CaRMS Application Prepa...

It seems like match season only just finished. And yet, as the last of the Saskatchewan snow drifts left us, a new crop of medical student clerks (or, as we call them on the prairies, JURSIs) began preparing to sweat through the annual ritual they had been hearing stories about since...

Choose your own Adventu...

When I became a medical student I was astounded by the number of opportunities available. The more I looked, the more awesome things I found. My interests in policy and leadership development led me into a number of roles with my medical student society and a summer working in the...

Do what you love, love ...

Junior medical students get a lot of information from senior medical students. They are the ones who have gone before and it makes sense that they would seek out their advice on everything from how to study to how to prepare for residency match. Though often the advice offered is sound,...

FAQ About Medical Stude...

One of my twitter/blog/FOAM buddies Eve Purdy (she blogs at Manu et Corde) recently e-mailed me and requested a mentorship post on setting up medical student electives. She is working through this right now and had a lot of questions. This is another of those topics for which the...

Professionalism and I: ...

I was on my way home from work last night when I checked twitter. 13 mentions in an hour – that’s kind of crazy (for me anyways). What could have sparked that? It took me a second to piece together the conversation. When I did, I found that Eve Purdy, a medical student,...

Interview Inducing Elec...

In response to my post on reference letters (The Reference Letter Triple Crown) one of my favorite med student bloggers facebooked me the following request (note, she also plays the “Would you rather” game!): I would rather lick a public toilet seat than have to ask someone...

The Reference Letter Tr...

Interviews for the Canadian Residency Matching Service (CaRMS) are over and they were as difficult as ever. One thing nobody appreciates on the medical student side of the CaRMS equation is how difficult it is for the programs to come up with our rank list. The applicants this year were...

Post-game: The CaRMS Ra...

In the final post of the trilogy I will be discussing the dreaded CaRMS rank list. If you haven’t already, I suggest that you review my previous posts on CaRMS – CaRMS Pregame: Preparing for the Interview and CaRMS Game Time: The Interviews. Following the interviews you will...