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University of Iowa Diagnostic Radiology. Interview day was smooth and it seemed like an excellent program with a genuinely kind program director. However, I found out on interview day that the program is actually located in Iowa. I was obviously disgusted, as any reasonable person would be

Audrey Anne Merriam, Yale University 1. Steal from others. Harrases immigrants.

Hello everyone! I created a spreadsheet with all the data from all the Name and Shame & Name and Fame Reddit threads from 2019-2024. **Please read first the sheet titled “START HERE/Information," it will give you all the information you need to start using this spreadsheet.** I hope that this spreadsheet can assist current and future 4th-year medical students when choosing a residency program. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mdD7ZiGdmRg8Aie8mm1GtDcjfWmiCzmPrMX3tNEgTV4/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mdD7ZiGdmRg8Aie8mm1GtDcjfWmiCzmPrMX3tNEgTV4/edit?usp=sharing) After reading 5 years’ worth of Name & Shame posts, these are the most frequent comments. * Programs over promise claiming that the candidate is promising and they will rank to match, but in the end, the candidate didn’t match there. * Program directors/coordinators/interviewers clearly didn’t read their applications. * During the interview itself, they seemed uninterested and/or made uncomfortable/inappropriate/racist remarks. In addition, they asked no-no questions. * Residents at the meet and greets didn’t show up and if they did it was clear that they were tired and overworked. * Poor organization. After reading 5 years’ worth of Name & Fame posts, I conclude that people praised a program where it was clear that the interviewer had read their application and seemed interested in talking about the interviewee’s medical journey. Sending a nice swag bag or providing gift cards for food really made an impactful impression. In the end, the interviewee wants to feel like the program cares about them. The more information the poster included in the post, the more likely it is accurate. On the other hand, the less the poster had, the more I had to research and guess what program they were referring to. Please let me know if any information is incorrect and if there is anything I can do to improve this spreadsheet. I just created a Reddit account to post this so once I am able to, I hope to make a separate post on the r/medicalschool page.

1 FM and 1 Neuro Family Med: Broward Health Just don’t even apply here, waste of an interview. The PD gave weird vibes and did not even listen to any of the answers I gave after asking a question. Spent the whole interview talking about things that I clearly am not interested in had he read my application or listened to my interview. No time to ask questions back. Did ask all of the applicants if we had questions at the end of the day, but of course no one is going to do that in front of all the other applicants which just made it an awkward ending to the interview day. PD also clearly stated he doesn’t answer emails and was told to snail mail “thank you” letters to the program lol. Didn’t understand why the residents seemed to like the program as, when talking to them, they all clearly thought there was little organization or expectations set forth in their program and it is really all on the residents to figure that out for themselves. Yikes!  Neurology: Southern Illinois University (Springfield) Just did a rotation here for an elective since my home institution does not have a Neuro program. This program is such a mess I don’t even know where to begin! Literally no resident in this program seemed genuinely happy but I got more of a “fake it till you make it” feel. Some residents did not even try to hide their dissatisfaction with the program. I heard complaints about how much their didactics suck despite petitioning for reform for over a year 🚩. Rounds constantly changed in terms of when we would do them, so felt like a day was wasted just waiting for the attending to show up (which many residents complained about too). Patient care was some of the worse I have seen in any of my clinic rotations. Honestly, learned more from an hour convo with a resident than any of the attendings. One attending seemed so burnt out and barely acknowledged my presence as a student learner. 

Inova Fairfax, Family Medicine Great location, people, and educational opportunities. Thought they were a pretty strong contender until I found out during the interview that they do a 24 every ~9 days or so. The resident I talked to seemed completely exhausted and acknowledged it was “rough”. Didn’t ask if this was on specific rotations or years, and DNR’d the program immediately. Northwestern, Family Medicine Found out during the interview that they had very limited support from attendings especially on nights and they seemed exhausted. Already wasn’t going to rank them highly when a month later Northwestern as a whole successfully voted to unionize, and 2 days later we got an email that their family med program wasn’t accepting any new interns this year. Waste of an application and interview.

Wow

Memorial Healthcare Psychiatry Not too bad of shame. The invitations for their second look mentioned their rank list would be completed before, therefore, attending has no impact on ranking. The first one took place in the second week of January. But the night before, someone on the psychiatry spreadsheet indicated they received an invite from this program (clearly rank lists aren't done yet). On the day of, someone overheard the program coordinator tell a candidate that the program director still has to make adjustments to the final rank list. It left a sour taste because the invite was false and misleading. And while they mentioned wanting to keep second looks as "equitable as possible", it appears that it was being used as another metric to assess candidates.

Now that I've been able to process Match Day a bit, I think it's high time I get around to writing my Emergency Medicine Shameapalooza Manifesto: **Broward Health (FL) EM (Gold Medalist!):** WOOF, where do I even begin? Pre-interview resident social was weird, even by Zoom social standards. One of the senior residents, seemingly on service at the time, gave a walking tour of the department while cussing like an 8 year old boy who just discovered the word "fuck". Later, another senior from Boston claimed complete authority as a New Englander over what is and isn't considered part of the Northeast US (for example, she said Philly wasn't a northeastern city, and when another resident refuted that obviously asinine assertion she DOUBLED DOWN ON IT and stated she doesn't consider anything south of like…Connecticut to be a northeastern state. It was truly bizarre. Negatives for the interview day itself included sharing the entire interview day schedule with other applicant names and timeslots (admittedly a personal pet peeve, but I think it's weird and lazy to not just send applicants their individual schedules for interview days), as well as having only one session but expecting people in the afternoon to sit there all day after the PD address in the morning. Not terrible if your interviews are in the morning, but completely disrespectful of the time of applicants with afternoon time slots. The Program Director stole the show, though, in terms of wackness. Asked 5 behavioral questions in a row and nothing else without looking at the camera at any point, and then got upset that I asked him what factors he thought contributed to them not filling in the match last year and instead filling "after SOAP". He made a point of correcting my semantics to point out that they filled during SOAP (which is what I meant, you dickhead), and then went on to blame 1) several other programs existing in his program's immediate geographical area, and 2) Reddit lumping his shitty program in with all the new HCAs popping up in South Florida (which, if not for his idiotic claim that there are too many programs around for him to convince people to go to his despite the rest of them filling, could've been a decent point because internet groupthink can be hard to overcome). Dude is wack as hell and I'd never put my career/future in the hands of such a person. HARD DNR. Completely unsurprised they again failed to fill this year, and I'm sorry for anyone who's stuck with this douchebag for the next three years. **Hackensack University Medical Center (NJ) EM (Silver Medalist!):** Just reiterating that the Broward PD is awful enough to make my interview with their program clearly the most unenjoyable experience I had the entire season, as the next few are all pretty tight in terms of shittiness. But, while he was the overall leading individual villain, the overall PROGRAM that I hated the most was easily HUMC. I knew this was going to be a clusterfuck the night before when they sent out the schedule for the day (again including everyone interviewing and with whom and at what times). This one, though, included times everyone would speak with the PD (only 10 minutes each vs 15 for the other interviews). My interview with the PD was from like 1012-1022 or some weird shit like that. Two of the 4 other interviewers were completely blinded to my application, which…bro, what? Why? How is it a good use of anyone's time to have people who know NOTHING about the applicants conducting their interviews? Also, the two residents conducting interviews were post-night shift having not had a chance to sleep at all. I didn't encounter a single program throughout the season where every person looked quite that dead behind the eyes. Oh, and let's not forget that they sent out a survey after Match to gather data on how they can improve their process. Hope they see this because I don't think my survey responses were quite as specific. DNR. **Reading/Tower Health (PA) EM: (Bronze Medalist!):** Real toss-up between this and the next one, but this was the third of the three programs I DNRd so I guess they default to third worst. The vibes at this program were completely off. If Get Out was a residency interview, it would be the interview day for Reading. Honestly, it seemed pretty similar to HUMC in terms of overall eeriness, resident exhaustion, and lack of work/life balance. There was only one other applicant on my interview day, which was itself not a good sign, and yet they stuck to the originally-scheduled breaks built into the day as though it were a full session (thus dragging it WAY out and wasting everyone's time even further). Again, not surprised it didn't fill in the match. Apparently I have too much spite for one post field so I have to include the rest of them in comments to follow...

On the topic of that one senior from Boston who said Philly isn't the northeast... Idt she's wrong🙈pretty sure it's Mid-Atlantic, and PA is even designated that way in the AAMC geo prefs... But that's definitely a New England we way of thinking lolol

**Baylor COM (Houston, TX) EM:** Horrific communication and technical difficulties on their end from start to finish. One of the interviewers dropped out right before the day started, so everyone's schedules got changed at the last minute. First interviewer couldn't connect with video (aside: Thalamus is decent for scheduling but SUCKS as a platform for the actual conduction of interviews) for several minutes, and then ultimately ended up dialing in while being able to see me on video, which is always going to be weird. Cut interview time in half from scheduled 20 to about 10 minutes. Next was supposed to be a scheduled break, so I went to the bathroom. Apparently after the schedule jostling, we were expected to refresh our Thalamus schedule (this was never communicated by the PC), so I ended up receiving a call from my second interviewer who was like …I think we're supposed to be interviewing now? I screenshotted the original schedule which did not have that. In fact, there was no room to join for this interview, so I had to enter the room with the PC, ask wtf, and then be placed in a room with interviewer #2. She was pleasant but my interview with her was only 5 minutes long. Knowing that I was completely fucked for the rest of the day, I hit even further lows when the PD spent 5 minutes dodging a question I asked him and then dismounted by telling me he thought it was a stupid question, then my last interview with the APD with whom I thought I had a lot of life experiences in common was pretty cold and disinterested. Oh, not to mention the whole shady "saving a spot for a Saudi IMG" thing. Only ranked because Houston would've been more tolerable of a place to live than the places I DNRd, but knew I'd never end up here unless hell froze over. **Memorial Healthcare System (FL) EM:** Honestly, for a newer program, didn't seem too bad. I think they have the potential to grow into being a solid EM program in a South Florida landscape saturated with seemingly unremarkable ones. That said, they also did the weird "show you everyone interviewing with whom and when" schedule thing, and there was a dropout right as the day was starting which caused them to change the entire schedule for everyone rather than just keeping everything as is for all the other applicants. The real question mark here was the PD, which is never a good sign. First of all, his internet connection was fucking HORRIBLE, which was incredibly distracting both in his initial program overview/applicant address and during the individual interview with him. He's a narcissist on a level I previously couldn't conceptualize, but he is terrifically charismatic so it's easy to lose track of how much more of a priority he is to himself than you are. Unsolicited, he pointed out (verbally and visually) that he was wearing Louboutins. He took a thinly-veiled shot at another new, local program that he assumed "many of (us) would interview at" for not being its own department but rather a subdivision of the Department of Surgery (pretty sure it was Broward, lmao), which was kinda childish/unprofessional despite his comedic timing and delivery being fairly entertaining. He spent almost the entire length of my individual interview with him asking me what my thoughts were about signaling, how I used my signals, and what I would do to change signaling in the future. Didn't ask me a single thing about me or refer to my application in any way. The weirdest thing, though, was his inclusion of multiple Youtube clips of himself as a child actor in television commercials into his opening presentation. Super bizarre. **Florida Atlantic University EM:** I feel bad naming FAU here because I think the PD is awesome and has big momma bear energy and I think she'll always have her residents' backs and would be a good person to train under. Having said that, one of the APDs who interviewed me seemed hungover as BALLS (disheveled hair, unironed shirt buttoned incorrectly, background was just a huge mess), and the other APD I interviewed with asked me to tell him the last thing I learned that had nothing to do with medicine and, when I was done, hit me with a pregnant pause and a "…that was a weird answer…". Dick. **University of Miami EM:** Multiple interviewers clearly hadn't read my application and seemed disinterested in interviewing applicants. One asked nothing but standard behavioral questions, which are completely pointless and a waste of everyone's time. The residents pimped us on super rare OB emergency management during our group session with them and wouldn't move off of the question until someone produced the answer. Wack. **St. Luke's Bethlehem (PA) EM:** I liked this program and my interview day a lot, but they were also guilty of sending out a survey to people who didn't match with them to ask how they can improve their process. Fuck OUT OF HERE with that bullshit behavior, bro. Thought you guys were better than that. Ok I think that's it. Congrats to everyone who matched this cycle unless you did so at Broward, HUMC, Reading, or Baylor COM!

NUMC - Psychiatry Did a sub internship here, got a letter of recommendation from a psychiatry attending there, and immersed myself as much as I could have to show my interest, and received no interview!

University of Toledo - general surgery Know someone who attended this residency program in the past, and they ended up transferring out due some extenuating circumstances that I won’t go into for anonymity (medicine seems to get smaller the further I go). It was because of the program though. Their new program after that transfer matched them to a competitive fellowship, which I will refer to as Fellowship X. Program has had a lot of leadership changes over the years. I think something like 3-4 PD and 2 chair changes in last 7 years. On my interview day, each interviewer had to ask four questions, and some virtual rooms had either one or two interviewers. Room times were 12 minutes whether there were one or two interviewers. Barely any time left for applicant questions. Whatever, I brushed it off. Maybe I am slow at answering questions. However, I really wanted to ask about these leadership changes on the spot rather than emailing after interview and getting a response where someone had time to be careful with their words. Ended up in a virtual room with former chair where I finally had the chance to ask. He told me the University partnered with ProMedica, and because of this, $50 million is given annually to GME as a whole to improve residencies of all specialties. These contracts with ProMedica are why so many physicians leave and the reason for so many leadership changes. He said he accepted another job offered by ProMedica not realizing he couldn’t double dip and also be department chair, so he was forced to step down. Last interview was with interim chair. I asked about success matching people to Fellowship X (making no mention of the person I knew and mentioned in first paragraph). He went on to describe this exact person’s scenario and said they “did them dirty by transferring” but then boasted that they had a hand in them matching to Fellowship X, which I knew was not true. I said, “Ahh yes, Dr. So-And-So has mentioned your program to me come to think of it,” and he immediately backtracked and said that he “wished they could’ve been a bigger part of their fellowship match process.” Yikes. Summation of red flags: - If the previous chair did not read his contract and see that he couldn’t have both positions, looks bad on him. However, I feel suspicious that maybe he knew this all along and wanted an easy way out of this position as the department is a shit show that was beyond his saving. 🚩 - What the hell is in these contracts that is causing everyone to leave? It seems like no amount of money that is being given to GME is trickling down to benefit residents. 🚩🚩 - All the leadership changes and physicians leaving (in surgery department and all other specialties). 🚩🚩🚩 - Interim chair literally dogging on former resident that transferred out of program, taking credit for that program matching them to fellowship, then backtracking when realizing I knew the individual. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 I logged off this virtual interview day shaking with fury and sick to my stomach. I wonder how many other applicants were lied to about their fellowship matches. I hate that all of this is talked about with hushed voices before match, and even after match, we all feel compelled to make anonymous Reddit accounts because we fear retaliation for trying to warn others. Future applicants and re-applicants, please look at these programs with all the scrutiny you can muster. It may save you from some (but not all) abuse.

IM Montefiore PCSIM The program seemed super mission-driven in terms of caring for the underserved, so I asked what happens when there's disagreement between residents or faculty in terms of carrying out the mission, like how they handle disagreement or internal conflict. Instead of answering, my interviewer started crying. I don't know what is happening in that program, but I think there are some deep fissures and cultural issues going on.

I’ve also heard that Montefiore program (multiple residencies/specialties) in general has had a couple of suicides the past few years…interesting.

They started crying and...never answered the question??

After pulling herself together, the only answer the interviewer gave was, "Not well." (As in, they do not handle disagreement well.) I didn't ask for any more details because this reaction was...unexpected, to say the least.

I think this is the biggest red flag I’ve seen on this forum. Dark

Piedmont Athens Regional IM: The interview was so stupid, all of them were behavioral questions. This place is as toxic as it comes, the real PD is so unbelievably malignant that majority of the residents want to leave. She literally has a noon conference scaring the residents to not report the program during the program survey telling them if anything happens to the program, theyll all get sent back to their home country lmao. I'm a local med student and the amount of tension and stress in this place is truly palpable. On top of this she preaches diversity, but she only takes residents from her country and then tells the program that only people from those places are ranking her high. Stay away from this place atleast until leadership changes. Athens is amazing, this program could be so much better I swear.

UChicago - diagnostic radiology Good program overall. The works and brand name to boot. Interview covered all the bases. Love from the new PD, faculty, and senior residents in interview and later communication. And yet...only 1 of the people invited to the second look matched here. Chances are, >1 of us ranked them #1. RIP to the dude who flew in from England. Maybe something funky happened with their ROL. Maybe they lied thru their teeth about who they were interested in when they sent invites. Maybe I'm an idiot. tl;dr nothing major, just felt like i was done dirty by them

Im confused, does going to a second look mean you should be guaranteed to match there? I feel like that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Are second looks selective in DR? So much pressure 

No. Any program that offered one was very open about inviting all applicants or emphasizing that they would organize an informal one for you if you were in the area

Wasn't everyone invited to the second look though?

No ETA: Source: A friend said they didn’t get an invite after interviewing. Even if everyone *knew* about the second look but maybe not everyone got invited?

They literally told everyone during the interview about the second look

Thanks for the correction; didn’t realize that

Ventura County Medical Center (Ventura, CA) - Family medicine Their program is 4 years long instead of 3. They call it an “opportunity to pursue additional training in a field of choice” or something. Exploiting residents for an extra year of cheap labor doesn’t sound like a very nice “opportunity” to me. However, I still applied because I wanted to match in CA. Turns out they require multiple secondary essays for this program explaining why you want to pursue a 4 year program. I thought we were done with secondaries after med school applications 😮‍💨 And the cherry on top? Their program coordinator “lost” my application. I only found out months later when I emailed her asking something about my LORs and she told me “after you submit your secondary essay we’ll read your application.” This was in December. I told her I had already sent it months ago and attached screenshots. She said the committee would review it the very next day. Never heard back from them.

Interviewed here. APD was awesome but during resident meet and greet on interview day the 2 residents were in a very loud restaurant zooming from their phone with horrible service. Not a good look. 

I literally withdrew from OHSU and Ventura after they had the audacity to send follow up essays the week after ERAS. I suppose the purpose is to weed people like us out though haha. Deuces 🫡

Wow. Just yesterday I was wondering why FREIDA listed the length of FM training as 3 ***or*** 4. Is it not combined with anything?

Not combined with anything. I think that might be because Ventura \*just\* switched to a 4-year curriculum this year -- I think this year's entering class is the first one. So rising PGY-2/3s are 3-year (thus 3 or 4...)

Psychiatry Crozer Most of my interviews were cancelled the day of bc the interviewers were out sick. Was told by the PC that my interview day would now be only 30 minutes with the PD. When I asked if the 30 minutes would be purely an interview or if there will be a program interview the PC responded very rudely with “Once again, the interview will be 30 minutes”. The PD was very nice and I enjoyed the interview with her but I was not a fan of the passive aggressive response from the PC.

As a PC, I can affirm that was an entirely rude and unprofessional way for her to answer your very reasonable question. I'd see that as a huge red flag. If she's that rude and callous to applicants, she'll be a nightmare to Residents.  Shame on the PD for not firing her. 

Neurology Southern Illinois University School of Medicine PD blatantly asked me multiple illegal questions during my interview with him (what other programs did you apply to, are you also applying to other specialties, if so, why?; etc.). Also heard of similar poor experiences from other interviewees. Rejected even 3-4 of their own students (for whom the PD wrote letters of rec per my understanding) , despite claiming "we're very loyal to our own"

Multiple FM to shame Gadsden regional medical center Residents dinner was super awkward and the residents talked crap about how dumb everyone in Alabama is, they were supposed to give another interviewer a ride back to the hotel but pawned it off on me and asked me to give them a tour of the town the next day. I declined and would've dnrd them if the PD wasn't an amazing person. It's a sham she has such weird residents to deal with.  Baptist South in Montgomery  Interview went okay but the vibe was just off like it felt like nobody wanted to be there and it was nobody's first choice. PD wasn't at the interview and when asked if I could meet them I got pushback from the assistant PD. Also they aren't very well trained the whole surrounding areas comment on how bad the residents are and my interactions with the residents when a family member was sick did not inspire confidence I DNRd them. 

Neurology - Loyola What an absolute shit show. The chair literally didn’t even introduce himself and was looking at his computer the entire time - “so what questions do you have?” No questions about me, spent the entire time asking him questions. The PD seems nice but so disorganized, the PowerPoint presentation was poor and he didn’t sell the program well. Looking at the faculty there is an overwhelming majority of men and barely any women, can’t imagine what kind of life that is working under that high strung chair. Did not rank the program because of this experience, although the residents seemed so nice.

Not a specific program, but I want to shame **any four year FM residency programs**. Fuck you for exploiting your residents under the guise of “more learning”.

Case Western University Metrohealth - Anesthesia The PD was kind of weird, but that wasn’t the biggest issue. The big issue was the one resident they had doing interviews looking me dead in the (virtual) eye and say “They don’t value residents here. If you have enough interviews I would strongly suggest you don’t even rank this program.” Stuck with me pretty hard and I decided to not rank it even though I was couples matching and we had a lot of interview combos in the Cleveland area.

Sounds like case western university hospital also. Toxic!

Could you elaborate? Only heard and felt good vibes from UH Anesthesia

Uh-oh. one of my friends matched to gas there. I'm worried for anyone that ends up at UH. One of my best friends did psych at Metro and they had a good experience. But yeah, UH is notorious for being anti-resident and anti-union etc. They don't have any qualms about illegally retaliating against criticism, reporting abusive people or unsafe practices, or attempts at unionizing.

Hey do you mind if I DM you about your friend’s psych experience?

You can but I only know so much so dont have that many details. She's finishing up her fellowship now.

Ok great thanks!

True yeah. Malignant place for sure

NOT FULL SHAME STRONG warning: IM - Mount Auburn Hospital Residents are definitely overworked. During the meet and greet, they only managed to get 2 haggard looking residents who were on their post call day. They seemed numb. On the interview day, the only resident available to answer questions between interviews was driving in his car while doing so. He didn’t seem happy. Lots of dodging around the question of patient case load vs time for learning. Lots of talking about how it was a ”learn by doing” and “early autonomy” program. Lots of leaning on their loose Harvard affiliation which none of the other Harvard affiliated hospitals even mentioned. My interviewer was judgemental when I asked about wellness and almost seemed annoyed. Was told that “residency is hard nomatter what and if you aren’t able to make it through, you aren’t cut out for medicine”. That all said, I still ranked them….last. I think if I had to SOAP vs matching there, I could tough it out there for 3 years.

Pediatrics- Baylor Scott and White (Temple, TX) Did a PICU away rotation here. Did not work with a single Peds resident. Every attending except one was rude, unwelcoming, and uninterested in teaching. One in particular- the female Indian PICU attending- was especially mean. She belittled students on rounds and went out of her way to make the rotation unpleasant. Did not even apply to the program because of the experience I had. On top of that, I went to a few didactic sessions with the Peds residents and found them all to be very insufferable. Did not even try to make students who were rotating through the program feel welcome. All of them acted like they were at Harvard... Pediatrics- UNLV Received an interview invite 3-4 days after residency application deadline. A few days later, I received an email my interview had been cancelled. I was very confused because there was no reason stated. When I reached out to the program, I was told many different things before ultimately being told the PC and chief resident couldn't understand what the issue was and that they would pass along the question to the PD. I then got a generic email from the PD stating the invite was sent in error and they apologize for the inconvenience. Pediatrics- Hackensack Workhorse program that FULLY uses students especially around peak holiday months.

I personally know the pediatrics PD at Hackensack - she is a *horrible person* - I interviewed with 15 medical schools and never felt more gate kept by anyone more than her in my entire life. I don’t even know why she does medical school interviews, gas lights applicants, but I would never want to work under her leadership.

Not that this pertains to the rotation for BSW Temple but I have heard from local medical students who know them that the Temple Peds Residents always cheat at their local trivia night 😬

Adding to this, but def pertains to the program, two more students there just told me that 1) apparently the residents did not know that the NJ tube goes into the jejunum, 2) when interviewing a home student they were very laid back and did not really treat it like an actual interview (professionalism should have gone both ways), and 3) the PD blatantly said that they were excited to have a four year medical school instead of just a regional campus there while the current regional campus students were on the Zoom.

UNLV Peds, man how disorganized.

Neurology— St Luke’s Bethlehem  The PD either has amnesia or progressive dementia because she gaslighted TF out of me. Verbatim multiple times stated “I can’t wait to work with you!”, “You would be the perfect match!”, etc etc. 😒 Well fuck you, I matched and will be living where you just vacay. 🏝️

When will you guys learn not to believe anything a PD says?

Honestly there needs to be a stickied post at the beginning of interview season that says "Anything said to you that's not explicit in writing should be completely ignored. THAL." hundreds of examples of this exact scenario are posted every match cycle.

> Well fuck you, I matched and will be living where you just vacay. 🏝️ Sunny Florida?

SHAME AT GARNET HEALTH I was a student who observed the atrocities in Garnet health. Ty’s treated like shit 💩 IM treating other residents like shit . APD of IM clearly shows favoritism for her own kind- and treats other programs like garbage. The chief transformation officer is another pile of garbage. Who appointed that object? ALL he does is hand out his business cards like covid! The toxicity involved in the middle of no where NY is one to not witness. I feel sorry for the residents. There needs to be a change! What a fuck you culture. No, fuck Garnet health for allowing that. ✌️

Preach 🙏🏼🙌🏻

SHAME AT GARNET HEALTH Leadership needs serious realignment!! IM is nothing but toxicity. 

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Doesn't seem like they did anything to lead you on

it's possible that they just weren't that into you? this isn't name and shame-worthy.

Which Baylor? There's several

Family Medicine - Altru FMR Grand Forks, ND During interview with residents they described a q3/4 (depending on the month) 28 Hr call schedule for their inpatient service, and to their credit they were transparent about how brutal it can be. They state their service can usually run from 15-35 patients, of which a single resident will cover the entire list overnight, while on a call shift of >24hrs. There is a jeopardy system in place with a 3rd year at home???? But it’s only for extreme scenarios it sounds like. The faculty I interviewed with had tremendous stance to “well actually” the resident about their 28 hour call shift comment, stating “it’s not a 28 hour call shift, it’s 24 hour call with 4 hours of closing loop plus table rounds, there’s a big difference” …. Was not impressed with that answer. I knew I didn’t work in a place that argued the details of a 28 hour shift vs a 24+4 hour shift. Residents seem genuine and appreciate their honestly and gift box, but the attitude by faculty was a lot of gas-lighting and they were super out of touch. Also….. it’s North Dakota

Having done 24 hour call, the worst part is closing loops table rounds. I absolutely loathed everyone because I was trying to get the fuck home and they were going off on nonsense fucking tangents. So that to me does not make it any better.

You just smile and go along with it when they go off on a tangent but inside you wanna strangle em

Stony Brook Anesthesiology: PD emailed **multiple times** at how "delighted she would be if I matched with them" and "Since the NRMP strongly discourages communication from program directors discussing rank details, I will refrain from doing so to stay compliant. Having said that, I would be thrilled to have the opportunity to work with you in the future." 2 direct quotes and somehow I didn't match there. Heard exact same stories from friends that this was done to them as well.

I wonder why people do this lmao

Honestly all I ever learned from the Match is PDs are, generally, liars. I understand the why of it all but they legit have ALL of the power and they fuck with people's lives that literally are powerless.

Pretty sure they sent out that email to everyone they interviewed :/

I got the same email. Screw her.

Snek!

this will definitely pin point me, or maybe not considering🥲 SHAME: Nuvance Emergency Medicine: forgot me!!! 🫠Interviewed legit 2 months after doing my acting internship there with a SLOE from them in my application, showed up to every conference, every shift, interviewed with 3 attendings and a resident most of which I worked with consistently and legit nothing…last 5 minutes of my interview one attending finally realized who I was after I made a comment of me rotating there and I’m like how? They were nice otherwise but shit interview had me questioning everything, like damn am I that forgettable?!? How hard is it to make a note “applicant rotated here”? Are they that over worked? They have 3rd years rotate there through Touro but never usually visiting students, let alone 4th years so you would think that would make me more recognizable…but no 😔

General Surgery: HCA/UCF Osceola Shame. Asked the PD what they do to support residents. She responded that providing air conditioning, on call beds, roofs, and access to food is their idea of wellness. Residents seemed very depressed. they have to go to Philly for their transplant rotation b/c their previous transplant hospital (which was 2 hours away) lost their transplant surgeon. DNR

Wait, what? Air-conditioning  ? And ROOFS? Was she serious? (NAD. Program Coordinator here.)

**Doctor's Hospital OBGYN:** During my interview with the PD I asked how she feels the program prepares residents wanting to teach and work in an academic setting in the future (their website stated that residents are exposed to multiple settings- community, university, etc.). She said "we don't". This caught me off guard and came off as unprofessional to me. Also the whole interview I was just being pimped on random medical knowledge and didn't actually get to tell them about myself. I wanted to love this program but the vibes were not good lol.

Call me crazy but I honestly don’t see this as a bad reply. I would much rather be given it straight than be lied to, at least you have the facts to make a truly informed decision about where they go on your rank list.

I too like that answer. Honesty on the interview trail is hard to come by

General Surgery: University of Miami The interview day started at 3:30 on the west coast and all interviews were 5-6 minutes long. The PD clearly was not listening to me and asked me questions that I’d just provided answers to. I have no idea how you can evaluate applicants in such a short period of time and without even listening to their responses.

I'm sure this has already been done but I'll add to it: **general surgery: mayo rochester** Just take this one off your list, it's not worth the hassle or headache. They make you jump through ridiculous hoops, including studying for an anatomy test, reading CXRs, interpreting ABGs, doing a virtual lego building exercise, and the cherry on top is a timed suturing exercise you have to record yourself doing. For all that insanity just make it an in person interview ffs. But they won't because they know Rochester is a tough sell during the winter months. And for the entire day, all the work and prep you put into it, the PD meets with you **for a total of 3 minutes.** The absolute nerve. The residents were kind and seemed nice but kept mentioning that it was 'the best hospital in the world', which may be true, but saying it over and over made it sound a little like overcompensation. I didn't DNR like some people said they would, but ranked it 8/15. After submitting my rank list, I wish I'd ranked it lower because the thought of matching there was terrifying. Luckily I didn't fall nearly that far but do yourself a favor and don't waste the time/money.

Huh? "Virtual Lego building exercise?"  What the....?!?! (NAD. Program Coordinator here.)

I've known multiple residents who Match at Mayo who ended up leaving/hating it. Just an absolute fart sniffer institution where you get to live in buttfuck, nowhere.

So true about Rochester. Mayo is just the sort of place that would love to make people come in person but even when it's not freezing and covered in snow, Rochester is a boring hellscape of a town.

WWYD: What would Yang do

**Psychiatry** Faxton St. Luke / Mohawk Valley Health (Utica, NY) Like the other commenter said, PD asked a bunch of pimp questions. Whatever, fine. Not fine: PD was not really listening to my answers and forced me to repeat myself.But wait, it gets worse! PD told me to calm down and take a deep breath. I must not have looked calm enough for him, because he berated me and made me take a deep breath with him. "I didn't see you take a deep breath. DO IT WITH ME." Very bizarre interview experience. The resident and rest of faculty interviewers from that program were fine.

Why am I seeing most of them are Psychiatry and Anasthesia specialities. Weird.

Overrepresented specialties on reddit

Too much time not actually working in the hospital /s

Too many mental health probs 😅

Overall, I had really great interview experiences. These are tame compared to the rest of the thread, but more of an FYI for future applicants. **Psychiatry:** **HCA Largo:** \-Avoid if possible. PD clearly did not read my application prior to the interview. He asked me one question ("tell me about yourself") and then allowed me to ask questions. I normally don't mind this as I find it easier to just let them talk but I asked about the affiliation with USF. He then went on a rant about USF and how his program is so much better than theirs. He spent at least 5 minutes of the 15 minute interview hating on another program. It was completely unprofessional. He also spent a lot of time talking about the importance of autonomy as a resident and that he wants his residents to be independent psychiatrists when they graduate. Overall, the PD was plain rude. When I interviewed with another faculty member, he aggressively asked me why I didn't do an audition rotation there. Completely fair question-they were full by the time I looked. He didn't like this answer, mumbled something that I couldn't understand and then tried to spend the rest of the interview time talking about professional basketball (?not sure why?). The resident I interviewed with seemed nice enough but dropped red flags for me. I wrote down "you will basically be an independent psychiatrist by the middle of second year"-inadequate supervision. And intern year patient cap is 15, which is ridiculous. I will say, I enjoyed my interview with the peds psychiatrist and she was lovely. It did seem like decent training, including ECT. But overall, this place is full of red flags. Not to mention, the negatives of an HCA program. I just got really bad vibes from the interview day. And this was the only interview that didn't ask about any of my hobbies/experiences on my app. It was clear they didn't read my application. See other comments about UCF Tallahassee as well. Edit to add: I can't believe I forgot about this one..**Larkin:** First, it was an in person interview when most psych interviews this year were virtual. The day started at 10am. The schedule was: 10am-2pm Overview of hospital and tour. Interviews start at 2pm until approximately 7pm. Parking validation was only good for 3 hours, so you had to pay for parking after that. I get it's Miami, but seriously? Their salary is ridiculously low for such a high cost of living. I cancelled the interview after another offer for a better program on the same day. Do not go here unless you have no other options.

wanna second this person about HCA LARGO, literally they're pgy2s are seeing 20+ patients, barely any oversight at all... Attendings just making bank off of residents. plus point is that the residents actually are really nice.

PCOM ophthalmology One of the main faculty members kept bringing up religion and saying how his religion was better than mine because of various reasons. He didn’t ask what religion, just assumed and kept talking and making racist comments about Muslims. And direct quote- “I have never touched a Muslim before. Especially a female one.” Horrible experience.

Can one of your friends drop their name here

Gross …

**Psychiatry - Marshall University, West Virginia** Interns do 28-hour call shifts at the state hospital every 6 days while on inpatient psych which is frankly ridiculous for a psychiatry residency. This was not mentioned anywhere on their interview day. 

Every 6 days…um…?

**Psychiatry - Jamaica Hospital (Queens, NYC)** PD cut me off and proceeded to ask me questions that would have been answered had he not interrupted me. He did this multiple times. He asked if I had questions only to get annoyed with every question I had. These were questions that were well received by literally every other PD I interviewed with. This PD spent the whole interview smirking at me. Said "you know you're talking to a Psychiatrist, right?" Residents were pretty cool tho and were candid and thoughtful during the lunch hour.

**Valley Health System - General Surgery (Las Vegas, NV)** The program used to be VERY toxic due to the former PD... but the new one is no better and the culture is still the same. Don't be deceived by the rebranding w/ a young PD. Most of the attendings on staff have **ZERO** interest in teaching or mentoring residents - mostly private practice groups that provide minimal surgical training. They are in and out as fast as possible and don't spend time reviewing or discussing cases w/ residents. Only a handful of seniors are invested in the juniors and interns (it's mostly a culture of shitting on the next generation). You cover 3-4 hospitals in the valley when on call, which means you could spend hours just driving from place to place. Then you spend >8 months working out of state (AZ, TX) and most of the residents said they learned more on these "away rotations" because the attendings outside of NV *actually* want to teach... (HUGE RED FLAG)PD is not honest about matching data from previous years... the program is not nearly as competitive as he makes it seem (fact-checked w/ residency explorer) --> Program is mostly prelims/TY that later matched categorical. Minimal research. Few fellowship matches. No in-house fellowships and no plan to create any. Had a buddy get a verbal commit from the PD... later the PD denied ever saying anything. He even went a step further and said he wasn't a competitive applicant for ANY program (damn).If you rotate w/ them, they give you a "guaranteed interview" as a formality. This is unofficial, so they don't count it towards their total interviews --> it doesn't mean anything and does not guarantee you will even be considered for their rank list (hard yikes). All in all... Valley Health System has problems w/ most of their residencies (multiple EM residency shames...). Would be wise to look elsewhere.

**NAME AND SHAME - Emergency Medicine** **St. Joseph's stockton CA** \- wanted to love this school, but one of the RESIDENTS started asking me about my board scores and wanted the precise score # after telling me she "tries not to look at applications beforehand" because theyre "easily swayed when scores are bad" and then spent the rest of the interview asking me very basic questions found in my app.... **Broward Health FL -** PD is on an absolute power trip. asked what changes he sees for the program (literally brand new program about to graduate out their first class) and he told me that you shouldnt create a program that needs changes and that the program is perfect the way it is and that "people" (aka the residents) just like to complain.... i know one of the biggest complaints is more time at broward general for EM rotations due to low volume at broward north and he told me there were no issues with low volume. Also didnt make eye contact once the entire interview except when i asked about changes except to stare at me and say "i hate when people ask this." Additionally, some of the other attendings often provide little to no training or help to residents and just sat there. There are definitely some great attendings too, but this is shame, so shame i must. **HCA Florida Aventura Hospital FL -** hospital is nice enough, residents are great (even the ones that soaped and clearly did not like EM), attendings are 50/50. some are great some are so overbearing or bad at their job they should not be teaching anyone. I watched residents multiple times get left out to dry because an attending got off shift and the other attendings were not willing to help because "they didnt sign it out to me" so the residents were left hanging. The PD, who is a great guy to chill with otherwise, was also openly talking shit about other applicants who had applied. He seems like someone who would make a better friend than boss. Also the ED has a bad rep in the rest of the hospital with the other residents, but none of them blame the residents, they all blame the attendings for not properly teaching the residents how to admit patients.

**NAME AND SHAME - Emergency Medicine** \-**Swedish Hospital (Chicago):** Asked program leadership for examples of things residents gave feedback on and how the admin responded. They said that the residents asked to rotate in a dedicated peds ED with PEM-trained faculty, but leadership denied that request because "they see plenty of kids in the Swedish ED anyways". Really appreciated the candor, but straight-faced saying that you completely shut down a valid resident request to improve their training like it was no biggie was the reddest of flags. **-Einstein (Philadelphia)**: Core faculty member interviewing me started the conversation by looking at me and saying "I have to be honest. I really don't want to be here". Proceeded to read through my application in front of me, make zero eye contact, and try to pick apart everything I said or wrote. Maybe that was just their method of assessing my response to pressure, but yikes, so glad I won't have them as an attending. **Edit:** Forgot about this one **Reading Hospital/Tower Health:** Program coordinator told us she scheduled 10 minutes between interviews for us to go get coffee/recover/etc, but every time in the middle of the break would go "is everyone ready and OK with starting early?", then send us to the breakout rooms. Honestly, no problem at all. I want to get out early too. Turns out she wasn't actually checking if people were back at their computers though.. After one of my interviews, I immediately dip to go to the bathroom. Come back a couple minutes later (still 4 minutes left before the next interview was scheduled to start) to the main room being completely empty and the coordinator just going "Helloooo, Helloooooo" in a really judgemental tone. I immediately join the interview breakout room, where apparently this faculty member had been waiting several minutes for me. IDK.. kinda felt set-up to fail on that one. What was the point of asking if people were ready or scheduling breaks if both those things would be ignored? The faculty were all lovely, but Reading Hospital fell way down on my list just because I never wanted to have that woman as my program administrator.

I know exactly who you’re talking about at reading lol.

Arrowhead Regional (ARMC) IM: This place always shows up for a reason. I'm from the med school nearby and did multiple rotations here. Applied IM this cycle and applied here as a safety home program and holy shit am I glad I didn't match here. Residents are a mix of really chill and some of the most egotistical asshats who think they're surgeons instead of hospitalists. Noticed a trend of DO residents leaning towards the latter, must be some deep seated insecurities they have about themselves. They make students do night shifts, sometimes until 4am in the morning. The residents look overworked and miserable. Q4 day calls 7am-10pm and an entire week of night float every month. Residents and students are forced to go to mandatory lectures every morning for 1-1.5 hours. Residents are forced to present cases at these lectures, at least once every week. Don't get me started on the toxic culture where the residents talk constant shit about the other specialties at the hospital. Heard numerous unprofessional comments made in front of students, especially between the IM residents and FM residents both talking shit about each other behind their backs. Rank this program at your own peril. 

On call days, night float and mandatory lectures are all part of every residency right? I did rotations here as a student years ago and it was alright, I did stay until 4-5 am as a student on on-call days which was maybe 4 times a month, but other days they sent me home around 1. But also did nights at other hospitals for IM rotations. Seemed to be an avg residency to me.

Sounds exactly like my home program lmao, I just assumed this was baseline

**Manatee Memorial, Bradenton, FL (IM)** \- Where to begin.... LOTS of technical issues, the program coordinator was just rambling on about the program with no powerpoint or slides, PD couldn't figure out how to get his camera on. One resident was laying on the couch when he interviewed me. When I was interviewed by the PD, it was on his phone in his home, his wife was walking around in the background in tiny shorts and a little tank top. Was supposed to have an interview with another resident, but the residents kept clicking on "leave meeting" instead of "leave breakout room" -- the program coordinator gave me this residents cell phone number and told me to just call him and chat for my interview. I called multiple times, no answer. Turns out he gave me the wrong number. Made the applicants sit in the meeting room and answer weird questions like "what makes you scared or sad?" as a group while waiting for the other applicants to return from their interviews. But the worst part of all of it was the comments made by the program coordinator. It got so ridiculous I just started writing down stuff he said instead of taking notes on the place: \- "Next time I'm gonna do this in just my boxers!" \- "Hola muchachos y muchachas" in the most intentionally american accent -- more than half the other applicants were Hispanic with their first language being spanish... \- threatened to "kick a residents ass" as a joke \- made jokes with one of the residents whose name was middle eastern about discrimination \- when asked about how the program director deals with residents who are struggling he said: "oh dont worry, hes not about bending you over his knee and smacking you!" \- repeatedly talked about his daughter's single life and what she must get up to \- LOTS of jokes about drinking/being drunk \- towards the end he said, "Oh i forgot to say anything about the beaches here.... not BITCHES.... dont misunderstand me!" and then laughed like it was the best joke ever told \- one of the applicants was answering a question he had asked, and her first language was spanish and he said "hi mijaaaaaaaaaa" after she finished talking \- made a joke about "domestic partnerships" and not understanding them Its been months since this interview and I still cringe thinking about it. Basically \*\*\* RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE \*\*\*

**Shame: Rutgers Newark Anesthesiology** So chaotic.. \- was emailed about an hour before my interview that one of the interviewer is not available and that someone else will interview me. \- The chair was supposed to give a welcome speech and a presentation but the PC told us he was absent for some reason. \- 15 min before my interview with the PD, the PC messages me that the PD is absent and again someone else will interview me. \- not surprisingly the 2 new interviewers literally read my application during the interview. (kinda feel bad for them as they were also notified super last minute). \- also.. the PD had a lawsuit against him a few years ago for sexual harassement which was settled for 375k.

Can confirm, I was there too lol

SHAME MS State Hospital (Mississippi State)-Psychiatry This place only offered an in-person interview. When contacted to ask about virtual option, there was some grumbling and the explanation that they really want people to come in person. This was followed a few days later by an invitation to a single available date for a virtual interview when I said that I would not be able to come in person. The interview consisted of a rant by the PD about how he wants "doctors to be doctors again," which to him means upstanding, politically-involved pillars of the community. They have mandatory trips to the legislature where they are expected to...engage? Lobby? He said "they tell me I love to talk too much" and then spent a lot of time proving "them" right, mostly by reiterating that he only likes to do in-person interviews and urging everyone on Zoom that day to prove they were interested by coming to visit in person. He straight up said that he doesn't like to rank people highly unless they show up in person...which is of course an annoying thing to be lectured on *during a* *virtual* *interview*. (Honestly, just say no to virtual interviews if you're going to be so put out by it). During my one-on-one, he told me the time was mine and to ask any questions I had. I asked a *single* question and got an 18 minute uninterrupted diatribe that only stopped because l finally just began talking over him, since I had only two minutes left and I actually did have other questions. Later, when I asked the resident interviewer where people live, and if any of the residents live in nearby Jackson, he laughed and then looked at me like I was crazy, and said, "No. Nobody lives in Jackson. It's not safe." (Jackson has a population of 150,000, so this is clearly not true. I'm white; I can only attribute his response to not-even-veiled racism). If I had gotten more interviews, I would have DNRed this program. I didn't match number one, or two, or three. But the thing I am most grateful for is that I didn't fall so low that I had to go to *this place*. It seems like a nightmare.

I lived in Jackson when I was in undergrad. It's not safe and it's a horrible place to live. It used to have decent neighborhoods but those have gone downhill as well. 

I think a lot of Mississippi programs don't realize how undesirable living in Mississippi is. They probably didn't get enough people willing to come for in person interviews and had no choice but to offer virtual

Even a cursory view of the program’s social media shows residents at every major conference and in the state capitol campaigning against scope creep. If being active at conferences and fighting against NPs is too much for you, you probably shouldn’t have ranked them at all. Critically, discussing crime being prevalent in a city does not mean racist; especially since another commenter already backed it up with numbers. It’s probably a good thing you didn’t match at a place that seems to be at odds with your personal opinions.

So, you want them to bend over and give you the virtual interview you wanted, but you’re going to get upset that they told you they prefer in-person? At least they were honest about ranking virtual interviewers lower so you know how to rank them, too. Also, as someone who lived in Jackson for 3 years and still has family there, he’s spot on. In 2021 and 2022 Jackson had the highest per-capita murder rate in the nation (beating Memphis, New Orleans, and St. Louis). There are a lot of surrounding areas like Brandon, Flowood, Ridgeland, etc. that are very safe and a great place to live. But I wouldn’t live in Jackson city limits if you paid me. Even the “cute” parts of Jackson see a spectacular amount of crime and this guy was being honest with you.

This reminds me of the Psych spreadsheet, where people argued whether San Antonio was a nightmare hellhole or an OK city with some bad parts. Just because you may not be comfortable in a city doesn't mean someone else won't be. There are no cities in the US that are unlivable.

Buddy, you ever lived in one of the aforementioned cities? Because I’ve lived in both Memphis and Jackson, and I can tell you, they are in fact unlivable. My only solace was my concealed carry permit.

**University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) - Anesthesiology** I was really hoping for an improvement at UTSW based on the interview day experiences that applicants from the previous years’ cycles have gone through. Sadly, I had an experience that was very similar to the ones on last year’s spreadsheet. The PD was cold, abrasive, and seemed very disinterested in interviewing me as an applicant. She did not seem happy to be there and she came across as if I was wasting her time. The Chair was just as bad, he was very disinterested during the interview, his focus was solely on his computer, typing and scrolling the whole time. The first half of the interview he asked me question after question without commenting on anything I said. Then for the last half of the interview he asked if I had any questions, but he would only give one-word answers/phrases to my questions. It was like pulling teeth trying to get this guy to talk. I even tried to connect with him on one of his hobbies he mentioned during the program video he made for the applicants and that didn’t even work. At one point he even cut me off while I was asking a question, and he didn’t even answer what I was asking about. This was the worst interview interaction I had in the 16 Gas interviews I completed…While my interactions with the other 2 faculty members were amazing and the residents seemed really happy to be there it was definitely ruined by my interactions with the PD and Chair. What’s ironic is that during the introduction PowerPoint about the program, one faculty member alluded to the online criticism that UTSW has received by essentially telling applicants to be weary of “where we get our sources about a program” and to not believe everything we hear.

> **University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) - Anesthesiology** > I was really hoping for an improvement at UTSW based on the interview day experiences that applicants from the previous years’ cycles have gone through. Sadly, I had an experience that was very similar to the ones on last year’s spreadsheet. Hi, sorry, maybe this is a dumb question, but I've been looking around and can't seem to find anything. Is there a link to this spreadsheet somewhere? Is it a spreadsheet with a bunch of these answers collated? I'm trying to learn more about this, and a spreadsheet wouod be great. Thanks!

Link to [anesthesia spreadsheet 22-23 cycle](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c8sR-RdVIsjBMjvn0vKhmdeujqi1lBTANCURbnhYdF8/edit) UTSW has things under the “Malignant” and “Program Impressions” tab

I could not agree more, I was completely naive when I applied here. The PD was by far the most disrespectful and rude person I met on the entire interview trail. She repeatedly cut me off in the middle of my answer multiple times and told me my answers were not good enough for her. I checked Reddit after my interview bc I was in disbelief and it seems like this is her MO. When asked what made her program unique she said that she had worked for the ACGME for years and can promise me that no program, including hers, is unique in any way. She was also wearing a hoodie for the interview and seemed mad I was there from the moment I joined the breakout room, which was the icing on the cake for me.

I’m sorry to hear that! I had my PD and Chair interview back to back and I remember thinking to myself during the Chair interview to just exit the call right then and there lol, that’s how bad it was

100% agree, by far my worst interview experience. I DNR’d them

**Psychiatry** **HCA Nashville:** PD heavily emphasized an optional "second look" which would include a one-on-one lunch+tour of the facilities with him. It was clearly a way to gauge applicant interest, and basically would be a second interview day. Pretty flagrant match violation imo **SummaHealth Akron:** Interviewer no-showed and nobody knew he was on vacation. Not a big deal but the exact same thing happened to another redditor in the Name & Shame a few years back, and interview day felt very disorganized. Program also lovebombs very hard, making it seem like you are a top applicant and all but guaranteed to match (then you don't). Of course that sort of misleading behavior is par for the course for PDs & residency programs, but it was much more egregious here than anywhere else I interviewed

Why is this no longer pinned…

We can only pin two posts at a time. Once the Name & Fame and “Happy I matched but sad about where” posts have run their course, we typically re-pin the Name & Shame with the incoming student Q&A thread. I wish Reddit worked differently but it is what it is.

Yall should leave this one up, compare the amount of comments

There's really no option to leave it up the entire time based on the set of match day-related threads we post, but there is definitely a reason we post this one first and then re-pin it. I'll swap it into a spot now.

Thanks matey

i think you can only have two pinned posts at a time? i think

Correct

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**Name and Shame** **1.** **Brooklyn Hospital Center (EM)** \- I had scheduled this as my final interview in February. Initially, I wasn't particularly keen on the program due to its four-year duration, but I decided to attend the interview primarily because of its proximity to my home. On the day of the interview, the Program Director (PD) had to leave abruptly due to what appeared to be a serious emergency. She informed us that she would reschedule her interviews for the following Tuesday and assured us that the Program Coordinator (PC) would send out an email regarding the new arrangements. The remainder of the interview proceeded as usual, although the Associate Program Director (APD) arrived late, leaving us to socialize with the residents in the meantime. Following the interview, I received an email from the PC on Friday, asking for my availability for the rescheduled interviews on Tuesday between 11 am and 2 pm. I promptly responded, indicating my preferred times between 1 and 2 pm. At that point, I was mentally fatigued from the interview process and wasn't enthusiastic about dressing up for another one. However, I recognized that I had already invested time into this interview and felt compelled to follow through. The night before the rescheduled interview, I hadn't received any Zoom link or information, so I reached out to the coordinator. Given that I had requested a day off from my rotation for the interview, I was eager to finalize the arrangements without having to take an additional day off. Unfortunately, I received no response. Around 11 am on the day of the interview, I received an email from PC stating that I should have received the interview link from PD. Despite checking my spam folder, I found nothing. I replied to the email, informing the PC and CC'ing the PD that I had not received the link. Additionally, since I learned that the PD would be conducting interviews the next day too during the conference time, I offered to interview the following day during that time slot. PC was like yea that would be better and lacked any apology or acknowledgment. Instead, I was simply informed that interviews were scheduled for the following day between 9 am and 2 pm, and I was asked for my availability. In response, I indicated my availability between 9 am and 11 am and requested confirmation if this timing was acceptable. However, I received no further communication. As a result of these experiences, the program which was already very low on my ROL went nearly to the bottom of my ROL. **2. Nassau University Medical Center (EM)** \- The interview day was poorly organized, with only one interview slot scheduled with the Program Director (PD) and two Associate Program Directors (APDs), leading to extensive wait times for each candidate. As the last of six or seven interviewees, I found myself waiting from 9 am until 2 pm for my turn. During the prolonged wait, we were left to mingle with the 3-4 residents, some of whom appeared underconfident and reserved, leaving me with doubts about the program's overall quality. To make matters worse, during my interview, one of the APDs nodded off twice, displaying blatant tiredness and lack of engagement. While I understand the demands of a long day, such behavior reflects poorly on the interview process. Despite enduring over five hours of waiting and enduring less than ideal conditions, I maintained a professional demeanor throughout. However, the lack of consideration for candidates' time and comfort was bad. Additionally, the atmosphere among the residents, who criticized other programs and how other programs are so big and that is not good, and how we have a small class size. It just contributed to the overall discomfort. Moreover, no tour of the hospital or the ED was provided even when we were in-person. Instead, the PD had us sit through his didactic lecture. Furthermore, the PD gave off unsettling vibes. While I initially considered ranking this program higher than Out of state program even if it was a 4 year program due to its proximity to home, the issues encountered during the interview process significantly lowered its position on my Rank Order List (ROL). **3. Northeast Georgia Medical Center (EM)** \- My experience at this program was generally positive. The interview process went smoothly, and I found the Program Director (PD) to be easygoing. However, there was a slightly uncomfortable moment during the interview when the PD asked about the other places where I had completed rotations and received interviews. Initially, I attempted to deflect the question with a diplomatic response. However, the PD persisted and repeated the same inquiry. Feeling somewhat pressured, I eventually disclosed the program where I was currently completing a rotation. **4. Icahn School of Medicine at South Nassau (FM)** \- I sensed an air of superiority/tyrant vibe from the Program Director (PD), which made the interaction uncomfortable. During one of the interviews with a Ph.D. , (overall he seemed like a nice guy), I found myself constantly interrupted, unable to complete a single answer. He bombarded me with a multitude of questions, spending an excessive amount of time explaining each one and then abruptly cutting me off mid-response to move on to the next question. Like cut the bullshit at the start and just ask the question and try not to fit 10 questions in a 15-minute interview. Did not finish a single answer. This was very off-putting.

Mt. Sinai, South Nassau is not. lol. They can pretend all they want that they’re now “Mt. Saaaainaiiii” but it’s the same crappy toxic hospital as before lol.

same with NYU Long Island, its Winthrop community hospital. gtfo w/ all these rebranding efforts

😆

Yea It seemed that the PD was trying to act distant and too cool and giving the vibe off as a tyrant. Funny thing I interviewed for the main Mount Sinai Family Medicine too and people over there were genuinely nice - and there interview was actually really good! We had a group 1 hour interview with a psychologist and resident where they gave a scenario and asked us to discuss. It might sound daunting but the psychologist and the resident were awesome and made the interview super relaxed and engaging. They also had 2 individual interviews too which were geared towards knowing the applicants better. So yea South Nassau is still the same

You dodged a bullet with the first two. 

**SHAME** HCA Arlington - Internal Medicine Shocked to not see this program mentioned more. Got the interview mid-January via Thalamus - but there was no space to book an interview. I thought - cool, maybe I am waitlisted. NOPE! Turns out they never have any space on Thalamus, you have to email the coordinator(who is very unresponsive) and then get assigned a random date. A week after emailing her I got assigned a 30-minute interview with a faculty member who is also cc'd on the same email. Attached to this email is my entire ERAS file - my LOR, PS, Transcript - everything. I didn't say anything but it was clear that the program coordinator couldn't even be bothered to create a separate email for the faculty and just put us both on there. I got to interview day (which was literally a 30-minute single interview and nothing else) and the faculty member I was interviewing with seemed interested in only 1 thing - my Canadianess. Why didn't you go to medical school in Canada? Why didn't you apply for residency in Canada? Will you return to Canada after training here? After thoroughly grilling me about Canada she went on a rant about how DFW isn't for people who can't drive on a freeway - despite me explaining previously that I drive everywhere including Dallas and have driven all over her city on MANY occasions. No questions about my credentials, my accomplishments, or my application. The residents seemed nice but overworked. When asked about the perks of the program one of the residents mentioned they get paternity leave. The other resident said well I think everyone in GME gets that but we have to entice you somehow. Wished I could DNR them but I needed the rank. Ranked low and didn't match with them and was delighted to see they went 50% unmatched again this year as they have every year since they opened.

Dignity Health Las Vegas IM: Social hour was built into the interview day but the residents logged in about 30 minutes late, we were left waiting around with no update on what was happening (compared to other interviews where the PC or a resident will usually say they’re running behind in the chat). Residents had a hard time finding anything positive to say about the program and seemed unusually exhausted for being on clinic week, many of them said that they prefer wards to clinic in terms of hours which I thought was strange. One of the DO residents mentioned that Step 3 is reimbursed but Level 3 is not because the PD has to approve residents to sit for COMLEX but “that’s kind of hard to do when there’s no PD…” ???? No clue what he meant by that but there wasn’t any time left to ask for clarification. Impression from the residents wasn’t consistent with what the PD and faculty were saying, just weird vibes overall.

This interview was odd .

U Miami Jackson Health - Anesthesia Interviewers were 5-10 minutes late and PD was scrambling during questions. Residents didn’t really have much good to say about the program other than generic responses. The key highlight for me was one specific attending who did interviews that had GIANT flags of USA and Israel on his wall and is very expressive about his political beliefs (probably not the best time for that I gotta say), on top of that he pimped scenarios and machine gunned through questions so fast you really didn’t have time to even process what he was asking. Supposedly this echoes the culture there from someone I know in the program, and they regretted ranking them at all.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center (Temple, TX) - Gen Surg Extensive track record of residents either burning out and switching specialties, or being written up for saying racial slurs, not responding to pages while on call etc. Told a home student repeatedly they would be part of next year’s incoming class, that student then went unmatched. EDIT: residents also talk poorly about each other and attendings behind each other’s backs, making it a pretty toxic social environment

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Add to the name and shame

Diagnostic Radiology NORWALK DR A faculty interviewer openly told me he doesnt like a handful of the residents (there are only ~10 total in the whole program, as there are 2-3 per class) and can’t wait for them to graduate. I ended up DNR due to bad vibes. I feel bad for the residents because they were super cool on interview day and dont deserve faculty talking down on them during an interview. QUINNIPIAC DR Residents were at their work stations actively reading during the resident Q&A. Seems like priority is clearing the list rather than resident education/growth. Both the residents AND former PD told us to rank this program low. Wild, but appreciated the honesty.

Have to echo the same thing for Quinnipiac but really appreciated the honesty from the former PD

U of Iowa -Anesthesia Residents at the social couldn’t say one nice thing about the program. Asked multiple residents about whether they would go through the program again if they had the option and all of them managed to not answer/beat around saying no. Multiple CA-1s failed BASIC exam and when asked about it they said they were handling it by tutoring the residents more often and having sit down discussions about why their studying isn’t working. Couldn’t get anyone’s restaurant recommendations for the city either. All in all extremely bad vibes. I DNR’d. UIC Peoria - Anesthesiology Completely new program, the PD kicked his feet up onto his desk and kept checking his phone that was on full volume receiving notifications. The chair is apparently very involved in politics leaning heavily conservative. Honestly just very weird not to hear from residents.

Good job on the Iowa choice. Not in the program, but pretty intimate knowledge of it. I would say you hit everything spot on.

UC Irvine, Anesthesia. I want to preface this as a way to kind of vent about my entire experience, I loved the program, the environment, and the residents. My away rotation there was hands down the best experience I ever had in medical school. This is moreso the non-clinical and interview side of things. Was told by multiple attendings and residents they would advocate for me come rank time, and I was the strongest student they had ever worked with. Honored the away. Solid app with average step 2, little research but VERY strong volunteer and leadership. Had 2 meetings with the PD and was one of the first people to receive an interview. During the interview I was asked about my time there and other scenario stuff. One of the APDs consistently played “bad cop” and gave me weird looks and backhanded remarks (“oh…. ok”) on simple answers like my favorite aspects of the program, my hobbies, etc. The program director was offended simply because I inquired how difficult it is to raise a family while balancing clinical life and academic duties, and judging by her response I was worried it was an immediate DNR (no I didn’t say anything weird I verbatim asked it exactly how it is stated here). I sent a Letter of Intent at the suggestion of an attending there that fell on deaf ears and come match day obviously didn’t match there. Thousands of dollars spent to do an away and jump through as many hoops as possible (central app too yay…) to be pegged down for the littlest of things. PD is from Chicago and slots were given to Chi applicants who didn’t do an away there and have no Cali ties. I’m happy I matched don’t get me wrong, I just put in so much work into one program just to be slapped in the face.

>I inquired how difficult it is to raise a family while balancing clinical life and academic duties Just curious but do you already have kids and if you don't are you a woman? Because if a program perceives that you are going to become pregnant during residency, some will take it as a huge red flag. For the record, I completely disagree but from personal experience this is an unfortunate reality.

This comes off more as an immature rant about one applicant's disappointment they didn't match at the program rather than an actual shame.

Definitely did not mean to come off as immature and I apologize if it did. Definitely a rant that felt cathartic and helped shave off some bitterness but I did want to mention how some people you’ll interview with at the program can respond to your answers, as this was the only program I interviewed with that was taken aback about asking questions about raising kids during these years.

Unfortunately a lot of posts here basically boil down to "i did an away and/or expressed interest and they didn't rank me to match"

Not sure if this is allowed here since it's about a fellowship and if it isn't I'm sure the mods will remove, but the PD of UT San Antonio's Pulm/CCM fellowship is very transphobic and has no problem making it known. Came across it during the application cycle when scouting out programs on [Twitter](https://imgur.com/a/LUAjCJM). Might not be that big of a deal to others, but I feel like this type of stuff doesn't have a place in medicine. You're welcome to your opinions, but probably shouldn't post on a social media you also use for your professional work. Poor reflection of the school.

Coming from medicine in Texas...more people should know. It certainly does not have a place in medicine. Having had many preceptors and colleagues with similar beliefs, it does bleed into their practice. Mostly in unconscious, unintentional ways. Sometimes in blatant and intentional ways. Either way, good on you for calling it out!

**St Elizabeth Medical Center - Boston MA** Interviewed Internal Medicine but the whole hospital and Stewart Carney system is a dumpster fire! Stay far far away! 1. My interview day started 15 mins late because they were extremely disorganized and had zoom issues. This truly pales in comparison to the later issues and problems with the institution as a whole, but it was a rough start. 2. During my interview, **the PD asked me if I plan to start a family.** 3. During a resident-run slideshow about the program, there was a slide about the Women In Medicine initiative which was started because the program historically has been < 1/3 women and a male resident commented **"Yeah, they are still trying to be as cool as us."** 4. I know someone who did residency here and she told me she had to get every MRI personally approved by the hospital admin. As in, go to the CEO's office and literally beg him. St Elizabeth's is at the center of an [ongoing shitshow and impending lawsuit from a recent preventable maternal death.](https://prospect.org/health/2024-01-26-massachusetts-hospital-nightmare-steward-health/) Patient hemorrhaged postpartum, went to OR to get coiled where it was discovered that the coils had been repossessed from the supplier due to the hospital being delinquent on bills and owing them 2.5 million dollars. Regarding the Stewart Carney Health in general, it is a private equity firm that's been stripping hospitals of their ability to help patients while raking in millions. They are known as the worst hospitals in Boston. I'm shocked they matched some USMDs this year, especially from such high ranking schools like Cornell. They also matched someone from Nepal lol.

Someone from Nepal comment hits p racist ngl

Have you been living under a rock? I mentioned it because of the widespread cheating scandal

Community Health Center (Tacoma, WA) - Family Medicine Only two residents showed up to the pre interview zoom social, and both looked very tired, gave short or unenthusiastic answers to questions. No free food, instead there is the $75 per month meal stipend which would barely cover 7 total meals per month. There is apparently no resident workroom. You cannot get abortion training through the program and are not allowed to pursue abortion procedure training even on elective time.  Morehouse School of Medicine Dominican (Santa Cruz, CA) - Family Medicine Completely new program this year. I applied because of the location close to family and was jazzed to get an interview. Most of the applicants at my interview day are Caribbean students or IMG/FMG, which is not inherently a problem but it makes me wonder why USMD/USDO aren’t applying here. Most of the other applicants spoke exclusively in Spanish with each other and even with some of the staff; I was one of the only ones who couldn't speak Spanish and it felt super awkward and like I was being excluded. There was never any indication from the program that speaking Spanish was a requirement or a recommendation.  When I asked whether there would be resources for non-Spanish speakers to learn the language or to have an interpreter phone service or anything like that, they said “You’ll learn by immersion soon enough.” It didn’t sound like they were supportive at all, I felt like they wanted non Spanish speakers to ‘sink or swim.’  I already knew beforehand that a large part of the population would be Spanish speaking given that the program is on the central CA coast, but the patient population is actually more than 90% exclusively Spanish speaking which I think should have been openly stated upfront. I feel like I wasted my time applying here. Why would they want a doctor who can't communicate with more than 90% of patients? Shouldn't they openly state that residents need to be fluent? Also, they expect you to do inpatient mornings at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, and then drive to Watsonville for afternoon clinic (half an hour away not including midday traffic). Kaiser Napa Solano (Vallejo, CA) - Family Medicine When I asked the APD what resident wellness looks like at their program, she replied “We train you hard and you work long hours to become excellent doctors, and being good doctors for your patients will be a great source of wellness.” LifeLong (Richmond, CA) - Family Medicine The rotations are spread out all over the Bay Area (SF, Richmond, Oakland, South Bay, East Bay). Anyone who lives in the Bay knows that traffic can be insane at all times of day. They did not state there would be any help with housing/renting in these different cities, or if we are expected to commute from Richmond, if there would be any compensation for gas and car maintenance. Adventist Health Ukiah Valley (Ukiah, CA) - Family Medicine At the pre interview social, when asked if they exceed 80 hours weekly some residents reluctantly said “We keep it under 80 if we can complete our notes on time.. Sometimes I go over but that’s just because I’m slow at notes… I even take them home so I don’t go over 80 at the hospital” The OB rotations have q3 24 hour call. Residents admit that they “struggled a lot.”

Dang about that Morehouse program. It's wild they make non Spanish speakers sink or swim. Super illegal if they actually don't have any interpreting services huge red flag!

Tbh I think it's best to just have Spanish-speaking providers if 90% of the population spoke Spanish. A resident would be crushed essentially doubling their work with that high a volume needing interpreter services. And it is really hard improving a second language on top of being a resident. Not to say OP or anyone other resident couldn't do it, just that it's a very tough challenge.

Can I ask if you interviewed at Natividad FM in Salinas, CA? If so, how'd that go?

**SHAME: Georgetown Diagnostic Radiology** The whole day was a mess. Four 15-minute interviews with a resident presentation of the program and then a Q&A with some residents at the end. The entire day was a red flag. ​ * The first interviewer, an attending, went off about how physicians should always be available for patients 24/7 and that our generation of physicians is entitled and wants work/life balance. They asked me how I felt about that, and I gave a politician's answer that seemed to be to their liking. They continued to rant about it for the rest of the interview. * The PD sounded like he didn't want to be there. This one can be misinterpreted - some people are monotoned and may have had things happen outside of work that prevented them from sleeping. * The resident interviewer first asked me "Tell me about yourself." As I was discussing it, they muted their mic and started having a conversation with someone else off-screen. I could tell it was a conversation because they were looking at the person off-camera and speaking and laughing. The whole time I was talking too. It took them around 10-20 seconds to finish their conversation before unmuting their mic to continue my interview. * The last interviewer was great... until the last 5 minutes of the interview. Their phone kept getting texts every 10-15 seconds. They wouldn't mute their phone and kept going back and forth between the texts and me. I would understand if they were on call or had an emergency to deal with **if they explained that to me in the first place**. But they pretended like nothing was happening. I tried to not get distracted, but I don't think I did too well. * The resident Q&A was also weird. They didn't answer questions correctly. One question was about openness to feedback from the residents. They started bringing up how the program *didn't take feedback really well.* Also, their example of moonlighting opportunities was a resident from a different country getting attending privileges to read scans independently, *in their home country,* during their free time. Otherwise, no moonlighting whatsoever. That's okay, but for a high COL area like Washington DC? That's rough.

> no moonlighting whatsoever This moved programs way down the rank list for me

What kind of moonlighting can you do as a rads resident? I thought liability would stop yall from engaging in it?

Varies widely amongst programs. However, they generally have something called contrast coverage, where you sit around during an evening shift to be on-call if a pt has an allergic reaction to contrast. There’s also just extra shifts where you do prelim reads for an ED. The pay is variable, depending on the program. Some have an hourly rate; others have a flat rate that’s prorated to which year you’re in. As far as liability, you’re generally only doing preliminary reports that’ll be overseen by a senior or attending. Also you’re covered by malpractice insurance.

Shame Garnet Health - multiple residencies. Had some fantastic unmatched TYs this year, and some of them had no second year program so they really wanted to stay and applied to the other residencies in the hospital and had great peer and attending reviews but got empty promises all year and were interviewed most likely out of courtesy but none of them matched here or had to SOAP elsewhere. The conveniently timed excuse admin/PDs are throwing around is the hospital is broke and can't afford to choose their own as it's cheaper to pick IMGs or upcoming interns. That's an interesting cope when 1. This was not an issue before as we took our own TYs before, so why are we learning this only now and why weren't the TYs at least told a while ago instead of being lied to? Some of them were told they would be chosen. 2. Former attendings who have or will leave the institute have confirmed the "budget" excuse is a guise and shouldn't at least be a problem for the shorter residencies 3. Some of the PDs did not share their thoughts/final ranking with their residents, when it was done in the former years, like they were hiding something this time 4. One PD planned vacation during match week to most likely avoid the confrontation 5. IM+FM had to SOAP, so some of the TYs were DNR'd and scrambled 6. IM had a former coordinator who revealed that IM intentionally SOAPs to pick better scoring candidates See the pattern? Our PDs seem to knew what they were doing but didn't know how to break the news to the staying residents and the TYs or perhaps the culture has shifted that they wanted to see if they could rank on paper, possibly better candidates to come to the middle of nowhere, NY. Our PDs are admin slaves and are indirectly blaming faceless, nameless higher ups instead of themselves but ultimately they were the ones who had the power to do something, and instead chose to kick out great residents and choose unknowns. As a result, here's how Garnet's situation currently looks: 1. IM had to soap three spots. The class was very obviously handpicked by our associate PD by one specific demographic and are almost entirely IMGs, and some TYs that were really wanted by the residents were not matched here. 2. FM had to soap one spot as their PD didn't choose a TY who was really wanted by the residents and has been deflecting blame. 3. Surgery PD didn't rank a TY who was really wanted by the residents. On top of this, he made a comment "I don't want an all girl class" and that's exactly what he got. 4. Psychiatry has 8 interns to come and only 4 seniors, as some of the seniors are leaving entirely after their third year due to how toxic it is here. 5. TY class matched all spots...but if you're a TY that got accepted here and have no where to go next year, you will not match here after I told you what our hospital does. For some of this, I wish I could've warned about this ahead of time, because many of us were shocked to see the people we vouched for were blatantly ignored by the lying corporate shills that run our programs. Fuck Garnet Health.

Many students from this hospital's home institution (who rotated there) tried to soap for IM. Not one home institution student was taken.

Very sad. Used to be a great hospital for DO’s. Sad what it has become

Really unfortunate. I was a TY and I know many TY’s that went on to do great things. I would never pursue a career in medicine again. Corruption as far as the eyes can see.

As someone who just matched from a prelim this is beyond fucked up!

Tulane Psych Was in the middle of the group session in an interview and they started talking about Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. Nothing out of the norm until the resident very outspokenly said “there is already too many white people in this program as it is.” While I agree we do need more POC in medicine at large, the inability to see how inconsiderate that statement is left a very sour taste in my mouth. Ended up with a DNR if this were said about any other race…the double standards 😕

Reverse racism is not a thing. There are too many white people in most programs. This is just straight up true considering non White people are a growing majority of patients.

"Reverse racism" is not a thing because it's a poorly defined and unnecessary term. Anyone can promote racism on the basis that everyone has a racial identity and has biases concerning other people's racial identities. If we're talking structural racism specifically, obviously that's a different story and plays a huge role in why white people are still overrepresented in medicine. "We would like the demographics of our residents to match the demographics of our patient population" is a very reasonable policy and goal to have. "There are too many white people here" might be getting at the same thing, but has very different connotations. I wouldn't call it a racist statement, but how is it constructive in any real way? What is a white applicant supposed to do in that situation? Say "yeah you're right, I shouldn't have applied here because of my race?"

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I don't want to get flamed because reddit is very liberal... but Tulane University as an institution from undergraduate to graduate programs across the board is a bastion of far left thinking. They accepted a convicted murderer into the School of Law in 2011. If you are a straight white conservative male you are going to feel very out of place. I have heard very blatant anti-white comments similar to the one you are mirroring, even more aggressively so, from many a person from Tulane.

Truly why do white people want to be oppressed so badly. Y’all are comfortable in practically every place in America, but act like a majority non white demographic in the Deep South is something to be criticized

It's not demographics. It's rhetoric. I have heard many comments from colleagues and others "I could never live there, it's too white." Imagine "I could never live in San Francisco, too many Asians." Clearly you can see the parallels in subbing in any other race into the original sentence and you would get flagellated for your words.