Archive for 'Residency' Category
Personal Statement for Medical Residency – A Comprehensive Proofreader's Checklist
An excerpt from Amy Burnham’s Essays That Will Get You Into College, this checklist serves as an excellent gauntlet for personal statement revisions… Substance 3. Have I been specific? (Go on a generalities hunt. Turn the generalities into specifics.) 4. Could anyone else have written this essay? Interest 2. Do I start with action or [...]
Residency Switching – Prevalence and Methods
by Elizabeth Losada, MD @SDN… Anecdotally it is said that as many as ten percent of all residents switch specialties each year. Studies looking at resident attrition rates have yielded some data on specialty switching among residents. Attrition rates account for all residents who leave residency programs, not just those who change specialties. This includes [...]
The Medical Bottleneck – Residency Shortage & Health Care Reform
a number of new medical schools have opened around the country recently. As of last October, four new medical schools enrolled a total of about 190 students, and 12 medical schools raised the enrollment of first-year students by a total of 150 slots, according to the AAMC. But medical colleges and hospitals warn that these [...]
Top 10 Most Competitive Residencies (2010)
Combined Programs: PGY-2 Programs: Advanced Data Tables 2010 [NRMP] Corollary: Top 10 Most Competitive Residencies (2009) Corollary: Top 10 Most Competitive Residencies (2008) Corollary: Top 10 Most Competitive Residencies (2007)
How to Create a Rank Order List of Residency Programs
Kendra Campbell shares her approach to the creation of her rank order list at The Differential: I created a spreadsheet with 10 different variables across the top. Next, I added each program as a separate row, and then put a ranking (1-5) for each variable …For each program, I added up all the numbers, sorted [...]
Speciality Overview – Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
by Sara Cohen, MD PM&R involves the diagnosis and restoration of functional ability and quality of life in patients with disorders of the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Residency training in PM&R includes 1 year of internship, which can be a preliminary or transitional year, followed by 3 years of specialty training in PM&R. Some residencies [...]
Choosing a Specialty – A Straightforward Approach for the Uncertain
from Anne Vinsel, MS, MFA (Project Administrator, Graduate Medical Education, University of Utah Medical Center) Research those specialties in your institution. Go to the departments and make friends with the residency program coordinators. If you haven’t already done so and haven’t rotated in the program, arrange to shadow a faculty member for a day. Talk [...]
Resident Work-Hour Reform & Patient Safety
Reductions in resident physician work-hours at teaching hospitals in 2003 were associated with an increase in complications related to surgery to repair hip fractures, a new study found. “Our investigation identified that the rate of change of perioperative morbidity in patients with a hip fracture increased significantly in teaching hospitals following resident duty-hour reform.” Browne [...]
Top 10 Most Competitive Residencies (2009)
[Click here for 2010 match data] Preliminary data from the 2009 Match has been released by the NRMP. The most competitive PGY-1 residencies of 2009 are listed below: Combined residencies are ranked separately below: 2009 Advance Data Tables (pdf) [NRMP] Correlate: 2008 Data Correlate: 2007 Data
What to do After the Match?
4th year mudphudder shares valuable lessons learned from his own mistakes: what I should have done in hindsight: 1) get ACLS/ATLS certified ASAP – most of you will take a month off in december or january for interviews, get certified on one of your off days. Also, most of your medical schools will offer these [...]