I am currently planning on completing dermatology interviews (if I get any, hah!) during December and January. Does anyone know if most people also schedule their Prelim/TY interviews during these months as well?
Try to schedule them before Dec/Jan if you can, a lot of them do have spots in late Oct/Nov/early Dec, derm is busiest during January, avoid prelim interviews during Jan for sure if you can <------ This x1
Most prelim programs interview the bulk in October/November/early December, rarely in January (though some do). You'll naturally do prelims first and derm last just because of how scheduling works. Most derm programs interview in January.
You'll start getting interview invites for internship very quickly. Schedule those as early as you can and get them over with. Derm programs will take their lolly-gagging time for very few interview dates, so use those first few months to do those interviews.