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Since everyone is done with interview and probably stuck on some 4th years rotation that is boring you to tears...I decided that we should have a little fun. Let's nominate programs/individuals that you thought were the best of best during this whirlwind season of interviewing...Ill start off

Most Aesthetically Pleasing Emergency Department in the Country:
University of Rochester: If I match at this program, forget buying a house, im going to ask the PD if I can move into the ER! That place is gorgeous! It's brand new, and it just seems like it would be an awesome place to work.

Least Painful Interview Day:
University of Illinois at Chicago: I forget exactly what time we had to be there but there were like six interview each one last about 10mins. It was like speed dating! Much better that 4 to 5 30min interviews!!

Program Most Likely To Prepare You For Anything:
SUNY Downstate Brooklyn NY and USC Los Angeles, CA: You go to either of these programs and I guarantee you that you will be more prepared than anyone else in the country to handle anything that walks through the door!

Most Painful Interview Day:
University of South Florida: I had to be there at 7am! It's bad enough that I was dealing with being on Eastern Standard Time as it is. Then you make me read a EKG??? Are you serious??

Anyway, thats all I can think of right now...

 

[Seville]

Program with the best swag: WVU. Not only did you give me an awesome water bottle to take out hiking, you gave me a carrabiner with a built in knife, filled the water bottle with chocolates, and gave me cute rubber duckies decorated like doctors.

 

[RxnMan]

Here's the winners from the 2008 interview season.

 

[opb]

Coldest Interview Day: Cook County, Chicago. It was 9 degrees... and that's not counting the wind chill. Brrrr!

 

[Tiger26]

Coldest Interview Day: Cook County, Chicago. It was 9 degrees... and that's not counting the wind chill. Brrrr!

that's it?

 

[opb]

that's it?

Haha, well that was the coldest it got on my interviews. I actually go to school in Chicago so I've experienced much worse... like -10 degrees (-40 with wind chill) and days of subzero temperatures.

But, for my interviews, that was the coldest.

 

[HIJay]

i second the urochester ED, one of the nicest i have seen, ny methodist is also very new and nice. suny stony brook also has a brand new ed

 

[Tiger26]

Haha, well that was the coldest it got on my interviews. I actually go to school in Chicago so I've experienced much worse... like -10 degrees (-40 with wind chill) and days of subzero temperatures.

But, for my interviews, that was the coldest.

Mad respect--as Ali G would say--just wanted to dispel people from thinking anything above 2-3 degrees was cold

 

[Smashweasel]

Coldest Interview Day: Cook County, Chicago. It was 9 degrees... and that's not counting the wind chill. Brrrr!

Got ya beat...Also in Chicago but at Ress. It was 0, yes ZERO, without the wind chill.

Most painful day: Lehigh Valley. very very nice place, but got there at like 730am and wasn't done till 530pm. And I was one of the lucky ones. They spllt us up into 3 groups of 8 and 2 toured different hospitals while the other group interviewed then we switched. I met a dude a few days later that was in the last interview group on my day and he was there till 645pm! Interviewing! Oh yeah, and the interviews were 2 on 1 which I also found odd.

Best Pre-interview grub: Was actually good at several places, but Jerome Bettis Grill in Pittsburgh was pretty cool. I had a deep fried cheeseburger. Im from Tx and have had all kinds of deep fried food(deep fried coke is a must at Tx state fair) but this was a first. Also peeing while the hostess is looking at you(through 2way mirror) was a first

 

[Arcan57]

Its been a long time since I interviewed, but its funny that USF made it as the most painful day. Do they still have the Asian guy that makes you run a megacode?