Question for female applicants

[mcrr]

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Are any of you wearing dress/skirt interview suits? If so, any thoughts on how to make the jumpsuit work for the OR tours?
Thanks!!

 

[tooshay]

Are any of you wearing dress/skirt interview suits? If so, any thoughts on how to make the jumpsuit work for the OR tours?
Thanks!!

Made the mistake once. It's not worth it.

 

[marfs]

I have been wearing skirts/dresses and have had no problem with the bunny suits. I am pretty tall too. They're usually big enough that it works ok.

 

[AlgundiA]

Are any of you wearing dress/skirt interview suits? If so, any thoughts on how to make the jumpsuit work for the OR tours?
Thanks!!

I've been wearing a skirt suit and low heels... have had 2 interviews so far and both said OR was optional (no one did it on either...they could've come back later to see if they wanted).

I don't know how I will manage the bunny suit-- hopefully it will be big enough to pull over? I don't have a pant suit (just 2 skirt suits) and wasn't planning on buying one just for the what-if of having to put on a bunny suit... personally I just feel more comfortable in a skirt.

 

[Foodie]

Once you realize that seeing the OR is for your benefit, not the adcom's, you would wear the pant suit.

OR conditions and appearances vary widely. If a program is not offering you to see their ORs, that is already a red flag because then the program is hiding their horrid OR from deterring qualified candidates.

 

[killerleaf]

Once you realize that seeing the OR is for your benefit, not the adcom's, you would wear the pant suit.

OR conditions and appearances vary widely. If a program is not offering you to see their ORs, that is already a red flag because then the program is hiding their horrid OR from deterring qualified candidates.

While that is a possibility, it is also possible that the hospital has some weird convoluted policy about people trooping in and out the ORs...(I don't know, something about patient privacy). And nobody wants to have the expense of 100 bunny suits just so some interviewees can view the OR hallways....which, all pretty much look alike, don't they?

 

[Stellar Clouds]

Once you realize that seeing the OR is for your benefit, not the adcom's, you would wear the pant suit.

OR conditions and appearances vary widely. If a program is not offering you to see their ORs, that is already a red flag because then the program is hiding their horrid OR from deterring qualified candidates.

Or...it's because applicants have complained about having to put on a bunny suit to see an OR.

Wait until you interview at UAB and they make you change into scrubs for half the day.

 

[Foodie]

Or...it's because applicants have complained about having to put on a bunny suit to see an OR.

Any adequate residency program would offer its candidates a chance to see where they would spend most of their next 4 years.

 

[Stellar Clouds]

Any adequate residency program would offer its candidates a chance to see where they would spend most of their next 4 years.

We will have to agree to disagree. I found the tours that showed me the OR to be the biggest waste of time. I certainly wouldn't think it to be a "red flag" if a program didn't offer to bring me into an OR. An OR is an OR. It's the people in that OR with you that make a difference; not whether or not that OR is aesthetically pleasing.

 

[killerleaf]

We offer them the opportunity to come back for a second look if they want to view the OR's. We can then have the time to do the paperwork for them to observe in the ORs.