4th year - SDN

How To Cope With A Disappointing Match

June 23, 2022April 5, 2019 by Amy Rakowczyk

Is it possible to find happiness after a disappointing Match? The resounding answer is YES! … Read more

Reflection Before A Year Of Change

June 24, 2022January 21, 2019 by Adelle

Every year, I love thinking about the past year and thinking about everything I have … Read more

Applying for Residency

June 26, 2022September 25, 2017 by Brent Schnipke

Last month I wrote about the early part of 4^th year as a kind of second-look for medical students – an occasion for confirming specialty choice, or perhaps changing one’s mind altogether. For me, it has been an enjoyable and enlightening process to revisit the specialties I was most interested in and examine them more thoroughly, paying attention to finer details as I considered what a career in that specialty would entail beyond the years of residency. The specialty decision is often made on just a few weeks of exposure and may be highly influenced by observing residents, but it is important to remember that residency is relatively brief in the context of a career, and thus it is imperative to get opinions on the field of choice from practicing attending physicians. I have been grateful for opportunities to do just this; rotating through a field a second or third time has enabled me to make this aspect more of a priority.

Understanding Our Patients’ Drugs: The Need for a Pharmacy Elective Within Medical School

June 26, 2022July 26, 2017 by Sarayna Schock

Republished with permission from here. I spent one year working full-time as a pharmacy technician … Read more

[Infographic] What You Should Know About ERAS

June 26, 2022June 16, 2017 by Student Doctor Network

Love and Happiness… And Medicine? Our Experience in the Couples Match

June 26, 2022March 17, 2016 by Kara Hessel

We were in the same class in medical school. It was your typical story. Boy meets girl, girl doesn’t like boy’s buzz cut, they waste a year, eventually end up as anatomy TAs working on the same dissection together, and fall in love. Standard. I knew that I was going to be a surgeon, he was thinking about ER. We moved in together. We talked about getting married. Then he went out for third year rotations and I started the Anatomy Fellowship at our school. He did Surgery mid-way through the year. To my concern, though not to my surprise, he loved it. He loved it the way I loved it. We talked seriously about what this would mean for us, both for our relationship and for our careers. We had always assumed that when the Match rolled around that we would participate in the Couples Match. Couples matching into Surgery seemed like a long shot, but we both knew we couldn’t be satisfied in another field, that we were surgeons at heart. So we decided we had to try.