Wake Forest Baptist Med Ctr-NC

Hey, I have a Wake Forest Spot from 10/12-11/8, any interest in swapping, lmk!

is wake full?

unsure

The onc derm rotation is an elective in their CLT location. They do not have a derm department in CLT, only the one in WS so I'm assuming you may not get much exposure to wake's main derm faculty but I'm not 100% sure ab this

Harvard

USC

Even more important than rotation mills are programs that only take their own research fellows. While rotation mills will still interview and match a percentage of their rotators (with variability between programs), programs that only take their research fellows will rotate and interview many of their rotators, but ultimately offer little to no chance of matching for those outside their fellows.

what programs do this besides sinai

what programs do this besides sinai, Mayo AZ

Rotating, signaling, and interviewing at these programs is a waste of time and is performative; they already know who they plan to take for the upcoming cycle

WashU

very true. Do NOT waste your time at Mayo AZ or Sinai. UConn also (at least this year). CWRU as well is a major rotation mill people need to talk more about

UCONN

Penn

Wake

CWRU

northwestern

Every other year uconn has taken a lot of their away rotators, including all their current residents.

> they are respected historically d/t strong faculty presence but the training itself is terrible. spend 1 day in clinic with feldman or Mcmichael, its a joke. cramming 40-50 patients in a half day. you get no surgical exposure and also fail to get enough autonomy to properly get volume and reps in moving bread and butter derm cases

A lot of people are disgruntled with Wake because they didn't get interviewed after doing an away. Truth is it's an outstanding program with high volume complex med-derm and very respected attendings that still treat the residents like colleagues without an ego. The clinic is fast paced, and it is not as high surgical volume as less academic programs that see less complex med-derm, but all the residents feel they are getting amazing training and think the surgical exposure is great. They had two Mohs matches this year into exceptional Mohs programs. Don't buy into the crap on these spreadsheets too much, if you are interested go see for yourself

unfortunately what you are saying is just simply not true. they regularly do not match MOHS fellows, they have no surgical exposure (very large portion of what you'll be doing as an attending), clinics are an absolute shit show (re: clinics already mentioned and jorizzos clinic.. pls -- even if complex med derm walked in you wouldnt be able to truly appreciate given the volume). they also only have one attached fellowship?? No peds, mohs. Having only 1 fellowship attached is low-tier at baseline. I don't see how you can defend this program.. simply relying on OLD facult names. You can only keep riding Jorizzo's coat-tail for so long. Also, pls elaborate on "great surgical exposure"... cause thats........ not true. You will regularly do less than 1 excision per week at this program. GL transitioning to private practice

rather than claiming these are disgruntled aways who didnt get an interview, can you comment on if what has been said is true?

js i rotated here and while faculty are friendly and it is true they treat residents like colleagues without ego, that doesnt change the fact that the training isnt good. ranked low for that reason. very lackluster relative to other programs

unfortunately what you are saying is just simply not true. they regularly do not match MOHS fellows, they have no surgical exposure (very large portion of what you'll be doing as an attending), clinics are an absolute shit show (re: clinics already mentioned and jorizzos clinic.. pls -- even if complex med derm walked in you wouldnt be able to truly appreciate given the volume). they also only have one attached fellowship?? No peds, mohs. Having only 1 fellowship attached is low-tier at baseline. I don't see how you can defend this program.. simply relying on OLD faculty names. You can only keep riding Jorizzo's coat-tail for so long. Also, pls elaborate on "great surgical exposure"... cause thats........ not true. You will regularly do less than 1 excision per week at this program. GL transitioning to private practice

js i rotated here and while faculty are friendly and it is true they treat residents like colleagues without ego, that doesnt change the fact that the training isnt good. ranked low for that reason. very lackluster relative to other programs <<< dont try to delete what people are saying lol

js i rotated here and while faculty are friendly and it is true they treat residents like colleagues without ego, that doesnt change the fact that the training isnt good. ranked low for that reason. very lackluster relative to other programs <<< i think people from wake r trying to delete this thread lol

current PGY1 here suffering through intern year. I always tell my senior to discharge our med student as soon as we can, we also always vouch for them and tell the attending they had a research meeting/advisor/etc. No reason why you guy sshould be here post match.

im just not showing up LOL

plz don't do this unless the attending who is in charge of the course gave u ok. never know who may wake up on the wrong side of the bed and decide they have time today

current PGY1 here suffering through intern year. I always tell my senior to discharge our med student as soon as we can, we also always vouch for them and tell the attending they had a research meeting/advisor/etc. No reason why you guy sshould be here post match.>> I told my Urology postmatch ms4 to not come back for a week and a half of IM rotation lmao

when i was there i acutally saw a resident beg to set up a lowkey basal cell excision, blocked out 3 hr of the morning to do it no joke. they get next to no surgical volume



going off thread below, does wake forest really get that low of surgical volume?

when i was there i acutally saw a resident beg to set up a lowkey basal cell excision, blocked out 3 hr of the morning to do it no joke. they get next to no surgical volume

< anyone else that can confirm this? thought WF was a strong program?

Rotated at WF, it's not as strong as they want to appear. Low surgical volume.

agree. i think this program gets hype from old faculty but really its pretty terrible training

but what if I'm a pretige whore < prestige is the stupidest thing, chasing prestige is even dumber

prestige means lower pay

not if you go from prestige into private practice

yeah but your paycheck at pivate practice will be the same regardless of if you do derm residency at a T5 or elsewhere

your academic paycheck might be what is starting higher if you're coming from a T10, especially if you have a niche or well needed specialty

you said you want to make bank. academic program is completely worthless for that. not gonna gear you towards private practice and you also wont get enough bread and butter volume at those programs to transition directly to a high volume private practice. I know residents at academic places (cough, wake forest) who are lucky to get 1 or 2 solo excisions per day

if you come from a more prestigious school in private practice, will you get paid more?

no its rvu or collections based

no

prestige mattered during undergrad and medical school. for residency, literally just go where you have family/friends and they don't overwork you and make you take a ton of call (inpatient medicine has 0 relevance in private practice derm). forget the school name, it's just a 3 year job

prestigious school does not matter outside of academia. purely how efficient you are at bread and butter derm i.e. patient volume

Just a quick tip - last year many people including myself did not get the email right away but the NRMP portal updates right away. So if the time has come and you're not seeing an email, just log into the NRMP portal to see if you matched. -> It all happens 10AM EST, right?> yes!

Thank you

this is so annoying they cant even guarantee we all get the email?

wait i dont see this on the NRMP <

Will we be able to see the results via email notification? Just want to know if I'll be forced to face reality when I'm not ready to

wait i dont see this on the NRMP

ok wait thats so early i will prob be sleeping if my body doesn't wake me up at 5AM like the last 3 days :D

ok wait thats so early i will prob be sleeping if my body doesn't wake me up at 5AM like the last 3 days :D>Will we be able to see the results via email notification? Just want to know if I'll be forced to face reality when I'm not ready to>do you mean the small banners? Also dying to know

fuggin same. its a problem. >it's nice coming here because we all know what we're going through, it's hard for others especially not in medicine to relate

right? And if I have one more med friend applying IM tell me "I sure hope I match!" I'm gonna scream

its 2 am and im on here. i have a prblem

>

ya it was a very enjoyable day!> Wells Fargo?

LMAO I thought the same thing too lolol I think they meant Wake Forest

wakealicious

apply for the away, see if you get it first . its hard to get aways

also, as someone who did not do aways i would recommend doing them

I agree, I would apply to a BUNCH of aways and sometimes you don't actually have a choice at all, like you only get what you get. focus on applying to higher yield ones but you can throw in a wake app and see where you get in or where you don't

OP: thank you all! appreciate the insight

i applied to 20+ish schools and only got the 3 aways i got! theres no harm to denying aways if done in an appropriate amount of time, so try to get them in the first place :)

To add more perspective, Wake has several current residents that did aways. If you go there and perform well (it is an awesome rotation and super fun) AND you have a strong application, you can definitely get an interview. I loved my rotation and am looking forward to the interview. After rotating Wake shot up my rank list and I think the training there is elite

how do you know if you performed well? Based on what others have said on this spreadsheet, it seemed like some people were told they would get interviews but didn't

the harsh truth of derm is people are poor gauges of their own performance. Rotated with many people who didn't get interviews at various institutions and they almost exclusively had aspects of their personality or clinical work that was subpar. Either couldn't read a room, too pushy with inserting themselves, too much ass kissing, or weak clinically

any reasons for ranking that program lower?

I hated it during my away :'(

if you hated it on an away you likely won't love it while there for 3 years, don't let something as superficial as perceived "rank" make you miserable you'll still be a dermatologist on the other side so train where you think you'll be a balance of most happy and well-trained

thank you this is good advice I think I just needed a wake up. everyone has been questioning me so sometimes easy to get lost in the noise, ty for your kind response!!

fwiw, i dual applied IM and interviewed at a t20 IM program. I hated it. It's going on the bottom of my list even lower than community programs (I ended up loving them!) my family can't wrap their heads around the reason why, but I had to come to terms that I would hate to be somewhere like that just for the show of it, and I had to swallow my perceived pride and rank of such things to come to that conclusion.

I'm considering doing the same thing due to location. Agree that it feels weird. Fingers crossed we end up where we should!

i absolutely plan to rank on vibes and life, like it's a big draw to derm that you can actually have a life so why be somewhere just for the prestige. my box checking is over

it's also hard because I don't think I get that much from an interview day? it's so hard to catch the vibes!

wtf

OP: yes! honestly if I hadn't done an away then that program would've been my easy number 1 (highly ranked, great interview day)!! So I'm at least thankful I could spend a large portion of time there to see what's its really like and how much it's not for me

based on that interview day, i thought it wouldn't be a good fit because I asked the PD about culture and how you can get paired with a mentor and they told me "culture is no longer negative here, and for mentorship, this is a job not school so you need to go find them yourself" so was immediately turned off, LOL

sorry you had that experience; that is such a red flag

please add to fame/shame!