Do most residencies contact the applicants after the interview about match?

[Dysic]

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I've read on these forums and I've also heard from a couple friends that there are some residencies that contact the applicants after the interview via email,phone,etc to express match interest in the applicant. A "don't forget about us during match day" or "we're really interested in you as a resident" sort of thing...

If you have heard back....please say from which program 🙂. Or if that isn't allowed...maybe from which state.

 

[GoldfishPharmD]

We discussed this in an earlier thread. Some programs do this and some programs don't. It doesn't necessarily mean anything if you did or didn't hear this from them.

 

[lactonerx]

I think technically it's against match rules but some programs do this

"b.The only information that persons at the residency site may communicate to an applicant prior to the release of the Match results is whether or not the applicant remains under consideration for admission. The spirit of this item precludes any communication of applicants’ rankings, however veiled or indirect such communication might be, prior to the release of the Match results."

 

[lav9048]

A couple of days before rank lists were due, I was contacted by the HR department of one of the programs I had interviewed with and they asked me to go online and fill out a job application on the hospital's website. I found this kind of strange but I took it as good news because I figured they wouldn't waste their time if they hadn't ranked me. Has anyone heard of this happening to anyone else?

 

[Garfield3d]

A couple of days before rank lists were due, I was contacted by the HR department of one of the programs I had interviewed with and they asked me to go online and fill out a job application on the hospital's website. I found this kind of strange but I took it as good news because I figured they wouldn't waste their time if they hadn't ranked me. Has anyone heard of this happening to anyone else?

Last year, my PGY-1 program didn't have me fill out a job application until after the match. However, one of the programs that I interviewed for had their applicants fill out a job application as part of my residency application shortly after PPS. It could be that HR is just trying to streamline the process. Though, maybe they were tipping their hand too. It's hard to say, but I wouldn't take that as a guarantee that you were in their top spots.

--Garfield3d