Med Peds. That's also why we've sometimes had both - often it'll be peds morning report, and IM noon conference, or vice versa, maybe Med Peds noon conference. varies by program though. they don't usually expect us to participate though, and several said we could have cameras off so I use it as a coffee and/or lunch break. I don't mind terribly, it's other things that make some days excruciatingly long. These are all at academic places.
Oh no wonder. Anything related to IM is guaranteed to involve excruciatingly long conferences. Thank God some of you want to do IM. I would go crazy if I had to do it more than 10 weeks.
Oh yeah, it's awful. Couldn't feel more strongly about this.
Rads is definitely doing it. The worst offender so far was an IR interview that had me attend IR morning conference at 0700, IR and DR info session from 8-9, then EIGHT interviews with what turned out to be every member of the residency selection committee, and then we had to stay for afternoon report from 12-1. I mean, if I wasn't already gonna rank the place low, that would have solidified it... esp since one of the interviewers was pretty unfriendly which is relatively uncommon for rads
eight???!!
Lol, I was kind of expecting the answer to involve IM, ha ha! As a student the reports and conferences can be a nice break from the work day (especially if they got coffee or lunch!) but it's kind of strange to have them as a part of the interview... I guess if interviews were in person and I could get a free lunch there I wouldn't mind, ha ha! But otherwise, I'm good!
10-15?! What specialty is this?
FFS
Forgive my ignorance, but what does NSG stand for?
Neurosurgery
Not more expensive than Miami though...
None of the interviews ive been on so far did this. Crazy this is a thing
Usually I get 3-4. The most I ever had were 6 but at least it was 15 minute interviews.
This is the way.
I answer these in the same way of "why this program"
Good point lol, now you've gotten me thinking into why/how they offer so much more....
It’s a nice program. I rotated there and really liked it. I think they just genuinely value and care about their residents.
The money is so tempting lol
Go for the money, man.
I have the same question. Any thoughts on this?
I spoke to my current PD. They felt that January would be more advantageous.
U think it matters at all ?
This is a 2 way street , u researched the program spent money and applied there. Also did their stupid secondary app. It’s just one more BS that doesn’t matter that we feel compelled to do
So what post-interview things do affect rank? If thank you notes, open house visits, and letters of intent are just white noise does trying to keep a dialogue going with a program you are interested in really not affect anything? Or does it all just come down to how well we answered a couple of interview questions over an hour or so zoom call and whatever is on our ERAS apps?
I think the latter . Yes I think that’s all white noise in my eyes.
I've heard letters of intent to your #1 and 2 can bump your rank list a bit. PDs want to match higher on their rank list and also want residents who actually want to be there.
According to the NMRP Code of Conduct, neither applicants nor programs should be using post-interview contact to influence rankings.
Sending a letter of intent is not a match violation, as I understand it. From the site "Applicants may voluntarily communicate their interest to a program(s); however, applicants may not solicit verbal or written statements from a program(s) implying a commitment to rank the applicant.
Nobody said an LOI was a match violation. I was responding to the question that if letters, open houses, etc are white noise, how do you affect your rank post interview.
30?!?!? Max I’ve met is like 10
Sounds like a good plan, the only concern is that they might have forgotten you by then.
Might depend on specialty and program, but we had a meeting with PDs a couple weeks ago, and all of them said they have zero problem remembering interviewees throughout the season.
