APPIC Interview Invitation Thread (2021)

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Official Site Name: Utah Internship Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Valley and Southwest Behavioral
Interview Dates Offered: Multiple times and dates from 1/7-1/15
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: UberEats and watching reality TV with my partner lol
 
Anyone hear anything from Advocate Illinois Masonic yet? I know today is their deadline. Wishing everyone a week full of lots of interview offers!
 
Is Jackson Health System moving slowly with emails or have more people received emails than have posted it? I was expecting more of a mass effect with this site, as they generally invite and reject on the same day each year. Not that this necessarily translates to the unusual 2020, but it is nonetheless a pattern.
 
Anyone hear anything from Advocate Illinois Masonic yet? I know today is their deadline. Wishing everyone a week full of lots of interview offers!
I think because they extended their deadline for application submission, it will take a bit more time to hear back about interviews or rejections.
 
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Is Jackson Health System moving slowly with emails or have more people received emails than have posted it? I was expecting more of a mass effect with this site, as they generally invite and reject on the same day each year. Not that this necessarily translates to the unusual 2020, but it is nonetheless a pattern.
I haven’t gotten anything but I assumed it meant rejection?
 
Not sure what to do.
I saw people got both offers and rejections from Penn Med Hershey and I haven’t heard anything? Should I contact them?
 
Is Jackson Health System moving slowly with emails or have more people received emails than have posted it? I was expecting more of a mass effect with this site, as they generally invite and reject on the same day each year. Not that this necessarily translates to the unusual 2020, but it is nonetheless a pattern.
I applied but have not heard back
 
Not sure what to do.
I saw people got both offers and rejections from Penn Med Hershey and I haven’t heard anything? Should I contact them?
In terms of communicating with sites, one should behave as if this thread does not exist. A site has every right to send notifications up to their posted deadline - inquiring prior to this date may negatively impact the chances of an invite. While hindsight may tell a different story in a couple weeks, we simply cannot know what we don't know.
 
I haven’t gotten anything but I assumed it meant rejection?
I would be more confident with that assumption if I saw more posts, simply because there are many competitive applicants on this thread receiving interviews from great sites. I could certainly be wrong - we will likely find out soon - but it just seems unusual. Either way, good luck to all of those who are waiting!
 
Not sure what to do.
I saw people got both offers and rejections from Penn Med Hershey and I haven’t heard anything? Should I contact them?
I’ve seen people post about penn med Lancaster but not pen state Hershey. I’m also still waiting on penn Hershey!
 
Official Site Name: Cleveland Clinic Children’s Internship
Date Invitation Received: 11/25/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): multiple tracks (unsure what tracks the invitation is extended based on)
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5 &1/6
If & How you're staying sane: Netflix and my dog!
 
Official Site Name: FCI Terminal Island
Date Invitation Received: 12/7
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email? has my name and is addressed to me only but language is otherwise generic
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: gahhhh

Now that I officially received the OF-5 form (from HR, not DCT), has anyone received further direction as to what to write for when to report for duty??

thanks!
 
Same! But no word. I figured they’d notify later than last year since they wound up pushing the application deadline back a week
Ah, good call! I forgot this was one that pushed things back. I just checked and the notification date is now 12/14. It's a bummer to have to wait a few extra days!
 
Rejections from Saint John's Saint John's Child & Family Development Center (12/7), Samaritan Health Services (12/2), Nebraska Internship Consortium-UNL and Creighton (12/1), Primary Children's Hospital (11/23), and OHSU (11/18). Quite demoralizing, but oh well...it is what it is.

EDIT: Thanks for the support, folks 🙂. Hang in there! Hope your interview process is going ok.
 
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Official Site Name: Jackson Health System
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): email, seemed like a mass email didn’t have my name on it
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): pediatric medicine track
Interview Dates Offered: specific for track- they will reach out later. Group interviews in January on Mondays.
 
Official Site Name: UT Health San Antonio
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Forensic
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8 or 1/15
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: excessive yoga where I pretend to practice mindfulness
Same but for Integrated PCBH. Dates/times are on the website, they’re somewhat non-traditional (half-day).
 
Official Site Name: VA Central Western Massachusetts
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Integrated Outpatient Behavioral Health Track - Worcester
Interview Dates Offered: 1/11, 1/13
 
Anyone hear from the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield?
 
Has anyone heard back from the Adult track at the Charleston Consortium Internship? I saw a few other tracks have received invites, but have not heard about the Adult track.
 
Official Site Name: FCI Terminal Island
Date Invitation Received: 12/7
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email? has my name and is addressed to me only but language is otherwise generic
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: gahhhh

Now that I officially received the OF-5 form (from HR, not DCT), has anyone received further direction as to what to write for when to report for duty??

thanks!
30 days
 
Official Site Name: Florida International University CAPS
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4-1/14
A couple people from my program did their internship here! sounds like a cool site
 
Official Site Name: Jackson Health System
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/2020 @1:42pm
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuro track
Interview Dates Offered: Faculty supervisors from Neuro track should be reaching out soon to schedule interview. Group information sessions are in January on Mondays (1hr).
 
REJECTION ... So sad, I wanted this one. Most reach sites in California have rejected me (I am based in New York), does location makes a difference?
Official Site Name: St John's Child and Family Development
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20 at 3pm
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): only one track
Interview Dates Offered: N/A
 
REJECTION ... So sad, I wanted this one. Most reach sites in California have rejected me (I am based in New York), does location makes a difference?
Official Site Name: St John's Child and Family Development
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20 at 3pm
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): only one track
Interview Dates Offered: N/A
I feel the same way! Really wanted that one 🙁 but also feel like western/midwestern sites don't look favorably on NY programs
 
REJECTION ... So sad, I wanted this one. Most reach sites in California have rejected me (I am based in New York), does location makes a difference?
Official Site Name: St John's Child and Family Development
Date Invitation Received: 12/7/20 at 3pm
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): only one track
Interview Dates Offered: N/A
I wonder how much location plays into decisions. I attend a university in the midwest and all but one of my midwest internship sites I applied to were rejections. I've had more luck with my eastern sites.
 
for us folks interviewing at Cleveland VA, what are thoughts on it being on probation?
I am not really taking that into consideration when ranking sites. I feel like they are a good program and that they have a plan to address it. I would be surprised if they don’t fully address everything and get off probation. I’m not sure if that’s naive of me to think though 🤷🏻‍♀️
 
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