Knock Knock Eye: Virtual or In-Person Residency Interviews: What Are the Pros and Cons?

Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens · Jan 22, 2026 · 39m

This episode we tackle something a lot of people are quietly worried about: virtual residency interviews. Are they here to stay? Are they fair? And how exactly are programs supposed to deal with applicants using AI to help answer questions in real time?

Then we get into the eyeballs. A young woman with hair growing where hair absolutely should not exist. A 78-year-old with “sudden vision loss” that turns out to be anything but. And two diagnoses that are oddly satisfying, very treatable, and a reminder that not every scary presentation ends in disaster.

Takeaways:

Why virtual residency…