 What is up YouTube welcome back to my channel by now you've probably seen all of my IR fellowship interview vlogs And if you haven't I'll leave a little bar up here. You can click on you can go watch all of those I think there are three of them on today's video We are going to be showing you actual footage from when I found out I matched into my number one IR fellowship spot So let's get into it So before I get into my actual footage of my match day I wanted to tell you guys a little bit about the interview process for those of you who are going forward in plan I'm doing this in the future So I'm an ESIR applicant or early specialization in interventional radiology applicant Which means I have to apply for my PGY 6 year or my 6th year of Residency which is now considered the IR fellowship I was lucky enough to be in a fortunate position where my home Institution is actually a very good IR program and I would be more than happy to stay there So I only interviewed at spots. I felt were on the same level as them or slightly better than my current institution So let me back up a little bit during our PGY 5 year or our fifth year of residency Which is my current year you do a ton of interventional radiology. It's almost like doing Half or three-quarters of a fellowship in IR your fifth year This is a recent addition to the ESIR and the integrated IR pathways So if I were to stay at my current institution for fellowship or my PGY 6 year It would almost be like I was doing a six month IR fellowship followed by an additional year at the same program So since I had the option to kind of go somewhere else my final year and see what else other Programs have to offer. I figured I would go try to learn from other world-renowned positions at other programs So that's the reason I decided not to stay at my current institution Although I would have absolutely loved to because I love everybody there So for those reasons I ended up only applying to I think about Eight IR programs and I went on five interviews one of them was my home institution Because for some reason you have to go on an interview at your home institution So as you probably know by now if you've seen my other interview videos I've been to four different places plus my home institution So that's Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City twice And I actually didn't film my final interview in New York City Which happens to be the place I matched that so why didn't I vlog at the actual place I matched that? Honestly, I have no idea It was a pretty hectic travel day and I started to film some stuff But I just couldn't find a cohesive video to work with and it just didn't work out But enough about all this interview talk Let's get into the reason you came to this video in the first place and that's to watch the footage from my match day So let's get into it Refreshing Ready it's here. No, it's not. Yeah, really? You have to click on it though, cuz I don't know Why are you excited now? Oh kind of like excited for it, but I'm like emotional. Why I don't know I know congratulations, baby, I Can't believe you matched there. That's pretty awesome We're pretty pumped. I Can't believe you matched there. Are we going to New York thing? We're going. We have to FaceTime my mom. Just just be sad We're coming Thank you. Thank you So as you can tell by now or I don't know if you got it from that video But I'm proud to say that I matched into my number one choice that is Mount Sinai Interventional Radiology Fellowship in New York City So one of the things you may have noticed from that video is that Andriana is Excited or maybe more excited than I am to go back to New York City The reason for that is because she was born and raised in New York City Her whole family lives in New York City still to this day and the only reason she left New York City Was because of this guy and as many of you guys have seen from my other videos New York City holds a special place in my heart because it is the very first place I moved when I graduated college I was born and raised in Georgia went to school undergrad in Georgia and Worked in Atlanta for a little bit and something completely unrelated to medicine and then moved to New York City To work as an analyst for none other than Mount Sinai School of Medicine Well kind of like different department of the school medicine. I wasn't in medicine I was working as an analyst for like the planning and resource development of the actual building But anyways, I actually worked at Mount Sinai in 2010 Before I decided to go back to med school and then after med school I came back to New York City for my surgical internship and that happens to be where I met Andriana So we are both excited to go back to New York City We have been chomping at the bit for a reason to go back there because there's no place like it And it always holds a special place an hour hard together So now, you know, I matched at Mount Sinai in New York City for my interventional radiology fellowship and that begins 2020 July 2020 so I will be moving up there in this coming June If you have any other questions about interventional radiology or the pathways involved or just radiology in general Leave a comment below and I will try to respond to everyone I can get to also make sure you smash that like and subscribe button and follow me on Instagram If you don't already if you did follow me on Instagram You probably already knew where I matched a long time ago. So there's that Otherwise, I'll see you guys On the next video