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How to make your ERAS residency application stand out

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Biggest Match Day ever: Here’s what the 2025 numbers reveal

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Match: Which specialties place most residents through SOAP

More than 700 programs took part in the Supplement Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) last year. Take a deeper dive into the numbers. 

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Use these strategies to create your residency Match rank-order list

As the Match rank-order list deadline nears, go with your personal preferences and carefully weigh every residency program you interviewed with.

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Top questions to help master life as a third-year medical student

This AMA FAQ helps medical students navigate the third year of training by offering insight on some common questions.

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Ease your Match rank-order list stress with these insights

Among the tips a wellness expert offers physician residency applicants: Maintain perspective and accept that you will never make the perfect list. 

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Match Day countdown: What medical students must do to prepare

The road to Match Day 2025 has many milestones. This guide offers insight on what to do at each step of the physician residency-selection process.

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International Medical Graduates (IMG) toolkit: Finding a residency

Steps and requirements needed for obtaining a residency program in the U.S. for international medical graduates (IMG).

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How making a big move can reshape your Match rank-order list

If you are pondering a major change in geography for physician residency, consider this expert advice on how to balance location preferences and future goals.

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5 things to do if you aren’t getting enough residency interviews

Have patience, understand the context and work your network. Learn from an expert about other moves to make if your interview count’s on the low side.

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