Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL (Medicine-Dermatology)

Penn State, Northwestern, Yale (kind of), Georgetown, Ohio State, Brown, Cleveland Clinic, UPMC, UTHSC (tennessee), Zucker/Northwell, Emory, Mizzou, WVU, Dartmouth

wait I didn't know about Northwestern, are we sure?

Exact wording: "We are very excited to welcome you to the Northwestern University combined Medicine-Dermatology interviews, which also serves as interviews for either the categorical Medicine and/or advanced Dermatology tracks, if you have applied to either of those Northwestern programs. "

northwestern med derm counts for prelim.

Penn state does??

yes Penn state does, presented to us on interview day

what about northwestern regular Derm/peds derm> NW med derm counts for advanced derm NW position + med derm position. NOT prelim. You can ask to be considered for categorical IM, but that was not guaranteed by just applying.

program overview at 6:30 though right?

Wat?

I was also confused.

all communications i've gotten are for 7:30!

POOP

only if you applied to both on ERAS

Only if you applied to both on ERAS. I just emailed to ask if I can still apply to their IM program so that I can rank it. I will let you know what they say.

POOP

some schools that are known to interview all their rotators changed it up this year and didn't invite all their rotators if you're going off the schools that didn't II aways tab. i wonder if that's a new thing this year or if it jsut changes year by year??

its like whack a mole, unpredictable behavior

Overall it seems that schools are offering less interviews as a whole, I'm guessing now it makes getting interviews from aways less likely

which schools?

<< also wondering this for NW med derm (they mentioned the day before will be an info/social event, but no further details yet?)

POOP

got my medicine schedule

does anyone know a current resident and can ask

If you got med-derm it counts as your categorical interview. It said so in the confirmation email I received when I confirmed my slot. "The December 9th interview day will also serve as your interview for the Preliminary Medicine program and the Categorical Dermatology program."

My understanding is that Northwestern, as most programs with different tracks, is only allowing people to apply/interview to 1 track (Gen Derm vs Med Derm vs Ped Derm)

Do they say this somewhere? For example Penn states you can apply to multiple tracks

I applied to multiple tracks within the same program and for most programs a PC reached out to me asking to only select 1

wait i'm confused by this, I thought we could apply to any tracks we wanted? where are you getting this info that we're only allowed to apply to one?

Did anyone get a peds derm interview who didnt apply for peds derm?

I think this is program dependent

ok but my question was to the person saying NW only allows applying to one track, I'm not seeing that anywhere on their website/wasn't aware of that

I've heard that they're mostly doing this to people who applied gen derm and peds derm; they're trying to weed out people who are not geniunly interested in Ped Derm and only applying because Peds Derm is less popular and may be seen as an easier way to get in for people who do not have an actual intention to pursue peds derm

ahh ok I see, that makes sense. thank you!!

yes i know people from prior cycles who interviewed gen derm and med derm at programs (altho not NW so unsure)

Don't overthink it. I would dress they way they suggest in the email.