Tufts Medical Center-MA

I saw it open on 4/2! But was not announced or anything

2022

probably nothing

If you go to Harvard over say BU or Tufts, would your training be better / would your life be that different? > I hear harvard has more inpatient maybe that may be different. HA. In all seriousness, no. As an adult, the largest impact on your education is YOU. A program may be better or worse for your priorities, but in all honesty, it likely will not make a measurable difference. If your priority is prestige and academics, Harvard may be better. However, there is no objective answer here. I know people wish there were given how many times this is asked. Put your personal priorities first. There are as many different careers as there are dermatologists.

honestly probably not much beyond geographical boost if you'd like to stay locally as a private derm

layman prestige + MAYBE better training

Better training for esoteric

love this advice

love the person who gave this advice

love you more <3

i thought the questions were all super standard, and the faculty were nice > kinda some tough questions tbh

agree some of the questions were tough! everyone was so friendly but may have been my hardest interview yet

tougher than expected and more rapidfire questioning but friendly

didn't have time to ask any questions, faculty just asked more questions, definitely toughest interview

y'all need to remember that this is NOTHING!!!!!!! compared to a residency in IM/surgery/peds/etc. yes it sucks but it's so so so so much better than what you could be dealing with. This is also another plug for everyone to do a chill TY instead of a prelim lol < what an odd response

Not every program exploits, but yes some definitley do

…what was odd about that response

that theyre putting down other specialties as if theyre malignant> because they are lol

yikes if you guys think derm is any different… the joke is that specialties are all malignant in some capacity and it depends on the program. Derm isn't special and you aren't above other specialties because you matched Derm. respect other specialites guys what is wrong with that....

Being forced to do stupid shit like cover atttending inbox can actually make a big impact on your QoL .. lol

At CCF, you only cover the attending in boxes of patients that you have seen so it was just part of the continuing care of your patients just like in the real world

which programs do this?

CCF, UMich, OHSU

tufts too

without the attending salary yay

Umich does not cover attending inboxes (you cover your own inbox for patients you staffed with an attending, and if they see patients independently, they cover the inbox stuff)

no not yet

did anyone get swag for michigan yet?

michigan gives swag? pleasant surprise

really?

in the interview details tab someone marked that they did but maybe that isn't true :(((

Geisinger senior class is all guys!

Uconn has a lot of men

Tufts senior class is all but 1 male

was on a social the other day, 14 women 3 dudes, guys are minorities

POOP

oh how the tables have turned lol

unc

Yes

damn shoulda applied i would love swag helps make brutal process a bit sweeter

POOP

i haven't gotten any :(

name and FAME them plz

Stanford

tufts

Nebraska

some of my TYs actually have sent some stuff lol

what does stanford send?

boo ghosted

lol

got confirmation on eras 11:30 AM

can anyone switch dates to 1/21? I would be so thankful!

Applied last year with a similar question... none that I know of personally out of all the MD programs. Its a match violation. Not even the "niche" programs like the two in Puerto Rico match outside the match (however they take 99% from PR with the exception of one student from Tufts last year). The one DO program that matches outside the match pretty consistently is St. John's Episcopal (3 residents per year). I wouldn't be surprised if other programs with 1 resident per year didn't already know who they were going to take prior to the cycle though, effectively providing an "outside the match hunch" to the applicant.

Of note Tulane does offer a research fellowship every 2 years starting after completion of an ACGME recognized TY/internship in Medicine or Surgery. It is reserved for 1 individual under Dr. Boh (the chair of the department). When you sign up it is with the understanding you are guaranteed into their program after two years of grinding papers. It's pretty competetive to land. Their fellow just matched to Tulane Derm this past cycle. https://medicine.tulane.edu/dermatology/fellowship/clinical-research

I remember there was someone at Sinai who was offered an out of match offer in February (this was back in 2022 i believe) and did not take it at insistence of Sinai's home department. I'm not sure if this story is true or not. I would imagine though that if a program did give someone an out of match offer, and the program would then withdraw from the match for that year. That would not make it a match violation, right?

yep!