The IMG Residency Match Podcast Shawna-Kaye Lester

It's a wrap on season 1 of The IMG Residency Match Podcast!

Here is a recap of those who joined us to share their expertise on preparing for the match, successfully navigating the match process, and creating your dream medical career with you, Ambitious IMG.

Episode 1: How Badly Do You Want to Match featuring Dr. Khadija Tayabali

Episode 2: Love & Matching: How to Relocate With Your Spouse featuring Alicia Archer and Dr. Darren Bodkin

Episode 3: How to Blow Your USMLEs Out of The Water featuring Dr. Shion Betty

Episode 4: How to Make Matching and Medicine Work For You featuring Dr. Hodon Mohamed

Episode 5; How To Cultivate A Mindset That Help You Match featuring Seneca Williams, M.A.

Episode 6: The Top 4 Resources You Need To Match featuring Dr. Joselle Cook

Episode 7: How to Create and Crush a Career in Academic Medicine featuring Dr. Kemi Doll

Episode 8: How To Choose The Subspecialty That Is Perfect For You featuring Dr. Jovan Gayle

Episode 9: How To Make The Most Out Of Residency featuring Dr. Francis Christian

Episode 10: How To Balance Applying To The Match & Being A New Mom featuring Dr. Anna-Belle Robertson-Chung

Episode 11: How To Use Strategy And Mindset To Unlock Step 1 Success featuring Clarissa Guillen, RN

Episode 12: How To Go From Reapplicant To Chief Resident featuring Dr. Andre Morgan

Thanks for tuning in, and see you next season!

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HOW TO GO FROM REAPPLICANT TO CHIEF RESIDENT

When Dr. Andre Morgan graduated from Howard University’s internal medicine residency program earlier this year, he was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society.

AOA inductees are chosen for the honor because they have displayed a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research, and community service. It’s a great honor  in and of itself,, but it was the icing on the cake, considering that Dr. Morgan was also a Chief Resident of his program.

However, Dr. Morgan’s life over the last decade hasn’t been exclusively filled with lofty roles and selective awards. Rewind a few years and you’ll find a younger Dr. Morgan, determined not to give up on his goal of matching into residency in the United States, because he didn’t match after his first or second attempt.

How did Dr. Morgan go from being a 3-time match applicant to being a chief resident of his dream program? We get into that and much more in the Season 1 finale of The IMG Residency Match Podcast.

- This episode is for you if you want to learn about:

- The role that mentors played in Dr. Morgan’s career choice

- Why young Andre didn’t realize that he could be a doctor

- Where Dr. Morgan began his medical journey, and some of the countries he has worked in

- His most memorable patient experience (it’s a heme-onc tearjerker)

- Why he pulled out of his local residency program in Internal-Medicine and decided to apply to the NRMP match

- The mindset you must possess once you start thinking about applying to the match

- The social pressure that comes with not matching (you know, while all your classmates are moving on with their careers)

- The one piece of advice someone gave Dr. Morgan that encouraged him to apply a third time to the match

- How you can know when to give up on your match dreams if you’re an IMG who has applied multiple times

- What needs to change every time you apply to the match

- Dr. Morgan’s experience interviewing at his dream program the year he matched

- What it’s like to be a chief resident


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Thank you so much for tuning in to Season 1.  I thank you for your time and attention, and your feedback… Please join us for future seasons!

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The IMG Residency Match Podcast is brought to you by the IMG Residency Match Application Accelerator, a personalized, premium program to help ambitious International Medical Graduates prepare a residency application that gives them the best possible odds of matching.

Find out more at www.imgresidencymatch.com

To join the IMG Residency Match Accelerator, click here to apply for a suitability interview.

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Want our support so you can match?

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HOW TO USE STRATEGY AND MINDSET TO UNLOCK STEP 1 SUCCESS

This Learning Strategist Who Went From College Failure to Nursing School Superstar  Shares Her Methodology

Did you know that you can learn how to learn, Ambitious IMG? This week on the IMG Residency Match Podcast, Learning Strategist and Brilliance Coach, Clarissa Guillen, is going to tell you how—especially as it concerns your USMLE Step 1. 

We’re talking about how you can mindset work and strategic studying to improve your Step 1 performance. 

Clarissa has a powerful personal story: She went from being considered brilliant in her inner city high school to failing out of seven courses by the time she was a college junior. Subsequently, her academic advisor told her she would never make it in the medical field because she wasn’t smart enough.

At first, it seemed like her advisor was right and Clarissa did not have the skills to succeed. She graduated college with a 2.7 GPA, couldn’t apply to medical school, and got rejected from an accelerated nursing program. 

Clarissa was deflated; however, her boyfriend at the time—now her husband—encouraged her to pick herself up. So Clarissa spent an entire summer researching, learning, and testing myriad study skills and consistently applying the ones that worked. The result? She got accepted into nursing school with a 3.72 GPA and graduated with Honors. 

While working as a Registered Nurse, Clarissa founded an academic coaching company, She Rocks @ College. She has worked with over 300 students ranging from junior college to professional schools to help them to: 

- Crush their courses

- Improve their confidence 

- Create a balanced life (including study-free weekends) 

- Tune in if you want to learn:

- What exactly it means to work on your mindset

- How to use the syllabus to excel in any exam

- How to excel in your USMLE Step 1 exam

- Why focusing on the content Step 1 tests is the wrong approach

- What to do if you have failed Step 1 and are going to resit it



Resources mentioned in this episode included in the show notes at www.memorableessay.com/podcast/s1ep11     

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The IMG Residency Match Podcast is brought to you by the IMG Residency Match Application Accelerator, a personalized, premium program to help ambitious International Medical Graduates prepare a residency application that gives them the best possible odds of matching.

Find out more at www.imgresidencymatch.com 

To join the IMG Residency Match Accelerator, click here to apply for a suitability interview. 

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It doesn’t take long to recognize that when Dr. Anna-Belle Robertson-Chung sets a goal, she is serious about achieving it. 

A Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Internal Medicine resident, in today’s episode Dr. Robertson-Chung takes us with her on her journey of preparing for the match, creating her application, matching, and relocating to the U.S.

Her journey had a unique twist. Excelling at the residency match application process is hard enough. However, Dr. Robertson-Chung became a mommy at the beginning of her journey. 

In this week’s episode, we get into: 

-Why Dr. Robertson-Chung decided to apply to residency training in the U.S.

-How she managed to study for USMLEs while taking care of her newborn 

-The role her husband and other family members played in her being able to complete the match process

-How the match hurled her outside of her comfort zone 

-How her communication skills changed through working with Memorable Essay on her application 

-What match day felt like… after the many many years of hard work it took to get there...

-What you can expect after you match, Ambitious IMG

-What she does for fun 

-The one piece of advice she would give to her son

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The IMG Residency Match Podcast is brought to you by the IMG Residency Match Application Accelerator, a personalized, premium program to help ambitious International Medical Graduates prepare a residency application that gives them the best possible odds of matching. 

Find out more at www.imgresidencymatch.com 

To join the IMG Residency Match Accelerator, click here to apply for a suitability interview. 

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Want our support so you can match?

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How This IMG Went From A Having a Tough Time in College To Getting Into Two Highly Competitive Medical Fellowships

If anyone understands the ins and outs of becoming and being an International Medical Graduate, it is Dr. Francis Christian. This is due to his broad, firsthand experience with medical education. 

Dr. Christian completed high school in the island of Jamaica before moving to the United States and completing college,  then completing a master’s degree in biomedical sciences. Next, he began his medical studies at St. Matthew’s University in Grand Cayman. 

Once he matched into residency, Dr. Christian put the pedal to the metal to set himself up for fellowship success. He matched into a competitive Pulmonology and Critical Care Fellowship, and is now pursuing a second fellowship in Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess | Harvard Medical School. 

There is gem after gem in this interview for IMG medical students and residents alike. We get into: 

[4:53] Why Dr. Christian chose to attend a Caribbean medical school 

[8:35] 3 tips that IMGs can use to be successful in the residency match process 

[16:38] How he used his time during residency to become a competitive fellowship candidate 

[21:10] The power of unpaid research externships for the IMG with red flags who still wants to match into residency 

[24:04] Looking back, what he would change about his residency application process

[24:46] How being married to a physician impacted his experience in residency training 

[25:12] How he organized his time in a demanding residency to be able to do clinical care and research, and stay healthy 

[28:24] How IMGs can be strategic about where they do externships or rotate 

[29:30] What he does for fun 

[30:14] What it was like to welcome a baby during his first fellowship 

[31:02] What make the hard work worth it

 

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The IMG Residency Match Podcast is brought to you by the IMG Residency Match Application Accelerator, a personalized, premium program to help ambitious International Medical Graduates prepare a residency application that gives them the best possible odds of matching. 

Find out more at www.imgresidencymatch.com 

To join the IMG Residency Match Accelerator, click here to apply for a suitability interview. 

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When Dr. Jovan Gayle was in medical school, he thought he would become a surgeon. He ended up becoming an internist. When he started residency training, he thought he would become a cardiologist, but when it was time to apply to fellowship, he threw his hat in the ring for Pulmonology-Critical Care. 

Dr. Gayle encourages young physicians to enter residency with an open mind about what they will subspecialize in. He has simple, actionable advice for how to evaluate your choices and identify the subspecialty that is perfect for you. It includes keeping in touch with older colleagues, because they can give you the insider scoop about the pros and cons of working in a subspecialty. 

We also get into: 


[3:44] How Dr. Gayle decided whether to pursue residency training locally or internationally
The first steps to take once  you decide to pursue residency abroad 
[10:08] His advice for approaching Step 1 
[13:01] What he has found to be the best part of residency training  
[15:23] Dr. Gayle’s big professional goal
[21:36] The part of residency training that has surprised him the most
[23:42] The research experience he gained during his residency 
[ 26:12] The subspeciality he chose 
[27:45] Why he decided not to subspecialize in cardiology, which he came into residency loving 
[28:56] How to choose your subspecialty
[36:39] What Dr. Gayle wants his legacy to be

The IMG Residency Match Podcast is brought to you by the IMG Residency Match Application Accelerator, a personalized, premium program to help ambitious International Medical Graduates prepare a residency application that gives them the best possible odds of matching. 

Find out more at www.imgresidencymatch.com 

To join the IMG Residency Match Accelerator, click here to apply for a suitability interview. 

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=17346001&appointmentType=9498458

Want our support so you can match?

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR A FREE SUITABILITY INTERVIEW

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