Category Archives: Residency programs

What’s Your Specialty? – Winning Personal Statements for Internal Medicine and Family Medicine

If you’re planning on specializing in either internal medicine or family medicine for your residency training, it’s important that your personal statement reflect your strengths in two key areas: personability and vast, general medical knowledge. Because these two specialties involve … Continue reading

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Medical school’s out for summer?

Remember your summer days growing up? Laying out beside the community pool, chasing the ice cream truck down the cul-de-sac, sleeping in, staying up late watching movies. That was the life—was being the operative word in that sentence. Med students, … Continue reading

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Personal Statements: A few tips for the hopeful applicant

Imagine, if you will, the thrills and joys of being a residency/fellowship program director. Your day is long, full of countless responsibilities—and during the ERAS application process this delightful list of responsibilities grows even longer. Come mid-afternoon you feel like … Continue reading

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More factors to consider when choosing a specialty

To continue where I left off, here are three more factors to consider when choosing your medical specialty: 4) Make sure to factor in lifestyle considerations. Before choosing a specialty, the potential physician should spend time evaluating his or her … Continue reading

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Medical specialties: think before you choose

Terry is one of the staff of writers for The Doctor Job. Do you need your personal statement edited, or do you need help in writing one from the beginning? Click here for more information. Once in a while when … Continue reading

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Desperate for a job? Don’t let on that you are.

Whether you’re a physician struggling to make ends meet financially, your H-1 or J-1 visa is expiring, or you simply can’t take one more second practicing at your current position, you NEED a new job and you need it now. … Continue reading

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Avoiding the Cliché Personal Statement

Terry is one of the staff of writers for The Doctor Job. Do you need your personal statement edited, or do you need help in writing one from the beginning? Click here for more information. “Why I want to be … Continue reading

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Putting the “personal” into your personal statement

Terry is one of the staff of writers for The Doctor Job. Do you need your personal statement edited, or do you need help in writing one from the beginning? Click here for more information. One of the biggest problems … Continue reading

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Should poor test scores/grades be mentioned in a personal statement?

Terry is one of the staff of writers for The Doctor Job. Do you need your personal statement edited, or do you need help in writing one from the beginning? Click here for more information. There is no simple “yes” … Continue reading

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Residency and fellowship program directors

There are two types of program directors. First, the bad ones. They just don’t care anymore. They’ve lost the desire to help their residents or fellows and just see them as cheap labor to be exploited and used until they … Continue reading

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