{"id":32391,"date":"2012-10-22T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=32391"},"modified":"2012-10-22T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T12:51:08","slug":"the-highs-and-lows-of-fellowship-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/10\/22\/the-highs-and-lows-of-fellowship-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highs and Lows of Fellowship Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

At CardioExchange, we are very interested in our fellows’ experiences, and we understand how trying the fellowship application process<\/a> can be. Now that the interview season is winding down and match lists are being prepared, we want to find out your thoughts about how your interviews have gone. We want to hear it all \u2014 the good, the bad, and the ugly. We can make posts anonymous if you feel it is necessary; if there is a program you really liked, we can highlight that too.<\/em><\/p>\n

To get the ball rolling, we asked CardioExchange Associate Editor John Ryan about a stand-out experience that he had during fellowship interviews.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was interviewing for fellowship, I concentrated on programs that Irish people had matched at before. I did this for two reasons: (1) in most cases, the programs had positive experiences with their Irish trainees and (2) this history typically meant that the program would sponsor visas (I was on a J1 visa<\/a> at the time).<\/p>\n

There was one program in particular that I was very interested in, and I was excited when I got my invite. The interview was scheduled close to St. Patrick\u2019s Day \u2014 I felt that maybe the luck of the Irish would shine on me. As is typical, all the applicants gathered in the cardiology conference room on the morning of the interview, the program director greeted us and gave us a talk about the program, and I thought to myself, \u201cThis is it. This is where I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

I went to my first interview; it was with the section chief. I took my seat, and the section chief opened up my file, looked at it, closed it, looked at me, and said, \u201cYou are on a visa, correct?\u201d I answered, \u201cYes.\u201d The section chief then said, \u201cWhat you need to do is take a plane to Mexico and then try to come across the border that way \u2018cos we don\u2019t sponsor visas.\u201d I did not know what to say and so simply said, \u201cOkay.\u201d I still do not know the best way to have answered. Suffice it to say that it was a fairly negative experience as well as a poor use of time and money, and I ended up not ranking this program.<\/p>\n

Do you have a fellowship interview experience you want to share with us?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fellow John Ryan shares the story of an interview that goes awry; what has your experience been?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195],"class_list":["post-32391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}