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The Residency Match: 101 Biggest Mistakes And How To Avoid Them Editorial Review: Will you be a winner on Match Day?
In late March, a life-changing day occurs for students at medical schools across the United States. On Match Day, students learn where they will be pursuing their residency training. For some, it is a time to rejoice. For others, however, there is bitter disappointment when the match does not turn out as expected.
Every year there are medical students who do not match at any residency program. There are many others who do match but are disappointed to learn that they did not match at one of their top programs. These outcomes often leave students wondering what went wrong along the way.
During every step of the residency application process, mistakes can be made that prevent you from matching with the residency program of your choice. Although these errors have been well known to those involved in the resident selection process, they are not well recognized by students applying for residency.
This book identifies the 101 all-too-common mistakes students make during the residency application process. It shows you how to avoid them so you don't fall into the same traps. Here are some of the mistakes you'll learn to avoid:
Mistakes made On the CV On the personal statement When interviewing When ranking residency programs And much more
Take charge of the residency application process, instead of letting it take charge of you.
Customer Reviews: Very good This book is perfect. It includes 101 really important mistakes, we IMGs do in the match process. It helped me a lot in the run for residency, but it cannot be used alone, since it includes clearly practical advice on clearly practical subjects. The positive in this book is that it can be read easily and fast, without tiring you at all. I think that alltogether with Iserson's guide it can be extremely useful.
Nothing good about this book No new information in this book, waste of your time and money, there are better books on this subject available. I returned it the next day to Amazon.
How to prepare for residency match this book is a great overview of how to organize your thoughts and the paperwork in preparation for NRMP. This book does not give you the specifics about each individual residency program, but does provide a timeline that should be followed.
One chapter describes what items to bring to the interview, how to act, and more importantly what are the DO NOTS!!
Highly recommend for thrid and fourth medical students.
An exellent and a must read book I participitated in the match last year and got 7 interviews(attended 6), but unfortunately didn't match due to lack of experience and inadequate preparation. When I read "The Residency match", noticed, the several mistakes that I made about my CV, personal statement and during my interviews were completely avoidable by following Dr Desai's recommendations. I believe he has done a wonderful job, I woud have memorized the book word by word if I had seen it before my interviews. I would rate this book 5+ Stars with no doubt.
Waist of money There is a reason this book is cheap. It is not the size (although it is tiny and thin). This is bok is basically a very basic checklist for preparing for MATCH. There is nothing about HOW to avoid the misytakes etc. It is just a marketing gimmic.
If you have the extra 15 bucks and want to support the author - go ahead, but don't expect ti find anything more then what is already out there on aamc website on on the multiple forums online.
Overall - sorry I bought it, but it was not too expensive.
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