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Practical advice written by physicians, residents and students — matching, board exams, clerkships, interviews, letters of recommendation, personal statements and staying well while you train.

Residency Training, 8 min read

How Do I Increase My Chances of Matching in Orthopedic Surgery?

Miriyam Ghali, B.A.: Miriyam Ghali is an MD/MBA Dual Degree Candidate at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM), Class of 2024, and currently serves as the UMMSM Student Government Diversity Representative, American Medical Women’s Associati…

June 7, 2021
Extracurricular Activities, 7 min read

Does Publishing Articles Help You Match?

Luke Vest is a third-year medical student at Saint Louis University and has experience in clinical data analysis. Blake Vest, MD is a dermatology resident at the University of Iowa and is experienced in writing reports on dermatopathology. Krista Lentine, MD, …

April 29, 2021
Wellness, 5 min read

How To Prevent Medical Student and Resident Burnout?

Written by: Emily Orille, DO; is an emergency medicine doctor andassistant program director; and also sits on the Wellness Committee at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens Michigan.…

April 23, 2021
USMLE® & COMLEX® Test Strategies, 8 min read

How Do You Pick The Best Answers On The USMLE® and COMLEX®?

While there are a lot of “tricks of the trade” to getting multiple choice questions correct, the old adage “practice makes perfect” is the rule to live by. In our experience, students we mentor that see a minimum of 10,000 unique practice questions prior to an…

Consensus opinion provided by Jesse Cole, MD (AOA); Nick Lorenzo, MD (AOA); S Huntly Plantz, MD (AOA), Scott Dulebohn, MD, Bill Gossman, MD; and Martin Huecker, MD (AOA), March 25, 2021
Wellness, 10 min read

What Are Strategies to Avoid Burnout During Intense Studying?

Written by: Joshua Ginsburg an emergency medicine physician in Chalmette, LA. He received his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine, completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, and completed a fellowship …

March 25, 2021
Foreign Medical School Graduates, 14 min read

How Can a Foreign Medical Graduate Increase their Chances of Matching In The U.S.?

Matching into residency is a stressful process for anyone, and even more so for Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs). The application process is long, expensive, and very time intensive. While there are several more hurdles that FMGs face in this process, and whil…

Joan Noelker, MD, MACM is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Education for Emergency Medicine (EM), and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for EM. She has an MD from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a Masters of Medical Education from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Noelker completed her residency training, including a chief resident year, as well as a medical education fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U). She served as Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at Wash U for 4 years before transitioning primarily to undergraduate medical education (UME) work. She works clinically in the emergency departments at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospitals 60% of the time, and the remaining 40% is divided between curriculum development for the new Wash U Gateway curriculum (0.2 FTE), curriculum development for UME rotations in EM, teaching residents and medical students, and educational research. Dr. Noelker is also a member of the Wash U medical school and Wash U EM residency admissions committees. She has interests in simulation in medical education, transitions within medical education, undergraduate and graduate-level medical education, and dissemination of emergency medicine core knowledge through speaking engagements., March 24, 2021