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Residents offer M4s their top lessons on the Match process

If you’re heading into the residency-selection process, be sure to refine your conversation skills and know how and when to self-advocate.

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency
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Program directors list 4 red flags for residency applicants to avoid

Learn more with the AMA about the missteps that could prevent you from landing an interview at your dream residency program.

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The Road to Residency
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IMGs: These 4 tips can help you succeed with Match

About six in 10 international medical graduates matched in 2021. These tips offer insight on how an IMG can find a residency program that fits.

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency
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What M4s should know about new supplemental applications

If you’re pursuing an internal medicine, dermatology or general surgery residency position, here’s what you need to know about this new application option.

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Residency applications: How M4s should address COVID-19’s impact

The pandemic has upended your medical school experience. Here’s how to address that in your personal statement and residency interviews.

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency
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Residency match made simple: From M4 to PGY-1 in 6 steps

The residency selection process can be overwhelming. These six steps can help simplify a rigorous process for future interns.

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency
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3 ways the pandemic may change residency selection going forward

The pandemic caused adaptations to the residency-selection process. Which of those short-term adjustments should be kept for the long term?

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency
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How demands on residency applicants are growing

Data show medical students are asked to do more to earn a training spot. Time to focus more on making great doctors, not better residency applicants.

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency
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2021 Residency Match: Examining outcomes for SOAP, IMGs

Learn with the AMA about notable trends this year in the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) and among international medical graduates (IMGs).

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Preparing for Residency
The Road to Residency