interveiw question

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Hola. Whats the deal with residency interveiws with regards to the following:

1) you MUST interview with a progrgam to rank them?
2) do you have to interveiw in person or are phone/video interveiws accepted?
3) if you do a senior elective, do you still have to interveiw?
4) do many places help out with travel/hotel?

Thanks

 

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Hola. Whats the deal with residency interveiws with regards to the following:

1) you MUST interview with a progrgam to rank them?
2) do you have to interveiw in person or are phone/video interveiws accepted?
3) if you do a senior elective, do you still have to interveiw?
4) do many places help out with travel/hotel?

Thanks

1. You can rank any place you want. But you may be assured that no program ranked you unless you interviewed there, and that means you won't match there. (And after a certain number of ranks---fifteen?---you pay extra for each program on your rank list.)

2. In-person interviews are the overwhelming norm. There may be exceptions in extraordinary circumstances, but basically, you have to go to every interview in person.

3. Some programs will accept an audition rotation in place of an interview; some will "interview" you in a less-formal way during an audition rotation. But the norm is, you do the audition rotation, and then you come back in the dark suit.

4. Whether programs help with travel expenses depends on competitiveness of the program and the field in general. But my impression is that that is more the exception than the rule.

The answer to your subtextual question: Yes, the residency application process requires a lot of tedious, expensive travel.