Need some help making a strong impression after your interview day? Take a look at my most recent Varsity Tutors guest blog here. This entry is directed toward pre-meds but the principles translate well for residency applicants too.
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Medical School and Residency Interview Thank You Note Etiquette
See my last blog on the low cost and high potential gain of writing thank you notes after your interviews.
I get asked by clients what the best way to send post-interview thank you notes is – email or snail mail. I strongly advise sending your thank you note by good old USPS. The reasons are:
1) Email may be viewed as lazy. Hand-written notes demonstrate you’ve put some time into being appreciative.
2) Email can be deleted without much thought. Emotionally, it’s harder to throw someone’s hand written note in the trash.
Get your handwritten thank you notes in quickly. The night after you’ve completed your interview or the next day is a good time to write and send.
Medical School and Residency Interview Thank You Notes – So Easy for You to Do
Two years ago a medical school applicant wrote me to say that the dean of the school at which she had recently interviewed called her to tell her that he was impressed with her candidacy and the hand-written thank you note she had sent. The client thanked me for my help and the thank you note tip I had given her. As you might have guessed, she was admitted to that med school.
Writing a thank you note after a medical school or residency interview is so easy for you to do, and it can go a long way. More on thank you notes in future posts.
Residency Match: Ready…Set…Go
Last week was the ERAS MSPE (Medical School Performance Evaluation) release date (October 1). Some programs will not send invitations until the MSPE is out, so residency applicants frequently start to receive interview invitations around this time of the year. Please remember that an invitation should be met with a quick response. Doing so is polite, shows interest, and oftentimes permits you to get a convenient date before it is taken.
Tags: Eras, MPSE, residency interview
Your Medical School Admission or Residency Match May Boil Down to How You Sit at Your Interview
For those of you who have never watched this TED talk, hunker down with a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy. Professor Amy Cuddy is Harvard Business School faculty, and her TED talk reached 2 million views within 2 months of being posted. Dr. Cuddy argues that your body language affects how people (interviewers) perceive you. This video is instructive, funny, and sad. It’s worth the 21 minutes.
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
