state governments which fund medical care and medical education. Yet every year we import thousands and thousands of students from other nations to fill up our residencies...I think IM has maybe at most 60-65% US students or so. It just doesn't make any sense from an objective standpoint. Sure, it makes sense to have some level of immigration, particularly for faculty who are famous/brilliant in their fields, but it doesn't make sense to exclude lots and lots of bright, qualified young US students from the entire training system before they even begin, and then bring in an equal number of bright young people from other countries.

However, I certainly don't blame individual FMG's for coming here and taking advantage of a good opportunity, and most of them are very smart, given they all passed the USMLE and for some of them English is not even their 1st/main language.
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Good point. But remember how great the J-1 visa system is. you think these American kids are going to want to practice in impoverished and underserved areas? No. There is a reason that when I look through the records of tranfers to our hospital that all I see is a bunch of foreign names. Few US trained people want to practice out there.
 
I don't know, Tibor,
I'm from a fairly rural area (30,000 person town but no major cities within 2 hours and surrounding area is farm country). You have a point about a lot of people not wanting to practice in rural areas, but I would. I think a lot of people who grew up where I grew up would. I don't really think a lot of those FMG docs WANT to work in those areas either, and a lot of them leave after their required time expires. A person born and bred in such a rural area would be more likely to want to stay, I would think.
One of the problems is that these people don't get into medical school.

US med schools are filled mostly with people who are from urban and suburban areas, whose families are fairly well off, and quite a few who have parents who are physicians ( = connections to great shadowing and volunteer opportunities and understanding what to do to succeed in the med school applications process). I was only one of maybe 3-4 people total, out of a class of >120, from my state at the private med school I attended (in-state), and 2 of the people were from the large city where the med school was. I don't have any definite solutions to this, but I think one solution would just be to have more medical school spots...you could try to recruit more small town folks to fill them, but I generally don't agree with having definite affirmative-action type programs that accept only "rural" students because people will find ways to take advantage of those. There was a guy from my high school who got into our state med school under their rural scholars program, whose father was an attorney and who lived in town (not on a working farm) but whose family estate was somehow designated as a farm/rural area. He's now a sub-sub-specialist in surgery (i.e. not family practice, IM, peds, etc.).
 
Cook county invite last week

anyone hear from university of miami yet?
 
Anybody got an interview at UT Memphis
 
I did. I have heard the interview process is malignant? Any new about the program?
 
Has anyone heard regarding an invitation to interview from Stanford? Seems late in the process, but no one has posted a *yes* here. Good luck, everyone!
 
Rejection from
Advocate luthern, IL
North Shore LIJ, NY
:scared:
 
called stanford last week, they have already interview all internal applicants and have selected the group for first set of interviews. as of the time i called they still had a few interviews left to give out but didn't sound too promising. good luck bro.
 
any updates on cedars sinai, scripps, ut houston?

on a side note, it appears that usc was granted a 1 year accreditation for 2009 year after they re-applied as a new program. They matched 5 people outside the match and are currently reviewing files. The caveat to the 2010 match is that at this time, there is no guarantee that USC would get re-accredited for the 2010 year (since they are on a 1-year accreditation schedule). This means that if someone from our cycle matches for july 2010, they might be out of luck if accreditation revoked again. However, it is unlikely that this would happen since it would totally cripple the Los Angeles area healthcare system.
 
How many interviews have you received so far?

The last time I received an interview was last week. I have 10 so far.

It's difficult to ask my colleagues, since cards is so competitive and ppl tend to be secretive about their interview offers. We have 10+ residents applying for cards in my program and that's too many for the inside seats our fellowship program has. Some of my colleagues would say/suggest that they only have a couple of interviews...ha...guess what, we bumped to each other on some interviews and more to come. I also found out that some ppl actually secretly applied despite saying to everyone that they applied to other fellowships or that they are not applying this year.

An anonymous forum would be a good place to ask this question because it is more likely to be an honest answer.

M
 
Called Mayo clinic yesterday, they said the decisions are about to be finalized. They did not give any time frame but I guess 1-2 weeks
 
Any body heard from Baystate,university of south florida,Michigan state,St John Hospital,wayne state?
 
Any word on UT Houston? Here's an email I received:

"Hello again!!!!
I am so sorry to announce that my efforts to evaluate applications electronically have not been as well received by my faculty as I had hoped. With that being stated, we are STILL reviewing paper applications so have not yet extended invitations to interview.
Please make a note of our new interview dates: April 3, 10 and 24. I hope to have more information very soon.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Best regards,"
 
Mota tukra,
I have not heard from Baystate.
I didn't apply to the Michigan state & other programs you mentioned.

M
 
Seriously? Status of 45 programs? You've got some brass friend.

St. Lukes Roosevelt and Drexel are inviting.
 
ohohoho said:
any one heard from those program?
1.
2. University of Alabama Medical Center Program,
3. Hospital of St Raphael Program,
4. University of Connecticut Program,
5. Christiana Care Health System Program,
6. Jackson Memorial Hospital/Jackson Health System Program
7. University of Florida Program,
8. University of South Florida, College of Medicine
9. Medical College of Georgia Program,
10. Indiana University School of Medicine Program,
11. St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Program, Indianapolis, IN
12. University of Kansas Medical Center Program, Kansas City, KS
13. University of Kentucky Medical Center Program, Lexington, KY
14. Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program, Shreveport, LA
15. Louisiana State University Program, New Orleans, LA
16. Tulane University Program, New Orleans, LA
17. Caritas St Elizabeth's Medical Center Program, Boston, MA
18. Lahey Clinic Program, Burlington, MA
19. St Vincent Hospital Program, Worcester, MA
20. Henry Ford Hospital Program, Detroit, MI
21. Michigan State University Program, East Lansing, MI
22. St John Hospital and Medical Center Program, Detroit, MI
23. University of Mississippi Medical Center Program, Jackson, MS
24. Wake Forest Univ School of Medicine Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship, Winston-Salem, NC
25. University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program, Omaha, NE
26. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Program, Lebanon, NH
27. University of New Mexico Program, Albuquerque, NM
28. Lenox Hill Hospital Program, New York, NY
29. Maimonides Medical Center Program, Brooklyn, NY
30. New York University School of Medicine Training Program in Cardiovascular Disease, New York, NY
31. SUNY Upstate Medical University Program, Syracuse, NY
32. SUNY at Stony Brook Program, Stony Brook, NY
33. St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Program, New York, NY
34. Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland Program, Cleveland, OH
35. Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Program, Philadelphia, PA
36. Allegheny General Hospital Program, Pittsburgh, PA
37. Drexel University College of Medicine (MCP Hahnemann) Program, Philadelphia, PA
38. Geisinger Health System Program, Danville, PA
39. Lankenau Hospital Program, Wynnewood, PA
40. Temple University Program, Philadelphia, PA
41. University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program, Galveston, TX
42. University of Texas at Houston Program, Houston, TX
43. University of Utah Program, Salt Lake City, UT
44. University of Vermont Program, Burlington, VT
45. Aurora Health Care Program, Milwaukee, WI
46. West Virginia University Program, Morgantown, WV
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I know that these places are Inviting or have invited - St. Raphael, Christina HC, U of F, Indiana, LSU, Tulane, Alegheny, Lankenau, Aurora
 
Email rejection from Mayo clinic today
 
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