Budgeting for Interviews - How much?

[quechua]

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From your experiences... what's the upper limit that a M4 in the northeast should budget to attend 20 interviews?

Aside from maybe TX, there won't be any interviews west of the Mississippi River. (<--that sounds so old school... Thank my grandparents for that haha.)

 

[DrBowtie]

Depends on specialty.

 

[Stellar Clouds]

Depends on specialty.

Indeed. Some specialties will pay for hotel rooms, which can make an enormous difference in the amount of money you will spend.

 

[smq123]

Moving to ERAS.

 

[gutonc]

A little time with the advanced search function will land you several threads on this very topic.

 

[anony mouse]

Some specialties will pay for hotel rooms

Which are these? Ne'r heard of it.

 

[Stellar Clouds]

Which are these? Ne'r heard of it.

Anesthesia...about 3/4 of programs I received invites for offered to pay for at least 1 night in a hotel.

 

[Kryptonite11]

There's some programs in internal medicine as well, had an iv at creighton n they paid for the hotel.

 

[Igor4sugry]

From your experiences... what's the upper limit that a M4 in the northeast should budget to attend 20 interviews?

Aside from maybe TX, there won't be any interviews west of the Mississippi River. (<--that sounds so old school... Thank my grandparents for that haha.)

At least $5k.

 

[DrBowtie]

Which are these? Ne'r heard of it.

Basically the more competitive the specialty, the less likely they are to cover hotel/travel. Also the more popular the city, the less likely they are to cover.

 

[Sheldor]

From your experiences... what's the upper limit that a M4 in the northeast should budget to attend 20 interviews?

Aside from maybe TX, there won't be any interviews west of the Mississippi River. (<--that sounds so old school... Thank my grandparents for that haha.)

You should budget $500 per interview. The ones you can drive to will be less, and some of the ones you fly to will be more, so it's a good average number. This assumes $300 for the flight, $100 for the hotel, $100 for food, rental car and parking

Not exact, but a good ballpark.