How much time to take off for residency interviews

[MartyG]

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I was planning to only take the month of December off from fourth-year electives for interviews, but now it seems like it might be better to also take off the month of November.

I am a third-year American student at a foreign medical school. I will be doing my electives in the U.S., and I am planning to apply for residency in Internal Medicine.

Should I reserve both months for interviews?

Thanks!

 

[ar2388]

i would make sure i had 2 months to interview. I personally had a super easy rotation for the first 2 weeks of november, then took off the last 2 weeks of november, did research in december where the PI was super chill and let me take off time (had to miss probably half the month) and then took January off. I went on 22 interviews i believe.

 

[235009]

If you can I would suggest takings mid-November to mid-January off.

 

[ar2388]

If you can I would suggest takings mid-November to mid-January off.

agree with above!!

 

[EmergencyMonkey]

Will taking off the time disrupt or set you back in your program?

 

[MartyG]

No, taking November off would not disrupt or negatively impact my program. I had just set up an elective in Palliative Care that I wanted to take. I would go ahead with the elective and go on interviews as needed, but it seems like it would be too disruptive.

 

[Trogghunter]

bump...

I definitely remember students interviewing in October (for IM) when I was on my IM clerkship, but that might just be my program. Does Oct v Nov v Dec make a difference? I ask because my vsas application for a oct-nov rotation is still pending, and I am considering doing a different, flexible rotation where I can get time off to interview in october-november.
thanks for any help.

 

[evilbooyaa]

Depends on the specialty. For IM I would probably consider November and December as times to take off, or at least have more relaxed rotations that wouldn't punish you.