Yesssssssssss. Finished with nightfloat.

This is my last hour of nightfloat. I have 24 total calls next year!

Where people matched.

I have been getting questions about where people matched. So far I know 72 of the 101 spots....

2006 fellowship spots and where they were filled from:

USC took someone from Loma Linda and from Tulane.
Albert Einstein took someone from Rush, Cedars Sinai LA, St. Luke's (NYC) and UCLA.
Medical College of Wisconsin took someone from Rush and I'm not sure who they filled the second spot with.
UC Davis took someone from Oregon HSU and University of Kansas (Wichita branch).
Christus St. Joseph's (Houston) took someone from LSU and one from in house.
Indiana took someone from Wayne State and Virginia Mason.
Tulane took someone from U South Alabama and Wayne State.
U Mass took someone from Cedar Sinai (LA) and North Shore (Long Island).
Lahey Clinic took someone from Oregon HSU.
Vanderbilt took someone from Naval Medical Center, U maryland and University of Arizona.
Cleveland Clinic took someone from UT Memphis, USC and one from in house.
U Minnesota took someone from Drexler Philedelphia.
Emory took someone from East Carolina University, Naval Medical Center and Stanford.
LSU took someone from Orlando Regional and Keesler Medical Center.
Miami took someone from UMDNJ.
UNC took someone from Maine Medical Center and LSU.
U Mississippi filled completely from in house candidates.
Louisville got people from Pheonix integrated and Kansas University (Kansas City branch.)
UVA took someone from Mayo Scottsdale.
UAB took someone from UT southwestern and UT Memphis.
U South Florida took someone from Miami and I'm not sure where else.
UT Houston took someone from LSU.
Cincinnati took someone from Beth Isreal.
UIC Chicago took someone from Lankenau Hospital and SUNY downstate.
UC Irvine took someone from UNLV and Georgetown.
Wayne State took someone from Beaumont Hospital in Detroit and from Michigan State.
Mayo took someone from North Shore Long Island, Pheonix Integrated, UIC Chicago and Maricopa Integrated.
UCLA took someone from in house and someone from Mass General.
Harvard took someone from Brigham and Womens and NYU.
Nassau took someone from Mt. Sinai New York.
Oregon HSU took someone from U Washington and from in house.
U South Carolina took someone from University of Buffalo and U Mississippi.
Nebraska took someone from Methodist hospital in Dallas.
Loyola took someone from Akron.
Duke took someone from UCLA Harbor.
Penn State took someone from Oregon HSU.

If you know any of the other spots please email me.

Life is GOOOOOOD.

I have three weeks of night float left. It will be nice to get back to the sunlit world. At this point I am completely transparent like one of those fishes that lives at the bottom of the ocean next to volcanos. If I go outside I have to wear dark sunglasses.

All of that being said, life is GOOOOOOOD. At Chairman's rounds last week our chairman handed out a paper describing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. I remembered this pyramid from Anthropology class in college. I am feeling very self actualized right now. There is only one other time in my life when I have felt even close to this good. That was right after I started medical school at Northwestern.

I can't wait to start training at Louisville. It will be the farthest south and east I have ever lived. I can't wait to see a new part of the country. Every time I have moved it has been a great thing for me. Moving to Chicago was perhaps the biggest change. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and moving to Chicago was like being born to the world. I learned to love cuisines from all over the world, I was exposed to people from all over the world and I did all sorts of things that I never could have done in Iowa. I am sure Louisville will bring all sorts of new influences into my life. I will just have to be very careful to pronounce it like LOO-ah-vul. Definitely never say Lewis-ville. You might not survive it.

I think the central application service should be opening the application process in the next few days. I would click the link to the right of the page for the CAS every once in a while to see if the application has been updated to reflect the new year of applying. Also be sure to get your first 3 years certified by the ASPS. There is a link to the right of the page to them I think. Best of luck to this years applicants.