holden Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hey everyone, Just wondering about the internal medicine interview system email that came out today. Am I to assume that the list of schools that shows up when I log in are the schools that are offering me interviews? Just a little confused if we can take this as official or not. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymouse Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I have the same question - I wonder if any of the schools currently listed under those that have NOT selected us for invitation, might change tomorrow since tomorrow is the official interview release date... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 It is official as you should be able to schedule interviews at this point. Unless things have changed, they would not be listed if you weren't invited. Don't regard the list as complete; not all schools come online at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Pie Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I don't think it is official, as most of us here are not able to schedule interviews yet. I emailed the contact person, Lorne Merner, and she said it is best to wait until tmr am for a more complete list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 It's not complete, but if a school appears there it means (should mean) an interview. Programs will send out emails otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemPetE Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Do we know what time the system should go online tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK47 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Do we know what time the system should go online tomorrow? Judging by last year (http://www.premed101.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58447), between 8 and 8:30. Presumably for some of the Western schools it might be later owing to the time difference. At least I'm hoping. Most of the western schools aren't showing up as interviews for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooty Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Queen's IM invites came out really early in the interviews thread. Did they not participate in this system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK47 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Queen's IM invites came out really early in the interviews thread. Did they not participate in this system? They did participate. Queen's sent invites out earlier to Queen's students thought. Whoever posted it in the thread must go to Queens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloh Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Is the list under "NOT" final? Did anyone else make out really poorly? If I had applied to internal only, I'd be freaking out right now. I'm not a superstar applicant but at the same time have no red flags, great evals, and mos electives done in a mash mash of internal stuff, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratatat Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Is the list under "NOT" final? Did anyone else make out really poorly? If I had applied to internal only, I'd be freaking out right now. I'm not a superstar applicant but at the same time have no red flags, great evals, and mos electives done in a mash mash of internal stuff, etc. Yeah, I too made out poorly. What the system said yesterday is the result I received today, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK47 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Yeah, I too made out poorly. What the system said yesterday is the result I received today, however. Same here. The interview offers I saw last night were the ones I ended up receiving. I applied absolutely everywhere for internal and I was pretty surprised to only get 5 interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratatat Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Same here. The interview offers I saw last night were the ones I ended up receiving. I applied absolutely everywhere for internal and I was pretty surprised to only get 5 interviews. I wonder if this year is just ridiculously competitive for Internal. I wonder if this will be a trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Anyone not received a formal rejection yet from any schools? I'm still waiting on Western. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK47 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Anyone not received a formal rejection yet from any schools? I'm still waiting on Western. Western and Alberta haven't sent me e-mails either way. Nor Memorial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I assume it's a rejection from Western at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BK47 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I wonder if this year is just ridiculously competitive for Internal. I wonder if this will be a trend. Im wondering the same thing. I thought I was a pretty strong applicant. All electives in internal subspecialties, across the country, three strong letters... I have no idea what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proton Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Western and Alberta haven't sent me e-mails either way. Nor Memorial. I emailed Ana Malbrecht a little while ago asking if there was a response, either way, coming to me. This is what she said: "Unfortunately you were not selected for an interview. When you logged into the interview site you should have seen the list of Universities that offered you an interview and another list of Universities that have not. Best of luck with the match." so i guess they aren't sending rejection emails, which seems a bit questionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Booty Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Yikes. I didn't apply to IM, but plenty of my friends did and almost all of them seem to be underwhelmed by their interview offers. Some very much so. Maybe this is a crazy year. Stay strong, my brothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymouse Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Memorial isn't releasing their interviews until tomorrow because the school is closed today due to weather. There was a note indicating this on the login page of the interview selection website earlier this morning. I was surprised with the number of interviews I received too...looks like IM might actually be competitive this year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimp Face Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 Memorial isn't releasing their interviews until tomorrow because the school is closed today due to weather. There was a note indicating this on the login page of the interview selection website earlier this morning. I was surprised with the number of interviews I received too...looks like IM might actually be competitive this year... I was also surprised with my interviews; I thought I would get more. I wonder if the changes in GIM fees and the somewhat bleak outlook for certain sub specs is driving this or if this is just a crazy year. I heard several R1s say that last year it was also like this so maybe this is the new status quo? I believe memorial has sent out at least some interviews since I booked mine this AM. Maybe just some went out as it is pretty chaotic with the weather on the east coast right now. I would wait till tomorrow when the school opens to see what happens. Hell, maybe mine was a mistake! Regardless, hopefully, I believe we should all match somewhere. It will work out. This aint ROAD quite yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I was also surprised with my interviews; I thought I would get more. I wonder if the changes in GIM fees and the somewhat bleak outlook for certain sub specs is driving this or if this is just a crazy year. I heard several R1s say that last year it was also like this so maybe this is the new status quo? I believe memorial has sent out at least some interviews since I booked mine this AM. Maybe just some went out as it is pretty chaotic with the weather on the east coast right now. I would wait till tomorrow when the school opens to see what happens. Hell, maybe mine was a mistake! Regardless, hopefully, I believe we should all match somewhere. It will work out. This aint ROAD quite yet. What changes in GIM fees are you referring to? Haven't heard of anything so I am curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igeorgex Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 I applied pretty broadly so I was surprised that schools I did electives at aren't interviewing me. I think most people are also surprised in my class with the interviews they got, but nobody did poorly... I don't know of anyone getting an interview to every school they applied to but several that nearly cleaned up (80-90% interviews from application) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holden Posted January 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 On average, how many programs have people been applying to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimp Face Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 This is all from late night talks with various Sr while on call so please take with a grain of salt. Apparently, GIM fee codes were beefed up or changed in such a way that resulted in better renumeration; I don't know when this occurred but it was some what recent. In fact, I was told that GIM fees in some areas now exceeded codes for sub spec doing similar activities (I am not talking about scoping or bronchs but rather consults). I didn't believe this at first but I have heard other R2-3 talk about this. This was all in BC. I think the better flexibility of GIM vs other sub spec (don't need a cath lab or dialysis or to be at a major centre), the ability to acquire new skills (I encountered a fair # of GIM ppl learning to scope, bronch who then wanted to setup rural shop) and the supposed difficulty in finding work in some fields (I don't want to comment on this as I don't have enough insight into this issue) is making IM, GIM in particular, more appealing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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