What does it take to match into the specialty and program of your choice?
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The book's author, Dr. Samir Desai, provides one-on-one consulting services to medical students and IMGs.
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Did you know...
In the 2012 NRMP Match, over 40% of all U.S. senior applicants failed to match at their top choice residency program. In competitive specialties such as dermatology, orthopedic surgery, and plastic surgery, over 20% of U.S. senior applicants failed to match at all. The numbers are significantly worse for osteopathic and international medical graduates.
Our aim is to help you match successfully.
Our best-selling book, The Successful Match, has helped thousands of applicants match successfully.
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Our Books
The Successful Match, our best-selling book on the residency match, was written with the express intent of helping applicants match with the program that they want.
A key to match success is clinical performance. Our newest book, Success on the Wards, was written to help students excel during clerkships. The book begins as a how-to guide, with sample notes and templates for each of the core clerkships. Using a combination of evidence-based advice, and insiders' perspective, the book also offers a wealth of information on how to excel in each of the areas that predict clinical performance.
The Successful Match Column
Our efforts extend beyond books to include regularly published columns on www.studentdoctor.net, in which we interview decision-makers in the residency selection process. Archived columns provide evidence-based recommendations on oral communication skills, interview preparation, and the importance of identifying mentors, among other topics.
Our Website
Our website has sections dedicated to each specialty. Each section contains a wide range of information and resources. In order to maintain our expertise, we regularly review the literature in the fields of medical education and the residency match. In each section, we've linked to topics and discussions that applicants will find useful. You'll find published information from decision-makers in the specialty, as well as discussions on the future of the specialty and current events impacting the field.
Consulting Services
For applicants who seek more in-depth, personalized advice, professional consulting services are available. We've helped hundreds of residency applicants reach their professional goals. Simply put, no one else can offer the knowledge, insight, expertise, and resources we can. After all, we wrote the book on matching.
Learn more about consulting services offered by MD2B. Schedule a free consultation.
Note: All applicants work directly with Dr. Samir Desai, the author of The Successful Match.
Who utilizes our consulting services?
An MS4 with 16 interviews for ophthalmology needing to match in a particular city for family reasons
An MS3 with USMLE Step 1 score of 198 seeking a residency position in anesthesiology
An MS3 with COMLEX Level 1 score of 450 seeking a residency position in emergency medicine
An MS3 who failed several clerkships seeking a residency position in neurology
An MS2 who needs a strategy to match with one of the top programs in her chosen field
An MS3 who failed the USMLE Step 1
An IMG who received only one interview for family medicine residency
An IMG who failed the USMLE Step 2 CK seeking a residency position in internal medicine
An IMG who failed to match into pathology because of no U.S. rotations in pathology
Each of these applicants achieved a successful match.
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