Getting into Residency? Here are some of my tips on how to successfully match!
Residency Statistics: Residency is very difficult and stressful time for all applicants and candidates. The book that was VERY helpful to me was the: The Successful Match 2017 by Anjana Katta, MD and Samir P Desai, MD. To give you my background story: I applied to Internal Medicine PGY-1 (stands for Post-Graduate Year 1) which is intern year. I applied to categorical programs, since I want to specialize in Internal Medicine. Internal Medicine residency is 3 years. As the years pass, each of the number behind PGY change. Starting second year, I will be called a "resident"... junior resident in PGY-2 year and senior in PGY-3 year. Just to give you a run-down of the number of programs I applied and the response: Applied: 147 Withdrew: 1 Rejected: 23 Invited: 20 (Scheduled: 20, Waitlisted: 1 - but ended up scheduling eventually, Declined: 0) This is a usual run-down for an average applicant (average scores and average CV). I applied to programs which had a pre-match pos