In reviewing residency applications, physical medicine and rehabilitation residency programs will place considerable emphasis on your performance during the physiatry rotation or clerkship. In the 2016 NRMP Program Director Survey, "grades in clerkship in desired specialty" was an important factor used by physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program directors in deciding whom to interview. Program directors rated it 4.5 in terms of importance on a scale of 1 (not at

The neurology clerkship is a required or core rotation in over 90% of U.S. medical schools. Although most students rotating through the Department of Neurology will not become neurologists, this is an important rotation no matter what specialty is eventually chosen as a career choice. Neurological problems are common, and many patients will initially present to other providers. Unfortunately, the evidence indicates that many non-neurologists are uncomfortable with the evaluat

Although NRMP data indicates that otolaryngology has become a bit less competitive over the past 3 years, it continues to attract far more applicants than available positions. In deciding whom to interview, programs will use a variety of residency selection criteria. In the 2016 NRMP survey of otolaryngology residency program directors, "grades in clerkship in desired specialty" was cited as an important factor by 83% of programs. It received a mean importance rating of 4.7 o

Over the past 15 years, there have been multiple studies examining the rate of publication misrepresentation among residency applicants applying to different specialties. These studies have consistently shown that misrepresentation does occur, with rates varying from 2 to 45%. The most competitive specialties and programs tend to place much more emphasis on an applicant's scholarly productivity. These programs attract many applicants with high USMLE scores, outstanding clerks

If you're a residency applicant, you've nearly come to the end of a grueling process. To recap, you agonized for weeks about your personal statement, pored over your application again and again looking for typos, applied to countless residency programs, practiced answering hundreds of interview questions, and spent thousands of dollars to traveling from one program to another. Now there's one final task left: the creation of your rank list. Errors made at this last step in th

By Dr. Samir Desai Over a decade ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges urged U.S. medical schools to expand enrollment to meet the needs of an antcipated physician manpower shortage. Earlier, it was thought that we would be short of as many as 130,000 physicians by 2025. Recently, that number has been readjusted to 90,000 physicians. Allopathic and osteopathic medical schools responded by enrolling more medical students. Over the past few years, we have had an inc