Future of interviews?

[ratman7]

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Nowadays with technology growing, many jobs are offering job interviews through Skype and other video methods. Is there even a remote chance that medical schools would consider offering video interviews?

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Probably not. The interview day isn't solely for interviewing - the school explains their curriculum, financial aid, student organizations, and allows you the opportunity to tour their facilities. None of which can really be done with Skype, and if it were attempted, you still wouldn't get the full scope through your own eyes.

Not to mention the unwritten evaluation that occurs as they watch you interact with people during the interview day. There's more to it than meets the eye.

 

[Aubrey Graham]

I wish. I hate pants.


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[jqueb29]

I would say there is a 0% chance of you not having to physically be there until the day you can just project a hologram there that can roam around and interact

 

[LaceyMD]

I think I heard an admissions dean say that Duke has experimented with Skype interviews for certain applicants with exceptional circumstances (e.g., a soldier deployed overseas). But I don't think they're likely to become the norm - as others have pointed out, there are so many other aspects of interview day that you can't get over video (for the school, getting a sense of how the interviewee interacts with others; for the interviewee, making sure the facilities are where you want to spend 4 years, getting to know current students and your future classmates to make sure the school is a good fit, etc).

 

[tima]

Don't expect anything to change in the next few years, so you will have to do what we have done in the past.

 

[Goro]

Nope. person-to-person interaction counts for something. A number of schools like doing group interviews as well, to see how people interact. medicine is, after all, a team sport.

If you Skype an interview, how can you tour to campus and interact with your fellow interviewees and the current students?

Nowadays with technology growing, many jobs are offering job interviews through Skype and other video methods. Is there even a remote chance that medical schools would consider offering video interviews?

 

[FutureOncologist]

The only way I see interviews changing is that they go from traditional, 1-3 people per interviewer for 30 mins - 1 hour to MMI's.

 

[mehc012]

I hope they don't switch over. Having had both internet and in-person interviews, the difference between the two is incredible, yet inexplicable.

 

[altblue]

Probably not. The interview day isn't solely for interviewing - the school explains their curriculum, financial aid, student organizations, and allows you the opportunity to tour their facilities. None of which can really be done with Skype, and if it were attempted, you still wouldn't get the full scope through your own eyes.

Not to mention the unwritten evaluation that occurs as they watch you interact with people during the interview day. There's more to it than meets the eye.

Ah okay, now I'm curious. What are these like? 🙂

 

[amad01]

meh after a bunch of interviews all the tours look the same... a hospital is a hospital is a hospital