You may have had to celebrate Match Day alone with your cat, but hey, you matched! And you might have even participated in OME Match Day Live! and gotten a shout-out. Because although you were stuck at home, your accomplishment deserved to be shouted from the proverbial social rooftops! P.S. If you haven’t celebrated yet, please get on that immediately. You deserve it! We can wait… Okay, first things first. …

Everyone has Match Day anxiety of some kind. No matter how smart we are, how good our applications, how flawlessly we interviewed, we all feel at least a little apprehension, wondering, “What if I don’t match?” This is a rational fear—but there are also plenty of positive Match statistics, as well as scientifically proven advice on how to make the best of your chances. Yes, competition for available PGY-1 slots …

We can all agree on one thing: becoming a doctor is one of the single most difficult pursuits on the planet. The mental, emotional, and physical anguish it takes to succeed in med school is something indescribable to anyone who hasn’t lived it. Not to mention that it comes at a massive financial cost—and all because you CHOSE to do it. And, although everyone is valedictorian-level intelligent, many students find …

What’s it like? Many people wonder what it’s like to be an intern and how to succeed during your first year as a physician. Is it really as bad as everyone makes it out to be? Are you able to sleep without constantly thinking about your patients and the diagnoses that you may have missed? Were you compassionate and empathetic enough toward the family of the patient who was dying? …

The interval between fourth-year residency applications and the first day of orientation the following July is a well-documented nemesis for most medical students. The demands of preparing applications, the time investment in the interview process, and the typical period of decompression and leisure following Match Day result in an extended period of disuse of—and concomitant massive decline in—the medical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills they built up with so much …

Research demonstrates resident doctors are among the most sleep-deprived people in North America, and they often have lower quality sleep. …

“Time of death, 4:30 pm.” One week and two days into my intern year, I was the physician in the room. …

On Learning Fire hose? You know the analogy: the volume of information in medical school is a fire hose that …