Residency Interviews....Timeframe?

[bbpiano1]

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I'm trying to plan 3rd and 4th year and wanted to know how much time is involved in interviewing for residencies. Do they all take place in a certain month/s? Is there a certain day, say January 1st, when you can consider residency interviews over and done with?

Thanks for the help.

bb

 

[Long Dong]

I'm trying to plan 3rd and 4th year and wanted to know how much time is involved in interviewing for residencies. Do they all take place in a certain month/s? Is there a certain day, say January 1st, when you can consider residency interviews over and done with?

Thanks for the help.

bb

From talking to my classmates, most got their interviews in Nov-Dec of 4th year for the regular match. While most derm interviews took place Dec-Jan.

 

[Anka]

My earliest was late october, and my latest will be next week. None of friends had any interviews before me, none have any after me.

Anka

 

[efex101]

I interviewed from November to mid-December for IM (9)

 

[Med0000]

If you can only take one month off for interviewing, the best month across any speciality would be December.

 

[Pinner Doc]

I did my 13 emergency medicine interviews from mid-November to January 3. It was a squeeze-- often necessitating 3 interviews in 3 consecutive days-- but it can be done!

 

[SocialistMD]

As alluded to in previous posts, a lot will have to do with what you are going to do. Programs like neurosurgery and ophthamology have an earlier match and interview earlier in the year (October-December). Generally, peak interview season is mid-November to late January. You can go to the websites of the programs in which you may be interested and find out when they are interviewing this year, as their interview dates tend to be within a couple of days of each other every year.

Are you saying this as in you are a second year planning 3rd year and 4th year? It is likely you don't even really know what you want, so it is tough to plan your fourth year schedule right now. Does your school really require you to plan both your third and fourth years at the same time? I doubt this is the case; it is unfair to expect you to know what electives you want to take when you haven't even done a single clinical rotation. I wouldn't really worry about interview season right now (I know I didn't and things turned out okay for me) and focus on your third year clerkships.

 

[bbpiano1]

Thanks for all the replies. I'm still sort of confused about how my school schedules things, but from what I understand, out elective/vacation time is split up over both 3rd and 4th year. I just wanted to get a better idea how how much vacation time to save for interviewing. Also, I wanted to do one of those international electives, and from what I've read on this thread, Nov and Dec are not the months to go abroad. Again, thanks for the help.

 

[MNgrrl]

I went to Guatemala in November, so it definitely is possible to go abroad then. It does mean that I'm interviewing later than I would have needed to if I hadn't gone away. I did all my EM interviews and 4 TYs (16 total) from 11/28 - 1/25. I would talk to residents in the field you are applying to and ask them when they did the majority of their interviews, since, as other posters have said, different specialties interview at different times. Most rotations (unless you are doing sub-I's during interview months, which I wouldn't recommend) will let you have a day off here and there as well. If you're planning to take a month off, I agree that December is the best month for most specialties.

 

[deleted77919]

Programs like neurosurgery and ophthamology have an earlier match and interview earlier in the year (October-December).

NSGY is actually in the NRMP (regular) match as of next application cycle.

http://societyns.org/match_information.html

 

[patzan]

I'm doing radiology and, although I had a few interviews in November (mostly transitional years), I just finished my last interview yesterday (1/23). If you are going to only take off one month, make it Dec. or January (Duke radiology only interviews in January) and make the other month something flexible so that you can be gone a lot if necessary.

 

[Sean2tall]

Agreed. My first interview was mid/late October, last Jan 23rd. (Pathology)

As far as choosing rotations/vacations, my recommendation would be to take some combination of vacation and fairly easy electives throughout that time period. If your school policy is that you can miss whatever is necessary for interviews, then some people want to "save up" the vacation blocks for actual vacation (like going to Hawaii or something). At our school, it is highly frowned upon to schedule interviews during a Sub I. Otherwise it is mostly fair game. You could ask around and see what rotations are not a problem to miss at your school.

I took off Nov/Dec with my vacation time for interviews, but also other rotations such as Radiology and Pulmonary have been agreeable to me missing whatever is necessary.

 

[lord_jeebus]

In anesthesiology, the earliest date I was offered was Oct 24, the latest Feb 7. There was a lot of flexibility. I was able to consolidate all West Coast interviews in December and all East Coast interviews in January.