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Tulane

New Orleans, LA

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Applicants discuss Tulane's interview logistics, scheduling, and program reputation. The program is noted for guaranteeing interviews to away rotators and having a strong cosmetics training program, but significant concerns about racism and conduct issues have negatively impacted applicant rankings and perceptions. Some applicants view it as a competitive but safe program choice, while others have deprioritized it due to institutional reputation concerns.

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Y'all who's gonna start the convo re what schools are best to do aways at? :Z open to hearing opinions. Some schools have stopped gauraunteeing IIs to away candidates, others have begun to prioritize internal/away candidates much more... what yall think? :)

#202026-2027 DermMar 21

Rush interviewed everyone who did an away this year, didn't happen previous years but thought it would be helpful to know! Great program!

Mar 21
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theres a tab in the 25-26 sheet about aways that didnt interview rotators

Mar 21
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i do not rec OSU, it is an awful away. rude faculty, rude residents. you will be miserable. easy away to get but occupy your time with another school

Mar 21
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< echoing this. they interview all rotators but they are an interesting bunch..

Mar 21
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I think the top program that guarantees an interview if you do an away is Miami. But they only take 4-8 rotators per year so if you get one you can be pretty well assured they like your app. They usually match 1-2 away rotators also despite having 30+ internals per year. Emory also guarantees an away. As does Tulane. Some texas programs do as well

Mar 22
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Texas doesn't seem to match non-Texans often tho

Mar 22
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UTSW does occasionally

Mar 23
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Research years that guarantee match? How do I find these?

#35802025–2026 DermApr 1

I think cornell is like the only one

Apr 1
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Cornell does not match every research fellow

Apr 1
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cornell barely matches 1 fellow, if any, per year (correct me if im wrong)

Apr 2
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is there a list somewhere?

Apr 1
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I don't think anything or anyone can guarantee you a match

Apr 1
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pretty much none? imo if an institution matches back a good amount of their RY students I would take that as a positive

Apr 1
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larkin palm springs research year with Dr. Skopit guarantees match

Apr 1
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i know a cornell fellow who didnt match anywhere

Apr 1
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Tulane and UAB are guaranteed

Apr 1
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cornell does not match their own fellows very often

Apr 2
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larkin south miami research year with Dr. Skopit guarantees match

Apr 2
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Cornell does not match every research fellow this is absolutely false about cornell, they are not loyal> larkin south miami research year with Dr. Skopit guarantees match

Apr 2
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The Maryland RY seems pretty guaranteed as well, not back to Maryland per say but just derm

Apr 2
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MUSC

Apr 2
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cornell does not match their own fellows very often>> Larkin South Miami home of the pay2play derm position has an unpaid RY which they will guarantee your acceptance the following year in their wonderful program

Apr 3
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What RYs guarantee a match?

#23232025–2026 DermFeb 21

prob none for sure, maybe sinai bc their match is all RY fellows (still competitive, but you're competing against less people i suppose tbh)

Feb 21
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heard uab/tulane have good match rate for their fellows. ultimately it's going to depend on your relationship with your mentor!

Feb 21
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heard uab/tulane have good match rate for their fellows. ultimately it's going to depend on your relationship with your mentor!

Mar 7
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Thoughts on Tulane today?

#20022025–2026 DermFeb 21

POOP

Feb 21
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If I want to match anywhere, where should I rotate? aka which programs interview mainly rotators?

#13742025–2026 DermFeb 21

Most of them interview rotators>emory>UF>tulane>Baylor Scott and White Temple

Feb 21
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musc

Feb 21
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thank you!

Feb 21
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want to reiterate that it's getting harder to get these away rotations so you might not have a choice but check the schools that didnt II aways from this year and last year

Feb 21
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Would add penn state and jefferson to this list but can't edit the cell for some reason

Feb 21
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i believe wayne state also does

Feb 21
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musc

Mar 7
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thank you!

Mar 7
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i believe wayne state also does

Mar 7
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I thought tulane was 11/17, no?> yes I believe so

#13732025–2026 DermFeb 21
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is there a list of which programs have in person interviews this year

#11052025–2026 DermFeb 21

Tulane, hopkins, (feel free to add more), yale, vandy, louisville, USC, miami, mayo Jax

Feb 21
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basically most Florida programs (not all but like 50%), Cincinnati, MUSC, Utah, Mayo AZ, dartmouth

Feb 21
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As in derm interviews are in person? Or prelim/TY

Feb 21
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derm baby

Feb 21
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oh for fuvks sake > LMFAOOO

Feb 21
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basically most Florida programs (not all but like 50%), Cincinnati, MUSC, Utah, Mayo AZ, dartmouth

Mar 7
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As in derm interviews are in person? Or prelim/TY

Mar 7
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derm baby

Mar 7
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oh for fuvks sake > LMFAOOO

Mar 7
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What MD programs do out of match offers?

#10962025–2026 DermFeb 21

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.

Feb 21
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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?

Feb 21
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yep!

Feb 21
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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

Feb 21
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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?

Mar 7
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yep!

Mar 7
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is tulane derm interview on the away or after?

#10222025–2026 DermFeb 21

its after , if you away rotated there... when you show up on interview day in-person, the mini-5-min interviews are all just chill "catching-up" interviews where you just yap. It's really nice. I'd say Dr. Boh is the true interview test that day... she makes it VERY VERY aparent that they want people who actually want to be in New Orleans and will try to tease out if you're ranking them highly or not.

Feb 21
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this is sooo helpful tysm

Feb 21
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when you say its after is it like during the normally scheduled interview days or its at the end of the rotation?> all their interviews are on the actual interview days. Think they had 2 days last year.

Feb 21
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this is sooo helpful tysm

Mar 7
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when you say its after is it like during the normally scheduled interview days or its at the end of the rotation?> all their interviews are on the actual interview days. Think they had 2 days last year.

Mar 7
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Anyone know which prelim programs will keep you on as categorical if you don't match derm?

#5962025–2026 DermFeb 21

SLU

Feb 21
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Tulane seems like a safe bet

Feb 21
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signaling tips for a program that guarantees interview after an away?? like tulane or UM for example

#5562025–2026 DermFeb 21
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Tea on which programs almost always interview their away rotators? (either on the away or invite them later on), I know so far Emory, UF...

#5202025–2026 DermFeb 21

Miami, Tulane> Tennessee

Feb 21
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so for these programs, do you not need to signal them (gold or silver) if you do an away rotation there?

Feb 21
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you'll have to ask them, ik programs also change from year to year, signals are still fairly new

Feb 21
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you def still should silver signal your aways at the least unless specifically told otherwise, but in my experience they all still wanted a signal some aways wanted silver and told us to save gold for others

Feb 21
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heard wake forest interviews them all!> not true for WF >LSU

Feb 21
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FSU, MUSC, Arkansas, UF

Feb 21
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you'll have to ask them, ik programs also change from year to year, signals are still fairly new

Mar 7
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you def still should silver signal your aways at the least unless specifically told otherwise, but in my experience they all still wanted a signal some aways wanted silver and told us to save gold for others

Mar 7
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is there a list of which programs guarantee interviews to their away rotators?

#4032025–2026 DermFeb 21

you can probably look at the old sheets linked on the reddit and it can give a rough idea

Feb 21
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Feel like none of these aren't guaranteed anymore :(

Feb 21
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no theres several that still auto interview. just look at the spreadsheets the information is there

Feb 21
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Emory, Miami, Tulane auto IV. Maybe some other smaller programs do as well >since when is Miami auto IV? with their 400 internals lol >Miami only accepts 4-8 rotators per year and interview all of them during the rotation.

Feb 21
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no theres several that still auto interview. just look at the spreadsheets the information is there

Mar 7
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Emory, Miami, Tulane auto IV. Maybe some other smaller programs do as well >since when is Miami auto IV? with their 400 internals lol >Miami only accepts 4-8 rotators per year and interview all of them during the rotation.

Mar 7
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so did anyone get the UAB research position or have we all not heard back yet

#3112025–2026 DermFeb 21

its filled?

Feb 21
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idk that's what I'm asking

Feb 21
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did anyone get the Tulane research position?

Feb 21
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Does anyone know if the Tulane RY is open to apply to? I cant find info on how to apply

#34062025–2026 DermMar 21

Does anyone know if the Tulane RY is open to apply to? I cant find info on how to apply> they have a new fellow that will be starting this year.

Mar 21
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It's a 2 year fellowship and only open to people they've interviewed for residency but didn't match.

Mar 21
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It's a 2 year fellowship and only open to people they've interviewed for residency but didn't match. < Yes, Dr. Erin Boh runs it. She's had the fellowship for quite a while actually. If you went unmatched and she calls you if you want to take it, take it.

Mar 22
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