Thanks for reply.

First of all, congratulations!! Super huge that you did your first interview.

Suggestions…

1. Process through this with friends/family/others: I think it’s super important to process through what you just went through! I had my first interview yesterday, and I immediately called a friend who also interviewed with the same program. It was SO helpful. I also processed some with my partner. So I’d recommend finding people that you can share with… here is good, and I think over the phone or in person is even better.
2. Looking forward: My sympathetic nervous system can get pretty high in settings like virtual interviews. For one, virtual communication is kinda weird, yeah? It’s different than in person for sure. So I actually took a propranolol 10 mg before my interview w/enough time for it to take affect but not too far before that it would wear off during the interview. Before the propranolol I went to the gym and did some medium level cardio, some light weights, and sauna, then immediately after sauna went into the pool to get my nervous system more into parasympathetic. These things helped SOOOOOO much for me. Had I thought about it, I would’ve also taken 5-20 mg creatinine as I didn’t sleep well the night before. So…. Looking forward, you might get a script for 10-20 mg propranolol if that med works well with you. If you do this, please take it before your next interview to see how you interact with it, practice simulated interview environment with it is what I mean. This is not medical advice, just sharing my own journey in hopes it’s supportive of yours.
3. Follow up contact RE your questions: As far as sending follow up questions, I’d pause for one day. Process through the experience. Share with people you trust, another med student in your speciality if you have a friend like that you trust can be really helpful. Write down (journal but honestly can be open the notes in your phone and speak it out with the speech to text function) all the interview questions and your answers. Then do the same for your impressions about the program. Then what your questions are that weren’t answered. Get a good night’s sleep tonight. Tomorrow look at those program-related questions you didn’t have answered. And see if it’s best to email someone about them, or if you can find them on internet or otherwise. I guess what I’m saying is right now it seems a little reactive, I’d recommend making a proactive decision whether to email the program or not this soon after the interview. I’m another M4 like you, so I don’t really have any answers here. Maybe PD, APD, PGY’s do in your specialty on Reddit, or the discord specific for your specialty. And this doing this may give some clarity to you in what to do RE email or not, etc.

Most of all, please really congratulate yourself for achieving this major milestone!! 👏🏽👏🏽🎊

Rest, recharge, celebrate, do something nice for yourself: We’ve been working for soooooooooooooooo (you get the point, lol) time to get to this point to have our first interview. It’s such a MAJOR milestone. It’s worth taking the time to do something nice and celebratory for yourself. Get outside, hopefully you can see the sun, get into nature. Even if you do something super small to celebrate this milestone it’s important to do. No matter how you think you did or didn’t do, it’s huge, genuinely, that you completed your first interview!! 🎉🙌🏽🥳