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101 Tips to Getting the Residency You Want: A Guide for Medical Students

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John Canady couldn't come up with 101 tips related to the title. Tips 45# through 93# were about travel, and had little or nothing to do with medical students.

It will sound a little bit strange when I say it's useful also outside the USA.
Because the author take in his viewpoints real and appropriate things and situation too.
I'm not saying that you must buy it but at least I know that everywhere it works in the same
fashion , so you choose !!!
from Tirana/Albania
Thank you
Faleminderit

Do medical students really need to be told "to know yourself and do what you want to do" and "realize that your residency is really connected to the rest of your life" (p. 3)? Have they not yet learned to "get to the airport early" (tip #65)? The useful information in this book could fit in a two-page handout. Poorly written (a typical sentence: "Just like before when I advised you to get information on different programs from people at different levels of practice and training, the same strategy goes for getting information about an individual program during your interview" [p. 27]) and poorly edited ("let the interviewer tell you something about themself" [p. 35]). The author advises "Be honest with the people who interview you" (tip #24), but then suggests "Consider buying back-to-back tickets" (tip #62) and "Consider buying hidden-city tickets" (tip #63), even though he warns that "if [the airlines] catch you doing this or anything else they consider illegal, they will void your entire ticket" (p. 57). Tip #74 recommends hotels with free transportation to and from the airport, then advises that "in the situation where the hotel is the wrong direction from the airport relative to the hospital where you will interview . . . just take the free shuttle back to the airport and then catch a cab to the hospital. . . . [If] anyone [says] anything about heading to the airport with no bags, you can just say you have a meeting at the airport and that should take care of it" (p. 64). Self-respecting medical students should steer clear of this book.

This is a great little book filled with very practical tips about getting the residency you want and how to set yourself apart from the competition. This is especially helpful if you are not at the top of your medical school class or if you are applying for a residency in one of the competitive specialties. If you want to know how to fully prepare for your interview trips, avoid awkward silences during your interview, and be the applicant the faculty remembers at the end of the day, then you need to read this book.

Since most of the medical students I interact with do an extensive amount of traveling to get to their sub internships or residency interviews the travel tips in the book would be very helpful and should save time, money and aggravation. Learning some lessons from someone who travels extensively will help you arrive as rested and composed as possible so you can perform your best.

I wish this book had been available when I was applying to medical school. It is a book I recommend to the medical students I currently mentor.