Personal Statement Writing for Residency Applications
The personal statement matters more in Family Medicine than it may in other specialties, so learn how to make it good and show how wonderful YOU are.
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The Match
It’s February and Rank List Day is Coming
It’s that time of year again, when fourth year MD and DO medical students agonize over finalizing a Rank List
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DO Match Week is Nearly Here
On Monday February 5th the AOA Match will release its results into the wild, causing joy and unfortunate scrambles. It’s
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SOAP 2017 and You
Tomorrow is the start of Match Week 2017. Across the country fourth years will be anxiously awaiting an email stating
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Five Tips for Rank Order Lists
Poor fourth years… you’ve applied, you’ve been interviewing, you’re exhausted and it’s already time to start making decisions about which program is
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Questions to Ask at Your Interviews
There are a ton of potential questions, to help determine if a program is a good fit for YOU. So
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FM: Opposed versus Unopposed
“Is your program opposed or unopposed?” It’s the second question I asked of each program at last year’s AAFP conference, but it’s
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AAFP’s Strolling Through the Match
Each year the AAFP releases a lovely PDF of information about the Match specifically for those of us who are
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Scheduling Residency Interviews in 4th Year
It’s August, so it’s time to start scheduling residency interviews, if you’re a fourth year DO student. For the MD students
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Joining Family Medicine via the Scramble
The AOA Scramble Overview Back in February, Pixie wrote an article about the osteopathic options post-Match, and discussed whether those who found themselves un-Matched
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