While some dates on the calendar are fixed, such as your birthday, a vacation you have planned, all the holidays you celebrate, etc… USMLE Step 2 is a bit trickier! Sure, you know it will happen at some point this…
USMLE preparation is no small task, and it’s easily the most crucial step in any medical student’s future. When you’re preparing for the USMLE Step 1, it’s important to have a strong study plan. This helps you organize your time…
As you’re getting ready to start working on your ERAS application, hopefully, you have started to consider whom you should ask for letters of recommendation (LORs). If you haven’t already, you should start asking your letter writers soon, as you…
When USMLE announced that Step 1 was transitioning to a pass/fail grading system, medical students everywhere let out a sigh of relief. Gone were the days of memorizing every enzyme in every pathway! Unfortunately, while there is a push for…
After years of residency consulting, helping students take their personal statements to the next level has become my forte and my joy. Every medical student has a lifetime of interesting stories to share, and the personal statement is the perfect…
The end of PGY3 is a busy, exciting, and chaotic time in residency. You’re applying for jobs, planning a move for a new fellowship, and/or working intense rotations. Amidst all the logistics of finishing residency, it can be easy to…
There are few things more unbearable than mandatory meetings about burnout. It usually goes something like this: the institution tells you why you are burnt out, then offers a paradoxical solution to the problem. You are burned out because you…
“January 26, 2022, a date which will live in infamy.” –unattributed. Or maybe FDR. Cannot recall. If you are anywhere in the medical education realm, you know this date as the moment when the USMLE transformed Step 1 from a…
It probably feels like you just finished applying to residency, and you were hoping never to open ERAS again. But now fellowship applications are creeping up. Amidst the hectic life of residency, it can be hard to plan ahead for…
After a difficult year of COVID and an all-virtual application cycle, congratulations on matching into residency! This is the culmination of years of hard work on your part, and you should be proud to enter this next phase of being…