dinner before interview dress attire

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sevogirl said:
Hey girls...just wondering what you are going to wear for dinner night before interview? Thanks.😳
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It varies. Good programs should tell you. You can also call the coordinator.

My favorite plan (5 years ago interviewing for surgery, and male) was slacks and a sweater. Didn't look grossly out of place if everyone else was wearing jeans or wearing ties.
 
i have only been on one and i wore dress pants and a sweater. I think this is almost always the right answer. even though it was at a casual place i would have been self conscious if i had worn anything less, like jeans....as some of the applicants wore suits...which did look out of place. we were told to order whatever we want, specifically including drinks, etc. the residents drank alcohol and noticed who didn't drink with dinner in a somewhat negative way. i think one is the answer, more and you look like a lush, less you look uptight. the dinner is supposed to be fun after all. i had one glass of wine (it was italian food. italian food without wine seems weird to me).
 
Hey, I started a journal with the basic info of each program on each page for notes and stuff. I was wondering if it would look funny if I brought the journal with me to interviews. Not the dinner of course. What do people usually carry with them???
 
Wear your white coat and scrubs. Make sure you bring a laryngoscope with both mac and miller blades. Evaluate everyones airway before dinner. This will show true dedication.
 
I will be bringing a small portfolio with some info for the particular program at which I'll interview. I plan on writing down some questions that I can later ask during the interview. However, for the dinner I'll just wear a nice sweater, slacks, and dress shoes. I will not be bringing a folder with me to the dinner.
 
Seriously, without SDN I would have shown up in jeans and a polo shirt at my first interview next week. Thank you SDN.
 
badgas said:
Wear your white coat and scrubs. Make sure you bring a laryngoscope with both mac and miller blades. Evaluate everyones airway before dinner. This will show true dedication.
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lol...words of wisdom...i'd like to thank SDN and Badgas. The former for preparing me for the interviews; the latter for getting me escorted out of them by security. 🙂
 
badgas said:
Wear your white coat and scrubs. Make sure you bring a laryngoscope with both mac and miller blades. Evaluate everyones airway before dinner. This will show true dedication.
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Don't forget to check out everyone's airway by any means necessary.
 
anestheticman said:
Seriously, without SDN I would have shown up in jeans and a polo shirt at my first interview next week. Thank you SDN.
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This happened on a few dinners to some unlucky applicants last year. I really think it would have looked better if they took my previous advice. Two other funny, but serious pieces of advice based on events witnessed last year. First, don't bring anything with you besides your common sense. Use this common sense to NOT get smashed at the dinner. You're basically dead before you interview. It may actually FEEL like you are getting smarter with each beer, but it is not actually the case. Second, be relaxed and comfortable... but not TOO comfortable. A few of the applicants that were laid back enough to wear old tshirts and torn jeans to the dinner also were laid back enough to tell dirty jokes and drop the F bomb 50 times. Ok if you are actual accepted into the program... NOT ok as an applicant begging for admission to the program. So bring your common sense with you. And if you don't happen to have any, just look around the table to see how everyone else is acting and do your best to copy them.
 
We only accept folks who wear cotton dockers with HEAVILY pleated fronts and baby blue twill mens dress shirt buttoned to the adams/eve's apple. Coffee stains are a bonus.

Please don't forget the too small braded belt and penny loafers. Replete with pennies.

White socks are a must. Preferably with large NIKE or Hello Kitty logo.

Wearing a swatch? You're in buddy. You're in.

Please leave your humor and personality at home.



All joking aside, the advice above was spot on.

For dinners I wore a nice pair of jeans, dress shoes, and a fancy sweaterish thingy.
 
Here's an idea. Just follow these steps:

1. Cut a hole in a box
2. Put your junk in that box
3. Make her open the box

And that's the way you do it.

I will be bringing my pimp cane and goblet in addition to the above mentioned box.
 
If this is just dinner why the hell do they want me there by 4PM?
Is this going to be soul-numbingly long and boring?

...that's why the lady is a tramp
 
ewwww you boys stop talking about your junk!!!:laugh: I thought it was suppose to be GIRLS giving each other advice 🙄 Soooo.... what about miniskirts????😀
 
climbingdocs said:
ewwww you boys stop talking about your junk!!!:laugh: I thought it was suppose to be GIRLS giving each other advice 🙄 Soooo.... what about miniskirts????😀
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Cross-dressing is always a plus.

It proves you can add diversity to the program.
 
Bumping for the new interview season.

Sounds like, no matter what the invite says about how "casual" it is, dress shirt + slacks or sweater + slacks is the minimum.

Although this is what I call "casual."
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BenzBen said:
I will be bringing my pimp cane and goblet in addition to the above mentioned box.
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That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. If you look like Dave Chappelle, it's an added bonus.
 
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74EKKsmIA_s[/YOUTUBE]

A primer on how to:
-dress
-respond to tough questions

Take notes.
 
How about a tye dye shirt and overalls worn backwards, one strap hangin of course. kriss kross style! and i just got a new grill to match my overalls.
 
LOL this thread cracks me up! :laugh:
But on a serious note, do you guys think that not attending a dinner/social event the night before an interview will be looked down upon by the program? It's somewhat of a hassle for me to have to take off an extra half day in order to be able to make an early flight. Any thoughts?
 
amyl said:
we were told to order whatever we want, specifically including drinks, etc. the residents drank alcohol and noticed who didn't drink with dinner in a somewhat negative way. i think one is the answer, more and you look like a lush, less you look uptight.
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You're telling me that these residents could get accurate insight into the social acumen of interviewees based solely on the number of drinks the interviewees ordered? Not only is that an impressively amazing talent, but it's being totally wasted on analyzing fourth year med student interviewees. There's money to be made here--I'm sure of it. 😛

All kidding aside, I have never understood this attitude. (I mean the part about not drinking making you look uptight, not the part about overdrinking making you look like a lush!) No one with half a brain will completely let down their guard at an interview dinner where they know they're being watched like a hawk. So in reality, the residents have no earthly idea what these people are like when they're truly "relaxed." My take is that I do not ever drink at interviews or any other business-related function, especially one where people are evaluating me. If what I regard as a very sensible policy of separating business from pleasure gets me "noticed in a somewhat negative way" because I fell short of meeting the alcohol quota, well, I reckon I'm ok with not ending up at that program. I mean, just think of how much trouble it would cause the next year when maybe I'd be the one trying to figure out someone else's social adeptness by counting their drinks. 😉

The OP is halfway through her first year of residency by now, but FWIW, I'd vote for going with business casual. A suit is too much for dinner and you do want to be comfortable. But at the same time, these people are interviewing you in an informal setting; they're not actually your friends and co-workers. So I wouldn't go with miniskirts, jeans, or anything else too casual either. I like the idea of wearing nice slacks with a sweater. You won't go wrong with that.
 
CalH22a said:
LOL this thread cracks me up! :laugh:
But on a serious note, do you guys think that not attending a dinner/social event the night before an interview will be looked down upon by the program? It's somewhat of a hassle for me to have to take off an extra half day in order to be able to make an early flight. Any thoughts?
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I felt that I was judged by not making it to an pre-dinner. This may have been because I had originally confirmed the date, but the day of the dinner, weather was horrible and flights were delayed several hours. I ended up arriving in the town about the time the dinner was over.

The next day, I was questioned a couple of times, "We didn't see you at the dinner!" I explained, but I'm not sure what they really thought.
 
CalH22a said:
LOL this thread cracks me up! :laugh:
But on a serious note, do you guys think that not attending a dinner/social event the night before an interview will be looked down upon by the program? It's somewhat of a hassle for me to have to take off an extra half day in order to be able to make an early flight. Any thoughts?
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dinner is important... you should really try to attend.
 
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