Month: October 2024

7 residency interview tips/advice for a successful 2025 Match

Amanda Xi

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If you’ve come to this page, it’s probably because you’re a 4th year medical student searching how to figure out how to excel at your residency interviews. I have had the experience of interviewing for anesthesia, preliminary medicine, and transitional year programs when I was a medical student [back then, it was in person] and also the experience of being an interviewer [in a virtual setting]. I tend to like to give a lot of unsolicited advice, so here I am again sharing 7 residency interview tips that I think will help you get to a successful 2025 Match season.

Here are the 7 tips:

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Dealing with negative feedback/criticism: 4 tips & sharing personal experience

Amanda Xi

Today’s inane image of the day:

We receive feedback in numerous areas of our life. When training to become a physician, there are a lot of different timepoints where structured feedback is given. Sometimes that feedback is negative or critical. It never feels good to be the recipient of this type of feedback, but it is inevitable… none of us are perfect.

I recently received written feedback from my residents and while there were certainly positive comments, all I could do was focus on the negatives. I’d almost say I perseverated on the negatives. So I thought I’d do something productive with it… figure out the best ways to deal with this type of feedback when it comes and share it with all of you. Here’s what I came up with:

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