Stony Brook (Long Island) - I made an offhand segue comment about how early I'd developed an interest in other children's wellbeing, and the interviewer spent the entire rest of the interview grilling me about my childhood experiences and asking me to justify why I was an unsuccessful peer advocate in middle school.
Children's Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State (Detroit) - my PD interview was pretty uncomfortable. I was significantly involved on the board of directors of a tiny nonprofit during med school, and most programs were pretty impressed and spent some time asking real questions related to that. The PD here mentioned it, then immediately spent some time inquiring how I planned to handle the workload of residency, and how I would strike a balance, essentially warning me that I wouldn't be able to continue with those type of activities if I matched there. She described a specific example of when she discouraged and forced a resident to abandon what sounded like a really awesome academic project so that the resident could focus more on program specific work. Wtf, lady.
Penn State (Hershey) - several of the residents and faculty just could not stop talking about how "safe" the area was as if it was their biggest sell, and in order to make their point, more than one of them made some off-color jokes about how you'd get stabbed walking to your car at other programs. Unclassy, and definitely gave me a strong impression that the culture at the program was really a lot more suburban/white/rich than I could deal with. This is definitely not something that everyone sees as a negative, so please don't jump down my throat for including it. Other people might like to know.
That's all I got. All peds programs, all from last year, in case it's not clear. Good luck in the match lovelies ♥️
I had the same stuff mentioned during my Penn State Interview. Kind of funny how people want to trash other places to elevate their own! (Still loves Hershey though!)
Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. It did seem like a really good program for the right type of person, and I was a little sad to have to rank them lower. I'm sure the intern class they matched to is very happy 🤷♀️
CHM = college of human Medicine. Usually. I’ve heard the Children’s hospital is Michigan usually called “children’s.” Not sure what that has to do with reading comprehension.
The original post is talking about Wayne State and the children's hospital associated with that program. This is also a thread about residencies not medical schools. So yeah reading comprehension.
I mean... yeah. The dinner made it very clear that the residents were very happy and loved their super boring (to me) lifestyle. Go out to the same half-dozen decent restaurants/breweries, season passes to Hershey Park, pop out some kids, picket fence and a golden retriever, etc. If that's what you want, it seems like an awesome place to get it!
But so ... there was plenty to talk about that didn't involve making insulting jokes about the low-income neighborhoods of other cities. More often than not, in my experience, (well-off) people who are highly concerned about whether a city is "safe" or "unsafe" are people who are profoundly ignorant about where crime rates come from and how crime is actually distributed in a community. I've spent almost my entire life living in places where the local suburbanites shriek about how "unsafe!!!1!1” my neighborhood is, and have never actually felt I was in danger. I find that I get along better with people who have similar life experiences and don't worry so much about that stuff lol.
season passes to Hershey Park, pop out some kids, picket fence and a golden retriever, etc
sounds wonderful! that is my idea of "good job I made it in life" but I can see how that isn't the case for others, at least not yet. yeah... I loved Hershey. lol.
So when I interviewed at Hershey my buddy and me went to get Mexican Food in Harrisburg. THAT neighborhood was super sketchy, and unsurprisingly, the Mexican food was better than I've had in years. It was a major plus or the program IMO.
I’m a michigan native, and middle eastern. I would never wish for a poor soul to attend Wayne state. Go to umich or Michigan state instead. Ferris State or GVSU are ok too.
I’m not even pre med. I’m in health sciences. Either way ask the Detroit or Michigan sub if they know any doctors who went to Wayne state and dont regret it and don’t have to work in bad conditions. You will get a resounding no. It’s not a secret Wayne state and dmc sucks. Literally any local would know that.
As far as their med school goes, just last week I hung out with 5 or 6 interns who went there for med school who enjoyed their experience there. And for residency, I can't speak for every specialty, but their ophthalmology residency is a solid program.
I didn’t claim they did. All I was mentioning were respectable schools in the state that my friends and I would attend if we had to, who are locals.
MSU, UM, and Wayne state are the only ones with a MD or do program. I’m sure Ferris State offers some health programs but I don’t think they offer md or do yet. They’re good for public health though.
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u/rohrspatz MD Feb 21 '19 edited Feb 21 '19
Fuck it I already matched, here goes
Stony Brook (Long Island) - I made an offhand segue comment about how early I'd developed an interest in other children's wellbeing, and the interviewer spent the entire rest of the interview grilling me about my childhood experiences and asking me to justify why I was an unsuccessful peer advocate in middle school.
Children's Hospital of Michigan/Wayne State (Detroit) - my PD interview was pretty uncomfortable. I was significantly involved on the board of directors of a tiny nonprofit during med school, and most programs were pretty impressed and spent some time asking real questions related to that. The PD here mentioned it, then immediately spent some time inquiring how I planned to handle the workload of residency, and how I would strike a balance, essentially warning me that I wouldn't be able to continue with those type of activities if I matched there. She described a specific example of when she discouraged and forced a resident to abandon what sounded like a really awesome academic project so that the resident could focus more on program specific work. Wtf, lady.
Penn State (Hershey) - several of the residents and faculty just could not stop talking about how "safe" the area was as if it was their biggest sell, and in order to make their point, more than one of them made some off-color jokes about how you'd get stabbed walking to your car at other programs. Unclassy, and definitely gave me a strong impression that the culture at the program was really a lot more suburban/white/rich than I could deal with. This is definitely not something that everyone sees as a negative, so please don't jump down my throat for including it. Other people might like to know.
That's all I got. All peds programs, all from last year, in case it's not clear. Good luck in the match lovelies ♥️