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It’s A Match 2025

On one eagerly anticipated day each March, after years of study and hours of applications and interviews, thousands of medical school students and graduates discover where they will begin their specialty training. This Match Day – March 21, 2025 – 47,208 applicants got their answer. The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), which oversees the matching …

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13 Tips for Your Residency Personal Statement

Residency applicants can submit applications via ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) starting September 7. Don’t wait until the last minute – get cracking on those residency essays now! Your personal statement is a vital part of your residency application; it’s where you explain why you’ve chosen your specialty and show the committee why you’re the …

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What’s the Best Way to Prep for Your Residency Interview?

What’s the Best Way to Prep for Your Residency Interview?

Your residency interview is your chance to show your target programs that you’ve got what it takes to join their team.  Everything in your application, including your medical student performance evaluation and other evaluations, is fair game for interviewers. These are some of the most common questions you’ll hear:  You’re also likely to be asked …

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All You Need to Know About Residency Applications and Matching

You’re busy juggling med school and life, and if you don’t stay organized, one of those balls is going to come crashing down. Let’s take a look at what you need to do so you can stay focused, motivated, and completely on top of your juggling act. What Are the Components of a Residency Application? …

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Make the Most of Your Experiences for ERAS

Make the Most of Your Experiences for ERAS

The 2025 ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) application follows on last year’s restructured application, with a few changes. As in the 2024 ERAS, rather than including every relevant experience you’ve had, as you might on a CV, you must choose ten experience entries that communicate who you are and what’s most important to you. And …

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First Drafts of Residency Personal Statements: Let Yourself Go

For many residency applicants, writing the first draft of their personal statement is the most difficult part of the entire application process. And the most difficult part of composing that first draft is often getting the first few words on the page. Don’t fret – even accomplished novelists and famous journalists struggle to get started …

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What to Expect After Medical School

What to Expect After Medical School

For this section of our Med School Admissions: What You Need to Know To Get Accepted series, I’ll provide a brief rundown of what happens after you graduate from medical school. As you have probably realized by now, medicine requires a commitment to lifelong learning. There will always be new procedures, new medications, and new …

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It’s a Match

match day 2022

Each year on Match Day, thousands of medical school students and graduates learn where they will receive their specialty training. This year’s Main Residency Match took place on Friday, March 18th. And with events at many medical schools – many of them in-person this year! – it was a cause for celebration for many participants …

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How an Orthopedic Surgeon Survived and Thrived in Med School [Episode 418]

Podcast interview with Dr. Wendell Cole

[powerpress] Achieving balance: A resident’s advice for succeeding in medical school without sacrificing your personal life [Show summary] Dr. Wendell Cole, a Morehouse graduate and orthopedic surgical resident at Tulane, shares the personal experiences and med school survival strategies that led him to write The Med School Survival Kit. How planning and time management pave …

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Navigating Medical School and Residency With an Interest in Cultural Psychiatry and Forensics

Student interview with Angeline2

Learn how real students navigate their way through the medical school admissions process and med school itself with our What is Medical School Really Like? series. Meet Angeline, a psychiatry resident with a goal of advocating for mental health awareness within the Asian community. Angeline, thank you for sharing your story with us! I understand …

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