Preliminary Med/Transitional Interviews

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Hello everyone,

I have applied for anesthesiology residency programs and have had a great response from programs (got 19 interviews so far), but the problem is with preliminary med/transitional year programs. Out of total 20 programs (good mix of university and community programs) I applied to I have only received 5 interviews. Don't get me wrong I am very thankful for the 5 interviews, but I am concerned about not matching into preliminary programs. I would like to know from current interns, anesthesia residents, how many preliminary/transitional year interviews should we have to feel comfortable with matching somewhere? Also it would be great to hear from current year applicants how many interviews they have had so far to put things in perspective?

thanks

 

[gasthrowaway]

Hello everyone,

I have applied for anesthesiology residency programs and have had a great response from programs (got 19 interviews so far), but the problem is with preliminary med/transitional year programs. Out of total 20 programs (good mix of university and community programs) I applied to I have only received 5 interviews. Don't get me wrong I am very thankful for the 5 interviews, but I am concerned about not matching into preliminary programs. I would like to know from current interns, anesthesia residents, how many preliminary/transitional year interviews should we have to feel comfortable with matching somewhere? Also it would be great to hear from current year applicants how many interviews they have had so far to put things in perspective?

thanks

22 gas invites. applied to 22 med-prelim and 10 ty. I have 3 med-prelim and 2 TY invites so far. I was hoping for 6-7 internship interviews by the time it was all said and done.

 

[step213]

They're tough.. no joke. Applied to Premed/TY 30 and am batting at about a little over 50% (i got most TY's but weirdly enough rejected from a good portion of prelim medicine even though my medicine application is very strong) and I thought my application was rock solid for almost anything/anywhere- getting multiple rejections is humbling to say the least. While I've turned down a lot of anesth program invites, ill be keeping most of my prelims since my home institution is not in the mix.

I would say if you applied to your home institution ask them whether or not you can count on matching there - or at least ask your deans to ask them. No dean wants a student not to match and I would bet your home institution would be a lot safer bet. Also you can consult NRMP match data to see how much prelim spots each program has... if you get invites to a lot of programs that have a lot of spots I'd feel safer then getting invites to a couple of programs with only 4-6 spots... at least this is how I'm approaching it.

 

[HollywdAnesth]

What I did when I was interviewing was I would call the office of the Internal Medicine or Prelim director, I would tell them I was going to be in town on this day and ask if they could carve out an hour or 2 to talk to me. It worked almost every time.

That being said step 213 has it right. Your home program can help you out with a 1 year spot. If that doesn't work, there are always scramble spots available.