APPIC Interview Invitation Thread (2021)

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Official Site Name: Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS)
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/2020 at 10:32 eastern
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, and 1/15
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Hyrule Warriors and anime. 🙂
 
Official Site Name: Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS)
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, and 1/15
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Walks, lots of walks 🙂
 
Official Site Name: Charleston Consortium (Medical University of South Carolina)
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/2020 at 9:26am Central
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): behavioral medicine
Interview Dates Offered: 12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 12/7, 1/4, 1/11, 1/25, 1/9
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: watching great British bake off
 
I received a follow-up email from a site that notified applicants early last week. I followed up with them via email late last week because a few days had passed since their official notification date.

Turns out they did extend an interview invite, but I *never* received the original email! Not in my junk folder or anything. Why does the this-rarely-happens accident have to happen to ME? 🙄😆
 
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DietCokeJunkie said:
I saw on the overall list that people have heard from Phoenix Children's and Henry Ford Health Science. Do we know what tracks those offers were for?

Specifically, has anyone heard about peds neuro for these sites?
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Henry Ford is probably the health track - my friend applied to that track and got an interview offer.
 
Official Site Name: Geisinger Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personalized-ish email (mass email language with personalized scheduling link)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Pediatric Primary Care Behavioral Health (Peds PCBH)
Interview Dates Offered: 12/14; 12/18; 1/4; 1/5; 1/15 + Overview Session either on 12/8 or 12/29
 
Has anyone heard anything from University of Minnesota Medical School Department of Pediatrics? Their listed notification date is 11/18 but I haven't seen it posted here.
 
reversepsychology said:
Has anyone heard anything from University of Minnesota Medical School Department of Pediatrics? Their listed notification date is 11/18 but I haven't seen it posted here.
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I believe in their brochure or website they mention a notification date in early December which different than the 11/18 date they have on appic. I applied there as well and haven't heard from them either.
 
veb1922 said:
Official Site Name: Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS)
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, and 1/15
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Walks, lots of walks 🙂
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Darn! I'm guessing since a bunch of people got a mass email that I won't be interviewing here. Congrats to those of you who got the invite and good luck!!
 
HPB2015 said:
Just wanted to note that although their APPIC listing says notification by 11/23, their brochure says interviews will go out by 11/27 and rejections by 12/2. So, fingers crossed for those of us who applied!
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Great catch! Brochures have so much info in there, we’re bound to miss something 🙂
 
Official Site Name: Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS)
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 (9:17 CST)
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsychology
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/8, 1/11, and 1/15
 
Official Site Name: Geisinger Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personalized Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Pediatric Primary Care Behavioral Health (Peds PCBH)
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4; 1/5; 1/15 + Overview Session either on 12/8 or 12/29
 
Official Site Name: Advocate Family Care Network
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/19, 1/21, 1/27, 1/28
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Redecorating my house!
 
2bit_neuropsych said:
Official Site Name: University of Florida Health Science Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/18/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsychology
Interview Dates Offered: 12/8, 12/15, 12/22
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Exercise and hanging out with my gf and our cats
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has anyone gotten a denial from this?
 
Has anyone heard back from the University of Florida Health Science System after they submitted their interview preferences through the URL they provided?

And did you e-mail back the academic coordinator or did you just fill out your preferences?
 
1101psych said:
Has anyone heard back from the University of Florida Health Science System after they submitted their interview preferences through the URL they provided?

And did you e-mail back the academic coordinator or did you just fill out your preferences?
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No I have not. I did not email the administrative assistant back, I just filled out the poll. Does anyone have an idea of how long it takes to hear back about a finalize date?
 
1101psych said:
Has anyone heard back from the University of Florida Health Science System after they submitted their interview preferences through the URL they provided?

And did you e-mail back the academic coordinator or did you just fill out your preferences?
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I haven't heard! I also sent an email with my preferences when I filled out the form but haven't heard back on that either.
 
2bit_neuropsych said:
No I have not. I did not email the administrative assistant back, I just filled out the poll. Does anyone have an idea of how long it takes to hear back about a finalize date?
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Same. Really want them to reach back to me with the final date of the interview.
 
Official Site Name: Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 12:13 pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General Truman VA
Interview Dates Offered: 1/14, 1/15, 1/21, 1/22
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: watching love island!
 
On behalf of a cohortmate, since I don't think I've seen it posted:

Official Site Name: Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Western Psychiatric Hospital)
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 9:08am
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8/21, 1/15/21
 
Official Site Name: University of Louisville School of Medicine
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 1:33 pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): peds
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8, 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Criminal Minds (In fact, I was frantically trying to pause it when my phone rang with this notification) lol!
 
Shasta531 said:
Official Site Name: University of Louisville School of Medicine
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 1:33 pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): peds
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8, 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Criminal Minds (In fact, I was frantically trying to pause it when my phone rang with this notification) lol!
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Criminal Minds!! YES!! Also... waiting to hear from them.. the suspense!!
 
Official Site Name: Duke SOM
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 1:26pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult Health
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8, 1/15

Official Site Name: UPenn Department of Psychiatry
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 1:33pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/7, 1/12, 1/19

Does anyone have any advice on how to handle conflicting interview dates? I'd really hate to turn down an interview 🙁
 
melat0nin said:
Official Site Name: Duke SOM
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 1:26pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult Health
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8, 1/15

Official Site Name: UPenn Department of Psychiatry
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 1:33pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/7, 1/12, 1/19

Does anyone have any advice on how to handle conflicting interview dates? I'd really hate to turn down an interview 🙁
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Congrats on being in the good position to have multiple interviews that conflict! Your best bet is to talk to your advisor or TD about this. Programs can be touchy about this from what faculty have told us students, so you should get advice from someone overseeing your training.
 
Official Site Name: Duke University Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 2:54pm EST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Did not specify, but I applied to both Child Clinical Trauma and Child Pediatric
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8, 1/15
 
melat0nin said:
Does anyone have any advice on how to handle conflicting interview dates? I'd really hate to turn down an interview 🙁
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Definitely don't turn anything down until absolutely necessary. If a site is ultimately not willing or unable to make reasonable accommodations for something that occurs every cycle, they may also not be the most accommodating for whatever may happen during the internship year.

2 VAs that I've previously been affiliated with were generally able to make accommodations for interview conflicts since it's in the program best interest to interview (and be interviewed) by their selected candidates.

Additionally, for folks who are waiting to hear back about offers or confirmed interview dates, remember it's the holiday season so folks may be out on vacation or if they are working, possibly covering for colleagues and busier/more distracted than usual. I know the uncertainty sucks but give it a little more time and best of luck to all! (And of course, reach out specifically when needed).
 
1101psych said:
Has anyone heard back from the University of Florida Health Science System after they submitted their interview preferences through the URL they provided?

And did you e-mail back the academic coordinator or did you just fill out your preferences?
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Quick update to this: I just received an email about an hour ago from UF stating my official interview date. So I imagine they are starting to roll these out now.
 
Official Site Name: Madison VA
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 (2:15 PM CST)
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Not specified
Interview Dates Offered: 1/4, 1/8, 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Dreaming of pumpkin pie 😊
 
Official Site Name: University of Rochester Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/21
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult Track
Interview Dates Offered: 12/7, 12/14, 1/11, 1/25
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Anime, K-pop, and falling into YouTube holes
 
From someone in my cohort:

Official Site Name: University of Denver - Kaiser Permanente
Date Invitation Received: 11/24
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Behavioral Medicine
Interview Dates Offered: 12/10, 12/16, 12/17
 
Official Site Name: University of Louisville School of Medicine
Date Invitation Received: 11/24/20 at 3:20 pm CST
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): peds
Interview Dates Offered: 1/8, 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Netflix & Disney+
 
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