Interview tour guide

[agranulocytosis]

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So this is a question I've seen with a different focus, and I'd like to get fellow residents' take on the whole interview process. What's your guys' take on the role of the interview tour guide? I've volunteered (read: assigned) to help guide interviewees on a tour and be their Q/A guy throughout their interview day. Obviously I should be well versed on the specifics of our program and show an enthusiastic attitude towards it, but is there anything I should focus on and leave out during the tour? Work rooms, call rooms, cafeterias, ICU and floors seem to always be the way points for the tour, would there be something you would leave out or add in?

Also, what sort of behaviors should I watch out for regarding the group? Enthusiasm vs lack of interest? Listening skills? Social aptitude?

It's definitely interesting to be on the other side of this whole process

 

[Law2Doc]

So this is a question I've seen with a different focus, and I'd like to get fellow residents' take on the whole interview process. What's your guys' take on the role of the interview tour guide? I've volunteered (read: assigned) to help guide interviewees on a tour and be their Q/A guy throughout their interview day. Obviously I should be well versed on the specifics of our program and show an enthusiastic attitude towards it, but is there anything I should focus on and leave out during the tour? Work rooms, call rooms, cafeterias, ICU and floors seem to always be the way points for the tour, would there be something you would leave out or add in?

Also, what sort of behaviors should I watch out for regarding the group? Enthusiasm vs lack of interest? Listening skills? Social aptitude?

It's definitely interesting to be on the other side of this whole process

Show all the things that make your program look impressive, plus the things you'd want to see when you were interviewing (call rooms, residents lounges, food options). You aren't trying to hide anything but you do want to put your program into the best light. As for behaviors, you watch for extremes, especially people that rub you tge wrong way -- but there's only so much you can gauge on a tour.

 

[BlondeDocteur]

Just remember how it was when you were an applicant-- everything looks the same from hospital to hospital, and unless things are truly appalling (i.e. call rooms crawling with vermin, resident work stations used to store biohazard waste, etc) no one is really going to make a serious rank list decision based on your tour. Likewise, an applicant would have to be a total crackhead to do something insane enough on a tour to get noticed and have it impact their application. [I DID see this, one time-- this girl on a surgery interview was wearing ridiculous strappy tall heels and could not keep up, especially with the stairs sprinting, and began screaming-- like, true, 100 decibel, screaming-- at the resident that he was rude and ignoring her needs. She was noticed.]

I tried to tell funny stories and mostly just fielded questions from applicants.

 

[smq123]

Likewise, an applicant would have to be a total crackhead to do something insane enough on a tour to get noticed and have it impact their application. [I DID see this, one time-- this girl on a surgery interview was wearing ridiculous strappy tall heels and could not keep up, especially with the stairs sprinting, and began screaming-- like, true, 100 decibel, screaming-- at the resident that he was rude and ignoring her needs. She was noticed.]

Interview tours had the potential to be so hilarious. I remember one applicant, who was a really short, petite girl, but had a ridiculously ginormous shoulder bag/briefcase. Every time she turned around, she would whack some unsuspecting fellow applicant in the torso. There were a couple of other issues for her (which is why she went unranked), but that certainly didn't help.