In this month's webinar, Dr. Desai answers your questions about the residency match, your residency application, match strategy, and more.

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Questions and timing:
1) Do you have any tips for the supplemental ERAS application? - 5:28

2) Which parts of the supplemental ERAS application are most important? - 9:11

3) Is it frowned upon to apply for a preliminary and categorical position in one program? - 11:42

4) Once the preliminary year is done, do I have to take part in the Match again? - 15:01

5) I want to apply to a fellowship after residency. Are there any characteristics of a program that I should look for, that will help me get a fellowship position in the future (eg., university/community based)? - 17:27

6) What makes more sense strategy-wise with regards to supplemental ERAS – applying to a program that we really want but is pretty competitive vs applying to a program that is more attainable and geographically close? - 21:41

7) How do you know if the residency program is “good”? I care the most about education and becoming a doctor who has seen a lot of cases and who is an expert in the field. I’m not sure how to figure it out by program research. 25:11

8) What are the red flags we should be looking out for during program research? - 27:40

9) I came across program stating “if you’re an IMG you need to apply through ECFMG office”. Do they mean ECFMG certification or is applying through ECFMG an actual thing? - 30:47

10) When programs offer different tracks (hospitalist, primary care, and categorical), do we apply to a specific track or just the program, and later on we choose the track? And which track to choose if we want to pursue fellowship? - 31:38

11) One program said “you will need to get a LOR from a senior faculty member of medicine in replacement of the chairman’s LOR.” Who would be a senior faculty member in this case? - 35:04

12) Is it frowned upon if the applicants reach out to the program director to ask questions? - 38:17

13) How are the LORs written by non-American physicians taken/weighted by the program? - 39:48

14) What do you think about the chance of IMG with YOG with more than 5 years? - 42:17

15) I would like to know about the filter criteria by programs to select candidates for interviews. - 46:04

16) How to prepare for interviews? - 50:39

17) Is it worth applying to programs that sponsor J-1s but have a 0-1% non-US IMG percentage? - 53:41

18) Should I address not matching last cycle on my PS? (Only had 1 IV) - 56:19

19) Does having a higher Step 3 score than Step 2 matter in terms of getting interviews for someone with a failed Step 1? - 59:48