Keith - The Traveling Man!

Part of the fourth year of medical school is applying to residency. You go through a long process of applications to various programs, offers for interviews and finally a listing by the student of their top choices and the residency programs listing of their top choices. A computerized "match" is done and in March 2012 Keith and Lisa will find out where they will spend the next four to five years of their lives.

Keith is applying to anesthesiology programs - a four year program. He had been offered interviews at some of the most prestigious programs. On Friday he begins the interview cycle. In the next eight weeks, he has over ten flights all around the country. In between, he will includes visits home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and a November Vollink family wedding in New York City. Of interest, the programs will pay for most meals and a hotel stay, but the airfare expense is all Keith's (and Lisa).

So here is the initial schedule:

Cleveland - Cleveland Clinic and Case Western
St. Louis - Washington University
Boston - Harvard
Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania

Then coming up in December and January will be:

University of Michigan
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Vanderbilt
Another trip to Harvard

and I am sure I am missed some. Good luck Keith!! You will do great.