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  Tuesday, 20 November 2007
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Having a bit of a dilemma, I did an away rotation at a highly respected Orthopaedic program and received an Honors. Not the dilemma. I had four evaluations from that rotation, 2 staff, one senior resident, and one junior resident. Of the four both staff and the Sr resident gave me great marks and great comments, and both staff openly offering to write LOR (which I did take them up on). The Jr resident however gave me all average marks and rated me at a Pass for the core (no comments on the sheet). This took me as a surprise because I thought we got along fine and there was never any specific incident that I could remember to p*$! him off. With that said, I now have two interviews for the same date, this program (which I very much did enjoy and got along with everyone great) and another program which I am also excited about. My question is which interview should I keep? Is the “Pass” from the Jr resident going to drop me on their rank list low enough that I should not interview at the program I rotated at (Which I had hoped to have a bit of an advantage due to the “interview rotation”). Opinions or similar stories are very much appreciated.
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I would say that if that Junior resident doesn't produce any facts to support his grading of you, then it isn't likely to sway the committee. Having letters from the staff at that institution is going to mean way more. I wouldn't worry about the Junior resident...some places I have heard that Chiefs have a say but some programs only the staff do.
Make your interview choice based on where you really want to go. It sounds like you rocked your away so I wouldn't freak out about that one eval, especially with no specific comments to back it up.
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If you feel comfortable with it, I would suggest asking the Junior resident about their eval of you. Some people don't realize what the eval means or he could have gotten people screwed up with someone else when he wrote it, either way he may not have intended to give you a bad one.

That being said if he did intend to write a negative eval, I know that at my home program while only the chiefs get an official vote, everyone has a say and that is taken into account by the chiefs. Furthermore, they all have the right to black-ball you.
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