Making the Rounds

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Making the Rounds, a podcast from the American Medical Association, features advice, interviews and discussions on the most important topics impacting the lives and careers of medical students. Find all AMA podcasts at ama-assn.org/podcasts.

OCT 29

Leadership and advocacy opportunities during medical school, with Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA

What do residency programs care about the most? What does AMA do for medical school? How important is advocacy in medical education? Why is healthcare advocacy important? Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, and chair of the AMA Board of Trustees, discusses the vital role of health care advocacy for medical students and residents, and how involvement in organized medicine can enhance a candidate's residency application and contribute to their development as a physician leader. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

14 min
SEP 19

Meet Your Match | Perfecting your application packet with dean Mark C. Meyer, MD

From letters of recommendation to your CV, what does a complete residency application packet entail and where might students trip up?  In this episode, AMA senior news writer Brendan Murphy talks with Mark C. Meyer, MD, senior associate dean for student affairs at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, about mistakes to avoid and ways you can take your application to the next level. Get more from the interview -- read the article Brendan mentions, here: https://www.ama-assn.org/medical-students/preparing-residency/do-s-and-don-ts-cv-writing-residency-applicants

29 min
SEP 12

Tips for residency applications and how to best use program signals for Match 2025

Is residency signaling important? Why write a residency personal statement? Should I put geographic preference on ERAS? What makes a medical student CV stand out? Deborah Clements, MD, is chair of the department of family and community medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and program director for the McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Lake Forest. As a chair on the board of National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), Dr. Clements shares advice on how to stand out on your residency application.

9 min
MAY 7

Meet Your Match | How to transfer residency programs, with David Savage, MD

David Savage, MD, a hematology-oncology fellow at Scripps Clinic in California talks about the process of transferring residency programs. Dr. Savage draws from personal experience to offers insights on how those considering a transfer should approach that decision.

23 min
APR 16

Meet Your Match | Reapplying to Match, with Drs. Keirns and Irwin

Reapplying for Match and wondering where to start? Family medicine resident Thomas Irwin, MD, MBA, and his advisor Carla Keirns, MD, PhD, associate professor of medical ethics and medicine at University of Kansas Medical Center talk about strategies to do just that.

25 min
APR 1

Meet Your Match | Your relocation plan, with Leif Knight, MD

Get tips for navigating your upcoming move to your residency program's location. Leif Knight, MD (they/them) is a first-year emergency medicine resident at Brown University and shares their experience weighing the factors before they made their big move. As an AMA member, they serve as a delegate for the Residents & Fellows Section as well as Vice Chair of the LGBTQ+ section counsel with the AMA.

19 min
MAR 27

Match Day 2024 results: NRMP match rates by specialty and SOAP match statistics

What happens on Match Day? How many residency programs are there in the US? How many medical students matched in 2024? What happens if you don't match? Our guest is Jeanette Calli, chief of Match Operations, at the National Resident Matching Program. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

10 min
MAR 4

Meet Your Match | How to do Match Day your way

The public Match Day celebrations aren't for everyone. Haidn Foster, MD had a low-key Match Day experience and offers insight on the pros of that approach.

15 min

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08/23/2021

__jade

Love the HIT content!
Great, thought-provoking content!

08/12/2021

Jerry the Geriatrician

Love listening in, these hosts know what they’re doing!
Health IT Series

08/10/2021

medstudanon

Really enjoying this!! Quick and informative bites, excited for who’s to come
Pretty obvious information

09/15/2018

Studentqwerty

Could probably be edited to be 25% of current length. Not a Q&A format, more like a guest giving a lecture in front of his computer’s microphone. Tips were pretty obvious like: make sure your spouse wants to move to that city too, ask about leadership changes, ask current employees if they’re happy, ask questions to look like a good applicant.

Making the Rounds, a podcast from the American Medical Association, features advice, interviews and discussions on the most important topics impacting the lives and careers of medical students. Find all AMA podcasts at ama-assn.org/podcasts.