UC San Diego Med Ctr-CA

Fantastic program in an ideal location. People anonymously rag on it likely to get others to rank it lower. Amazing benefits and strong UC union (make 90-100k). Great work/life balance. They do get a lot of NIH research funding hence the research reputation, but there is only one required research project for residents. Previous comments recommended doing the gen derm away instead of peds derm

the research rep also comes from them matching a lot of MD PhDs but it seems like that trend is going away based of this years list and prior

How do you know who they matchd this year?

list is up. Last year they matched seemingly research heavy people though (one of them only had basic science pubs, no clinical research whatsoever!!)

What about UCLA?

my school (MD OOS) has an affilitation disagreement with them so we can't even rotate there

googling everyone who matched this year to figure out the secret sauce

UCSF

Desireable location is literally impossible to define. Some people will call Texas desireable. Others New York. Only you can evaluate.

edited to clarify

from what ive heard cornell is chillest in nyc

Yale (small city but liberal)

UCSF> lmfao chill and ucsf do not go together

University of Minnesota :)

What about UCSD? Seems chill and San Diego is amazing

UCSD?

stanford not in a city, but close to SF and definitely chill

UT Austin! (Not a lot of cosmetic training tho)

you will be great no matter what! It is UCSD's loss !!

I think I responded to that one. I'll bring it back and lock it I'll put it right below yours.

was it this one? https://www.medmatchforum.com/2026/3432

to that point mentioned, UCSD does seem to like matching certain kind of people or institutions...

to that point mentioned, UCSD does seem to like matching certain kind of people or institutions... < That's it! I'll paste and lock here on this spreadsheet too in the row below. < DONE

sending virtual hugs

I don't think this is true. The PD at Penn is VERY clear they DO NOT do post II communication. he feels very strongly about it

same with UCSF's PD..> the whole thing strikes me as BS especially with the earlier link to an article with a paid mentoring service

I know people who got rtm calls from penn pd

sure buddy

I heard people who got Pen was for tracks and not by PD

100% serious that I know schools that do post-ii communications/rtm calls when they tell everyone that they are hellbent on no post-ii communication. Just beacuse a PD says it does not mean they won't do it experiencing this gave me trust issues tbh lol

PD's will do anything to get the best of the best, RTM calls happen because programs are selfish

well at least i know i'm not the best of the best yeee

I matched at one of the programs listed above, no RTM call. This rtm thing was absolute bs

I did 2/18 phone call from the chiefs

doxxing yourself huh

I am the PD of UCSD and I know who this applicant is. NRMP has been notified of this individual and they have been banned from our program now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

why would a PD ban someone for saying they got a post-ii communication lol

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

lmfao

Harvard does not do RTM calls they are very strict about comms with applicants and try to be fair to everyone across the board

good to know we love to see it

why

???

People are breaking at the seams in this thread lol

the obsession with UCSD is kinda out of hand like i have only seen negative things about attitudes in the program yet some of you are losing your minds over this program like why

at the end you'll be a dermatologist, even if you go to UCSD. However, it seems they only care about research and clinical training may be lacking. I am going to residency to become a clinician, not a researcher...

Because beaches with hot chicks. Why else would anybody apply for dermatology at UCSD!?!

beaches with hot guys

Yessss King ;)

at BEST, you can roughly extrapolate survey results as a distribution for all applicants ranking, n=3 is def not all applicants but you can try to extrapolate distribution from there lol >def not, not every derm applicant uses this sheet, and the vast majority that do don't comment

what happened??>they just sent the NRMP code

derm resident - these questions are hard to answer without knowing the specific programs

what happened??

they just sent the NRMP code

yes and i'm sad :( it was close to family but the vibes were inferior. It dropped down to 4

Def had an away that i thought i would really love but ended up hating

same but also grateful I went now because I wouldn't have known if I didn't go in person

I have being saying this a lot because it's true. I did my rotation at UCSD thinking it would be my number 1 only to hate the culture/vibes. Has moved down to 6 on my list.

this was always the case lol, San Diego is beautiful though

exactly, that TY has always been a grind with lots of wards/ICU/etc and has always started orientation in early June but people still go cuz san diego

what about UCSD and Michigan??

you can look this up on ResidencyExplorer as well as other useful metrics like average # hours worked, etc.

didn't know RE had moon information! Thank you!!

pretty sure no moonlighting at UCSD

Whered u interview is the real question for this

UCSF has 30k!

Penn, Columbia >Mayo has tons of support, UCSD also has robust fertility benefits (I think 20-30k)

are fertility benefits mainly egg freezing or do they are include IVF?

i think both

a handful of programs ive interviewed at have had this. so nice to see!

Is there a way to see the fertility specific coverage in a plan or did the programs specifically highlight it as a benefit? would love to know which programs have coverage!