Internal medicine Interview notes

Northwestern

Program features
7:15 to 5pm weekdays only (no call, no weekends except for ED shifts)
ED has no attending in house for overnight shifts. You take 20 shifts (mixture of day
and nights) each month – 4 months second year, 3 months third year, 2 months
fourth year
No Nuclear Medicine fellowship (yet)
Has internal moonlighting - $60 per hour on evenings – answering calls in the ED
Has a business lecture series, has teaching opportunities, an informatics track and
research is encouraged (academic time is given – ½ day per week)

Have an IPad with all of the resources for each rotation

AIRP
Lots of conferences in Chicago

Interview questions:
Where do you see yourself in 10 years – what is important to you. (almost every
interview)
What excites you most in life
What is your proudest accomplishment in your resume
What do you look for in a residency program
What would you do if not radiology
Who was your most important mentor
What will you bring to our program
Tell me a good book

Thomas Jefferson

Program features
7:30 to 5pm
morning and noon conferences (question based usually)
Excellent Ultrasound program, MSK ultrasound, fetal ultrasound
Decent Nuclear medicine
Hospital is a bit older
Internal Moonlighting is available
Schedule is entirely made by chief residents who are very flexiable.
There is 24 hour attending coverage (in house until 2am and home call from 2am to
8am)
There is a night float system – 2 weeks on, 2 weeks backup coverage.

Philadelphia traffic and cost of living are way less than Chicago. Interesting market,
and museums.
Questions
Proudest accomplishment
Any regrets
What could I not determine from reading your application
Hobbies
What do you look for in a program (every one)
Where do you see yourself in 10 years (didn’t press me on giving noncomital
answer)
How do you like Philadelphia

U Minnesota

Features
Everything 2nd year and beyond is q 3 weeks.
Call is 1 week short evening, 1 week long evening, 1 week nights. + extra call shifts
throughout the year
No attending in house coverage but there is backup/duplicate radiology reads from
a private practice
Rotations are at several different sites including the VA. Most have similar EMR’s
except VA.
There is ob ultrasound
There is internal and external moonlighting (MRI monitoring)
People seem friendly.
Visa friendly
Optional 1 week course for ABR preparation (half of people take the time)
1 week retreat in the spring for 1st years
Combined with transitional year
There is a conference pause in the summer. Otherwise every noon and Wednesday
morning 7:30 to 10:30 (core curriculum)

Questions
IF you could protest about one issue, what would it be
Why do your clinical grades suck
Hobbies
What are you looking for in a program
What brought you to Minnesota
Personal stuff (family, siblings)
What is your greatest strength

Rush
Features
Schedule is 3 months electives, some general medicine, 2 icu (or substitute with
general medicine) and 1 month ED.
Lunch provided most days.
Q4 call with night float rotations
Rounds are sit down rounds and patients are all on the same floor
Admissions come to the floor (don’t have to travel to see them before they arrive)

Questions
What do you look for in a program
Tell me about yourself
Do you have any questions
Why Radiology
What brought you here

Einstein
Features
4 + 1 (4 weeks inpatient, 1 week elective)
10 weeks electives
q4 call system but usually out by 7pm on call days.
Night float
MICU is different, there are weeks of days and weeks of nights, 12 hour shifts, no call
On weekends if non-call then leave by noon
No cross coverage (separate staff are hired for that)
There is a telemetry month, basically cardiology and a step down unit month
Lunch is provided a few times per week with conference
Geographic rounds (only responsible for patients on that floor for the most part)

Interview questions
Who gave the introduction (I didn’t know)
We only have ten spots, tell me about yourself and why we should let you in
What do you look for in a program
Any questions for us?