Anyone do a rotation at Uchicago? How was it? I did one. They had four rotators at the same time as me. I spent a month there, mornings clinic with different providers usually had derm path in the afternoons. Interviewed during the rotation. It was alright. They took a prelim and ry this year.
Dr. Shea used to be the section chief & program director before the current one. It is still a division under Internal Medicine (take that for what it's worth). It's not the worst Derm program in Chicago but it certainly does not match up with what you'd think a derm program would be like with a medical school like Pritzker (unlike say Northwestern). For those in the know, you'd try as much as possible to try to match somewhere else bc of the culture at the program. It's a program that historically hasn't been too great to its home students in terms of matching at their program. < agree, resident at my home program went there for medical school and did not recommend doing an away there when I asked lol << LOL. I guess nothing has changed much at U of Chicago's derm program since the early 2000s in that regard. I don't know why that is the case, but Pritzker students try as much as possible to match somewhere else for Derm.
I learned a lot and got plenty of surgical experience. Dr. Stein, Dr. Laumann, and Dr. Busby were fantastic. I found the program director to be unkind and not supportive if you did not have a PhD. Still I am quite thankful for my residency there." if you look at who uchicago derm takes in the last few years id say its pretty true they favor PhDs and nontrad applicants ie previously got MD did reserach fellowship etc. compared to the average derm program. do with this info what you will