All right, welcome to episode 617 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

Into this podcast, I'm going to be addressing a very practical topic that I'm

titled How to Match into Internal Medicine.

How to Match into Internal Medicine.

To be honest with you, a lot of this advice also applies to many other disciplines,

but I'm really going to hone in on internal medicine is probably the most commonly matched into specialty.

So I think this is a podcast that you're going to find to be really helpful.

And this is going to be a very detailed guide.

All right.

So let's jump right into it.

There are obviously multiple components, but the first thing i want to talk about

here are scores right scores and again people always ask oh divine what's the score i need to get in

well here's the thing it's very context dependent it's very context dependent so i'm going to start off with

general a general scenario and then i'm going to go off with general, a general scenario, and then I'm

going to go specific, right? So the general scenario is this. The general minimum you want to have

for all comers, U.S. medical students, residency, you know, international medical graduates,

whatever. I'll see for all comers, you generally want to get at the minimum in the

two 30s or higher, in the two 30s or higher. The thing is in my experience, and again, I've

worked with many, many candidates over the years. There are some people that I've worked with

as, you know, with residency applications that are even now attendants, I've worked with lots of

residents, lots of attendance, lots of medical students. I will say in generally my experience,

if you have a decent application and you have a score in the 230s or higher, chances are

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