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| From March to Match
Timeline
| It is VERY IMPORTANT that you monitor your EVMS
email account frequently during this process. If you are having any problems with your school account, please let Student Affairs know NOW so that we can have the problem
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These guidelines must be individualized as appropriate.
Students applying to the military match or specialties match (Neurology, Neurosurgery,
Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, and Urology) must conform to a different and earlier set
of deadlines.
March/April
- Select a
faculty advisor and
finalize fourth-year electives.
- Review your file in the Registrar’s Office. Begin to research off-campus electives.
Ask for an application and course catalogue or download information from the
Internet.
- Talk to current fourth-year
students who have just completed residency interviewing.
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May
- Get residency information. Use FREIDA –
www.ama-assn.org - or
the “AMA Directory of Residency Training Programs – Green Book.”
- Start thinking about who you
would like to write your letters of recommendation.
- Request application materials from
programs not participating in ERAS.
- Receive ERAS token from Office of
Student Affairs. A token is a number needed to work on ERAS.
- Away electives
- Early Match deadlines
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June
- Sketch out your
curriculum vitae – fill out the
activities form for your Dean’s letter.
- Have COLOR, wallet-size, 3.5 x 2.5, with light
background, photos taken. Get plenty – you will need them. Take the extras on your
interviews.
- Write your
personal
statement.
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Start to ask M.D.s if they would be willing to write letters for you.
- Meet with your
faculty advisor to discuss programs.
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Review your transcript, obtained from the Office of Student Affairs.
- Research residency programs'
Web sites.
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July/August
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September
- Begin work on
ERAS
and complete by the end of the month.
- Early Match application should be completed.
- Proofread closely and often.
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September 1: ERAS Post Office begins receiving supporting documentation for the programs to download.
- Complete a transcript request form
for your transcripts to be sent to ERAS. These requests should be
made periodically to ensure that your updated transcripts are sent.
- ERAS has made it possible for you to track your application with the
Applicant Document Tracking System (ADTS). The tracking system is available through ERAS on the
Internet and will provide applicants with up-to-date information on each document sent to each residency program. You will need our ERAS ID and password to access your information. This great service is available to all applicants after you have selected your programs, assigned your documents to the programs, certified, paid for, AND submitted your application. Go to the
ERAS web site to access this service. Student Affairs will begin scanning your letter after you certify and transmit your application. Remember that it is your responsibility to
follow up on letters that have not arrived. Please check the status of your application through
MyERAS (ADTS)
once you’ve submitted your application. Unless you are out of
town, please do not call for updates, just check online. All letters will be scanned into certified applications within two business days of receipt. (You may need to pleasantly remind your letter writers of deadlines).
- September 16th - suggested due date for ERAS Letters of Recommendation; however, many faculty submit letters to Student Affairs after this date. Evaluate your first copy of your Dean's letter from the Associate Dean of Student Affairs.
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October
- Verify that all programs have received completed applications.
- You can check the status of your application on ERAS to see which programs have downloaded your file, but if you do not hear from the program by the end of October or early November, it is probably wise to call and check on the status of your file.
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Interviews:
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schedule interviews (done mostly through e-mail and by phone)
- make travel and lodging
arrangements
(some programs pay for lodging and/or dinner the night prior)
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try to combine interviews to cities - call programs and request specific interview
dates
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Finalize all plans.
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Allow time to get additional loan to help defray costs of interviewing as needed.
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Review second rough draft of Dean’s letter.
- Schedule interviews.
- Review residency program
information before interviews.
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November
- Begin interviewing and continue with interviews. Most schools don’t interview until after they receive your Dean’s letter on November 1.
- Most programs e-mail or send letters for interviews – Try to always have access to your e-mail account.
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December
- December 2: Last day to register for the NRMP Match without paying a late fee.
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Continue interviewing.
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Write thank-you notes to interviewers and program directors. These can be handwritten or typed.
- Submit rank order list for early
Match.
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January
- Finish interviewing.
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Continue post-interview communications.
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Write letters to express your interest in programs.
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Telephone calls!
Have residency chairman and your advisor call your top program (if they are willing) to put in the “Extra Good Word.”
- Consider going for a “second look” at your top
choices.
- Start to formulate rank list for Match.
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Write back to programs you will rank, expressing intense interest.
- Results of early match are
distributed.
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February
- Finalize Match list.
- Input Match list.
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March
- Little sleep, much tossing and turning
- EVMS notified of students who did
not match on the Monday of Match week.
- Students that did not match will
"scramble" on Tuesday and Wednesday of Match week.
- Match on Thursday.
- Write thank-you letters to your advisor and letter writers, letting them know where you matched, and that you appreciate their help.
- Return signed contracts.
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