Average Time To Respond To Ortho Interview Is 17 Minutes

[2021Doctor]

The Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Application Process: An Analysis of the Applicant Experience.
Students applied to 83 ± 27 programs, received 17 ± 10 interviews, and attended 12 ± 5 interviews. Interview offers correlated with, in descending order, Alpha Omega Alpha status, Step 2 Clinical Knowledge, and Step 1. The mean time to reply of interview offer was 17 minutes, yet 25% of the applicants lost at least one interview despite having at least one other person monitor the applicant's e-mail account.

The Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Application Process: An Analysis of the Applicant Experience. - PubMed - NCBI

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[Feelgood MD]

This stresses me out even thinking about it.

 

[Dr. Death]

I heard that programs weren't allowed to offer more invites for applicants than they had spots to interview, specifically to discourage the culture of "REPLY IN 1 MNUTE OR DIE!!" But this may have just been a rumor.

 

[Rekt]

I heard that programs weren't allowed to offer more invites for applicants than they had spots to interview, specifically to discourage the culture of "REPLY IN 1 MNUTE OR DIE!!" But this may have just been a rumor.

They don't and didn't follow this rule last cycle. Some of my EM invites filled within two minutes at most.

 

[MightBeACylon439]

Redirect Notice

 

[Scrubs101]

Clearly being excessively hyperaware of all emails and having super human email response time is the REAL number one trait theyre looking for

 

[SurgeDO]

I remember being on my sub-i’s being scrubbed into cases and hearing my email go off for interviews. I had to decide on pissing off the attending and scrubbing out of their case or being too late to reply to an interview invite.

I do not miss those days one bit.