1st Residency Interview

It is 12:14 am, I just got done with my first residency interview TODAY, on Friday 11/15, its shortly past midnight, so the post looks like its from Saturday.

Anyways, I interviewed at a school in Kentucky, called Louisville University.  My 1st interview jitters are out.  I felt really good about the interview.

I drive down on Thursday, its about a 5.5hour drive to Louisville, got in around 10pm, and then read about residency in my hotel room (courtesy of the program, which is awesome!) until about 230am. I couldn't get to sleep on time since I am on my ER rotation, so my sleep is all screwed up. I had to wake at 6am,  get dressed and eat, and catch a shuttle to the campus at 7am. It was brutal waking up.

The day went quick too! I was there with one US student, and then 3 IMGs, one from Iraq, Iran, and Egypt. It was cool to see the diversity of our group! I was a bit anxious leading up to the first interview, but thankfully for beta blockers I was not that bad at all! It was interviews with 5 different doctors, the first being the program director. As unreal as this sounds, he is 80 years old. He is a boss. He was very friendly, first he talked about the program for about 5-10 minutes, then he asked me about my birth in Russia, and my thoughts on ban on Russian adoption. He also asked me about my summer orthopedic research project. Easy!

2nd interview: with a resident, a chief resident. He asked, why pathology, "What are you looking for in a pathology program". "What fellowships are you interested in". Again easy.

All the rest went like this too, all asked "Why pathology" and one asked "What is difference and similarity btwn AP and CP?",  and then another asked again "what are you looking for in a program".  Very straight foward questions, no curve balls. It went quick.

Then at noon the five interviewees and the 2 chief residents went for lunch at a nice place called "Mayan", I had a great tasting hamburger.  Then we went back and met some more residents and talked with the director as a group, again very laid back.

I feel like it went well, it was exciting!

-MD in 14