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@lindou
Did u get the email I sent ur "Lindachimi@yahoo.fr". ??

Hi guys. I was a silent reader of this thread. I found it extremely helpful and I want to say thank you for such a great thread.
I got interview invite from Kingsbrook Jewish this Friday. There is very small amount of information about this program on their website. I found some post from other residency sites telling the residents are not so happy and neighborhood is dangerous, however they were posted 4-5 years before. Could you please shed some light about this program?

@ gikson

This isn't really the thread for asking program specific questions but things to keep in mind are....no resident is happy...anywhere. It just doesn't come with the territory of working 80+ hours a week and having a non-existent social life.

Look up neighborhoods online you can check local news papers, reviews, average income levels, school rankings etc to get a feel of the community. Then interview at the hospital and just go but what feels right in your gut and rank accordingly, to be honest your going to spend more time in the hospital than 'in the community' and you only have 3 years there then you can leave.

The only programs you have to be wary of are those which fire residents often. Thankfully this is farrrr from common place and more often than not it is probably the resident's fault even though we only hear their sides of the story on these and other forums. Good luck and congrats on the interview.

@lindou
I,m looking for a way to do that urgently. Pls let me know if u find any!!

Thank you to ALL who have contributed so far to this thread!

Please continue to post in this thread any interviews/rejections for IM so we all know where the programs stand.

IM Interviews/Rejections status as of today as provided by the applicants in this thread:

INTERVIEWS:

9/19 – Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA
9/19 – Coney Island, NY – maulik, ddraper, sarahm
9/22 – St. Barnabas, NJ – supernigga, juliamd
9/22 – St. Barnabas, Bronx – elly_js, serapios
9/22 – Bronx Lebanon – omm2015, pfo, omalizumab890, drk111, pongpong, dr_etanercept
9/22 – Mercer University, Macon, GA – usmleatl
9/22 – St. Agnes Hospital, MD – snowemma, drk111
9/23 – University of Minnesota – supernigga
9/23 – Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ – pongpong, usmleatl, snowemma
9/23 – St. John Hospital, Detroit, MI – troublemaker
9/23 – University of Buffalo – americandream1, panipuriisgood
9/24 – University of Illinois Urbana – snowemma
9/24 – St. Joseph Hospital, IL – tanboweiblue, juliamd
9/25 – University of Toledo, OH – dr_etanercept
9/25 – Jersey Shore University Medical Center, NJ – supernigga, haptensb35, usmleatl
9/26 – MacNeal Hospital, IL – sonyk06, usmleatl (10/2)
9/29 – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Amarillo, TX – sarah1101
9/29 – Bridgeport Hospital, CT – pongpong, kitt, lindou, fa17
9/29 – Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago – thisguy
9/29 – Baton Rouge General Medical Center, LA – thisguy, troublemaker
9/29 – Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN – glkmlee
9/30 – St. Vincent Medical Center, Bridgeport, CT – maini, pongpong, fa17, usmleatl
9/30 – William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan – lindou, ashir14, juliamd, glkmlee
9/30 – St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown, Ohio – troublemaker
9/30 – Easton Hospital, PA – sarahm, drk111
9/30 – New York Medical College Metropolitan, NY – usmleatl
10/1 – New York Medical College Metropolitan Hospital, NY – spring07
10/1 – Elmhurst Hospital, NY – ddraper
10/1 – Norwalk Hospital, CT – lindou
10/1 – UAB Huntsville Alabama – drstress
10/1 – MetroWest Medical Center Framingham Union Hospital, MA – pongpong, kitt
10/1 – Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, OH – troublemaker
10/2 – Presence St. Francis, IL – drk111
10/2 – AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, NJ – maini
10/2 – Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, MD – elly_js, troublemaker, lindou, juliamd, panipuriisgood, pongpong
10/2 – University of Connecticut – juliamd
10/2 – Hurley Medical Center, Michigan - drk111, americandream1, leavingrss, supernigga
10/2 – Harlem Hospital Center, NY – aryadivi, zelda2014 (10/9)
10/2 – Raritan Bay Medical Center, NJ – shushka
10/3 – PinnacleHealth Hospitals, PA – thisguy
10/3 – SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY– ddraper
10/3 – Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, IL – arrowmates, supernigga
10/3 – Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY – supernigga
10/3 – Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN – supernigga
10/3 – UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA – smlfc, glkmlee
10/3 – Texas Tech University at Lubbock, Lubbock, TX – troublemaker
10/6 – Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System – glkmlee, lindou
10/6 – University of Texas at Houston – glkmlee
10/6 – Henry Ford Hospital/Wayne State University, Detroit, MI – lindou
10/6 – Howard University Hospital, Washington, D.C. – pongpong, dr_etanercept
10/6 – Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph's Hospital, WI – drk111
10/7 – New York Hospital Queens – drk111
10/7 – Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY – ddraper
10/7 – MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Baltimore, MD – lindou
10/7 – Cleveland Clinic, OH – glkmlee
10/7 – Michigan State University – supernigga
10/7 – Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, RI – thisguy
10/8 – Easton Hospital, PA – drk111
10/8 – MedStar Union Memorial Hospital/MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, MD – drk111, supernigga
10/8 – Alameda County Medical Center, Oakland, CA – panipuriisgood
10/9 – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ – glkmlee
10/9 – Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Trenton, NJ – supernigga
10/9 – Atlantic Health Overlook, Summit, NJ – ddraper
10/9 – Allegiance Health, Jackson, MI – shydragger, aryadivi
10/9 – Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, NY – shushka
10/9 – Ocala Health System, Ocala, FL – thisguy, alexa22
10/9 – University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ – maini
10/9 – University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Austin, TX – drk111
10/9 – University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago / Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL – drk111, usmleatl
10/9 – Cleveland Clinic, Weston, Florida - ddraper
10/9 – Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA – lindou, pongpong
10/9 – University of Nevada – elly_js
10/9 – Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University (Sinai Grace), Detroit, MI – dr_etanercept, drk111
10/9 – Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, Chicago, IL – emanuela
10/9 – Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Darby, PA – aryadivi
10/10 – Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Jamaica, NY – emanuela
10/10 – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island/Brown University, Pawtucket, RI – drk111
10/10 – Sanford School of Medicine at University of South Dakota – thisguy
10/10 – University of California San Francisco / Fresno, Fresno, CA – fmmad
10/10 – Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY – gikson


REJECTIONS:

9/19 – Capital Health Regional Medical Center, NJ
9/22 – University of Minnesota
9/23 – Baylor University, TX
9/25 – Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan
9/29 – Cone Health, Greensboro, NC
9/29 – Lincoln Medical Center, NY
9/29 – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
9/29 – Wright State University, Fairborn, OH
9/30 – Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago
10/1 – Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, La Crosse, WI
10/2 – Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center, Portland, OR
10/6 – University of South Dakota
10/7 – PinnacleHealth Hospitals, PA
10/7 – Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program, New Haven, CT
10/8 – Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center Moses Campus
10/8 – University of Kansas
10/9 – Presence Saint Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL
10/9 – Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
10/10 – Gwinnett Medical Center, Lawrenceville, GA
10/10 – Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, PA
10/10 – West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
10/10 – Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
10/10 – St. Luke's Hospital, St. Louis, MO
10/10 – Saint Joseph Hospital, Chicago


Please note this list is not meant to be complete as some applicants choose not to post their interview/rejection status.

The credentials for IM applicants with interviews so far (with THANKS to those who shared their credentials) are as following:

VISA NEEDED APPLICANTS (in alphabetical order):

• americandream1 – 237 -2nd attempt / 263 / CS 1st attempt / YOG 2013 / 4 months USCE
• elly_js – 240 - 255 scores / YOG 10 / some publications as a 1st author / US research & observership
• dr_etanercept – 247 / 238 / CS 1st attempt / 225 / YOG 2010 / 4 months USCE / no research
• glkmlee – 262 / 264 / 253 / first attempts / YOG 2011 / 5 months subI / 11 publications
• juliamd – 255 / 258 / CS pass / 235 / YOG 2 / 2 months observership
• maulik – 213 / 222 / YOG 2009
• maini – 229 / 236 / 210 / CS 1st attempt / YOG 2013 / 6 months research / 9 months observerships / 2 submitted papers
• medical_resident – step 1 - 240 / CK - 251 / CS pass / step 3 - 218 / first attempts
• pongpong – 242 / 253 / CS / first attempts / 3 USCE / 2 observership / YOG 2014 / no research
• sarah1101 – 255 / 248 / CS pass / step 3 not done yet / 2 months observership
• shydragger – 240 / 253 / CS pass / 224 / first attempts / 2 months observership / YOG 2010
• smlfc – 236 / 230 / CS 1st attempt / Step 3 - 222 / YOG 2012 / 2 years research / 3 publications / 1 oral presentation / repeat applicant / doing a preliminary surgery year gotten from SOAP last year
• vedati – 242 in both steps / passed step 3



VISA NOT-NEEDED APPLICANTS (in alphabetical order):

• arrowmates – Step 1 – 211 / CK – 225 / CS pass / step 3 – 215 / first attempts / YOG 2008 / Green Card / USCE
• ddrapper – Step 1 – 215 / CK – 243 / CS pass / first attempts / YOG 2014 / US citizen
• drk111 – Step 1 – 240+ / Step 2 – 250+ / CS pass / first attempts / YOG 2012 / few months USCE / 4-5 months research with abstract
• fa17 – 237 / 246 / CS / first attempts / 3 month USCE / YOG 2013
• lindou – 232 / 256 / CS pass / first attempts / no step 3 / Green Card / YOG 2006 / 1 month USCE / 5 years IM residency in home country
• omm2015 – 230 / 236 / CS / YOG 2009 / USCE / US citizen
• sarahm – step 1 – 236 / CK – 257 / CS pass / first attempts / Green Card
• santoscarlos – 232 / 228 / CS 2nd attempt / 205 / YOG 2012 / Green Card / 2 years of research & observerships / 1 poster presentation
• supernigga – 252 / 258 / CS pass / YOG 2010 / 2 years post-grad in home country / observership in US since FEB
• shushka – 225 / 219 / CS pass / 224 / YOG 2008 / Green Card / 6 months observership / 2 years EMT experience
• troublemaker – 249 / 251 / CS pass / YOG 2008 / 1 month observership / Green Card
• thisguy – 228 / 241 / CS pass / 2015 / US citizen
• usmleatl – 231 / 241 / CS pass / first attempts / 1 observership / Green Card


Thank you ALL for sharing!

Alexa, I worship your commitment, kindness and accuracy in maintaining this thread alive. Thank you so much for doing this!

Sorry for the late entry.
2014 carb grad, citizen, 232, 258, pass, no repeats, step 3 not done. US experience working as an NP
IVs Jersey Shore NJ 9/25,
West Suburban Hospital, IL 9/25
Ocala Fl
Nevada, Reno
Greater Baltimore
Same set of rejections: , Pinnacle Health, Gwinnet, West Virginia University, St Joseph Chicago, all from the last week

still waiting for the 3rd iv

1st Reading, PA
2nd St Elizabeth, Youngstown , Ohio

@babanya & rsnbst

Thank you! I updated the lists with your info!

@babanya, I don't want to be a nuisance but would you mind sharing information on how you were able to get a job as a Nurse Practitioner? I've been looking for Clinical/Medical jobs in the interim with no success.