Look into the ERAS Applicant Worksheet, which you can fill out now and copy/paste into the ERAS portal when it opens later. ERAS CV has character limits for activities so you may not truly be able to copy paste from your own CV.
Not everyone will be as skilled a writer as you are. For someone like me who is not a native English speaker, it might take a day or two.
Am i blind or is there no spot for research you've done, only publications?
The experience section on pg 9 is subdivided into Research, Volunteer and Work Experiences in the real application portal. The formatting remains identical.
I'm not a skilled writer. It was entirely bland and forgettable just like 95% of others. If you have a unique life story or need to address red flags or something, it makes sense to care a lot of about your statement. But sometimes normal people with normal stories stress about this essay for weeks and weeks, and it's totally unnecessary!
Yeah man, don't feel bad about spending time on your PS (if you can spare). I personally took a few months, and my first draft was only 50% similar to my final draft. It's an element of my application I can control and thus, I wanted to ensure it was the best work I can produce. Did it end up making a significant difference in getting IVs? I don't know but it was brought up in quite a few of my IVs.
I think this is the way to do it. I wrote my first draft in about 2 hours and then revisited it about once a month for the next few months. I also wrote down impactful patient experiences during my third year and sub-is as they happened, so they were fresh. Then I drew from those for my PS and answers to interview questions.
I think it’s residual from when we applied to med school where we all had to stand out and try to be interesting and unique in some way to appease the administrators who need to feel like they’re selecting for the most special snowflakes.
This is a good idea. I kept getting asked about impactful patient experiences in interviews and all of my patient encounters made me realize I’d rather be in a darkroom so not the best for interview answers.
Personally, I excluded college level courses I took at a different university after finishing high school prior to starting my undergrad. I would try to avoid any gaps in your CV that cannot be explained by school, work or volunteering experience. For example, if you were already enrolled in a different school or had been working AND took the coding or astronomy class, I don't think it will matter if you excluded those classes since you time was occupied/can be explained by something else. However, if you weren't doing anything else (i.e. no school/work/volunteering), I would definitely include those experiences.
Deleted as I thought it may have been a dumb question. Thank you so much for the response, super helpful!
My suggestion: don't wait until the 29th. ERAS can get clogged up when lots of people are using it. Set a deadline the prior week, get it all done and in. The last thing you want to worry about is a website crash / internet failure / etc.
I’d wanna’ know why they are choosing that for sure!
I mean if they're recruiting outside the match, you can't apply for regular match anyway right? all in rule and whatnot
I've noticed this with mostly the brand new programs. I have no idea why though. Maybe it has something to do with paperwork and stuff to be able to participate in the match.
They're not brand new though, they have all of their classes and they even have a page listing past grads. They are also still going through ERAS as well. It's just...odd. It doesn't even seem like an awful program.
this makes no sense, unless they're planning to withdraw from the match if they find candidates outside the match. unless this is recruitment for unfilled spots from this years match, or non-pgy1 positions?
I saw a few programs this year that still used ERAS as an app system despite not using The Match.
There is no time stamp on items that you upload prior to Sept 29, so no - it doesn’t matter when you submit as long as it’s on time.
~650 words is 1 page for Eras, and that's what we were advised to do.
Maybe @NotAProgDirector can help with this.
When you type it up in Word you need to make it plain text by pasting it into notepad before putting it into ERAS, BTW. The majority of posts by people saying their PS is less than a page and then more than a page when pasted onto ERAS are from people who don't understand formatting, IMO.
You are the remedy to my post-Uworld blocks laziness, thank you.
Generally, within a few days of the institution's first wave of interviews. Some programs (like Cali DR programs) release interviews late and so there is no point of sending a letter of interest before any IVs are released.
Got step 2 in 3 weeks, level 2 the week after, so it's grind time. One week of dedicated in and my brain is already starting to fry.
Thanks! Can't wait to be free of board exams and comats and Anki for at least a few months.
I wouldn't trust any kind of forwarding on any device if you're going to be racing to accept before someone else can take your spot. Just make a new email account specifically for ERAS communications. The added bonus is that you can assign those notifications a special ringtone so you know whether you need to answer immediately or not.
I had a keyword forwarding setup from my gmail to my cell phone text, and to my husbands cell phone text as back up. I cancelled it after the match but the keywords were like “invite, interview, ERAS, thalamus” etc.
Can you talk more about how to do this?!
I set up text message forwarding of a Gmail account I made specifically for ERAS. I don't remember off the top of my head how I did it but I just googled and figured it out!
Just FYI...The text was delayed for me...it is not reliable...it may have to do w cell phone service...my service is t mobile
finally figured it out. Took me awhile as apple mail and settings can be a bit finnicky.
Yeah I just did that, seems to be better. Was looking into different mail clients, god what a pain in the a** it was to figure out.
I have AT&T and an iPhone. Not sure how much any of that matters. I implore you to also set up a forwarding just in case, even if you’re using the gmail app.
I figured out a way to get all emails automatically forwarded to my phone. Not just ones with keywords. WHile maybe overkill, don't wanna miss any emails on this ERAS gmail.
Gotcha. That works too. I just used the filters. I just didn’t want you to only count on the gmail app.
Could you provide an explanation?
You have to go into gmail settings, then have it forwarded to your phone. For verizon it'll be your phone number @vtext.com. feel free to PM me if you want more info/instructions.
Are you a medical student entering your fourth year?
