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• 🛑 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

• 💻 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

• 🙅 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'

• 📈 How to Excel on Audition Rotations

  Over the past few weeks, we've been talking about the upcoming transition of medical students starting their residency🩺. That's not the only big change this time of year though. For newly minted fourth-year medical students, these summer months are the time when many start sub-internships on

• 7️⃣ Seven Tips For USMLE Step 1 Success

  Dedicated USMLE study time is coming! Do you have the tools to succeed?🔨 As the school year nears its end, second-year medical students are gearing up to take the USMLE Step 1📝. I've already created hours of content like my USMLE Step 1 High Yield Images and USMLE

• ❌ Doing This One Thing Might Ruin Your Medical Education

  Happy Sunday!🌞 This week during rounds, I wanted to share some important advice for all the recently matched medical students. If you're currently doing clinical rotations or are starting rotations soon, keep reading because this is important for you also!👀 Matching into residency is an incredible feeling and

• ✉️ Dear Unmatched Residency Applicant

  ✏️This article was originally published in Doximity Op-Med in 2019. It has been reformatted and updated for the website! Match Week is an incredible time for fourth-year medical students. Logging on to NRMP to see that you have matched. Sharing the good news with family and friends. Opening that envelope

• 💫 I Learned an Important Lesson on Match Day

  Congratulations to everyone who had a successful match! I hope the celebration was enjoyable and that you were happy with the result😁. As Match Week 2024 comes to a close, I wanted to share my personal Match Day experience and an important lesson I learned that I've kept

• 😶 Match Week 2024: What if I Don't Match?

  Happy Saturday! Today is March 9th, which means we are just 2 days away from the start of Match Week 2024!👀 I decided to send this edition of Sunday Morning Rounds out one day early🌅 so that the helpful information here can circulate more. Last week during rounds, we talked

• 🔗 Preparing for Match Day 2024

  Match Day 2024 is less than three weeks away!😱 Finally, after months of applying, traveling, and interviewing, the moment every medical student dreams of is just on the horizon🌅. This is a time filled with excitement and anticipation!...but let's face it, as a medical student who has

• 🥇 Create Your Best Residency Rank List

  🔔An important reminder this week for Sunday Morning Rounds: The rank order list certification deadline for the 2024 Main Residency Match is on Wednesday, February 28th at 9:00 PM EST📆. Before you certify your list, watch my Tips for Creating Your Residency Rank List to make sure you have

• 📃 Resources for Residency Interview Season

  For the past several weeks, the Sunday Morning Rounds newsletter has taken a deep dive into the residency interview season🤿. We've covered everything from tips for nailing your residency interview🔨, to red flags you should know about in a residency program🚩, to what you should be doing after

• ☑️ Important Things to Do After Your Residency Interview

  Happy Sunday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday spending time with loved ones👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, eating delicious food🍗, watching football🏈, and snagging some great Black Friday Deals🛍️...I know I did! As we begin wrapping up tips and advice for the 2024 residency interview season, one area I wanted to

• 🗣️ Answering Your Residency Interview Questions

  Happy Sunday! As we continue along our journey discussing helpful tips and advice for residency interviews, I have a new video to share🆕. In this video I answer some of your questions regarding the residency interview season😄! Thank you so much to everyone who reached out. There were some great

• 💭 My Takeaways from Conducting Residency Interviews

  Earlier this week, I took part in residency interviews at my home program to select our latest class of emergency medicine residents!🏠 I love residency interview season because it gives me the opportunity to speak with medical students from across the country and hear their interesting and diverse stories.🤝 That

• 🚩Residency Program Red Flags You Need to Know

  Happy Halloween Eve Eve!🎃 These past few weeks we've been discussing some critical aspects of residency interviews and how to be successful on the interview trail🛤️. One thing that I mentioned in last week's newsletter is to always remember that as much as residency programs are

• ❓Questions to Ask During Residency Interviews

  Happy Sunday!🌞 So far during the past few weeks of rounding, we've discussed tips for how to excel during an interview and how to craft a high quality elevator speech to start the residency interview off with a bang💥. Now let's jump to the very end

• 🛗 Elevating Your Elevator Speech for Interviews

  First things first, congratulations to everyone who has started receiving residency or job interview invites🥳! Best of luck throughout the entire process🍀. For those who have yet to receive invites don't fret, stay positive, and be patient...it is still very early in the season! As we briefly

• 💼 Nailing Your Next Interview

  Fall is a critical time of year for many medical students and residents🍁. Fourth year medical students are submitting residency applications, while those nearing the end of their residency training are hunting for jobs🩺. Needless to say, there is a lot of interviewing going on. Over the next few editions

• 😣 The Hardest Part of Medical School, and How to Overcome It

  ✏️This article was originally published in the online magazine in-Training in 2016. It has been reformatted and updated for the website! During my first year of medical school, I had the privilege of speaking at several local high schools and colleges🗣️. The purpose of these engagements was to shed light

• 📋 Creating A High Quality Differential Diagnosis

  Picture this: You are the medical student (or resident) presenting a patient to your attending in the hospital🧑🏻‍⚕️. You asked all the right questions❓, did a proper physical exam💪, and took great notes📝. Then the attending asks the inevitable question that stops you in your tracks. "So what is

• 💪 USMLE & COMLEX Rapid Review

  Before going any further, I can't help but mention one of the core foundations of Med School Moose: ➡️High yield rapid review for the USMLE and COMLEX⬅️. In my opinion, this is what sets Med School Moose apart from a lot of the other resources out there⭐. Med

• 💊 Why Did I Choose Emergency Medicine?

  If you read my about page, I mentioned that I'm a practicing emergency medicine physician in addition to all the work I do on Med School Moose. For many of the medical students reading this, the obvious next question was "What made you decide to go into