Are you saying here that you’ve seen residents cancel interviews for financial reasons? Interviews that affect the rest of their lives/careers?
I went into debt to pay for it. I haven't been bankrolled by anyone since I started high school (paid for my own AP exams...but I did let my parents pay for my clothes until I left home at 18). It's debt I don't regret one bit. I never would have ended up where I did if it weren't for in-person interviews.
I wouldn't know specifically since I'm not privy to that information (anecdotally I've heard some financial anxiety), and I am not personally all aboard the virtual interview train. However, in a field like medicine which struggles a lot with systemic inequality and its consequences, it's one barrier less for applicants. You can quibble about how it's perhaps the least significant of the many obstacles along the way, and I wouldn't disagree, but I do see the rationale.
Yes, not sure if other people received the same email...
I did not unfortunately, how about you?
Nope
As many as you can get.
I don't think anyone got rejection. So this is just a gentle rejection
This has been discussed ad nauseum here, but the short answer is that there is NOTHING that programs have to do to get the CCC designation that has ANY impact on trainees (and the only real impact it has on faculty is that it generates more uncompensated work for them).
If the bolded is your goal, you'll most likely rank based on doximity rankings, university vs non-university, more research vs less, NCI vs non-NCI and that's fine. I just matched and didn't care about any of it as I have no interest in academia. It's a personal decision at the end.
I think it does. My mentor who started his heme/onc fellowship 8 years ago said he called programs on the phone and it helped him get a few more interviews. I think I'll try to send some emails, I'm not sure what the best timing would be, perhaps late September?
It doesn't matter.
Agree
I don't think away rotations are particularly common in internal medicine residency. Any prior experience with a program has the potential to help or harm, and you're not going to know which applies to you.
Not really
Nope. And if you have a hem/onc program at your residency, your PD will likely not approve an away rotation anyway.
This is sad... I thought if I worked really hard I would be able to get a spot but there are only 2 positions to battle with.
If you're only applying to one program, and it only has 2 spots, this is on you.
Most do, but not all. If you're doing an away rotation, you should be meeting with the PD early on to express your interest.
If you are interested in an academic career, NCI status is a useful way to filter programs. While it is true, NCI status will not have much to do with your daily clinical work, the mentors most likely to launch an academic career will be at NCI designated centers. Mentors with NIH funding who can help you write a career award will be at NCI centers. If however you have already identified an excellent mentor who can help you develop into an independent investigator at a non-NCI place, then go for it.
You ask your school. Who may or may not have such a list and may or may not be interested in sharing it with you.
I agree LOI does not make or break your application or ranking. With positive feedback during and after the interview, and LOI, I did not match to my #1 ranked program.
I’m sorry this happened. Can you give us more information about how many interviews you had and how many programs you ranked? Do you have a home program that might be able to offer you more insight about your application? Is there an area of your application that you feel was not as strong as others?
Something is off. Research clearly isn't the problem here, something else in your application is.
Ok, cons as I see them:
Sorry to be blunt but all the above are significant. What was the 1st author pub? What other pubs do you have
