CMSRU/Cooper University Hospital-NJ

if you can do philly its super easy to get to rowan by car or a 10 min train from there

cooper med student here, i recommend living in cooper village, its safer than taking the subway everyday if u don't have a car plus 5 min walk from campus

"dont rank us highly if"

IF?

Omg what that sounds insane

if what 👀 what did he say??>> he basically went on this long rant about how everyone says they are "caring" people, but not really, and that its easy to fake being a caring person for a 6 week rotation, but what about in 20-30 years from now. and that they're looking for those kind of people. He says the program will work you hard, and don't rank us highly if you don't want to be worked hard. Additionally he was like "everyone in here is crazy smart, probably were valedictorians of your elementary school, middle school and maybe even highschool, additionally most of yall probably had three stars *** next to your name at college graduation (summa cum laude), but if you think you're perfect, don't rank us highly. We will give you feed back, we will challenge you, if you think you have already arrived at your destination don't rank us highly. We're looking for people who will be willing to go "sigh, I have so much to do, but I'm going to put my patients first because that's the kind of person i am" , if this doesn't sound appealing to you "don't rank us highly." These are some of the things I can remember after finishing my interview day. But it was all unnecessarily aggresive and lowkey patronizing. Even though everyone but him seemed nice, it really soured my day with all of that being the first thing I heard....before even being given a program overview presentation.

I am impressed by how much of his speech you remembered

cooper was the same

i interviewed earlier in the month - but i viewed it as they want residents who are not pretentious/arrogant and open to feedback. residency is a place for learning and personal growth but if you think you're already "perfect" they don't want that mentality

at the same time, theres ways to word and present that information of what the program is looking for without being condescending....>exactly

he was just being transparent not condescending imo

Adding the whole "if that's you then dont rank us highly" thing was a little offputting

literally was going to comment the same thing, basically word for word LOL

agree I was just thinking how that is like EXACTLY how I remember it but could never had recited it myself

16, and don't they only have one interview day?> no, today is their second interview day. 12 people!

so 28 total for one spot?

seems like it, and i think they had 1-2 rotators per block, so maybe 6-8 aways who interviewed within the 28? I feel like they probably fall down on their rank list though, they kept saying its a tough/not easy program

its on the thalamus calendar, scroll way down

I have not. I had a schedule for the interview (without links) on Thalamus earlier today, but it got taken down so I assume they're on the process of putting the links up.

No, Cooper has 1 seat

emory only taking 6 this year and no PGY2 spot

cincinnati only taking 3 this year

i think we can assume uconn takes 1 md-phd a year

theyre taking 1 this year

someone keeps deleting this

its 1 this year

thank you! was confused bc of match spreadsheet (which is locked)

I mean that HMS guy with 0 II's and always sounds like he wants to kill himself is showing Harvard to be a butcher mill

lmao this made me laugh

LMAOOO maybe cooper? but they also have 1 spot so

Jersey is v competetive :(

dirty jersey

cooper is just 1 spot this year!

wow omg

anyone know anything about rutgers rwjms?

wait they are notorious for not taking their internals? I thought they would just take their research fellow for this year

rutgers appears to ONLY take internals (from both Rutgers medical schools)

i just checked the spreadsheet and it looks like they actually took external applicants from 2022-2024, then 2 internals last year 2025.

BU

If the HMS person is real, I hope they’re ok

POOP

same I see them post on here often

no it says 0 for me> just opened

thanks! Looks like 16 ppl for 1 spot

How do you know?

they had 2 days and 8 slots per day on thalamus

yes> 90% yes, I had some last year that u just emailed the PC to schedule (I.e. Geisinger, Cooper)> Yeah majority are thalamus I had two where we had to email the coordinator back though