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What is your in-state status?:
Out of state
On what date did the interview take place?:
2/1/2008
What was the stress level of the interview?:
3 out of 10
How did the interview impress you?:
Neutral
How long was the interview?:
20 minutes
How many people interviewed you?:
4
What was the style of the interview?:
One-on-one
What impressed you positively?:
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What impressed you negatively?:
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How was your interview day? Please summarize.:
Interview day: begins early, with bagels and coffee (nice). Program Administrator is Shelly Sords (omnipresent); she gives quick outline of day and the Program Director Dr. Tetzlaff takes over. Very long and detailed review of program gives you an excellent idea of what the Clinic has to offer. Interviews follow with Dr. Tetzlaff and three others (two faculty and one chief resident)...low stress for me; I did a rotation there and so that was some of what we talked about. None of the "what are your weaknesses?" things. Then lunch, where a bunch of residents showed up. Tour of facility, which is ENORMOUS. No really - ENORMOUS. Day ends with "exit interview" with program director who gives you some shade of an idea of how they see you as an applicant...I was told I was "competitive" and would be "ranked quite favorably"; there were others on my interview day that were told they "might not find the best fit here at Cleveland Clinic". PROGRAM: 3 year accedidation cycle - when the program director asked me "What do you want to know?", I asked him about the 3 year thing. He responded: "You know that 3 yrs is normal, right? They can't give everyone 5 years. There has to be some standardization." Nice start to the interview, right? 30 residents/yr - 20 thru normal Match, then 10 join in January (these 10 are all foreign, and were all doctors in their respective countries...I worked with some of them on my rotation, and they are, in my opinion, a HUGE benefit to each resident class). Categorical program only - CBY actually gives you a buttload of anesthesia training (like 4 mos or so, with the rest made up during CA1 year). Tons of moonlighting opportunities (which they call "rexing") - depends on who you talk to as to whether the moonlighting is assigned (as some residents claim) or totally up to resident choice (as the program director says). Either way, some residents make good money....really good money via moonlighting. SICU rotations are crowel jewels of education, intraop teaching hit or miss. 90+ ORs. Often have 180 or more cases booked PER DAY. They do re-do liver transplants, and hearts that Duke and Columbia have turned away. They operate on extremely sick patients. Residents make it clear that "this is a surgery run hospital". They have more money than you can shake a stick at - everything is SUPERNICE. Pluses: you will be able to do anything after leaving here, the name is huge. You will have no fears about treating sick patients when you leave here. My concerns were that residents were actually telling us NOT to come here if you could "get into another big name program". They do work hard, but this is residency, right? But over the course of 10 interviews, this is the only residency where the residents went out of their way to say "Don't come here." Makes you think.... Report as inappropriate
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