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…
This is one of the most stressful times of the residency Match cycle. After all your hard work to put together your application, it can be discouraging to discover you didn’t get any interviews, you were offered too few, or…
This is an incredibly challenging position to be in. You worked so hard to get through medical school and put together the best application you could…and it hasn’t worked out the way you hoped it would. First, let me say…
Blueprint Test Prep Launches the New Med School Study Planner: Updated. Enhanced. Still Unmatched. Medical students, 2022 is going to be your year! Blueprint Test Prep—the company that’s helped thousands of students crush the MCAT to get into med school—is…
I was quite shocked when I first heard the USMLE Step 1 exam was considering changing to a pass/fail scoring system. I knew what a big deal the exam was, and how much time and effort I had put into…