Making the Rounds

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Making the Rounds

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.

  1. Replay: Assessing program culture during virtual residency interviews

    DEC 10

    Replay: Assessing program culture during virtual residency interviews

    Alison Schmidt, MD, a resident physician who went through residency selection virtually, offers advice on how applicants can get a feel for program culture during virtual residency interviews. Dr. Schmidt is an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Michigan Medicine.

    16 min
  2. Meet Your Match | Preparing for residency interviews with Leigh Eck, MD

    NOV 26

    Meet Your Match | Preparing for residency interviews with Leigh Eck, MD

    Which questions are you likely to hear during residency interviews? Leigh Eck, MD—the director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center—offers some tips on common questions and how to prepare for them.

    18 min
  3. Meet Your Match | How to highlight your passions during your residency interviews

    NOV 18

    Meet Your Match | How to highlight your passions during your residency interviews

    Charles Lopresto, DO gives tips on how residency applicants can highlight their passions and extracurricular experiences during interviews. Prepared to talk about your research project? Know how to answer about your experiences as an advocate? Dr. Lopresto covers all this and more.

    29 min

  4. 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
  5. Meet Your Match | Perfecting your application packet with dean Mark C. Meyer, MD

    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

  6. 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
  7. Meet Your Match | How to transfer residency programs, with David Savage, MD

    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

  8. 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
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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.

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