In person or virtual?

[Guest MS4]

Which programs are interviewing in person and which virtual? Wouldn’t it be better if they stuck to virtual?

[Guest]

Fellow applicant here - have been struggling to find this info too. I know on the Neurosurgery podcast the chair at Emory stated they will be doing interviews in person again and the website seems to reflect this as well. The default unless explicitly stated otherwise seems to be virtual though

[Focus]

Whether or not all programs are abiding by it the senior leadership decision was to do virtual for both residency and pediatric fellowship interviews.

Edit: It was last year too (last minute for peds fellowships some some early applicants went in person), so best guess would be any programs that disobeyed last year will do so again.

[Guest]

On page 2:

"In accordance with the AAMC 2022-2023 recommendations, Neurological Surgery supports ensuring that all interviews at a single institution are either all virtual or all in-person. This is due to the fact that the AAMC recognizes that applicants interview better in-person, and an interview scenario that includes both in-person and virtual creates inequity. Most institutions will likely require an all-virtual process given the ongoing pandemic into the fall season and the difficulty in having to reschedule interviews should an applicant or faculty get COVID. However, if an institution allows, programs may perform all in-person interviews. They cannot, however, then perform make-up or any other interviews virtually."

https://www.societyns.org/Assets/e5db11a...-26-22-pdf

[Guest]

So this means a program can offer in person interviews this year

[Guest]

Awesome, should have some good interview dinners this year.

[Guest]

https://www.societyns.org/Assets/fcd0536...-dates-pdf

So far Kentucky, Miami, Barrow, Arizona, USC, Maryland, and Houston Methodist are in person.