Residency interview, interesting idea

[Boricua27]

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Hi forums.

I'm preparing for interviews at my top choices. The interviewer in a video I'm watching talks about how one applicant in particular was a race car driver and showed him pictures of the cars he would drive. He doesn't specify whether they were printed or otherwise.

I compose music. I would share if an interviewer were curious about my music. If they happen to have a guitar behind the desk...perfect. Otherwise I could give them a glimpse of a video performance on my phone.

Would you accept an invitation from me to see a short video on my phone?

 

[Keona]

If we were at the dinner absolutely or lunch with the residents. During the formal part of the interviews I probably wouldn’t want to spend time on it because the time usually goes quicklh

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Feel free to include a link in your application to the video / your portfolio / etc. That way, program staff can decide whether they want to look at it. Almost certainly, someone will be curious. Don't try to do this in your actual interview.

 

[Microshaft]

I might as well whip out my 17" gaming laptop, fire up Starcraft 2 and show him my l337 micro skillz

 

[Boricua27]

Feel free to include a link in your application to the video / your portfolio / etc. That way, program staff can decide whether they want to look at it. Almost certainly, someone will be curious. Don't try to do this in your actual interview.

That's an interesting idea. I already submitted ERAS but maybe I will send a link to the coordinator to pass it along.

 

[DBV]

Just say careful this is fire and hand them your mixtape. Will work like a charm.

 

[24blue8]

When I was interviewing, I met an applicant that was also an artist. He was carrying with him a portfolio of some of his artwork to show interviewers.

I don't know how it went...

 

[MSTP18]

Damn, I'm a former D1 athlete and it never even occurred to me to come in uniform with a highlight reel!

 

[CherryRedDracul]

Stuff like that is icing on the cake. Personally, I love meeting well-rounded applicants who have interesting hobbies and accomplishments. Don't bring up your hobbies out of the blue and know your audience though. If they ask, it's fair game. Go ahead and show your stuff off.

Interviewing becomes monotonous, IMO, and interviews don't have a strong track record of weeding out the good from the bad applicants necessarily; anyone can fake it till they make it for one day. Having someone bring something new to the table makes the process fun and can make you stand out in a good way.

I talked plenty about music and lifting when I was interviewing for radiology. Heck, for the program I matched at, I even demonstrated my form for low bar squatting and sumo deadlifting.

 

[operaman]

If you list anything unusual on your application, do be prepared for people to ask about. Let them do the asking though. And certainly be prepared for people to ask about it. Definitely don’t be one of those applicants who feigns interest in something but doesn’t really know much about it.

I remember asking a number of applicants to show us things they’d done. We also did a lot of googling trying to find examples just in the course of conversation. We were just interested in getting to know people and seeing who we could chat with. Some people did provide links to websites and I always looked at them.

I never asked people to sing or perform if they claimed such a talent. If they’re amateurs it isn’t fair to ask them to perform under such unfavorable circumstances and if they are professionals then it isn’t appropriate to ask them to perform with being paid. So I just never asked that, but looking at recordings they had made publicly available is fair game.