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is this ucsf mentorship thing only for urm students? < or low ses students < what is this mentorship?

speaking on diversity, which programs are the most "diverse" or really value diversity? < ucsf, nyu, gwu, and duke have really stood out. < howard is trying to take more non urm residents according to their chair as the demographics of dc changes

What programs have a lot of scut work?< i've heard NYU does < heard BU<what is considered "scut" work? < covering attendings' inboxes excessively, doing prior auths for every patient needing it (as opposed to doing some for educational purposes) < any program with resident clinics will have prior auths and a bit more workload, you don't have to cover attending inboxes at NYU though< true! And NYU has a lot of resident clinics which is why the training is good (ie you aren't 'shadowing' attendings) <like other people said, at NYU the clinics are resident run, meaning they have their own patients, and they are not under the attending, so it makes sense why they have to manage their own inboxes and do prior auths for their OWN patients. If it were attending clinics it would be a different story. < I heard UCSF has lots of work due to patient volume, like residents are there super late daily. I also don't think volume of work makes you a better physician, like the firehouse idea like water is good and all but not if you're getting more than you can drink

Is it even worth it to give a token to places like Penn, UCSF, NYU, Harvard?

What are the top 5 programs for derm? Harvard, Penn, NYU, UCSF < Yea those programs seems to be the usual consensus < I feel like these are all overrated. < how can they be overrated if they are literally the best programs in the country< I think of these 4 NYU is probably the best and Harvard probably the weakest. x4 < Seems like NYU=UCSF>Penn>Harvard from the websites and what I've heard on the topical podcast but I don't think I will get interviews at any of these lmfao < which episode talks about program rankings?< OP here. There is no episode that has rankings. I was speaking to my own research looking at their curriculums and schedules. I brought up the Topical podcast because there is an episode that talks about the weaknesses at Harvard Combined which seemed to make the training a little weaker than the others mentioned, but what do I really know? < I think it comes down to geographic preferences and career goals between these programs. They all have their strengths and their weaknesses, but train amazing dermatologists.

M3 here curious if people did not rank Stanford and UCSF highly causing them both to go far down their lists (they both matched IMGs). Is that normal?< UCSF is considered the best program in the country by many. They can do whatever they want and rank who they want. Stanford is Stanford, pretty sure they are in the same boat as UCSF and don't match far down their lists. UCSF also interviews like 20 people. That is a different level of elite. x2 <also being an IMG does not mean they are a bad candidate, some of them have already been derms in other countries for years, with tons of research in us, and/or phd's. they probably are/were better than other candidates x4< yea the IMGs the T10s match are always insane candidates x2

do derm programs forbid their residents from doing a residency at a TY? Is that a thing?

i'm super confused why so many people here seem to hate on yale compared to the other top 5s...it was my dream program and i ended up matching at another "top 10" but i'm still pretty bummed. even though new haven isn't exactly boston or new york, the residents at yale are consistently the top scorers on boards and more PDs have come from yale than anywhere else. not that harvard, NYU, Stanford, UCSF and Penn aren't great too, but i think we're doing a disservice by not consistently including yale with those programs. still wish i could have been there!!!!

Feeling like I messed up my rank list bad. I had Harvard, UPENN, UCSF as 1,2,3 out of 25 but then I made a last minute switch. I wanted to be close to home so went with UCSF. Am I going to be able to get a job ?

Are people rigging the rank list tally? For example, I thought it was said that UCSF only interviews 20 applicants so how are there more than that number in the tally?< I wondered about this as well. I remember a person who posted a while ago saying they had been changing comments by deleting words or adding phrases, so I would not be suprised if the psycho is at it again lol

lol people are legit arguing harvard vs ucsf vs stanford on this sheet where many people are scared they don't have enough interviews to match. the let them eat cake energy is strong on that one

I know this is in the WWYD but it was mostly around food haha. Can we talk about Harvard vs. Stanford? I feel like Harvard gets compared to UCSF a lot but how about Stanford?< I think Harvard x3 > Harvard in terms of complexity and diversity of cases since you rotate through so many different sites at Harvard.

To UCSF applicants - am i misremembering wrong program or did they say they would send out a google form in case we had more questions/wanted to connect to a resident to chat more? haven't gotten anything yet< i don't remember this...ok i must be remembering the wrong program lol.<maybe, but i may just not remember either. a lot of programs are bleeding together ar this point< pretty sure that was Stanford that offered this lol

I just wanted to warn you all that we must have interviewed at UCSF on different days because they were not a good fit for most people. Just warning so you guys can stop ranking them #1. Do not recommend.

Damn, looks like a lot of yall want to end up in california huh< can some internals comment on UCLA, USC, UCSD, UCSF