Making the Rounds
Making the Rounds, a podcast from the American Medical Association, features advice, interviews and discussions on the most important topics impacting the lives and careers of medical students. Find all AMA podcasts at ama-assn.org/podcasts.
Episodes
April 24, 2025 • 26 mins
Stepping into U.S. residency as an IMG? Consider these practical tips and cultural insights to help you succeed from day one.
📎 AMA's IMG Toolkit: https://www.ama-assn.org/education/international-medical-education/international-medical-graduates-img-toolkit-introduction✶✶✶✶
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March 31, 2025 • 8 mins
What happens on Match Day? How many residency programs are there in the US? How many medical students matched in 2025? What happens if you don't match? Jeanette Calli, chief of match operations at the National Resident Matching Program, discusses the latest main residency match results, including Match Day participation rates and trends in the residency match process. Also covering Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) r...
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February 26, 2025 • 31 mins
Ahead of Match Day, the NRMP's Chief Operating Officer Laurie Curtin, PhD, offers insight on recent Match trends that may ease stress for eager residency applicants. Dig into the data more--visit: nrmp.org/match-data✶✶✶✶
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February 21, 2025 • 21 mins
Staying at an institution for residency can feel familiar but it comes with its own unique set of challenges. Avani Patel, MD, MHA, who attended medical school and did her GME training at the same location offers her thoughts. ✶✶✶✶
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February 14, 2025 • 32 mins
Going through the Supplemental Offer Acceptance Program made for chaotic Match Week for Victoria Gordon, DO. A few years later, she reflects on the process and offers advice for those who might have to match through SOAP.✶✶✶✶
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December 10, 2024 • 16 mins
Alison Schmidt, MD, a resident physician who went through residency selection virtually, offers advice on how applicants can get a feel for program culture during virtual residency interviews. Dr. Schmidt is an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Michigan Medicine.✶✶✶✶
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November 26, 2024 • 17 mins
Which questions are you likely to hear during residency interviews? Leigh Eck, MD—the director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Kansas Medical Center—offers some tips on common questions and how to prepare for them.✶✶✶✶
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November 18, 2024 • 28 mins
Charles Lopresto, DO gives tips on how residency applicants can highlight their passions and extracurricular experiences during interviews. Prepared to talk about your research project? Know how to answer about your experiences as an advocate? Dr. Lopresto covers all this and more. ✶✶✶✶
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October 29, 2024 • 14 mins
What do residency programs care about the most? What does AMA do for medical school? How important is advocacy in medical education? Why is healthcare advocacy important? Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, and chair of the AMA Board of Trustees, discusses the vital role of health care advocacy for medical students and residents, and how involvement in organized medicine can enhance a candidate's residency application and contribute to ...
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September 19, 2024 • 29 mins
From letters of recommendation to your CV, what does a complete residency application packet entail and where might students trip up? In this episode, AMA senior news writer Brendan Murphy talks with Mark C. Meyer, MD, senior associate dean for student affairs at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, about mistakes to avoid and ways you can take your application to the next level.
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September 12, 2024 • 9 mins
Is residency signaling important? Why write a residency personal statement? Should I put geographic preference on ERAS? What makes a medical student CV stand out? Deborah Clements, MD, is chair of the department of family and community medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and program director for the McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Lake Forest. As a chair on the board of National Resident...
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May 7, 2024 • 23 mins
David Savage, MD, a hematology-oncology fellow at Scripps Clinic in California talks about the process of transferring residency programs. Dr. Savage draws from personal experience to offers insights on how those considering a transfer should approach that decision.✶✶✶✶
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April 16, 2024 • 25 mins
Reapplying for Match and wondering where to start? Family medicine resident Thomas Irwin, MD, MBA, and his advisor Carla Keirns, MD, PhD, associate professor of medical ethics and medicine at University of Kansas Medical Center talk about strategies to do just that.✶✶✶✶
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April 1, 2024 • 19 mins
Get tips for navigating your upcoming move to your residency program's location. Leif Knight, MD (they/them) is a first-year emergency medicine resident at Brown University and shares their experience weighing the factors before they made their big move. As an AMA member, they serve as a delegate for the Residents & Fellows Section as well as Vice Chair of the LGBTQ+ section counsel with the AMA.✶✶✶✶
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March 27, 2024 • 10 mins
What happens on Match Day? How many residency programs are there in the US? How many medical students matched in 2024? What happens if you don't match? Our guest is Jeanette Calli, chief of Match Operations, at the National Resident Matching Program. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.✶✶✶✶
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March 4, 2024 • 15 mins
The public Match Day celebrations aren't for everyone. Haidn Foster, MD had a low-key Match Day experience and offers insight on the pros of that approach.✶✶✶✶
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📝 Full transcripts of the show are available here:
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February 21, 2024 • 32 mins
Going through the Supplemental Offer Acceptance Program made for chaotic Match Week for Victoria Gordon, DO. A few years later, she reflects on the process and offers advice for those who might have to match through SOAP. ✶✶✶✶
📺 Follow the @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:
https://bit.ly/AMA_YouTubeChannel
🎥 Watch #AMAUpdate for the latest in health care news for physicians:
https://bit.ly/AMA_Update
📝 Full transcripts of...
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February 14, 2024 • 23 mins
Dr. Docherty, now a practicing family medicine physician in New York, gives residency applicants his keys to making a comprehensive rank-order list. ✶✶✶✶
📺 Follow the @americanmedicalassociation on YouTube:
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🎥 Watch #AMAUpdate for the latest in health care news for physicians:
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📝 Full transcripts of the show are available here:
https://bit.ly/AMA_Update_Transcripts
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January 18, 2024 • 14 mins
While M4s are focused on the next steps of their careers, they also have to hone the skills to be a skilled intern come summer. Dr. Meg Wolff, clinical professor in the department of emergency medicine and pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School, offers insight on how students can avoid getting too distracted by the Match process. ✶✶✶✶
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January 11, 2024 • 11 mins
Alice Chen, medical student at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences talks about her research submission for the AMA Research Challenge: Effect of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Delivery Through Cardiopulmonary Bypass in a Piglet Model. Find her poster here: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/alice-chen-poster.pdf
Learn more about the AMA Research Challenge here: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/events/ama...
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