Class of 2009 CRIP Schedule

[dpmgrad]

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Starting with the Class of 2009, they will be moving CRIP to January. I am sure that many of the Class of 2009 students are well aware of this already when they were doing their clerkship schedule. By doing so, it will allow the students an extra month for clerkship. I figured that I would pass this info along to the other students after Class of 2009. As per the AACPM website, here is the CRIP interview schedule for Class of 2009:

Dates Location

January 9 – 11, 2009 East - Iselin (Newark), NJ
January 16 – 18, 2009 West - Los Angeles, CA
January 23 – 25, 2009 Central - Chicago, IL

Lastly, the CASPR and CRIP scheduling process will be entirely online starting with Class of 2009. The residency directors will be educated about this during the CRIP interviews next month.

 

[PODonny]

Starting with the Class of 2009, they will be moving CRIP to January. I am sure that many of the Class of 2009 students are well aware of this already when they were doing their clerkship schedule. By doing so, it will allow the students an extra month for clerkship. I figured that I would pass this info along to the other students after Class of 2009. As per the AACPM website, here is the CRIP interview schedule for Class of 2009:

Dates Location

January 9 – 11, 2009 East - Iselin (Newark), NJ
January 16 – 18, 2009 West - Los Angeles, CA
January 23 – 25, 2009 Central - Chicago, IL

Lastly, the CASPR and CRIP scheduling process will be entirely online starting with Class of 2009. The residency directors will be educated about this during the CRIP interviews next month.

Isn't this considerably later than CRIP this year. Why such a change? I guess it will give everyone another pre-CRIP clerkship.

 

[Stafocker]

Starting with the Class of 2009, they will be moving CRIP to January. I am sure that many of the Class of 2009 students are well aware of this already when they were doing their clerkship schedule. By doing so, it will allow the students an extra month for clerkship. I figured that I would pass this info along to the other students after Class of 2009. As per the AACPM website, here is the CRIP interview schedule for Class of 2009:

Dates Location

January 9 – 11, 2009 East - Iselin (Newark), NJ
January 16 – 18, 2009 West - Los Angeles, CA
January 23 – 25, 2009 Central - Chicago, IL

Lastly, the CASPR and CRIP scheduling process will be entirely online starting with Class of 2009. The residency directors will be educated about this during the CRIP interviews next month.

I'm assuming the "Match" day is the same. Is this safe to assume or is everything shifted 1 month?

 

[Feli]

I love the move to January. It effectively gives me another externship month.

From May-Dec of 4th year, we have to do 5 externships, 2 home months to cover school clinics, and we get one month off (or 6th externship). With CRIPS in December, virtually everyone would take December as their month off to study and travel. Now, I was able to use Dec as a home month (can still study plenty with just a 9-5 school clinic), and I get an extra month to visit programs.

It's my understanding that 2010 will not only have Jan CRIPS, but they also get one centralized CRIPS (East+West+Central). Is that correct? That'd be pretty stressful, but it sure would save travel time for students interviewing broadly among cross-country programs.

 

[jonwill]

I think January is a much better month. It was only a few years ago that it was moved from January to December. A lot of students were pretty upset about it. I'm glad to see that they moved it back.

Match day will still be in March???

 

[Stafocker]

I love the move to January. It effectively gives me another externship month

It's my understanding that 2010 will not only have Jan CRIPS, but they also get one centralized CRIPS (East+West+Central). Is that correct? That'd be pretty stressful, but it sure would save travel time for students interviewing broadly among cross-country programs.

I heard that if they do this (and if a majority of residencies agree to it) that it'll be a whole week of interviews (up to 10 days) instead of 1 weekend for each site. I heard some programs really didn't want to spend a week day at interviews, but we'll see how this all works out.

 

[dpmgrad]

I think January is a much better month. It was only a few years ago that it was moved from January to December. A lot of students were pretty upset about it. I'm glad to see that they moved it back.

Match day will still be in March???

Yes, match day will still be in March.

 

[dpmgrad]

I love the move to January. It effectively gives me another externship month

It's my understanding that 2010 will not only have Jan CRIPS, but they also get one centralized CRIPS (East+West+Central). Is that correct? That'd be pretty stressful, but it sure would save travel time for students interviewing broadly among cross-country programs

I heard that if they do this (and if a majority of residencies agree to it) that it'll be a whole week of interviews (up to 10 days) instead of 1 weekend for each site. I heard some programs really didn't want to spend a week day at interviews, but we'll see how this all works out.

A survey was sent out to the residency director last year inquiring about the preferences for various CRIP set up situtations. One of the option is to stay with the current set up for CRIP interviews. Another option is what both Feli and Stafocker have alluded to. In this option all of the programs will travel to one central location and do their interviews over a 10 day period. The third option was to have two centralize interview location (one for East and one for West).

As Stafocker alluded to, the problem with the option of all programs interviewing at a central location over a 10 day period is that some programs will be forced to do their interviews during the middle of the week. This is rather inconvenient for most residency directors that have private practice and cause them to lose revenues. Remember, some of the practictioners will lose a few days out of their office when you factor in travelling to and from the interview site. The plans for the 10 day rotation are to rotate EAST, CENTRAL and WEST residency programs every year within those 10 days. For example in one year, EAST residency programs will do their interviews in the first 3 days (which is a weekend), CENTRAL residency programs will do their interviews in the middle 4 days (which is in the middle of the week) and WEST residency programs will do their interviews in the last 3 days (which is a weekend). They will rotate the residency programs every year. Each residency program will be designated EAST, CENTRAL or WEST. The residency programs that choose to participate in CRIP weekend may not interview outside of the designated days during the 10 day period for that year.

If they decide to stay with the current CRIP interview model (with 3 weekends), I hope that they move the EAST CRIP back to Philadelphia next to the airport (where it was held for many years). The current EAST CRIP location is a horrible location. It is not near any airport, unlike the other two CRIP locations. The EAST CRIP location was moved to central NJ to accomodate for NYCPM CME event. However, starting this year, NYCPM will revert back to having their CME event at the LaGuardia airport hotel.

 

[Stafocker]

If they decide to stay with the current CRIP interview model (with 3 weekends), I hope that they move the EAST CRIP back to Philadelphia next to the airport (where it was held for many years). The current EAST CRIP location is a horrible location. It is not near any airport, unlike the other two CRIP locations. The EAST CRIP location was moved to central NJ to accomodate for NYCPM CME event. However, starting this year, NYCPM will revert back to having their CME event at the LaGuardia airport hotel.

oh god yeah...

 

[Feli]

Just out of curiousity, about how many interviews do programs grant? About 4-5 interviews per residency spot? I heard from 4th year students that a couple programs down here in south Fla that take 2 residents/yr said they got dozens of interview apps but granted only about 10-12 interviews.

Is there a rough guideline for the number of interviews a program will grant, or does it totally vary from program to program?

 

[krabmas]

Just out of curiousity, about how many interviews do programs grant? About 4-5 interviews per residency spot? I heard from 4th year students that a couple programs down here in south Fla that take 2 residents/yr said they got dozens of interview apps but granted only about 10-12 interviews.

Is there a rough guideline for the number of interviews a program will grant, or does it totally vary from program to program?

I think it is completely variable.

 

[dpmgrad]

Just out of curiousity, about how many interviews do programs grant? About 4-5 interviews per residency spot? I heard from 4th year students that a couple programs down here in south Fla that take 2 residents/yr said they got dozens of interview apps but granted only about 10-12 interviews.

Is there a rough guideline for the number of interviews a program will grant, or does it totally vary from program to program?

I agree with krabmas that it is totally variable from program to program. Some programs may only grant 10-12 interviews from the applicant pool due to time constraints, the number of residency faculty available to conduct interviews, or simply that those were the only candidates that the program deemed worthy of an interview.

 

[dpmgrad]

As Feli and Stafocker alluded to earlier, it was officially announced that there will be one centralized CRIP in January 2010, during the CRIP sessions to the residency directors. This centralized CRIP will be held in Dallas, TX. It will be held over a 9 day period with some programs interviewing the first weekend (Sat, Sun, Mon) and some programs interviewing the second weekend (Fri, Sat, Sun). The programs will be grouped into two groups. One group will interview in the first weekend and the other group in the second weekend. The two groups will alternate weekends the following year. Other programs may opted out during the weekends and interview during week (Tues, Wed, Thurs).

It will be interesting to see how the residency programs will respond to this new CRIP structure. The idea of having one centralized CRIP will save students money from traveling to different CRIP sites. However, if residency programs decide to continue to opting out of CRIP, I am not sure how much money will it save students. As you can see, there are a bunch of programs that opted out of CRIP this year.