Scheduling interviews…

[ARCOS]

Hi, ARCOS members. I’m curious if you schedule your own interviews, or if you use the ERAS Interview Scheduler or some other version of that. I still schedule my own interviews, as I like to keep control of it and I feel it gets me to know the applicant a bit. I’m just wondering if I am an alone in this thought and should get with the current times.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

[ARCOS]

Hi,

I do not use ERAS interview scheduler. And am exactly like you. I schedule the interviews solo, the PD and faculty select the candidates via ERAS and reach out via email. I am like you, need more hands on.

[ARCOS]

Hi! I use ERAS to issue the initial bulk email to invite applicants, but I schedule and communicate visit information outside ERAS, for exactly the reasons you mention. I eventually create Private Events in ERAS to enter the applicant names for my own sorting purposes. Since only my program director uses ERAS for reviewing applications, we don’t use many of the features Scheduler offers. We also interview 40-45 applicants, which makes scheduling off-line less of a time demand than a larger program would have. For instance, our EM residency interviews over 200 in a season, so they had to automate.

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