What applicants said about Tulane Univ SOM-LA in the 2026 cycle

I think cornell is like the only one

Cornell does not match every research fellow

is there a list somewhere?

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

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

larkin palm springs research year with Dr. Skopit guarantees match

i know a cornell fellow who didnt match anywhere

Tulane and UAB are guaranteed

cornell does not match their own fellows very often

larkin south miami research year with Dr. Skopit guarantees match

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

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

MUSC

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

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)

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

POOP

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

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

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

musc

thank you!

i believe wayne state also does

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

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

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

derm baby

oh for fuvks sake > LMFAOOO

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!

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.

this is sooo helpful tysm

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.

SLU

Tulane seems like a safe bet

Miami, Tulane> Tennessee

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

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

FSU, MUSC, Arkansas, UF

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

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

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

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

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

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.

its filled?

idk that's what I'm asking

did anyone get the Tulane research position?

Tulane

> Tulane is only for those who interviewed there

duke, UAB, SLU, sinai, Emory, melanoma fellowship, penn

i don't agree Emory

also i wouldn't say any of these are guaranteed. it should be *highly increases* your chances of matching

also i would directly talk to the research fellows that are coming from these RYs. If the mentors are saying one thing, and RY fellows that matched are saying another about their experiences, I'd be wary. Don't forget that many applicants have home programs and other sources of networking/support that could have contributed in very meaningful positive ways.

also if mentors don't offer to connect you with past research fellows who have matched i'd take that as a red flag

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.

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

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.