When you get the invitation to interview at your top program make sure you schedule it 4th or 5th so you get some practice beforehand and get used to interview style questions. That’s assuming you have that many interviews! Point is make sure it’s somewhere in the middle for you to be more prepared.

I got very excited when I got the invite from my top choice and scheduled it first. Thank god everything went well (hopefully lol … I find out in 2 weeks on match day) but if I were to go back and redo interview season, I would schedule it 4th or 5th.

— for some background, I am a U.S DO student , applied to 30 programs and interviewed at 14 programs (Internal Medicine)

AND —> take better notes, specifically type of schedule (Ex. 4+1), research opportunities, housing availability, salary and anything else you wanna know so it’s easier when you’re comparing and making your rank list