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Hi all! Thought I would go ahead and start this thread seeing as the application season is upon us! Anyone applying this year? Any helpful tips or recommendations for the upcoming interview cycle?
Got an interview from GW.
Some programs require 4, others require 3. GW said 3 on their website.How may letter of recommendation you assigned, 3 or 4?
residency = IMCongrats!
What's your residency specialty? Also, concur with question about LOR, did you have multiple sleep medicine physicians write LORs? Thanks!
Which programs require 4?Some programs require 4, others require 3. GW said 3 on their website.
Shoot didn’t hear from Cleveland. Do programs send out all invites at once?I have heard from Cincinnati, Cleveland Clinic, University of Washington, and Yale
No not yet.Has anyone heard from the Chicago or Michigan programs?
I got a invite from Stanford and would like to go but I’m thinking about logistics of going there for a year. I have a spouse and two kids. Spouse stays home with kids. Can I even live there for a year with a family of four on fellows salary? Don’t want to use savings to get through.
I’m not I’m psychiatry. I’ve been researching housing there and it’s insane. I don’t know how anyone training there gets by. I could moonlighting I guess but don’t want to be working all the time.I would look at their posted salary online. Are you pulm/critical trained? If so then maybe because you’d be receiving pgyVII salary. But it would still probably be very tight due to high cost of living in the Bay Area.
I’m curious about this also...So how many people do they normally invite for spots? It looks like in one of the programs its 10 invites for 2 spots...Does that mean an IV=high likelihood of matching?
Sleep Medicine Match---rank order list is separate from the general fellowship match list. Has anyone ever done two different matches? Like if you go unmatched in sleep, you can participate in other match since it's 1 month later?
How many interviews are people doing? Getting all this time off work and the expense of traveling is going to limit me to 4 or 6 max.
Is anyone gonna address this part =/Sleep Medicine Match---rank order list is separate from the general fellowship match list. Has anyone ever done two different matches? Like if you go unmatched in sleep, you can participate in other match since it's 1 month later?
I agree. I was anticipating more email inbox action this week.Yeah I was wondering the same thing! This week has been slow in terms of invites so its been hard to gauge which interviews to keep/cancel in anticipation of geographically closer programs. Buying flights <30 days from departure can get expensive.
I’ve been emailing declines and in addition doing it through eras on the ones who offered through eras.What's the practical way to decline an IV? Do you not respond, or just e-mail them notifying why you are declining? I would hate to take up IV slots for people who are waiting for those locations. I know California is HIGHLY sought after, but like another user mentions the cost of living, and for me no family in the area would hurt.
I wish we could SWAP IV! Haha