Today, on a very rainy and very chilly day, was our last residency interview. We interviewed at Lankenau Hospital, which is about 15 minutes from our house, just outside downtown Philadelphia. Both Michael and I did a rotation there earlier this summer, so we were pretty familiar with their program and the hospital.
Overall, we both thought the interview went well. We were each interviewed by 2 physicians in two separate interviews. We were impressed by how well they knew our applications; we each had very specific questions about past experiences and what we had written in our personal statements. The day was similar in structure to the interview last week: presentation, interview, tour, lunch. I have to admit it was hard to go on the tour and stay for lunch when we had already been there and with the rain all we wanted to do was get home and get warm (wool suits are surprisingly not very warm).
We are both happy that the interview season is over for us. Many of our fellow applicants are applying to 10 or more programs, sorta the shotgun approach to residency applications. We decided to be daring and applied only to programs that we had visited, had experience with, or knew that we would be happy in their program. Maybe this risk will hurt us in the end, but we feel confident one of these programs will accept us.
The next step is to create our rank list. This means that we rank each hospital and submit our lists to a national matching service. They then take the rank lists of each program and through some sort of magic, "match" each residency applicant to a program based upon corresponding ranks. Our lists are due in January, so we have some time to think about it. We will know our fate on February 9th-it will be exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time!
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