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• 🌷 What I've Been Up To: 2026 Q1 Recap

  Happy Sunday friends! 🌷 If you've noticed a lot more activity from Med School Moose recently, there's a reason for that 📈. As April wraps up and I complete my quarterly review 🔍, two of my 2026 goals were top of mind: hitting 20,000 YouTube subscribers and getting

• ⏳ Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman

  A productivity book that will mess up everything you think you know about productivity. My favorite book of 2024!

• 🪞 What Did You Learn From Match Day 2026?

  Happy Sunday friends! ☘️ CONGRATULATIONS to all the amazing future physicians who had a successful Match Day 2026 🥳. This was the largest Match Day ever, so I hope it was filled with tons of joy and celebration 🎉. Matching into residency is a massive accomplishment and something to be proud of 👏. Now

• 💚 Feel Good Productivity - Ali Abdaal

  A down to earth take on getting things done while enjoying the process.

• 🌤️ Blue Sky, Productivity High

  Happy Sunday friends! 💘 🔔 Quick reminder if you're participating in the 2026 Match: The rank order list certification deadline for the 2026 Main Residency Match is on Wednesday, March 4th at 9:00 PM EST 📆. Definitely check out this video on tips for creating your rank list ☑️, and maybe

• 😟 Change, Control, and Letting Go

  Hey friends, cheers to the first edition of Sunday Morning Rounds in 2026! 👏🏼 With the start of a new year comes change. Some expected, some unexpected 😵. Some immediate, and some in the near future 🔮. As I've been thinking about and planning for upcoming changes this year, I keep

• ⭐️ Med School Moose 2026 Outlook

  Happy Sunday friends! 🎆 Since this is the last time we are rounding in 2025, I wanted to talk about 2026 plans for Med School Moose 💡. Last week we discussed all the amazing things that happened in 2025, so be sure to check that out if you haven't already

• 🥳 Med School Moose 2025 Year in Review

  Happy Sunday friends! Christmas may not be coming early, but this edition of Sunday Morning Rounds is! 🎄 I hope everyone is gearing up to enjoy some time with family and friends during the holiday season ☃️. And yes, that includes fourth-year med students still on the residency interview trail 😅. Maybe check

• 👌🏼 Changing Your Life By Going Micro

  Happy Sunday friends! 🦃 I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving with friends and family 🩵 and found some killer deals for Black Friday 😈. Around the holidays many people (me included) take time to reflect on things like relationships, goals, and habits 💭. I recently read the book Tiny Tweaks, Huge Gains by

• 🥷🏽 Code of the Samurai - Thomas Cleary

  An exploration of the tenets that guided samurai in their daily lives, and how we can apply them today.

• 🐌 You Need to Slow Down.

  Hey friends, happy Sunday before Halloween! 👻 ❓ Let's start with a question: What is the best piece of advice you've received about working in medicine? Back when I was a medical student on rotations 👶🏻, I received some wisdom from an anesthesiologist that really stuck with me: "

• ⚔️ Tips to Conquer Your Next EM Away Rotation

  Happy Sunday friends! 🍁 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Tips to help you crush your next EM sub-I/away rotation ✅ A brand new video series I recently created ✅ Must-have residency interview gear …and more! 1️⃣ First things first: If you're a fourth-year medical student currently doing your

• 👉 Preparing for the 2025 Residency Interview Season

  Happy Sunday friends! 🌻 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Advice on preparing for residency interview season ✅ Helpful articles on interview topics ✅ Products to help you crush your interviews …and more! This newsletter is going out at the end of August, but in just a few days on September 3rd,

• ‼️ If You Work In Medicine, You Need This Reminder

  Happy Sunday friends 🎆. This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds will be a bit different 🧐. While I love discussing topics like studying and productivity, I also want to create space for stories in medicine and highlight the challenges healthcare workers face – including my own 🙋🏽‍♂️. Recently, I took care of a patient

• 🇮🇹 What Italy Taught Me About Problem Solving

  Ciao from Italy! Recently as I roamed the historic streets of Rome and Florence, appeasing my inner history nerd and indulging in pizza 🍕 and gelato🍦, I searched for my latest lifestyle souvenir ✨. A lifestyle souvenir is what I call all the lessons I learn from the local culture and traditions

• 🤸🏻 Finding Balance in Medicine

  Happy Sunday friends! 😎 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Honest advice on how to stay well in medicine ✅ Helpful resources for new interns starting residency ✅ Amazing products I've been using recently …and more! June is a crazy time of year 🤪. Not only is it the halfway point

• 🚀 Tools That Leveled Up My Productivity

  Hey friends, happy Sunday! ☁️ This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Resources to help reshape your productivity ✅ Fantastic Amazon productivity finds ✅ Powerful techniques for getting things done …and more! With summer rolling around and temperatures hitting downright scary numbers here in Arizona 🥵, I’ll be spending a lot of time

• ☀️ USMLE & COMLEX Summer Resources

  Hey friends, happy Sunday!🌷 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ FREE content to help you prepare for upcoming board exams ✅ Deals on question banks and other study resources ✅ Strategies to take your studying to the next level …and more! As summer approaches, many people are gearing up for board

• 🎋 Kaizen, Shinrin-Yoku, Kintsugi - Clarissa Mona

  A book that covers three important concepts of Japanese culture and their relationship to change and self-improvement.

• 🛤️ Is Your 2025 On Track?

  Hi friends, and happy Sunday! 🍀 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Tips on maintaining balance and productivity through 2025 ✅ Resources for medical students who recently matched into residency ✅ Tools to empower you to get things done and feel fulfilled along the way ...and more! First things first though...a

• 🪨 This Task is Ruining Your Productivity

  Recently, I was listening to an emergency medicine podcast when one of the hosts threw out a term I had never heard before🎧. Si-ssa-phy-sian. I was immediately confused 😵. I knew the topic of the podcast, but was this a new medical term or condition I hadn't heard of?

• 👀 My Thoughts on Match Day 2025

  Happy Sunday friends!💘 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Tips and thoughts on Match Day 2025 ✅ A brand new Med School Moose partner to help med students and residents ✅ Insights into my own Match Day experience ...and more! But first, an important reminder📣: The rank order list certification deadline

• 🎥 Med School Moose YouTube Roundup

  Hi friends, it's time for a YouTube Roundup!🐎 I'll be posting these updates from time to time to highlight recent videos on my YouTube channel so you can be sure you don't miss any content!😸 My latest video was the kickoff of a brand

• 🟩 How to Start 2025 the Right Way

  Happy Sunday friends, and cheers to the first Sunday Morning Rounds of 2025! 🥂 This edition of Sunday Morning Rounds features: ✅ Advice for fourth-year med students creating their residency rank list ✅ Videos to help EM residents prepare for a big upcoming exam ✅ Brand new book notes ...and more! Be sure to

• 💭 Comments Are Now Turned On!

  Have you been dying to share your thoughts on one of my many articles on topics for medical students, residents, studying, or productivity?🤔 Well now you finally can!😁 Starting today, comments will be turned on for all articles on the website. My hope by enabling comments is that users like

• 👋🏻 Goodbye, Things - Fumio Sasaki

  A worthwhile read on Japanese minimalism and how to part with old, forgotten, and no longer needed items.

• 💵 The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

  A deep dive into understanding our thoughts and feelings about money, and how that can help us learn to better manage it.

• 🔭 Med School Moose 2025 Outlook

  Happy Sunday friends!🎆 For this last Sunday of 2024, I wanted to spend rounds talking about plans for the future of Med School Moose for the upcoming year🔮. Med School Moose is growing rapidly📈, and you can read all about some things we've been working on lately in

• 🗓️ Med School Moose 2024 Year in Review

  Happy Sunday friends, and greetings from England!💂🎡 I am currently on vacation in London and will soon be heading to Belgium to explore Christmas markets and eat tons of chocolate🎄🍫. Nevertheless, Sunday morning means rounding!👨🏽‍⚕️ As 2024 comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on everything Med School Moose

• 🐣 Overcoming Mental Blocks with A Beginner's Mind

  Previously, we've covered a lot of wonderful concepts like time blocking, habit stacking, and The Pareto Principle that can help boost our productivity and efficiency📈. Today, let's introduce a new concept🆕. Have you ever been working on an assignment or tackling a project, when suddenly you

• 🧬 Sunday Morning Rounds is Evolving...

  Happy Sunday friends!❄️ Today I wanted to share an important update regarding the Sunday Morning Rounds newsletter🗞️. For over a year, Sunday Morning Rounds has been a place where we've discussed study tips🧠, productivity hacks⚡, residency interview advice💼, and so much more. From everyone I've spoken

• ⭐ Resources for Residency Interview Season

  For the past several weeks, we've been diving into every aspect of residency interviews on Sunday Morning Rounds🤿. We've covered what questions to expect during the interview❓, interview mistakes to avoid🙅🏼‍♂️, some tips for virtual interviews💻, and so much more. Now it's time to

• 🛑 Don't Do This During Your Residency Interview

  Between conducting residency interviews at my home program🏠 and helping students prepare for interviews with Interview Boost👓, I've had the opportunity to speak to a lot of medical students across the country. And so far, there's one big issue I've noticed medical students doing

• 🛜 Perfecting Your Virtual Residency Interview Setup

  A couple weeks ago, we talked about tips for virtual residency interviews. At the top of that list was optimizing your space, i.e. making sure you have a high quality computer/desk setup to maximize performance for interviews🧑🏻‍💻. Today let's take a closer look at that🔎. As

• 🧠 Building A Second Brain - Tiago Forte

  A transformative guide on capturing, organizing, and accessing knowledge to boost creativity and productivity. My favorite book of 2023!

• 👹 Monsters and How to Tame Them - Kevin Hart

  A candid guide with Kevin Hart's trademark humor on how to conquer personal fears and inner obstacles.

• 🤬 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck - Mark Manson

  A refreshingly blunt guide to prioritizing what truly matters and letting go of everything else.

• ⭕ Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

  An eye-opening look at the unexpected factors that drive extraordinary success.

• 🌈 The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

  An exploration of creativity as a way of life, with insights on how to nurture your unique artistic vision.

• 🗣️ Platform - Michael Hyatt

  A practical blueprint for building influence and reaching a wider audience in the digital age.

• 💻 Tips for Virtual Residency Interviews

  Following the Covid-19 Pandemic several years ago🦠, many residency programs started opting for virtual interviews. While some programs have gone back to primarily in-person interviews and others have adapted a hybrid model, we're bound to encounter a virtual residency invite at some point🖥️. Although virtual interviews are a

• 📢 The Most Important Part of a Residency Interview

  Over the past few weeks, we've been dissecting various parts of the residency interview process, including the best way to start a residency interview and residency interview mistakes to avoid. One thing we haven't quite discussed yet though is what I believe is the most important

• 🌍 Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

  A thrilling race against time where adventure, curiosity, and resilience intersect.

• 🙅 Residency Interview Mistakes to Avoid

  Recently, we were talking about starting our residency interview off on a high note with a good elevator speech🎶. Be sure to check out that article out if you haven't already read it! Today, let's take an opposite approach: What are some mistakes to absolutely avoid

• 💼 The Best Way to Start a Residency Interview

  As September comes to a close, residency interviews are on the horizon🌅. Last week during Sunday Morning Rounds I shared my free list of residency interview questions, which can be accessed at any time on my resources page🆓. At the very top of that list of questions to expect on

• 🤔 What Questions Will I Get During My Residency Interview?

  With residency interview season looming around the corner, medical students are starting to get (understandably) stressed😰. Lately when I've been working with students and there's downtime on shift, I try to ask if they have any questions I can answer🤔. After all, I was a medical

• 📝 Tips for Completing 2025 ERAS (Part 2)

  Happy Sunday friends!😸 We are already halfway through September, which is absolutely ridiculous😱. Last week during rounds, we talked about general tips for completing ERAS for the upcoming residency interview season. As a reminder, residency programs will be able to review applications starting on September 25th, so be sure you&

• 📝 Tips for Completing 2025 ERAS (Part 1)

  Hi friends, happy Sunday and happy September!🗓️ As fall approaches🍁, this marks the time of year when medical students and residency programs start to gear up for the residency interview season ahead of Match 2025. Med School Moose will of course be covering various topics throughout the interview season here

• ☠️ Every Patient You See is Dying.

  Happy Sunday!🌞 Last week during rounds, I discussed my takeaways from watching medical students complete away rotations in our department so far🧑🏼‍⚕️. One thing I started thinking about is that some medical students (and even some interns) have a tough time getting into the emergency medicine doctor mindset🤨. Being an

• 🚑 My EM Away Rotation Takeaways So Far

  Happy Sunday friends!😁 As we close out August, I thought this would be a good time to share some tips and takeaways regarding emergency medicine away rotations🥼. By now, many medical students who are applying to emergency medicine for residency have had at least 1 EM rotation🚨. Hopefully you'