Dominate the Match – Episode 5: "Meet the Match-2024”

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of year (again!)- when medical students across the country are preparing their residency applications. The process can be a bit daunting, and there have been a number of changes to process for the 2024 application cycle. Join our education fellow, Dr. Jessica Millar, and Dr. David Hughes as they review the “nuts and bolts” of this year’s residency application cycle.

Guests:
David Hughes, MD- Clinical Associate Professor of Endocrine Surgery, General Surgery Residency Program Director- University of Michigan

Important Dates:
- June 7, 2023: ERAS application opens at 9 a.m. ET.
- September 6, 2023: Residency applicants may begin submitting MyERAS applications to programs at 9 a.m. ET.
- September 15, 2023: Deadline to register for NRMP
- September 27, 2023: Residency programs may begin reviewing MyERAS applications, MSPEs, and supplemental ERAS application data (if applicable) at 9 a.m. ET.
- October 26-31, 2023: Common Interview Release Window

Previous DOMINATE the Match Episodes:
Episode 2- “Choose Me” (Personal Statements and Letters of Recommendations)
https://behindtheknife.org/podcast/dominate-the-match-episode-2-choose-me/

Episode 3- “The Interview”
https://behindtheknife.org/podcast/dominate-the-match-episode-3-the-interview/

Episode 4- “Rank and Match”
https://behindtheknife.org/podcast/dominate-the-match-episode-4-rank-and-match/

Residency Program Lists:
- FREIDA Residency and Fellowship Database: https://freida.ama-assn.org/
- Doximity: https://www.doximity.com/residency/?utm_campaign=marketing_resnav_competitor_broad_20210520&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKCAjwt52mBhB5EiwA05YKo1J47BLAtTPtsJBmVvXGP2pDXLLqgDIwM0pgkSYjoBhFUOO1ktXDYRoC2bkQAvD_BwE

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Behind the Night, the Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you
0:12.0	dominate the day.
0:22.5	Welcome back to Behind the Night.
0:23.5	I'm Jessica Malar, PG-I-5, General Surgery resident at the University of Michigan and
0:27.9	one of the behind-the-knife education fellows, and it's that time of year again when medical
0:32.6	students are carefully crafting their residency applications.
0:36.5	Last year, we created our dominate the match series where we discussed the application process,
0:40.6	personal statements, interviewing tips, especially virtually, and ranking.
0:45.1	We received amazing feedback from it, and to help our wonderful medical student listeners
0:49.4	navigating the process this year, we're here to discuss all of the changes and updates
0:53.7	to the process for the 2024 application cycle.
0:57.6	While we will be primarily focusing on the application cycle as it relates to general
1:01.4	surgery residency, we hope medical students applying to other surgical specialties will
1:05.6	find some useful information and tips as well.
1:08.0	Okay, that's enough for me.
1:09.8	Let me introduce our wonderful guest for today's episode, Dr. David Hughes.
1:13.8	Dr. Hughes is an endocrine surgeon and the residency program director at the University
1:17.2	of Michigan, and thank you so much for being here again to offer up all of your expertise.
1:21.2	Thanks for having me back.
1:23.2	All right, so let's just start with the important dates for this year's applications.
1:27.2	Great.
1:28.2	So the ERAS application officially starts on June 7th, which is obviously already happened.
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