The etiology of Application Fever
- Medical students are submitting more residency applications than ever before. Why? Who benefits?
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Symbiosis: the USMLE, ERAS, and medical education
- Step 1 Mania and Application Fever need each other.
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What’s the Antipyretic for Application Fever?
- We have a major problem with Application Fever. The question is, what do we do about it?
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- It’s not really a movie. More like a video podcast compiling my thoughts on the mess we’ve made with residency application inflation – and how we can get out of it.
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Applying Smarter, Part I: Breaking Down the AAMC’s Apply Smart Campaign
- The AAMC’s Apply Smart campaign perpetuates misinformation, employs faulty logic, presents biased probabilities of residency entry, and is likely to encourage medical students to submit even more residency applications.
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Applying Smarter, Part II: How to Give Students the Information They Really Need
- For informational strategies to reduce Application Fever, the information provided has to be… well, informative. Here’s how to provide the data that students really need when they’re applying for residency.
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The Lecture that Never Got To Be
- How can residency program directors make the Match process better – in a post-Step 1 world?
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On Toilet Paper and Application Caps
- It’s time to separate myth from reality when it comes to application caps. And we’ll do it through the lens of the COVID-19-induced run on toilet paper.
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The Sheriff of Sodium 