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5 Residency Application Tips for Success and Peace of Mind

Every year, fourth-year medical students stress about the September 15th deadline to submit residency applications. If you found this post, you are likely in pre-panic or full-on panic mode right now. More than that, you are looking for final-hour residency application tips to put your mind at ease. The process of compiling recommendation letters, transcripts, a personal statement, a CV, and a list of professional and personal activities can be quite daunting. I surely spent my fair share of time stressing over varying parts of this process. However, I compiled this list of residency application tips that can help you…

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It’s Time for a Revamp: Changes to the Blog Now That I’m Starting Residency

In case you’re new to my blog or you’ve somehow missed my 67,634,173 graduation posts on social media, two weeks ago, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with my Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees!! The past couple of weeks since graduation have been wonderful. I’ve been able to read, relax, travel, spend time with family and friends, and think about how I plan to incorporate blogging into my career going forward. Now that I’m inching closer to starting residency, I’ve been purposefully reflecting on what type of blog content I want to create…

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How to Position Yourself to Buy a House Before Residency

The start of residency is a huge transition. Specifically, thousands of newly-minted doctors prepare to move around the country to start their residency training programs. Most medical students spent their time in medical school renting apartments. So the transition to residency often brings up an important question: Should you continue to rent or should you buy a house before residency? Unfortunately, there isn’t any teaching in medical school about how to position yourself to buy a house before residency (or at any point for that matter). More than that, owning a home is expensive and the average medical student in…

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I Matched into a Psychiatry Residency Program!

On Monday, March 11th, I found out that I matched into a psychiatry residency program!!!! I don’t know yet where I will train as a resident psychiatrist, but I sure am happy to know that I matched! To me, Monday was the most relieving part of the residency interview process. Months of waiting and uncertainty came to a close when I learned that I matched! Over the past few months, I interviewed all over the country, met with dozens of faculty and residents, and stressed over making my rank list. For those who don’t know, the rank list is where residency…

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Tips to Make the Residency Interview Trail A Fun Process

The residency interview trail can be rough. However, if you’re proactive in your planning, the residency interview trail can actually be a lot of fun! (Or at least as fun as job recruiting can be). Below are five tips that can allow you to actually have fun as you interview for residency, based on my experiences with the residency interview trail so far. 1. Don’t schedule too many residency interviews This first tip is easier said than done given the neurotic tendencies of most medical students, but it’s probably the simplest way to ensure that you don’t burn out during the…

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