Philadelphia, PA
Applicant sentiment — from 87 anonymous posts, 2017–2027
5.5 / 10
What anonymous posters said
Anonymous posters frequently asked about Temple's interview release timing, often noting uncertainty or lateness. Several comments described the program as high-volume and clinically focused, with some recommending an away rotation to improve match chances. Views on program culture were mixed, with some posts calling training strong while others referenced a controversial social media video; a few posts also noted confusion between this program and a similarly named Texas program.
AI-generated summary of opinions expressed in anonymous, unverified posts. It describes what posters wrote, not verified facts about this program. Based on these 87 posts · Updated Aug 2026 · Contest or respond to this entry · Takedown & right of reply
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Resident at my home program says she judges anyone who wears hospital scrubs because it means they seem lazy and couldn't be bothered to get brand name scrubs... as if this specialty couldn't get any more toxic smh
is this the Temple resident again
at least you're not at a white coat professional every day program like one of my aways
When programs say they require a chair letter on Residency Explorer or Freida but not on their actual website, is that a real requirement?
who knows
i think when it is part of a list they want one of those things, not necessarily all but maybe im just hoping
resident here, nah
Is temple or penn state more friendly to OOS applicants?
this program has been awful
oooof imagine you just matched there and now have to worry for the next 9 months before starting
The derm who wrote this article also wrote the article titled 'a mentor is not automatically your advocate' and honestly it's good to hear other people further in training who have had similar experiences. It makes me feel like I'm not alone. But Dr. Lowenstein signing the petition to sunset DEI made me so annoyed/upset. There is also a very prominent faculty member at my insitution who signed the same petition who is very similar when it comes to mentorship, giving criticism, and playing with students/trainees careers. Moreso, it's interesting that many faculty members at other institutions know about this faculty member's antics but are not doing anything. I mean what is the APD doing? Writing memos about limiting away rotations and putting the onus on the medical student to be "equitable" when faculty with power like mine or Dr. Lowenstein exist. These faculty members are the ones creating structures of inequity that affect swaths of future physicians. All of this performative bullshit from the APD is so exhausting. Attack the most important problems for the love of God!!! < preach sister< AMEN
APD recommendations are super inequitable. I support limiting students to 2 aways with home or 3 without, but it needs to be a requirement, not a suggestion. I don't understand why they feel they cannot enforce said requirement.
ye all this does is reward people who go above and can get away with it
does temple usually interview/take aways? unsure of their match this year
< yes usually interviews all aways and takes mostly aways + home. not sure why match list wasn't posted this year but the ones who matched this year were also away + home
anyone with a temple away willing to switch for 10/26-11/22? preferably any earlier blocks
Is temple or penn state more friendly to OOS applicants?
last year penn state really only interviewed rotators an golds, so take that into account
how do you find out this information
i would like to knwo too how you find this information
not OP but typically word of mouth, i doubt theyll dox themselves and give more info than that
About SUNY downstate: https://porejudgment.substack.com/p/unsupervised-a-dermatology-residents
yikes
this program has been awful
oooof imagine you just matched there and now have to worry for the next 9 months before starting
The derm who wrote this article also wrote the article titled 'a mentor is not automatically your advocate' and honestly it's good to hear other people further in training who have had similar experiences. It makes me feel like I'm not alone. But Dr. Lowenstein signing the petition to sunset DEI made me so annoyed/upset. There is also a very prominent faculty member at my insitution who signed the same petition who is very similar when it comes to mentorship, giving criticism, and playing with students/trainees careers. Moreso, it's interesting that many faculty members at other institutions know about this faculty member's antics but are not doing anything. I mean what is the APD doing? Writing memos about limiting away rotations and putting the onus on the medical student to be "equitable" when faculty with power like mine or Dr. Lowenstein exist. These faculty members are the ones creating structures of inequity that affect swaths of future physicians. All of this performative bullshit from the APD is so exhausting. Attack the most important problems for the love of God!!! < preach sister
APD recommendations are super inequitable. I support limiting students to 2 aways with home or 3 without, but it needs to be a requirement, not a suggestion. I don't understand why they feel they cannot enforce said requirement.
The derm who wrote this article also wrote the article titled 'a mentor is not automatically your advocate' and honestly it's good to hear other people further in training who have had similar experiences. It makes me feel like I'm not alone. But Dr. Lowenstein signing the petition to sunset DEI made me so annoyed/upset. There is also a very prominent faculty member at my insitution who signed the same petition who is very similar when it comes to mentorship, giving criticism, and playing with students/trainees careers. Moreso, it's interesting that many faculty members at other institutions know about this faculty member's antics but are not doing anything. I mean what is the APD doing? Writing memos about limiting away rotations and putting the onus on the medical student to be "equitable" when faculty with power like mine or Dr. Lowenstein exist. These faculty members are the ones creating structures of inequity that affect swaths of future physicians. All of this performative bullshit from the APD is so exhausting. Attack the most important problems for the love of God!!! < preach sister< AMEN
yikes --> probs still applying bc i wanna be in nyc :(
ye all this does is reward people who go above and can get away with it
Is temple or penn state more friendly to OOS applicants?
I am on my RY so have not applied yet, but there was this derm resident medfluencer on tiktok kind of struck a nerve. She said something along the lines of "leave your rock at home," amongst other things, along the lines of, you can't apply to derm if you have bad acne. Just generlaly messed up things. But it got me wondering if there is truth to what she was saying and of derm attendings/residents *do* think this way? I'm engaged and I do have a rock but its a lab diamond (so it was quite price reasonable) and I love wearing it to clinic days. But her tiktok got me self conscious about this, like do we leave our rings/nicer things at home? And do attendings judge you for having cystic acne (mine flares pretty bad when I'm near my period)... like of course they will say no to your face but wonder what they actually think
this is a troll.
the thing is, she very much is not. She is a resident at an accredited program...> which program?
temple
LOL THIS IS BS i just got over an annoying breakout from not having my slynd BC and I matched pretty well i never even considered temple idk what they do there
Haha I was just thinking of her this week as I show up to my away rotation with new acne from all the stress... If you dont know who she is, she basically posted a titkok last year saying you CANNOT show up to your derm auditon rotation with a face full of acne, you can be working on it, but you basically should not be showing up with lots of acne. And the purpose of this tiktok was to give advice to people going on aways. Obviously got a shit ton of backlash for this from other dermatologists and other specialties as well and deleted her account. Her username was drdermbot and she is a resident at temple. Name starts with an M. Must be a PGY3 or 4 by now - you can easily find this tiktok because it got many reposts/stitches. I dont think residents or faculty care irl. If they do thats just a toxic program
i had an attending tell me to start using tretinoin before my away rotations
and thats weird and we shouldnt normalize unsolicited "advice" like that!
Def absolutely insane that that resident said that. I do almost wonder if there is some truth to the whole halo effect (and opposite effect), at least subconciously, given the famous rads study about attractive applicants doing better. But obviously an old-ish study looking at something slightly different https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31149924/. Not saying i agree with it!!
ya i do think there's a halo effect unfortunately even outside of derm. i had a few people mention my looks on the interview trail lol. this is only my opinion tho as a resi i feel a responsibility to promote body positivity and kind of fight back against those toxic views. i've had people try and bait me into talking crap about ppl's looks and they act shocked and disgusted when i say everybody is beautiful lol.
Wait I'm confused. I thought you couldn't be *too* attractive bc the other girlies get jealous
very true! the implicit biases are very real. but that was a crazy post from the resident. sorry I cant control when i get pimples lol
LOL so basically be beautiful but not too beautiful !!!! classic
ok now yall are overthinking it lol
its a joke
The only ppl that have ever been mean to me on rotations have been other middle aged women. I think if you're an attractive male you're exponentially favored versus if you're an attractive female you need to strike a fine balance between looking too vain and vice versa. The patriarchy will always win
hot take but just be yourself. always gonna be someone that doesn't like you for whatever reason
https://www.tiktok.com/@dermatoxic/video/7535994108708539661 The full video is mostly her criticizing the appearances of other women its crazy she watched this back and thought it was going to get a positive response
I have a feeling more residents/attendings agree with her... than meets the eye
maybe they do but its clearly all just internalized misogyny. she even recognizes at the end that everything she says is mostly directed towards women and that she would need to "think" about what men do in derm thats annoying. Which is very revealing. She then says dont have acne but also don't wear too much makeup so you cant win lol.
no bc pls tell me why all my letters written by my male attendings are glowing but the ones written by woman are way more critical. I'm a relatively quiet girl too that gets their work done, but male attendings are way nicer for sure. cough obgyn, I was between obgyn and derm and the residents put me off sooooooo fast
coud not agree more. the meanest people ive ever worked with were obgyn residents and scrub techs who were middle aged women
Someone needs to email the temple PD about this. Seeing how much power residents have over students, this is something they need to address. I'm surprised this hasn't gone viral, I feel like the resident is so lucky she hasn't been mega cancelled
it was over a year ago so im sure they are aware. She deleted her account after this video
It's a bad take.... it's not worth cancelling her over. The fuck?
I'm not saying she should be cancelled. I'm just surprised she has not been, in today's climate
Haha I was just thinking of her this week as I show up to my away rotation with new acne from all the stress... If you dont know who she is, she posted a titkok last year saying you CANNOT show up to your derm auditon rotation with a face full of acne, you can be working on it, but you basically should not be showing up with lots of acne. And the purpose of this tiktok was to give advice to people going on aways. Obviously got a shit ton of backlash for this from other dermatologists and other specialties as well and deleted her account. Her username was drdermbot and she is a resident at temple. Name starts with an M. Must be a PGY3 or 4 by now - you can easily find this tiktok because it got many reposts/stitches. I dont think residents or faculty care irl. If they do thats just a toxic program
Guys seriously stop getting hot and bothered over what people say on social media...
The full video is mostly her criticizing the appearances of other women its crazy she watched this back and thought it was going to get a positive response
it was over a year ago so im sure they are aware. She deleted her account after this video It went hella viral last year when it was posted
people are made because she's right. look at what most derm residents look like. would you recommend showing up 100 pounds overweight to an ortho rotation? i get it's not 1 to 1 but you will be judged on everything, some fair and some not. if you haven't at least tried to control acne, something that literally every derm applicant should know the first through fifth line treatments for, it's fair to raise questions. obviously you can have other concomitant contributing factors but she's not wrong and people are mad about it. disclaimer i don't think it should be that way, but it is
Bruh they look like that because 1. thats naturally the residents derm will attract half the time (people who care about their skin/appearance) 2. they have easy access to prescriptions and cosmetic treatments. Actually crazy to say its fair to raise questions if you know the first through fifth line treatments for acne. Every medical student knows that? Not just derm applicants tf? Yes we cant control the things we are judged on but it gets to a point...she is deadass saying she judges your competence based on your appearance
so clav is right
Who matched temple
who matched at temple
Anyone know what it takes to match Temple? Should I rotate? Future applicant here. Love their program and location, but don't have any connections other than being born in PA lol.
Yeah rotating probably helps
they pull heavily from their rotators, def rotate
they pull heavily from their rotators, def rotate
People deleting anything about PGY2 spots - so far new ones include: UCSF, Temple, MCG . Please add others to help reapplicants
Wayne state
Does anyone know when these applications are due?
MCG and UCSF due 2/6 the other new ones didn't advertise but I'd guess something similar
Wayne state one apparently is not real
if so I wasted $$ applying lol
People deleting anything about PGY2 spots - so far new ones include: UCSF, , MCG . Please add others to help reapplicants
Wayne state
Does anyone know when these applications are due?
MCG and UCSF due 2/6 the other new ones didn't advertise but I'd guess something similar
Wayne state one apparently is not real
if so I wasted $$ applying lol
how was the temple interview yesterday?
when is our rank list deadline
bro just Google it> thanks to whoever posted the link and not be a jerk like this guy before this reply
lol yea don't be an asshole
sometimes people wanna chat bro, live and let live; google ain't human
chatgpt would make nicer co-residents than some of yall
don't get pissy bc you lack self sufficiency lmao you don't belong in derm if you don't have basic problem solving skills, sorryyyy> not op, not someone who commented before. You don't belong in MEDICINE with that attitude, girl bye, imagine telling a pt "you lack self sufficiency because you lack basic problem solving skills", GET A GRIP PEOPLE. You're a doctor to SERVE and HELP people, NOT TO FEED YOUR EGOS. Do NOT EVER tell people they don't belong somewhere. > not op but had a similar experience where I asked a question here and instead of answering someone responded with a mean joke lol please get a life if you are bothering to respond with a mean comment instead of answering someone's question- I ultimatly deleted mine bc it made me sad
keep barking
Can the person whos mom prayed at a buddhist temple for us let us know how it turned out? Hoping that the good karma came to you!
temple is out
temple is out only for ppl who don't have acne
got em
an interview is an interview
Some posts are shown because their comments mention this program.
literally what LMAO