Inside Residency Free Event Series by Kaplan

Attention Students, Attaining a Residency is competitive.  You need to ensure you are doing everything you can to strengthen your application and increase your chances in the Match. Learn exclusive information on the Match process and get advice from Residency experts at our – Medical Residency: Strategies for Success event series. Medical Residency Application Advice and Tips from Residents[…]

Inside Residency Free Event Series by Kaplan

Attention Students, Attaining a Residency is competitive.  You need to ensure you are doing everything you can to strengthen your application and increase your chances in the Match. Learn exclusive information on the Match process and get advice from Residency experts at our – Medical Residency: Strategies for Success event series. Medical Residency Application Advice and Tips from Residents[…]

EM Match Advice: The EM Rotation, ERAS, and Am I Competitive?

Source: AliEM Today launches a series of Google Hangout videos, which was created and expertly facilitated by Dr. Michael Gisondi(@MikeGisondi) from Northwestern. In this series, he recruited an amazing panel of program directors from around the country, who have kindly volunteered their time to share their insights and expertise. In these videos, you get a sense of each panelist’s[…]

EM Match Advice: The EM Rotation, ERAS, and Am I Competitive?

Source: AliEM Today launches a series of Google Hangout videos, which was created and expertly facilitated by Dr. Michael Gisondi(@MikeGisondi) from Northwestern. In this series, he recruited an amazing panel of program directors from around the country, who have kindly volunteered their time to share their insights and expertise. In these videos, you get a sense of each panelist’s[…]

Observerships, Externships and Clerkships: Sorting through the confusion

The terms observership, externship and clerkship are sometimes used interchangeably in medical education which can cause some confusion for residency applicants. Applicants are often unsure of which experience to pursue and how residency program directors view each experience when examining a candidate’s clinical background. We will attempt to clarify the differences and provide guidance on[…]

The unhealthy behaviors of physicians

As a fourth-year medical student, it was fairly easy to maintain a healthy lifestyle. When you have much leisure time and are relatively stress free, you can eat healthy, stay physically active and maintain quality mental health. However, as I begin the journey called residency, it is clear that the task of maintaining my own[…]

What doctors earn when they graduate, in one chart

Source: Vox  BRENDan Smialowski/AFP    The median salary for anesthesiologists who started jobs last year was $300,000 — about twice as much as the pediatrician who just started off. The new survey of doctors’ median first-year pay after residency, published Wednesday by the Medical Group Management Association, shows huge variation in what doctors earn during their first[…]

Residency Match Competitiveness 2014

Source: Residents Cafe An editorial published in this month’s Journal of the American College of Radiology updated the competitiveness of the 2014 residency match for the major 21 specialties.  We had previously discussed the authors’ data in an earlier publication on the competitiveness of specialties from 2011 to 2013.  They calculate each specialty’s competitiveness based on positions per[…]