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Potential trouble with ERAS
An IMG and good friend who is applying this year sent me the following message: “There was a problem with the ERAS application. The USMLE transcript was wrongly transmitted to some programs. So...
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ALL CAPS
ALL CAPS don’t belong in applications Caps Lock is a bad thing to use on your residency application. When I see ALL CAPS, I assume you are shouting. ALL CAPS stand out in a bad annoying way. Don’t use...
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CS fail
A question sent to me: Will good US clinical experience and US letters overcome a CS fail? Do applications get screened for exam fails? No and no. CS fail is almost non existent in AMGs. About 15% of...
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Warning from California on “Externships”
I see letters from individual physician offices lauding the practice of an individual who has done an “externship.” As I have stated before “externships” are meaningless. Program directors are smart...
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IMG Friendly Internal Medicine Program List
For those of you new to the matching game and those of you who are looking ahead to next year I wanted to share a free list of IMG friendly Internal Medicine Programs posted by sama-sd.org. I don’t...
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Sample ERAS application
I found a link to a sample ERAS application here. Although written by an American medical school, I think that this document can be quite helpful to the IMG community. It includes sample CV, sample...
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Repeat Applicants
I came across an interesting study in Academic Medicine called Participation in U.S. Graduate Medical Education by Graduates of International Medical Schools where investigators from the ECFMG, ERAS...
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Those without interviews
For those of you who are without interviews you need to take a step back and really evaluate yourself as a candidate. The fixable reasons for no interviews are the following: No US clinical experience...
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Medical Student Electives
If you are a student in medical school outside of the US and you are looking to do residency training in the US, I strongly suggest that you do some clinical time in the US while you are still a...
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Honesty
The New York Times reported that the football coach at Yale University resigned because his resume had said that he had been a candidate for a Rhodes scholarship which was false. The media checked into...
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