Specialty Selection & The Match

Advice and tips on how to prepare and excel in residency interviews. From Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University.

From the American Academy of Family Physicians.

From the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University.

Information, tips and samples targeted to current medical students.

This template is formatted specifically for Mayo medical students.

From Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University.

From the Tulane University School of Medicine.

From the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago.

From the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.

Excerpted from the AAMC Careers in Medicine website by Anita D. Taylor, M.A. Ed., Associate Professor & Director of Career Advising, Oregon Health & Science SOM.

Developed by Dr. James Woodruff, Associate Dean of Students, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

From Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University. Includes samples from Emeregeny Medicine, Internal Medicine, Urology and others.

Thorough guide written by Jeffrey G. Wiese, MD, Program Director of the Tulane Internal Medicine Team.

Developed by Dr. James Woodruff, Associate Dean of Students, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Brief (2-page) focused guide.

Helpful reminders for residency applicants who are foreign medical graduates.

Focuses on techniques to creating a memorable personal statement that will impress the reviewers.

By Michelle A. Finkel, MD. Dr. Finkel, formerly an Assistant Residency Director and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, is founder of Insider Medical Admissions, an advising service for residency, medical school, fellowship, post-baccalaureate, and dental schools applicants.

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