Residency

With the right approach, you can maximize your chances of matching with your preferred residency program by tailoring your residency application to the school of your dreams.

Some U.S. states are proposing legislation that will allow some international medical graduates a path to practicing medicine without having completed a U.S. based residency. This is creating quite a controversy in the medical community. Will this be the answer to the growing physician shortage, or present new risks to patients?

If you’re at that stage in your medical career where you’re deciding on a specialty, you may be wondering how many residency programs to apply to. Read on to learn more, because the number may surprise you!

The specialty that you choose will have a significant impact on your life for many years to come. The time, money, and effort that you invested in your education will start to pay off, as you develop a satisfying and rewarding medical career.

Most medical students struggle with the personal statement because the expectations for it are so vague and broad. When do you write it? How do you get started? What do you put in it? How do you know if it is good? In reality, the answers to these questions will vary depending on who you talk to; most people, however, will agree that the personal statement should be a mix of your unique interests, aspirations, and motivations in addition to “why” you are interested in the particular field you are applying into In this piece, I will present to you tips, tricks, and approaches to starting, writing, and editing a personal statement.

Preparing for residency interviews is a critical part of the application process, regardless of whether your interviews are virtual or in-person. An interview can solidify (or counter) who you are on paper, and programs are looking for applicants who “fit,” with both their organizational and social cultures. As a program director told me last cycle, applicants tend to “surprise” admission committees in both good and bad ways.

Students often find making a rank list to be very challenging due to the overwhelming number of factors that they have to consider. Although there is no right way to make a rank list, here we present a framework for comparing programs so that you can make the decision that is best for you.

In general, the medical compensation system favors procedures over clinic visits – in other words, it favors doing things over thinking about things.

We’ll use data from the NRMP (the National Resident Matching Program – that is, the Match) to determine which specialties are the most competitive and which are the least.

We work hard to get to Med school, and we work hard to get out into the real world. Here’s what it’s like to chase the pipe dream when it doesn’t go as planned.