Medical Interview: Are the plane tickets free???

[Doctor Poetry]

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Just wondering if the schools you are about to interview for, pay for the cost of your plane ticket? It can get pretty costly, so are there any types of plans for low income people?

 

[Ischemic]

Just wondering if the schools you are about to interview for, pay for the cost of your plane ticket? It can get pretty costly, so are there any types of plans for low income people?

lol, man you really have no clue about med school related things at all huh? NO,they don't pay for ****. You pay for EVERYTHING. If you're applying to bio grad schools they will pay for stuff.

 

[planktonelement]

They will when you get to applying for residencies. Until then... 👎

 

[Doctor Poetry]

thats why im on sdn asking questions...dont get your panties in a bunch

 

[Ischemic]

thats why im on sdn asking questions...dont get your panties in a bunch

Panties in a bunch? You ****ing serious? I'm actually being nice about this. Your questions are not new you can either search for them or you can go to AMCAS to read about them.

 

[LizzyM]

Just wondering if the schools you are about to interview for, pay for the cost of your plane ticket? It can get pretty costly, so are there any types of plans for low income people?

A couple options:
Apply only to schools that are within a day's drive.
Take an overnight train or bus if it is less than airfare

Plan on a gap year and relocated (and get a job) close to where you'd like to be interviewing (granted that's a stretch but it works in the NE corridor & Chicago)

get a credit card. Charge everything. Pay it off with your med school loans for living expenses and then live very frugally until you've caught up.

 

[Champaigne]

Panties in a bunch? You ****ing serious? I'm actually being nice about this. Your questions are not new you can either search for them or you can go to AMCAS to read about them.

IMO Ischemic was nicer than the question warranted...

 

[Don Draper]

IMO Ischemic was nicer than the question warranted...

That's stretching.

Some people don't know there is a search function. And some people don't understand this process. No need to get upset.

 

[airplanes]

They will when you get to applying for residencies. Until then... 👎

umm...those aren't free either

 

[CptCrunch]

They will when you get to applying for residencies. Until then... 👎

I wish.

 

[jla314]

Applying MD/PhD will typically get you free plane tickets and free hotel accommodations. Otherwise, you can cut down on travel costs by 1) staying with a student host overnight, 2) scheduling interviews at multiple schools in a particular region back to back so you're only flying to that area once (sometimes using the infamous "in the area" email to hurry your schools along), and 3) flying on Tuesdays or Wednesdays when flights are sometimes slightly cheaper.

Some schools will pay for your flight back to revisit after they've accepted you 😀 but until then, many don't care how you get to the interview.

 

[IHeartNerds]

They will when you get to applying for residencies. Until then... 👎

Others have come before me mockingly, but I do I wonder how you obtained this information. Falsehoods abound, I suppose.

A few programs in my future specialty do give free hotels. Yet, I'm still paying > $5000 for interviews. 😱

Should have gone after that engineering phd...

 

[searun]

They will when you get to applying for residencies. Until then... 👎

Unfortunately, you are wrong, Grasshopper. I will be interviewing for a surgical residency in a few months, probably flying around the USA and it will all be on my dime. And I am still paying off the $5,000 in credit card debt that I incurred for my med school interviews 4 years ago.

Oh, and I am doing an away rotation in my desired specialty next month and I am paying for round trip airfare from the East Coast to the West Coast, plus $500 to rent a bedroom for the month from a resident in the program.

My financial condition continues to deteriorate. So dream on little broomstick Cowboy. There really are no free lunches in this gig, except for the occasional piece of pizza.

The credit card companies just laugh their asses off.

 

[DrBowtie]

The residency interview experience is field specific. I was talking to some programs at a primary care residency fair and they said they put you in a hotel and feed you.

 

[PremedGunner]

v

 

[PHatD]

I had a school pay for me to take a trip there. 1st class too. Guess they really wanted me

 

[Doctor Poetry]

thats what i thought..if your stats are really good, i hear that they are even willing to come to your residence to recruit you

 

[LuciusVorenus]

thats what i thought..if your stats are really good, i hear that they are even willing to come to your residence to recruit you

 

[searun]

why would you have credit card debt instead of student debt. that sucks!

Oh, I have both kinds of debt. I am an equal opportunity debtor!

 

[IHeartNerds]

why would you have credit card debt instead of student debt. that sucks!

Student budgets are not allowed to be increased for job application related expenses, which sadly residency interviews are considered. So, no Stafford happiness for that $$. Some banks do offer private loans for residency/relocation, which do have better interest rates than credit cards, but you need a decent credit rating to land one.

thats what i thought..if your stats are really good, i hear that they are even willing to come to your residence to recruit you

ahahahahahahahahah maybe if you're top of your class from a top-10 school and going into internal medicine in rural Alabama. Most competitive specialties send out more interview invites than they anticipate students visiting -- if you don't reply in time, there's no space for you. Residency apps are a lot like getting into medical school, except you're in $150,000 of debt with a degree that's (almost) useless if you don't Match.

 

[LizzyM]

thats what i thought..if your stats are really good, i hear that they are even willing to come to your residence to recruit you

only if you have still have a year left of NCAA eligibility 😉

 

[Doctor246853]

Just wondering if the schools you are about to interview for, pay for the cost of your plane ticket? It can get pretty costly, so are there any types of plans for low income people?

LMAO!!!! LOL!!!! ROFL!!!!!! I mean... no sir.( serious face )

 

[livelifexlove]

Without even reading the replies, I knew where this was going to end up.

 

[vickpick]

i laughed till i cried by reading the title.

 

[Blonde Redhead]

megabus

 

[unhappytnt]

Students who live very far from their applied schools should have the option to interview through Skype.

(I am somewhat serious)

 

[wolverinepwns]

Students who live very far from their applied schools should have the option to interview through Skype.

(I am somewhat serious)

as intersting as this idea is, I think a huge part of the interview process, is to see how the applicant handles themselves in a stressed enviroment (body language and verbal communication), and I don't think skype can deliever that, at least not till holographic skype is introduced (2050ish). besides, I can see people freaking out during an interview and "accidentally" have a bad connection!