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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! Even if you had your heart set on a particular specialty, at this point, making sure you graduate with a JOB should be of utmost importance.

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2020 - 2021 Residency Season (Diary Posts)

Aspiring Minority Doctor

By the time most medical students get ready to apply for residency, they have already spent thousands of dollars just taking board exams alone, not to mention the other costs associated with being a medical student. It all adds up. Both institutions had assessments that were very different. That’s it for this post.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

It is a screening? Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

When I was a medical student, I actually worked with Elizabeth in her research group at OHSU. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. Anna 07:06 Thank you. Yeah, it’s a good question. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book.

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