Source: ERAS Information for international medical students/graduates on the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®) 2015 application season is now available. If you plan to apply for U.S. residency positions that begin in July 2015, visit theERAS Support Services section of the ECFMG website for important information. Most U.S. residency programs participate in ERAS. If you[…]
Source: ERAS Information for international medical students/graduates on the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®) 2015 application season is now available. If you plan to apply for U.S. residency positions that begin in July 2015, visit theERAS Support Services section of the ECFMG website for important information. Most U.S. residency programs participate in ERAS. If you[…]
Source: SDN Stress Photo from Shutterstock.com By Megan Riddle, PhD “I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past[…]
Source: MomMD Do you know whom you will be asking to write you letters of recommendation for medical school? Have you been procrastinating the task of actually approaching them? Are you uncertain about the most effective strategy to get a great recommendation? Partnering with Your Recommenders to Get the Best Possible Letter As you[…]
Source: Resident Cafe The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) defines international medical graduates (IMG) as physicians who graduated from a medical school located outside the United States and Canada. The location of the school, not the citizenship, determines whether a physician applying to residency is an IMG. Depending on citizenship, these applicants can[…]
Source: Resident Cafe Previously we showed the USMLE scores of US IMGs in the 2013 Match. Please click on the link for definitions of US and non-US IMG. In 2013, 5100 US IMG and 7600 non-US IMG applied for residency. The following tables are for non-US IMGs in the 2013 Match. Specialty Matched Internal Medicine 1690 Family Medicine 293 Pediatrics 278[…]
Source: KevinMD via Skeptical Scalpel A year ago in a post about law school applications decreasing, I speculated about whether a similar phenomenon would occur with medical schools. In that post, I commented on the impending problem of too many medical school graduates and not enough residency training positions. I cited an article that appeared in the New[…]
See below, great reference map by Kaplan:
See below, great reference map by Kaplan:
Source: USMLE.org As medicine and medical education have changed over the years, so have USMLE examinations evolved since they were first administered in 1992. This is a brief summary of planned changes for the next few years. USMLE STEP 3 What WILL change? What WILL NOT change? Beginning November 3, 2014, examinees will: [list type=”check”][…]