Residency Interviews

[PhoenixAZ]

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For med school interviews, it is highly advisable to take the earliest interviews possible due to the rolling process. I am wondering if it is the same for residency. Since residency is not rolling like med school admissions decisions are, I wonder if it may be the best strategy to take later interviews, like in January, to be closer to when the PDs need to do rank order and they can remember me better.

 

[libertyyne]

There are may be interesting bias's at play depending on when people rank applicants. There might be some recency bias, recall bias etc. To the best of my knowledge no one has every published data on this question.

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This has some common sense advice.

 

[operaman]

Varies widely by program. Overall it probably makes no difference.

We do our interviews over a single weekend and rank everyone before they even get to the airport and never touch the list again.

 

[NickNaylor]

At our program it similarly would not make a difference. The process is somewhat quantitative, thus there is no clear advantage to interviewing earlier or later. I would do interviews whenever is most convenient for you, though if you’re worried about matching you might want to schedule them earlier than later so that you have as many opportunities to interview as possible. Some programs don’t have all that many interview dates, so you may miss out on interviews if multiple institutions only do interviews on specific dates.