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Enhancing the medical education continuum at the University of North Carolina

Explore innovations at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine to enhance and optimize the continuum from medical school to residency.

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Q&A: Why this medical student leader is an AMA member for life

Haidn Foster, MD, is the outgoing chair of the AMA Medical Student Section. He details how the AMA empowers students to move medicine forward.

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Nervous about your intern year? 3 resident physicians offer insight

The transition to residency is one of those drinking-from-the-firehose situations, but you’re not the first to go through it. Learn essential tips to succeed.

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Intern year will be hard, but you can rise to these 4 challenges

What stumbling blocks will PGY-1s encounter in the transition from medical school, and what does success look like? Learn with the AMA.

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Managing the transitions in medical education just got easier

A new AMA handbook provides guidance to make transitions across the medical education continuum less stressful and more productive.

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How virtual OSCE smoothed residency transition after COVID-19

Learn how five medical schools came together to adapt an in-person objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) to a purely virtual format.

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At NYU, coaching helps medical students’ move to residency

Learn with the AMA how pairing graduating students with coaches from residency faculty can smooth the transition and produce better, happier doctors.

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Med students one day, COVID interns the next: Early grads look back

Get perspective from medical schools and medical students about early graduation to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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Health systems science skills must survive transition to residency

Medical schools are teaching the essential topic, but a study suggests it will take more work to ensure it carries over to graduate medical education.

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