Health Education Services/Northwest Health (Porter) Program

Internal Medicine residency · Valparaiso, IN · Community hospital · East North Central

ACGME code: 1404700004
NRMP code: 2335140C6
Setting: Community hospital
Positions · accreditation: 13 · Initial Accreditation

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ACGME code: 1404700004
NRMP code: 2335140C6
Setting: Community hospital
Positions · accreditation: 13 · Initial Accreditation

The numbers

Interview rate: 3.9%; of all applicants
Non-US IMG interview share: 97.0%; of interviews
Interview rate for non-US IMGs: 4.0%; of IMG applicants
Step 2 CK range: 238–264; published band
Positions offered: 13; PGY-1 seats
ERAS applicants: 3,255; last cycle
Applicants per position: 250.4; competition
Resident non-US IMG %: 100.0%; IM average 33% nationally
Non-US IMG Step 2 range: 238–265; median 252
Graduation cutoff: 3 years; stated as a preference
Step 2 CK hard minimum: not reported; published cutoff

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NRMP 2335140C6 ACGME 1404700004

Step 2 CK, and where you sit

The band this program actually interviewed in, rather than the minimum it will accept.

238265

Most of the non-US IMGs they interviewed scored between 238 and 265. Half of them were above 252.

How often they interview non-US IMGs

Non-US IMG interview rate

4%Very high

What signals were worth here

Gold signal interview rate

35%Below average

Silver signal interview rate

14%Below average

Interview rate by how people applied

Gold signal35%33 of 95 interviewed
Silver signal14%75 of 546 interviewed
No signal1%~26 of 2,614 interviewed

Overall: about 127 of 3,255 applicants interviewed (3.9%). A gold signal here raised the interview rate more than 10 times.

Your notes

Your fit

Where this program sits

A raw percentage means little on its own. These are ranks against every Internal Medicine program on this site that reports the same measure.

Interview rate 3.9% better than 11% of programs
Non-US IMG interview share 97.0% better than 100% of programs
Resident non-US IMG share 100.0% better than 100% of programs
Applicants per position 250.4 better than 31% of programs

Ranked against 495–634 programs depending on the measure, out of 716.

How IMG-heavy is this program?

100.0% of its residents are non-US IMGs. There are two honest ways to read that, and they can point in opposite directions.

Against every Internal Medicine program in the country national average 33%: 3.0x
Against the 716 programs listed here median of the 634 that report it 24% · higher than 100% of them: 4.2x

The first compares this program with a typical Internal Medicine program anywhere. The second compares it with the programs you are actually choosing between, which is a narrower and more IMG-oriented set. Treating either one as the other is the mistake this section exists to prevent.

How to read those signal numbers

Each meter above fills to this program's rate on a 0–100% scale, and its line marks the median Internal Medicine program on this site that reports the same measure; the word beside the rate says which fifth of those programs it ranks in. The bars underneath are the same rates by how people applied, with the counts each one is made of.

Worked out from this program's own reported figures, and checked to add back up to its total number of invites.

Contact

Who runs it, and how to reach them, is on the program's own site.

Program website

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The odds, end to end

Everyone who applied, everyone who was invited, and the seats that exist.

About 250 applicants for every position. Interview invites are estimated from the reported interview rate.

This program against the Internal Medicine average

The three measures where programs differ most for an IMG.

No national average is published for non-US IMG interview share, so that bar stands alone.

Who applies against who gets interviewed

When these two bars differ, that difference is the most useful thing on this page.

Non-US IMGs are 87% of applicants but 97% of interviews. This program interviews IMGs at a higher rate than their share of the pool, which is a good sign for an IMG application.