Tips for the residency interview trail

I'm not going to be bashful about this. I'm known to give pretty good advice. Maybe because I'm a slightly anxious person and a perfectionist so I'm always (over)thinking things? (But then again, one could be too anxious and indecisive making him/her a poor go-to person for advice.) I think it's simply because I do my research before and after an event, evaluating whether or not the advice I got was actually helpful and what advice I would give to my future self and to others. Anyway, I've been on the interview trail for 3 weeks now, and I'm almost half way through. I want to share some tips I've thought of along the way:

• Schedule interviews with ample time in between for travel and rest. Back to back interviews (one day after the other) are absolute no-no's in my book. You might think you're a superhero after going through core surgery and core medicine in MS3, but you don't want to risk it for something this important. And if you're thinking, "well I don't really care about one of the interviews," then you why are you going at all?

Just

Our program director pointed out during her orientation presentation that she's not "just" practicing general medicine, she is practicing medicine. Do you ever hear anyone saying, "I'm just going into orthopedic surgery?"

I'm going into internal medicine, planning to do just general medicine - either as a hospitalist or a PCP or both. :)