Next up in our series of featured med school bloggers is Medaholic, who recently finished med school and has begun his residency. Enjoy Medaholic’s thoughtful answers and use them to help you make your way through the med school and residency admissions process. Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself – where…
Save 20% on June Featured Ebooks for Medical Residency and Fellowship Applicants
There’s only one thing better than a monthly featured ebook…TWO monthly featured ebooks! Between now and Thursday, June 30, 2011, you can save 20% on both Write Your Way to a Residency Match and Write Your Way to a Fellowship Match with coupon code MATCH20. Write Your Way to a Residency Match…
Plagiarism in Residency Essays: Just Don’t
The WSJ’s Health Blog recently posted “Study: Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism” which cites a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by a team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The researchers found “evidence of plagiarism” in 5.2% of residency application personal statements by comparing the essays to publicly available material…
Happening @ Accepted.com
On Friday I promised a whole new Accepted.com,and it’s up! Please check it out. We know there a few items to clean up, but please let us know what you like and dislike. You can let us know in comments below or just by contacting us. We have also implemented a change that many of…
Surviving the Scramble
March 19th—Match Day—is just around the corner, and many residency hopefuls are biting their nails as the NRMP’s algorhythms work their magic. There’s not much else to do, after all the applications are submitted and interviews concluded and thank you notes written. Now it’s just a waiting game. The majority of applicants will hear “Congratulations,…
Ebook of the Month: Write Your Way to a Residency Match
Last year Cydney Foote and I published Write Your Way to a Residency Match. It proved to be one of our most popular ebooks. This month, well before the match deadlines, we have made Write Your Way to a Residency Match our ebook of the month. You can pick it up now through June 30…
Residency Match
I would be remiss if I ignored the Match last Thursday. It was a very exciting day for many applicants, including clients who found out where they would spend the next two years. A few articles capture the excitement of the day, such as "They Day They Get Their Orders" in the NY Times. The…
Resource for Residency Applicants
AAMC Stat, a weekly ezine sent out by AAMC, announced: The AAMC has produced a new, comprehensive guide for applicants to U.S. residency programs. "Roadmap to Residency: From Application to the Match and Beyond," describes the policies, procedures, and practices associated with residency application and is useful for both U.S. and non-U.S. medical school students…
Defining Your Goals for Residency; The Match
AMSA’s monthly magazine, The New Physician, has a couple of excellent articles on the Match and choosing your speciality. Although neither article is online, the "Choice of a Lifetime: Picking a career is one thing they don’t teach us." is particularly valuable because it gives concrete suggestion on researching different specialties. If you are looking…
