Here’s a time waster inspired by origami and Disney guy postings… What was your favorite fun/pleasant/interesting/weird/random memory from the season this year? ...e.g., people, awkward moments, hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, weather hijinks, etc.

I’d have to say mine was Dr. Keith Black at Cedars. He was decked out like a ninja master in all black monogrammed scrubs and had an amazing office including an aquarium full of LIVE JELLYFISH!!!

Go.

Picture five guys crammed into Dr. Olivi’s A6 on the way back to the hotel from the Hopkins faculty dinner.  One guy takes a running leap into the laps of the others already seated in the back… Halfway back to the hotel, the back door opens up and everyone is hanging on to keep from flying out… Random folks at traffic lights smapping pictures of the comical neurosurgical clown car… It’ll be a miracle if anyone of those guys actually matches at JHU.

crazy shuttle driver during UCSF interview...she almost killed/injured future neurosurgical chairmen

But we had some awesome conversation on that shuttle too.  felt like a school field trip

Students playing liar’s poker in the GWU interview waiting room (on the second day at the NIH).  The especially memorable part was when someone won a bet on a hand by pure luck (odds were totally stacked against him and he bet thinking there were more people in the game).  In celebration, he took the 10 one dollar bills that he won and threw them up in the air.  At which point we were yelled at by one of the secretaries in the nearby offices to stop making so much noise.

UW interview - one attending and six interviewees in a room: Tell me why I should take you over the other people here?

NRA4LIFE - 17 February 2009 03:42 PM

UW interview - one attending and six interviewees in a room: Tell me why I should take you over the other people here?

I know exactly who you are referring to.  It would seem I was a bit luckier. When he interviewed me, there were only two others there, and that question was replaced with “tell me what your most proud of"…

injinjay - 17 February 2009 02:32 PM

Students playing liar’s poker in the GWU interview waiting room (on the second day at the NIH).  The especially memorable part was when someone won a bet on a hand by pure luck (odds were totally stacked against him and he bet thinking there were more people in the game).  In celebration, he took the 10 one dollar bills that he won and threw them up in the air.  At which point we were yelled at by one of the secretaries in the nearby offices to stop making so much noise.

what about the smell in that room - absolutely nasty!

How’s about the applicant who got really hammered at one dinner, fell down, and cut his face open?  Never hurt yourself around people who think they have medical training.  You will get mobbed.

How about the attending at one of the Pacific Northwest programs closely affiliated with this website who drank way too much and was swaying and slobbering over some applicants while trying to explain why his program was so much better than the one slightly to the north?  He looked pretty embarrassed the following morning for interviews but managed to make it through the day like a champ.

Thanks all y’all for sharing your experiences. But, I think we’re headed in an ominous direction here. I was hoping for light and humorous anecdotes… not a rumor mill for airing out drunken lapses in the judgement of others. This is not Facebook (yet).

So, how about non-drunk, non-sexual, non-passive aggressive (i.e., much less exciting) memories from the season? 

Here’s a convo starter… Where did you have your best meal? I had about fifty thousand steaks on the trail which is why I would vote Yale (tapas) or Cornell (sushi).

Now you.

You will remember your steaks fondly.  I am now thankful that I have meal tickets for the hospital cafe when on call.

D. muscipula - 18 February 2009 03:28 PM

Thanks all y’all for sharing your experiences. But, I think we’re headed in an ominous direction here. I was hoping for light and humorous anecdotes… not a rumor mill for airing out drunken lapses in the judgement of others. This is not Facebook (yet).

So, how about non-drunk, non-sexual, non-passive aggressive (i.e., much less exciting) memories from the season? 

Here’s a convo starter… Where did you have your best meal? I had about fifty thousand steaks on the trail which is why I would vote Yale (tapas) or Cornell (sushi).

Now you.

Awesome authentic southern food. the main course kinda sucked for me coz m vegetarian, but even a thought of pecan pie in dessert excites all of my salivary glands!!!

I’ve been a big fan of the surf and turf at the Brigham interview!!

at one interview we had to thread a needle while the interviewer was asking “challenging” questions… Without a thought, i put the thread in my mouth (with lots of spit...) made it nice and pointy..  and zoom.. it went in before he even had the chance to ask anything.... Those were the most proud couple of seconds in my life till the attending started yelling at me because i “destroyed” his thread with my spit..!!!:) I told him that this was the way my grandma taught me and i smiled/laughed. However he was still mad even after i left the room.. it was hilarious....

Glad to see that..

Thanks a lot for this Sharing…