ApplicationsMost residency programs participating in the Main Residency Match ® use the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS ®) offered by the Association of American Medical Colleges ®. ERAS is a separate organization and thus requires a separate registration by applicants. Applicants are encouraged to rely on NRMP data reports and survey findings to learn about the success of prior applicants when choosing where to send applications.InterviewsInterviews with residency programs in the Main Residency Match typically begin in October and continue through January. The NRMP Program Rating and Interview Scheduling Manager (PRISM ®) mobile app lets you track and rate programs and is available for and platforms. Remember that NRMP policy requires applicants and programs to provide complete, timely, and accurate information during the application, interview, and matching processes.
Your Objectives During the Interview1. Assess how compatible you are with the program and how well the program meets your stated goals.2. Convey your sense of compatibility with the program to the faculty members, residents, and staff who interview you. This goes beyond making a good impression. In a sense, you are “trying the program on,” or demonstrating to the faculty and residents of the program that you would be a welcome addition to their ranks. Indeed, you may want to think of your interview as an exercise in role-playing, with you in the role of a recently matched resident in that program. Role-playing is not the same as acting.
In your eagerness to charm and impress your interviewers, avoid insincerity. Your interviewers want to find out who you really are. It doesn’t serve anyone’s purpose for you to give a false impression.3. Assess the program’s relative strengths and weaknesses so that you will be able to structure a justifiable rank order list.
The residency interview is a critical stage in the process of residency selection. All the months of paperwork preparation finally rewards you with the chance to find out how the programs on your. The residency program also hosts an applicant dinner the evening prior to all interview days where you will be able to meet and mingle with residents in a friendly and casual setting. For the convenience of our applicants, we will be using Thalamus, a web-based self-scheduling software program. Interviews Dates for the 2018-2019 Season.
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Be careful not to let your attention to the third goal obscure the need to attend to the first two. Being prepared to address all three goals will increase your chance of having a successful Match. Residency Program Objectives During the InterviewThe goals of the interviewers during the interview process are similar to those of the residency candidate. They seek to confirm and expand upon the information that you provided in your application.
They are also trying to determine how compatible you would be with the residents and faculty in the program. Just as you are trying to put your best foot forward, the representatives of the residency program want to show their program in the best possible light. However, it is ultimately not in the best interest of the program to paint a misleading picture. Like you, your interviewers are attempting to shape their rank order list of their candidates for the Match.
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