Tips for the Residency Match: What Residency Directors Are Really Looking For [Paperback]

Tips for the Residency Match is a unique guide for medical students applying for residency positions. Packed with hints, tips, and recommendations from both program directors and current residents, Tips for the Residency Match chronologically covers the key information required to excel during the residency application process - from résumé advice and preparing for the interview and beyond. Both insightful and practical, Tips for the Residency Match features a wide spectrum of medical specialties and an extra section for foreign graduates.

Tips for the Residency Match is:

• Uniquely tailored to the needs of those applying for US residency positions
• Written by leading Residency Directors and current residents in the major specialties
• Offers unprecedented access to how departmental decisions about the Match are made

Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements  xv

Disclaimer xvii

About the Editors xix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1. The Match Alphabet Soup 5

Chapter 2. Specialty Selection – Where to Begin 17

Chapter 3. The Specialties – Program Directors’ Perspectives 37

Anesthesiology 38
Qi Cui Ott

Dermatology and “Med-Derm” (Internal Medicine and Dermatology) 44
Elena B. Hawryluk, Steven T. Chen, Vinod E. Nambudiri, and Rachel V. Reynolds