The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) offers a very cool interactive timeline for the residency application process on the ECFMG website. Here is the link. It’s useful for international/ foreign medical graduates and U.S. medical students as well.
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AMCAS is Done. Now Prepare for Your Next Big Step.
Pre-meds, now that your AMCAS personal statement writing is completed, are you starting to worry about your medical school admissions interview?
Have no fear! I’ve just started a series of interview blog entries as an invited guest writer on the Varsity Tutors blog. Take a look at the first in the series “How to Prepare for Your Med School Admission Interview” here.
Note: This series of entries will offer residency interview strategies too. Take a peek.
Emergency Medicine Should Not be your Back Up
I’ve recently heard from several residency applicants who are considering emergency medicine as a back up specialty for the coming Match. These candidates are interested in applying in their field of primary interest and using emergency medicine as a safety specialty. I would not recommend this strategy! Emergency medicine’s popularity has waxed and waned over the years, but currently it is pretty hot. It’s far from a back up.
For more information about emergency medicine candidacies and careers, take a look at my piece “Why Are Emergency Physicians Burning Out” on KevinMD.
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Cutting for Stone
It’s a stressful time right now for pre-meds, so I thought I would try to cut the anxiety by recommending a medically-related novel called “Cutting for Stone” by Dr. Abraham Verghese, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. The book follows twin brothers born to a nun and a surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. The story is wonderful.
Try to kick back and enjoy this masterpiece.
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
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