 It is finally time to interview. All right guys, what is going on? Luxury for the MD journey, helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. This video I am going to be taking you on my very first residency interview. So I'm super excited. If you are new to this channel, first of all, my name is Lux, I'm a fourth year medical student applying to internal medicine. And if you want more videos on tips on medical school or as a pre-med, how to study, how to manage your time, this channel is all about helping you through my successes and my failures throughout my four years in med school. So make sure you like this video, first of all, and subscribe to the channel as well as the notification bell and check out the rest of the channel and see what we have to offer you. There's plenty of tips and people have been enjoying the content so far, but I'm going to be putting videos on a weekly basis. But today is going to be me taking you on my very first residency interview. Obviously not gonna tell you where it is, but I'm gonna tell you kind of what the days around it are like. So today is my day before my interview. So tomorrow is officially my interview day. But if you're unfamiliar with the residency process, the way it usually works is the day before your actual interview day is usually a dinner. That's where you get to meet all the residents that are already part of the program. So you get to ask some of the very basic questions, which is, do you like it here? What's your day like? How often are you on call? Tell me about your experience. How well do you go along with each other? Where do you live? How much does rent cost? Things like that. And that gives you a good feel about the community, the personalities that are there, and the opportunities as well, because that's probably where you're gonna get the most honest opinion. And then the next day, so for me tomorrow, is going to be my actual interview. So that's where I kind of dress up in a suit with a tie and we'll take you guys there. So hopefully you guys like my outfit. They're all like right here, by the way. So having decided what I wanted to wear, so I have like five options and we'll go from there. But I'll make my decision tomorrow. So I'm going to head out actually in a few minutes, have all my stuff packed, and because my first residency is within driving, within driving distance, I'm going to save myself some money and not fly. So I'm gonna drive myself to dinner. I'm gonna pack all this stuff up in my car and I'll talk to you guys in a second. So as I'm getting ready, I thought about one of the questions that I had when I was kind of planning for this day. And one of them was like, what do I wear? So to be safe, I'm just kind of in like a nice button up with some slacks. See my guitar there. But yeah, some button up slacks, no tie or anything. And it's rainy here in Texas, so I'm gonna just have a jacket on. And that's gonna be my outfit. It's nothing too crazy, but usually the programs will like let you know what the dress attire is, but it's better to dress up versus dress down is my opinion. And then tomorrow, obviously for interviews, you kind of have a suit and the whole galore. So suit and tie is all ready. So that was question number one. Question number two is like, what do you do to prep for an interview? And I made a video about this before, so I'll link it down below. But some of the things that I did is I made a nice notebook where the common questions that you're probably gonna be asked on your residency interviews. Not necessarily the dinner before, but interview tomorrow. And I kind of made a list of those and I'm going to be practicing my answers to those. At least coming up with different experiences that I could talk about. And then I have, I looked up the program. So you look up, you know, go on the website, see what they have, what do they think is important because that's what they're gonna put there on the website and make some notes, make some questions that are curious, like why do you like it? And I started to create a Google Excel sheet. So it has all the programs. It has, and I have columns for all the things that I value. So location, the personalities of the residents as well as the quality of the training. And I have different columns where at the very end, so tomorrow I'll just put my dots immediately after my interview date on those columns. So that way I have a nice realistic impression of each program. So that's kind of how I prepped. Just found some questions that I'm going to be doing tonight. Just kind of make sure my mind is going, questions like tell me about yourself, you know, what's the hardest experience you've had in medical school that way you're not caught off guard. And that's pretty much it. I didn't do anything crazy to prep. I just kind of looked at the program, made sure I had some questions to ask the residents today, like authentic questions, things that I find interesting and we'll go from there. But I went to quickly pack and then we were going to head out. All right guys, what is going on? So sorry for not recording yesterday but managed to go to the interview dinner, met all the residents, really enjoyed it. Basically as soon as I drove into town, the residency dinner started. So today's the next day. Today is my interview day. I'm already dressed as you can see with the tie. This is my lucky tie that I got accepted into my current institution with. So I'm just going to continue to wear almost all my interviews. But it's about to be seven o'clock and the day usually for an interview day starts around that time, seven or eight. Usually there's a breakfast. The morning you kind of meet the faculty including like your program director. You may get like a lecture or at least see what like a teaching component of the residency is like. So we have morning reports today. So that should be interesting. And then we'll get a tour of the hospital, the facilities and then usually in your interviews you have like two to three interviews. I have three today at my current institution that I'm at today. And then you get to go home and your day ends around like 12 or one. So I'm looking forward to it and I will see you guys after my interview. And I'll tell you kind of my impression, how it went and then also kind of my system on how I make sure I jot down my impressions. So I will see you guys after my interview, wish me luck. Take care. All right guys, what is going on? So I just finished my interview day, had three interviews plus like tours and lunch throughout the day. So I am done, feel a lot more relieved now but it was a great program. I enjoyed what I saw. And kind of at this point of the stage what I want to do is I have an Excel sheet where I am putting every bit of information on like my impressions of the school. So how did I get along with the residents? How did I get along with the attendings that I met? That's really something at least for me that's really important because I'll be working with these people if I choose to go here. So how long, how well do I think I'll be able to get along with them? What did I think of the program? What did I think of their curriculum? If I wanna do like further training later on and go do a fellowship in like cardiology or oncology, would I have the options to do it here? And so just being able to answer all those questions literally I just put a check mark or like a yes or no on my Excel sheet and then any notes that I have. So like I would write, oh, I really enjoyed this about this program or like this didn't feel so quite right. Putting all those notes in Excel sheet that way when I have to make my decision and like put my rank list I can look at each of these things and look at my initial impressions and then look back and then realize what's the most important. So I'm going to make sure that the impression I have right now which is currently fresh, I put that onto paper or Google Doc I guess and then we'll go from there. But that is my residency, first residency interview video. I know it's not a long video but that's kind of what the process is like. Yesterday I had the pre-interview dinner and today I had a morning kind of lecture. So it was like a morning report, kind of see what the education part of the residency is like. We had a lecture presentation given by the program director and then we had tours of the facilities as well as the nearby area to see kind of where people live. That's also important. And then finally we just had our interviews which are important and we had lunch with fellow residents and faculty members. So it was a nice short, nothing too extensively long but I feel like I got up the information I needed to have my questions answered and hopefully I put an impression that they're happy with. So we'll go from there but more interviews are coming in, more interviews are being scheduled so it's gonna be a busy next couple of months but that's the process. Usually interview season goes up to at least an internal medicine all the way up to like mid-January and right now it's the start of October. So it tells you kind of how long the process goes usually by the end people are starting to like get tired out but right now I'm excited and enjoying the process. So we'll go from there but hopefully you guys enjoyed the video. If you did make sure you give this video a like subscribe to the channel for more content just like this. As I go through my residency process including interviewing at other places as well as creating my rank list and going to the match I'm gonna be making more videos on the process. So hopefully you guys follow me on my journey. Obviously more tip videos are coming back to you so make sure you check those out throughout the channel but make sure you like the video subscribe to the channel I will stop babbling like I always do and I will see you guys later. Take care guys.