Pulmonary/Critical Care 2012-2013 Application Cycle

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For those that interviewed last year and now are fellows, I have a few questions:

Can you tell us how many interviews you had and how many did you go?

What number on you ranking list did you get matched to? Specifically, did you get matched to your top 3 programs?

Thank you very much and congrats on your achievement on becoming a fellow.
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It's great to see the thread building into a discussion and lots of really important info being shared!!

Got IVs from tufts, univ of Florida Gainesville, univ of bufallo, cook county, UTMB Galveston and Wayne state Detroit. Please share any info re these programs!

Good luck everyone. Hope we all land where we want to!! (of course, if we don't know where to go, that's another story:))
 
How is the program at Indiana University ?
 
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sstoy said:
So I have questions about a few places with which I am not familiar with and neither are anyone of my attendings.

Specifically the following programs:

UC Davis
Brown
Wake forest
Loyola
Nyu

Also people i know seem to have some second hand knowledge of, but no first hand in regards to
Utah
UNC
OHSU (Portland)



A previous post seemed to suggest nyu is unbearably brutal. But was wondering if there were other opinions?

I am excited about the other programs mainly based on location or intrigue.


To describe what I am looking for: I do not want bench research, would prefer clinical research specifically outcome and cost effective based with a public health/mass implementation bent. At the same time I do love all things cutting edge, so despite that int plum may go against cost effective strategies I do think it sounds fun to learn about, however I also understand there are post grad training opportunities to learn that so learning the fundamental science/physiology of the field is of the utmost importance. I am further interested in a procedure laden critical care training with opportunities for fellows to place lines (though have a ton of then from reidency), chest tubes, intubation, and any other critical care procedures.

I am going to assume most every place has the fundamentals of resucitation, cooling, sepsis, vent management, tox, , blah blah blah all down pat. So the differentiation for me would be: type of research expected, brutality of call and frequency of in house call (I am not opposed to call and feel flailing just to keep your own not to mention your patients' heads above water is the greatest way to learn), and opportunities for procedures are at the top of my list for the program itself. Ranking equally will be working with attendings and fellows who tend to offer positive reinforcement and constructive criticism. I tend to shut down in a "beat you down until you prove yourself" environment. Lastly Location will play a role for me, with preference but that's an entirely individual thing. Thank you everyone for any and all help!
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I thought Wake had a nice program. The PD is a great guy, super laid back interview day. Mostly clinical research, though you can go looking for basic science if you want and they do some high quality stuff there especially in the area of asthma genomics - I don't know if they are translating any of that yet into animals models. ICU is big and busy. I didn't really get a sense of the pulmonary side of things, but they do have a large referral area - no transplant or CF. No VA. Call is home call but can be busy. They have IP and an informal IP fellowship that takes one fellow a year (I don't know how it's funded, so ask if they still have it). Fellows seemed VERY happy - I got along with them very well, probably better than any other spot. I thought the hospital and community were very nice - I actually kind of fell in love with the area a little while I was there. I ranked them in my top 3.

Loyola was an interesting program. Lacking some of the academic gravitas of say UChicago or NWern, they still had a lot of interesting things going on. THE Tobin lives there and attends the Unit (better know your waveforms!! :laugh: - word is he's really a nice guy). PD was a really nice guy - made no bones about the fact that they aren't into basic science research. You get time to do some clinical stuff or physiologic stuff with Tobin, but it's not a research heavy program. Largely clinical. They do, or at least did, have transplant (and unless UChicago fired their program back up, are the only lung transplant in the Chicago area), and that service will keep you busy. Pulm is bread and butter. The ICU is bread and butter. Call is from home but can be busy (I think they generally expect you to go in). The VA is a VA. You get to do rotations and later moonlight at an LTAC, which I thought was a unique experience to many programs, getting experience with long vent weans and trachs. The people were nice. The fellows seemed happy. The main hospital is nice. Loyola is the non-downtown program if that helps or hurts them in your eyes - the hospital itself is kind of in a shady area but some of the surrounding burbs are nice, but I think rent is high.

Utah. Another place that was in my top 3. Lots of critical care. Don't worry about the critical care with a mulch-disciplinary approach over at inter mountain health (you'll round with surgeons, anesthesia, and IM, depending on who is on and covering). Large referral area (look at a map and then look at where the next closest tertiary referral centers would be) . . . pulm is pulm, but because of who is there you and the referral center, you'll see it all. Research time is protected from what I remember, most fellows were doing clinical stuff but they do have have buys doing basic science and the ability to give you more protected time if you need it. Ok. So. It's in Utah. This can turn some people off, but for three years, I figured I could go anywhere, plus if you like outdoor activities you can't beat it's location. You are literally 20 minutes from skiing or snowboarding. You want to get a few runs in before heading home after work? It's totally possible. It seemed like most fellows had bought a home, so I don't think home prices are bad - I don't know about rent. The airport is one of Delta's main hubs so you can get direct flights just about anywhere.
 
siennee said:
For those that interviewed last year and now are fellows, I have a few questions:

Can you tell us how many interviews you had and how many did you go?

What number on you ranking list did you get matched to? Specifically, did you get matched to your top 3 programs?

Thank you very much and congrats on your achievement on becoming a fellow.
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I did 10 interviews and that was probably too many, but I guess I was nervous about it.

I matched to my number 1, this is common in pulmonary and critical care. Almost everyone falls into one of their top three.
 
Just to keep everyone updated from what I found out. (I did this last week as well)
I called all the programs from whom I have not heard anything in regards to interviews or rejections. I still have been unable to connect with anyone in the offices at Tufts, Cedars-Sinai, SUNY Brooklyn, St. Luke-Roosevelt, or NY Methodist. I was able to speak to the coordinator of the following programs they had this to say:


Albert Einstein Beth Israel: Just began reviewing applications, interviews will start to be sent out next week (week of Sept 3)

Arizona: Most everyone should be getting the emails they are mass sending saying they are still reviewing and will send out interviews at the end of the week.

CPMC: Have reviewed applications, sounds like interviews have been sent out, but that there are still some applications "on hold" presumably awaiting other responses from the interviews already sent

Georgetown: Just downloaded applications from ERAS yesterday, are going to be reviewing them through the end of the week, hope to start sending interviews early next week (week of sept 3)

New Mexico: Actively reviewing applications, will start sending out invites likely next week (though not necessarily, they are sending out sleep invites first, and have a separate critical care program only too), have not finalized their interview schedule yet, but plan to start interviews in the second week of September and run them through the end of October. Invitations will continue to be sent until about the last week of September.

Rush: Actively reviewing applications, interviews like to be starting to send out early next week (week of sept 3)

UNC: Are still in the process of reviewing applications, should be sending out the first batch of interviews starting next week (the week of sept 3) and they will continue to review applications and send out interviews for the following two weeks

USC: Are actively reviewing applications, are doing so alphabetically, should be tackling through the letter T today, at least I think that is what they said. Sounds like they are sending out interviews on the fly, but would expect to have everything wrapped up by the end of this week so all interviews should be sent out by early next week (week of sept 3).




So based on this I reviewed the interview invite list and I am a little confused. Weeks ago people were citing invitations at Georgetown, UNC, and USC. However in speaking with their coordinators they are still finalizing reviewing applications, or in the case of USC sending them out on the fly, but sounds like that just started. The people who have received invitations from those programs are likely either internal candidates, have influential connections, or are such powerful rock star candidates that their applications were flagged from the beginning as being outstanding and they reflexively were given an interview without the applications having ever been reviewed. In the case of Georgetown, seeing as how they hadn't even started actually printing applications at all until yesterday I can only assume the interviews sent already are for internal candidates and friends of friends. Regardless it sounds like there continues to be a lot of programs who are still in the process of sending out invites and will continue to do so for the next 2-4 weeks.

Hope that helps to settle some nerves.

Good luck to everyone
 
JDH: Again many thanks for all the helpful feedback, it really does help!
 
jdh71 said:
I did 10 interviews and that was probably too many, but I guess I was nervous about it.

I matched to my number 1, this is common in pulmonary and critical care. Almost everyone falls into one of their top three.
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Thank you for your response! It really helps.
 
jdh71 said:
No problems. Interviewing for fellowship turned out to be really fun. Though I'm sure you're all stressed plenty right now.
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i got rejection from mayo clinic...anybody else?
 
Rejection from Univ. of Rochester. It is a pretty late rejection. I remember they sent out invites months ago.
 
jdh71 said:
No problems. Interviewing for fellowship turned out to be really fun. Though I'm sure you're all stressed plenty right now.
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i have 6 interviews so far....decent clinical and bench research in some....what are the prospects for matching?

are there any programs that offer out of match positions to candidates?
 
srkr said:
i have 6 interviews so far....decent clinical and bench research in some....what are the prospects for matching?

are there any programs that offer out of match positions to candidates?
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You should get a match with 6 interviews. Some programs do offer out of match positions, though most will not.
 
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jdh71 said:
You should get a match with 6 interviews. Some programs do offer out of match positions, though most will not.
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thank you for the response. Can you name some that do offer out of match positions?
 
RUSH started giving out invitations. I got invitation from them today.

Anybody know how the program is..??

Heard it's pretty nice but not 100% sure what kinda program it is.

Anybody ineterviewed there??
 
srkr said:
thank you for the response. Can you name some that do offer out of match positions?
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also is it considered unprofessional if we ask for an out of match position during interview or later?
 
Any one interviewed at East Carolina? Any input?
 
jdh71 said:
Ha. There's been a recent run of questions about places I did interview.

Texas A&M is also a great program, though very much more clinically orientated than some others, which is not a bad thing if you're not planning on a research career, right? Awesome critical care - HUGE (and new as of a few years ago) MICU, tons of bedside procedures, don't worry about the critical care, you'll get plenty. Scott & White had a large referral area that overlaps some with San Antonio and Houston, but still big enough to get a lot of bread and butter plus cancer sent there, but also some of the weirder and rarer stuff, but that may enough up going elsewhere depending on who the referral doc is . . . with that said a lot of the people that train there who do stay in the general area will refer back to S&W. They have a VA which is a VA. One of the strong points that stood out in my mind was their pulmonary hypertension - they have a guy there (or at least they did) that learned pulmonary htn form the guys at UCSD and they'll right heart caths in the office in a special suite designed for it (sweet huh?). When I was interviewing they were also bringing in an IP guy from San Antonio and were planning to start doing a lot more of that as well. I think MICU call is in-house, but they pay you to "moonlight" (or at least they did) for this call - it's unclear to me if the set-up is still the same now. The big drawback is Temple, TX itself. I don't think I've ever seen a university medical center of the caliber of this place in such a small town - makes Rochester look HUGE. I grew up in a small town, so no big deal for me, but it could be a problem for you and they understand this as well. I think they miss out on a lot of talent because of the location. They are, however, about 45-60 minutes away from Austin, TX which is an AWESOME city. So it's a pain in the ass to drive down there but it could be worse. I liked my interview day and the people there.
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does texas a & m does visas for IMG? thanks.
 
jdh71 said:
I did 10 interviews and that was probably too many, but I guess I was nervous about it.

I matched to my number 1, this is common in pulmonary and critical care. Almost everyone falls into one of their top three.
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does this apply to foreign med grads? not that i am stressed out or not confident but just want to get a honest response.
 
jdh71 said:
I have no info on the mayo-florida program
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thanks for the response. I have learnt a lot from this forum...i know what to feel for when i go for an interview and what i need in life now and in future. gr8 thanks to all.
 
7 rejections no interviews yet, starting to become concerned since I only applied to 33 programs.
 
Please advice
In interview ,the most difficult question for me to answer is to answer "do you have any questions".I really don't know what to ask the faculty specifically.Can you guys please share your experience/thoughts what are the questions to be asked to the faculty.I really appreciate the input.
 
pccm said:
Please advice
In interview ,the most difficult question for me to answer is to answer "do you have any questions".I really don't know what to ask the faculty specifically.Can you guys please share your experience/thoughts what are the questions to be asked to the faculty.I really appreciate the input.
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Well.

What do you want to do with your career?
 
Does anyone have any info about either of these 2 programs: LSU- Shrevport and Pametto health in south carolina. Thanks in advance
 
pccm said:
I want to practice PCCM in academic center.Not much interest in research though.
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Then ask about the clinical experience. If you've not heard about the transplant service much, you can ask about that, or perhaps you'd like to know if they are doing any ECMO. You could ask how they are trying to handle bad asthma or if they do any of the newer invasive monitoring by Flotrac and the like. Find out what kind of cases are seen in the pulmonary clinic and if they have specialists in ILD or CF. Find out how does the pulmonary htn there, pulm or cards.

Those could be a few back pocket topics you could pull out when they ask if you have any questions. It's also not bad form to keep a list of questions and look at it during an interview. When they ask you if you have any further questions, just be like, "yeah, let me take a look at my notes, pull out your questions, and ask one or two off of your list".
 
Has anybody heard anything from Stanford for Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship?
 
Havent heard anything from Stanford.

Current fellows - do people usually hear anything this late in the interview season (i.e. by the time interviews have started)? Or its usually very rare and only when people cancel interviews?
 
ResidentMD said:
Havent heard anything from Stanford.

Current fellows - do people usually hear anything this late in the interview season (i.e. by the time interviews have started)? Or its usually very rare and only when people cancel interviews?
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This is the first year that interviews have been done this way. Hard to know.

If you don't have REAL research chops - as in you are planning a research career, not just, "Oh, I'd like to try research and see if I like it," but rather you are a researcher and want to continue research. You want to work in a research lab most of your time, and your application and CV don't SCREAM that, don't expect an invite from Stanford.
 
Got calls from Loma Linda University and Medical College of Wisconsin today, How is Medical college of Wisconsin pulmonary program? any input
 
I have been scanning these forums for awhile, this is my first post.
I am an US born IMG, graduate from a community program. I have 3 publications, but only 1 case report pending in CHEST.
My USMLE scores are in the high 80s/low 90s. However, I do have very, very good letters of recommendation from pulm/critical care doctors.
I am getting a little worried since I applied to about 55 programs so far, had about 5 rejections, 1 interview invite only.
However, I called a few programs and was told that many didn't even REVIEW my application yet.
Should I be worried? I'm hoping I'm not the only one here who isn't a complete all star =)
 
frozen83 said:
Got calls from Loma Linda University and Medical College of Wisconsin today, How is Medical college of Wisconsin pulmonary program? any input
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I work with an attending that trained there. Sounds fairly solid. Largely clinical program from what I understand.
 
Adding Drexel, Rush, Cook County Loma Linda, MCW.

AGH
Albert Einstein (Philly)
Arizona
Baylor
Brigham
Brown
Boston U
Carilion Clinic
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado
Columbia
Cook County
Cornell (Queens)
Cornell (Presbyterian)
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Eastern Tennessee
East Carolina University
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly Med College of GA)
Henry Ford
Indiana University
Iowa University
LSU
Loma Linda
Louisville
Loyola
Maryland
Mayo (Rochester)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Minnesota
Miami
Montefiore (Bronx)
MUSC
North Carolina
NYU
OHSU
Ohio State
Penn State
Rochester
RUSH
Stony Brook
Texas Southwestern
Texas Tech
TJUH (Jefferson)
Tufts
Tulane
UAB
UC Davis
UCLA
UCLA Harbor
UC San Diego
UCSF
USC + LAC
UIC
Utah
UTMB Galveston
University of Chicago
University of Florida Jacksonville
University of Florida Gainesville
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Oklahoma
University of S. Alabama
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin
Vandy
Vermont
Virginia
Wake Forrest
Winthrop
Yale
 
Adding MGH, Upenn, Stanford, Case Western, And MSKCC. Has anyone heard back from Mt. Sinai?

AGH
Albert Einstein (Philly)
Arizona
Baylor
Brigham
Brown
Boston U
Case Western
Carilion Clinic
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado
Columbia
Cook County
Cornell (Queens)
Cornell (Presbyterian)
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Eastern Tennessee
East Carolina University
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly Med College of GA)
Henry Ford
Indiana University
Iowa University
LSU
Loma Linda
Louisville
Loyola
Maryland
MGH
Mayo (Rochester)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Minnesota
Miami
Montefiore (Bronx)
MUSC
North Carolina
NYU
OHSU
Ohio State
Penn State
Rochester
RUSH
Stanford
Stony Brook
Texas Southwestern
Texas Tech
TJUH (Jefferson)
Tufts
Tulane
UAB
UC Davis
UCLA
UCLA Harbor
UC San Diego
UCSF
USC + LAC
UIC
Upenn
Utah
UTMB Galveston
University of Chicago
University of Florida Jacksonville
University of Florida Gainesville
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Oklahoma
University of S. Alabama
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin
Vandy
Vermont
Virginia
Wake Forrest
Winthrop
Yale
 
Also adding Cedars Sinai

AGH
Albert Einstein (Philly)
Arizona
Baylor
Brigham
Brown
Boston U
Case Western
Carilion Clinic
Cedars Sinai
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado
Columbia
Cook County
Cornell (Queens)
Cornell (Presbyterian)
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Eastern Tennessee
East Carolina University
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly Med College of GA)
Henry Ford
Indiana University
Iowa University
LSU
Loma Linda
Louisville
Loyola
Maryland
MGH
Mayo (Rochester)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Minnesota
Miami
Montefiore (Bronx)
MUSC
North Carolina
NYU
OHSU
Ohio State
Penn State
Rochester
RUSH
Stanford
Stony Brook
Texas Southwestern
Texas Tech
TJUH (Jefferson)
Tufts
Tulane
UAB
UC Davis
UCLA
UCLA Harbor
UC San Diego
UCSF
USC + LAC
UIC
Upenn
Utah
UTMB Galveston
University of Chicago
University of Florida Jacksonville
University of Florida Gainesville
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Oklahoma
University of S. Alabama
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin
Vandy
Vermont
Virginia
Wake Forrest
Winthrop
Yale[/QUOTE]
 
To anyone who had gone for an interview at AGH, what time do the interviews end? Tried calling them but the coordinator is away!
 
Anyone know anything about the tulane program?
Thanks
 
MSSM sent out invites 2 weeks ago, they are only interviewing 25 applicants (stated in their email).


notamember82 said:
Adding MGH, Upenn, Stanford, Case Western, And MSKCC. Has anyone heard back from Mt. Sinai?

AGH
Albert Einstein (Philly)
Arizona
Baylor
Brigham
Brown
Boston U
Case Western
Carilion Clinic
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado
Columbia
Cook County
Cornell (Queens)
Cornell (Presbyterian)
Dartmouth
Drexel
Duke
Eastern Tennessee
East Carolina University
Emory
Georgetown
Georgia Health Sciences University (formerly Med College of GA)
Henry Ford
Indiana University
Iowa University
LSU
Loma Linda
Louisville
Loyola
Maryland
MGH
Mayo (Rochester)
Medical College of Wisconsin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Minnesota
Miami
Montefiore (Bronx)
MUSC
North Carolina
NYU
OHSU
Ohio State
Penn State
Rochester
RUSH
Stanford
Stony Brook
Texas Southwestern
Texas Tech
TJUH (Jefferson)
Tufts
Tulane
UAB
UC Davis
UCLA
UCLA Harbor
UC San Diego
UCSF
USC + LAC
UIC
Upenn
Utah
UTMB Galveston
University of Chicago
University of Florida Jacksonville
University of Florida Gainesville
University of Missouri, Columbia
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Oklahoma
University of S. Alabama
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin
Vandy
Vermont
Virginia
Wake Forrest
Winthrop
Yale
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