Preparing for Match Day & beyond

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After your medical residency interviews: Communication guidelines

After completing interviews for a medical residency program, many students wonder about contacting their choices. New suggestions for guidelines covering communication between graduating medical students and residency programs strive to ensure a productive and ethical exchange for everyone involved.

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What you need to know about away electives and Match

Med students wonder if taking an elective at another program helps them with Match. A study reveals if away electives affect rankings, along with what you need to know about their average cost.

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Study examines what it costs to interview for medical residency programs

Travelling to residency program interviews can be expensive. Desired specialities can add to costs. One study collected data on how residency applications impacted med students financially.

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Applying for residency programs: Fourth-year med students' essential checklist

4th year medical students applying for residency programs use this checklist of tasks you need to complete. Follow this month by month timetable to reduce stress.

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Why medical students aren't matching--and what happens next?

More than 250 of 2015’s graduating seniors from U.S. allopathic schools did not match to a residency position. The Association of American Medical Colleges suggests 7 reasons med school seniors failed to match.

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Is the growing number of unmatched medical students a crisis?

The rising number of unmatched U.S. medical school graduates is an issue of growing concern for many in medicine. Learn whether this is a crisis at a special session during the AMA Section on Medical Schools (SMS) 2015 Annual Meeting.

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Record-breaking Match sees higher percentage of unmatched seniors

The largest Match in the history of the National Resident Matching Program saw a higher percentage of medical school seniors failing to place into first-year residency positions. Get all the numbers on the 2015 Match.

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After you match, are you ready to pay your loans?

Match Day for medical residencies is only weeks away. It’s also a reminder that med student loan payments will soon come due. Are you ready?

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What it's like to experience the Match as a couple

Applying for residency positions with your partner is completely different when your partner is also applying to Match. One couple discusses what’s it like to experience the Match with your mate?

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