Questions to ask residents during interview day

Building a rapport with residents during the Residency Interview Day

- How is the diversity of food and restaurants around?
- How often you guys hang out?
- What do you do for fun?
- What do you like about your program?
-Why did you rank this program?
- How diverse is your patients population?
- How do the resident get a feedback?
- Do resident have free access to Uptodate?
- Where do you recommend to live around?
- how much does it cost living here ?
- Where do you live? How far?
- Do you drive to the hospital or you use the subway/bus?
- How well do the faculty get a long with the residents?
- How active are faculty members in teaching?
- Do you have a journal club?
- What did you do for your elective rotation?
- Any changes in your program in the near future?
- What is your favorite field?
- Do you think you got enough number of cases to work independently after graduation?
- Do you have one to one mentoring here?
- If you have kids, ask about the school around and related stuff

Interview Preparation with Sarthi team