Mass General Brigham-MA

yes, every weekend except the 6-8 you're on call PGY2

> not OP but i also have a question im too scared too ask in case it comes off as too dumb lol but what exactly is call? like you're wokring in clinic the full day and then at night time you might also be called in for consults? or youre not working/waiting at home to see if you're gonna get consults all day? or is it like 24 hours on call? >depends on the rotation. Sometimes you're in clinic all day but also carrying the pager and you see consults in between or after clinic, this is usually for less busy call services. You can also be on inpatient consults and just on 24 hour call not seeing patients in clinic otherwise for the week. Someone else usually takes over on the weekend.

<current derm res: every program does it differently. At my program you are on normal clinic during the full day and then starting after clinic is over, you take over all the pagers and see any consults that come in overnight until the next day. You still have to work in clinic the next day. Usually weekday and weekend residents are different (split up).

except if you match at Harvard? i guess?

will NOT be matching @ Harvard lol thanks guys for the responses :-)

also don't be afraid to ask residents about call - it's super important to know

friendly reminder that you can check things like average hours/week and average days off/week on Residency Explorer! some programs are surprising!!

harvard has an average amount of call ~12 weeks but more consult time compared to most programs

isn't it just a review of some of their program offerings? Like we signed up for various interests to learn more about

im so embarrassed from today i almost do not want to show my face there again lol

same LOL

i've only got two brain cells left after that interview day hopefully it's just a presentation of sorts. i'm still replaying my PD interview like sir please give me something here :(

PD room was by FAR my worst, as fate would have it

hopefully the other interviews save us or we're just a horrible judge of performance

same those questions were rough >had to take anxiety meds to stop repeating the PD room in my head

for me the PD + APD rooms were the worst lol

next time someone asks me to tell them about a time that failed i have new inspo> this is frying me

do you think the dress code is similar to resident social?

yah business casual?

think so

oops im posted up in my sweatshirt whatever

ur good i think a lot of us were haha

honestly worst interview experience so far. Wonder how much this is reflective of the program culture as a whole and them being on a high horse just because they are Harvard>nah bro dont tease. what was the question

pls spill tea

no one is here to share the questions, why are people even asking lol

it was just tough

there are no more interviews, why does it matter if people share the questions? Also people are gonna ask if you post about it

oh no :( i'm scared now there's one more group

lol seeing this while in the interview waiting room. RIP

we got this

Will check in EOB for the tea. But to everyone interviewing, you got this!! You’ve worked insanely hard, and if you’re interviewing, you have a good shot at matching

it's tough for everyone, stay positive!

They're so weird FR

was thinking the whole time wow these are my people lol

The questions were just really odd, specific behavioral ones. Every single one of them was a question I had never been asked / haven't been asked since and I've had a good number of derm interviews so far. Just kind of threw you off and you end up rambling. Probably was their goal so i guess they achieved it. But the questions weren't like unprofessional or anything

Agreed with the left, they were specific where you couldn't really fit your prepped examples to the question, so you're left trying to come up with an example on the fly. Sometimes I felt like I didn't really have a good example that would make for a reasonable story

if you thought harvard was bad you shouldve seen mayo MN

perfectly stated!!

ok i'm n = 1 but i disagree with this one i don't think it's odd specific behavioral but maybe i've had some overlapping interview q's. also the attendings are good vibes

i blacked out for mine. i remember the first and last room

it's my dream to blackout these memories but instead im haunted by the memories of the regrettable nonsense i shared

I rambled so much and half the time didn't answer the actual question :/

some i literally did not even give a story, they got me.

BUT YOU STILL TRIED

for the past like 3 months i've been talking with my BF/GF about stuff related to this dang journey and how i've been processing some of the more difficult things that happened, and legit about 4 of the questions' answers just came from those discussions. those questions were HARD though but the attendings were so nice that you didn't feel like you did badly lol

i did both, and hope to never think of them again

omg was Mayo worse than this because I thought Harvard's was brutal

personally thought harvard was worse but might be recency bias

I thought mayo was way worse, questions felt like the hunger games and at least harvard people were nice after you answered the question

Everything is perfect at the Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency Training Program!!

playing 3d chess i see trying to make an institution look like they're sus by deleting their fame and shame. plz stop

how would you possibly know that this is what happened haha

that program is a mess but only real ones know that but most if not all will turn a blind eye bc Harvard lol

to it being a mess, its way too fragmented, it should really be two separate programs (theres a reason why so many harvard residencies went from being all the associated hospitals to two or event three programs )

there is no war in ba sing se < elite reference

Very chill!!

???> what you didn't understand?

sarcasm

I did not feel great about my answers

yeah heard it was bad :((

Yes the Harvard program probably has more inpatient time compared to other programs, but it amounts to 16 weeks (4 months) of inpatient consult time and call across MGH, Brigham, BI. People are just exaggerating the inpatient time, likely to dissuade others from ranking highly/#1

they do not scribe or cover attending inbox! program really tries to minimize admin (also no prior auths). inpatient and call can be tough, but residents seem happy with the balance because many blocks have great hours and alternate with inpatient. I believe it is 12 weeks of call?

By comparison, UCSF has 2 months of inpatient (one in PGY2, one in PGY3)

they have up to 6 months more inpatient time than similarly ranked programs

according to Harvard's recruitment handbook, there is 6 to 8 months of inpatient and 12 weeks of call (not including 2 months at boston children's which is both inpt/outpt)

how does this compare with Penn (since everyone is always putting these two up against each other for #1 rank)?

lol anyone else w/ Harvard interview who literally isn't even a top applicant (no Penn/Stanford/Hopkins/UCSF) it feels so weird

on a similar note: what's the best program in a major city?

Harvard or Penn (if you consider Boston and Philly decent sized cities)

NYC Power Rankings: Mount Sinai

I'd say it goes: NYU

Really?? What makes montefiore above Sinai /columbia?

NYU

Columbia = NYU

Cornell

Albert Einstein

Rochester

SUNY Downstate = Stony Brook

Northwell

NYMC

St. John's Episcopal

St. Barnabas

Montefiore = SUNY Downstate

Sinai = Columbia = Cornell

NYMC. (Rochester and Stony Brook are not NYC, and idk anything about St John's/St. Barnabas)

Sinai >= Columbia = Cornell

yes q3

ick thank you

welcome to the Bigelowwwww

POOP

why assume that people who are smart/well accomplished are autistic

based on this spreadsheet behavior, they are

what's wrong with being autistic lol

Derm departments can't keep subsidizing the amount of model trains it takes to keep wellness high

POOP

community programs are great but thinking that you won't get high volume training at an academic center is crazy. Like everything, your training and experience are PROGRAM DEPENDENT, not academic vs community. Rank which programs you like the best regardless of name, prestige, program type, etc. every program has something unique to offer. You might rank a community program first, then Harvard, then another community program, then so on. Your rank list shouldn't make sense to anyone else because it should be so tailored to your wants and needs

just rank the programs you will be happiest bro. program name doesn't matter for jobs when you're a board certified derm, unless you wanna do academics (which you dont)

Rank the place you will be happiest

POOP

Hopkins derm is fine and great education - splitting hairs at this point tbh.

Rankings are basically equivalent to research funding amounts so they probably have less derm research relative to the others

how are the research opportunities for hopkins med students?

Shhhh no one let them in on the Hopkins and Baltimore charm, keep out the competition < < Hopkins is a gem

POOP

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

That's a good gay length>?

POOP

What is HMS

harvard

for what it's worth i was told not to do aways by a mentor who primarily worked on research w/ me and then told to do aways by res/attendings i rotated with because it would be a good way for me to stand out to programs. so i would get multiple opinions from people before deciding not to do aways

so like what changed this year?? as an aside I think the faculty are getting tired of applicants just putting pediatric derm and wanting to work with underserved communities and not actually wanting to do that in the future. so if you're planning on putting those two to stand out, don't unless you actually strongly are passionate

I mean HMS is lowkey trash. Name can only go so far, hard work matters more!

HMS toxic

why is hms toxic

i mean OP clearly worked hard lol

I'd argue it's not toxic, faculty just assume students at "elite" schools don't need as much guidance and we'll figure it out ourselves which is not necessarily true lol

yes, if you haven't heard back - I would contact them.

they sent it as a doc in an email like last week

Harvard?

not OP but it doesn't matter? you'll get notified if you were on the waitlist

the people wanna know