Hotels paid for by program?

[surgeon2b forev]

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Are there ANY surgery programs that pay for your hotel? Anesthesia programs, by and large, pay for their applicants (at least at the more competitive places). WHy is that? Is it the prioritize their applicants more? Are they REALLY that much more endowed? I mean, come on. In any job type of opportunity/interview of any kinda upper caliber, the hotel is paid for... so why is it like this?

 

[SocialistMD]

Are there ANY surgery programs that pay for your hotel? Anesthesia programs, by and large, pay for their applicants (at least at the more competitive places). WHy is that? Is it the prioritize their applicants more? Are they REALLY that much more endowed? I mean, come on. In any job type of opportunity/interview of any kinda upper caliber, the hotel is paid for... so why is it like this?

Some of the community programs do. I remember my roommate in medical school interviewing at a couple of general surgery programs that paid for his hotel. Private hospitals have more money to spend on recruiting.

 

[jubb]

I think of my interviews 3 are paying for hotels for me. 3 out of 17. It sure would be nice. More than just enjoying a free hotel I like to see programs put effort into their recruiting, it makes me think that they actually care about having good residents. And those good residents will be my colleagues for several years so it's important to me. I'd appreciated it even if they just gave free hotels to their top picks as an enticement. I also worry about the programs that don't have the night before informal get togethers. You want a program that is going to want to see how the people mesh and want you to see if that's where you want to be.

 

[XoQo]

2 of my 13 have offered to pay for a night so far. The majority of mine have negotiated with area hotels for mild to moderate discounts.

 

[Pilot Doc]

Are there ANY surgery programs that pay for your hotel? Anesthesia programs, by and large, pay for their applicants (at least at the more competitive places). WHy is that? Is it the prioritize their applicants more? Are they REALLY that much more endowed? I mean, come on. In any job type of opportunity/interview of any kinda upper caliber, the hotel is paid for... so why is it like this?

General surgery applicants greatly outnumber positions, especially competitive ones. The programs don't have to pay for hotels to attract good applicants. They keep their limited discretionary budget for things that improve the quality of the program.

Anesthesia programs 1) do generally have more $$, 2) are not as competitive as GS and have fairly recently been very, very uncompetitive and 3) have a different outlook on life.

 

[Castro Viejo]

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN is the only one I remember paying for a hotel during the interviews.

 

[46&2]

Funny, Mayo in Minnesota didn't pay for me, but I think Mayo Jacksonville did (maybe it was just heavily discounted). The Kahler Inn was a decent deal, though. I do remember Scott and White in Temple, TX gave a free hotel room at the Hilton Garden Inn across from the hospital.

 

[Castro Viejo]

Funny, Mayo in Minnesota didn't pay for me, but I think Mayo Jacksonville did (maybe it was just heavily discounted). The Kahler Inn was a decent deal, though. I do remember Scott and White in Temple, TX gave a free hotel room at the Hilton Garden Inn across from the hospital.

Ah, the Grand Kahler Inn. What a dump. 🙂

 

[SLUser11]

Ah, the Grand Kahler Inn. What a dump. 🙂

Construction workers on the Kahler's top floor started hammering away about 1.5 hours before I was planning on getting up......that pissed me off pretty good....

 

[dynx]

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN is the only one I remember paying for a hotel during the interviews.

Yep, thats the only one that I had paid for. I didn't hear from anybody else that had a hotel paid for at other programs. I don't think the programs are that desperate.

 

[Amgen1]

The only one that paid for a hotel years back was Scott&White in texas

 

[SLUser11]

Yep, thats the only one that I had paid for. I didn't hear from anybody else that had a hotel paid for at other programs. I don't think the programs are that desperate.

You're absolutely right. Specialties in less demand like IM routinely pay for hotel rooms, even at the more competitive places, but for Gen Surg, it's only the small programs that want to sweeten the deal a little bit.....and then Mayo....

 

[Geri_Gal]

No. Competitive IM programs do not pay for hotel rooms either.
Mayo did -- the Grand Kahler Hotel. Had never seen a hotel room that small!

 

[SLUser11]

No. Competitive IM programs do not pay for hotel rooms either.
Mayo did -- the Grand Kahler Hotel. Had never seen a hotel room that small!

Let me rephrase that: In my experience, which consists of a handful of friends who went through the match in 2006 for IM, getting their hotels paid for was more the rule than the exception, and that included some bigger name academic programs.

I guess the big variable you didn't like was the word "competitive."

 

[surgeon2b forev]

I interviewed for medicine last year, at all the "competitive" places and not one paid for a hotel. I never accepted Mayo or Duke's interview offers though... so can't attest to them. But the rest... east coast, west coast, chicago, and michigan places... not one 🙁

 

[Castro Viejo]

To be fair, I think Mayo Clinic owns a bunch of those hotels in Rochester so it may be no skin off their back to offer you a free hotel night. I think they own them for the patients that fly in from God knows where for care.

 

[Geri_Gal]

Let me rephrase that: In my experience, which consists of a handful of friends who went through the match in 2006 for IM, getting their hotels paid for was more the rule than the exception, and that included some bigger name academic programs.

I guess the big variable you didn't like was the word "competitive."

Hey man...I was just sharing my experience. No need to be nasty.

My IM friends who applied to smaller university and community programs were given free hotel rooms. Med/peds applicants often had free rooms as well.

 

[Dr. V]

My program pays for the hotel, at a very, very nice hotel.

At least they did the year I matched and last year. Haven't had this years interviews yet but I don't think they stopped it.

 

[Froze006]

University of Nevada Las Vegas is putting me up for the night, but so far theyre the only one for me