Night before mtg?

[Jeff698]

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How many of your programs offer some type of 'meet with residents' either the night before the interview or sometime during the interview?

Thanks and take care,
Jeff

 

[roja]

How many of your programs offer some type of 'meet with residents' either the night before the interview or sometime during the interview?

Thanks and take care,
Jeff

Both.

 

[gimmedog]

practically all of mine had some kind of social time. Maybe 2/3 had dinner or drinks. A great time to get a feel for the kinds of people in a program and picture yourself as one of them (or realize it won't work).

 

[margaritaboy]

We take our applicants out to lunch, mostly to spare them from the hospital cafeteria, and also to meet some residents and see some of the city.

 

[DrQuinn]

When we have a full complement of residents, we will take out the applicants to dinner the night before. but for now, you get a tour of the hospital with one or two residents, a half an hour in our EM resident office to ask the dirty questions, and lunch after the interviews with attendings and residents.

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[wsingh]

Dinner/gathering before the interview. How is it? May be this is a rhetorical question, but are the residents checking you out and then report back to the PD or what? [Not that I am planning to get hammered the night before]. I meant, how is the stress level? Any helpful feedback would be appreciated. Also, do most programs have a point system where they give you a score and then at the time of rank list, that score determines your rank.

WS

 

[srlondon]

At least at my program, it is more of a way to meet the applicants in a casual environment to help them get a feel for the program in a way that the usual tour and powerpoint presentation doesn't convey. Nobody's got a scorecard in their jacket pocket, and unless you're particuarly personable or completely obnoxious, it doesn't either help or hurt. But you'll certainly walk away from your visit with a better feel for a place if you go to the night out rather than just try to check the residents out in their usual habitat.

Dinner/gathering before the interview. How is it? May be this is a rhetorical question, but are the residents checking you out and then report back to the PD or what? [Not that I am planning to get hammered the night before]. I meant, how is the stress level? Any helpful feedback would be appreciated. Also, do most programs have a point system where they give you a score and then at the time of rank list, that score determines your rank.
WS

 

[Seaglass]

The amount of input that residents have in the ranking/interview process varies considerably from program to program, but generally these meet-and-greets are not part of the interview itself. That said, I have heard stories of applicants that had a little too much to drink who, needless to say, were not ranked.