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tea on Hopkins?
Johns Hopkins Hosp-MD
HopkinsBaltimore, MD
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Applicant sentiment — from 150 anonymous posts, 2017–2027
5.5 / 10
What anonymous posters said
Anonymous posters frequently discussed the Baltimore location, with several describing it as an area with a reputation for crime while others said this reputation is overstated. Some commenters debated where the program ranks relative to peers, with opinions ranging from mid-tier to more highly regarded, and several noted the absence of a Mohs fellowship as a drawback. A few posts described residents as personable.
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Fame & Shame
2025–2026 Derm
3 entries❌1. Honestly so hit or miss with the faculty. Some are incredibly kind and some are so bizarre. During the interview, one of the Mohs surgeons just went on bizarre tangents, asked random unrelated questions, and I heard she did this to others too (someone said she made them sing on the spot during the interview??). One of the other interviewers just straight up NRMP violationed and asked me explicitly where I did my aways, if I was considering my hometown/undergrad institution for residency and if I applied there, which was super awkward to navigate. PD seems nice but also a little awkward. Tons of faculty turnover the last few years.
❌2. Program is in a rebuild phase, having lost many faculty and mostly newer faculty.
💬1. Makes sense that chasing prestige means you have socially inept or egotistic folks, who can get away with poor behavior because of entitlement and name brand. It's our job to avoid paying it forward and chase out toxicity+1 > Lol Hopkins as a derm dpt doesnt live up to its undergrad/med school rep. They've also lost some of their top tier faculty and are sorta in a rebuild phase. Anyone chasing Hopkins for the undergrad rep is kinda hilarious
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What's the tea on Johns Hopkins?
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Anyone accepted to Hopkins hear anything about onboarding yet?
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in general do people prefer prestigious programs like Johns Hopkins/Yale in poor locations, or decent programs in great locations like UCSD/UCLA? thinking about my aways..
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What did people think of the Johns Hopkins interview? loved! < were you in AM or PM group because I did not love it < I hated it, half the people didn't read my app < omg I loved it and thought everyone was so nice and chill < Same! THey def are going higher on my list after interview day
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Penn actually has a fair number of non-Ivy < Penn is not in the top tier because of this< penn is top tier because if you took the 5 most famous/well funded derms and they took their talents elsewhere the dept would still be a top dept. if you did the same to utsw, yale, hopkins, northwestern etc those dept rankings would take a huge dip
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anyone who got hopkins know if we email back on the 28th starting at 8 am? or can we email back now and they will just schedule us starting on 28th
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Can anyone confirm Hopkins released? < pls someone confirm, was bummed not to get one
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reapplicants who matched this year - any advice for us in the unmatched boat? and CONGRATS
ramie if you are reading this you da best congrats on the match dude!
Mar 21
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Once we make it out on the other side, we need to make this process better for posterity. Culture of elitism is causing so much anxiety and $$$. I think we can all agree that med school/undergrad "pedigree" is probably one of the worst variables to consider for residency app. We should judge people on their own merit (holistically). It makes me sad to see the lack of "training" diversity in academic programs; when most of the residents & faculty trained at the same "elite" institutions: Ivy League, Stanford, Hopkins, MIT etc. Programs say they care about DEI but the only 1 or 2 URMs they have trained at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford etc. This is why people feel the need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars at an elite private institution, so they an achieve their career goals or take on an unpaid RY to crank out papers for a big shot at an elite institution. This toxic culture of "elitism" has cost each of us so much $$ and family time; it has given us impostor syndrome, and serious FUCKING anxiety. We have to be better.
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how many internals do hopkins and washu have this year?
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Johns Hopkins- is the Howard County rotation just 1 month/year? or sprinkled all over < i think it's sprinkled in
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Didn't find Hopkins interview day impressive at all... am I missing something here? Sounds like they also have a ton of inbox stuff to do and also have to rotate at Washington DC... < they don't rotate at DC, they do have a satellite clinic there though (Sibley) < Did I misunderstand? Residents said they have a month of rotation there, can't remember if it's every year. Could someone clarify? < I don't think the residents rotate there at all
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"what do people think of the doximity rankings? are they useful at all? << Depends what your criteria are for filtering through programs. < at one point I thought they had actual criteria for the rankings, but apparently it's just alumni opinion? Or am I reading that wrong? Seems like a less than objective way to rank < It's all based on opinion. In the past, there have been a few publications that have attempted to rank programs based on NIH funding, faculty, residents, research output, etc (https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/Document/September-2017/CT094100189_REV.pdf) but this is outdated now. From what I've been told, you've got the big powerhouses (NYU, Penn, UCSF, Harvard, Yale, Stanford), the great but not quite top programs (Emory, Northwestern, Sinai, Wake Forest, Johns Hopkins, Miami, UTSW), a bunch of solid programs that aren't particularly famous for research or anything but will still train you well and prepare you for a career, and then a few bottom tier programs that have been known to have issues (ie flagged by ACGME, residents don't match to fellowships, program closes midway through a year, etc) < is there anything more recent?"
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UCSD vs Hopkins? Location is not the factor here (hence the difficult decision), more about the program, faculty and culture < use the X vs Y tab < this person did, but no one is answering it on that tab (not OP, but I noticed it earlier and couldn't answer) <OP: thank you for having my back lol
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bsF61KV0AJq4QyJHHper5JU-K7OGggz8/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102050449774486441241&rtpof=true&sd=true -- keep in mind that this is just one person's perspective though < That was so sweet of Ramie Fathy to make w/the speaker notes. Just one question though, is slide 7 supposed to blank? < if you are reading this Ramie you are the best and congrats on a great match this year! x3 < Thank you for taking the time to make that if you're here, Hopkins is lucky to have you!