Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Dermatology has historically been one of the most competitive residencies to match into. One commonly overlooked factor is the importance of having mentors in the field, as they have experience guiding successful applicants and can provide great insight into what residency programs are looking for....

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Autores principales: Rehman, Rafey, Shareef, Sarah J., Mohammad, Tasneem F., Potts, Geoffrey, Fahs, Fatima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35248689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.01.003
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description Dermatology has historically been one of the most competitive residencies to match into. One commonly overlooked factor is the importance of having mentors in the field, as they have experience guiding successful applicants and can provide great insight into what residency programs are looking for. Given that many students without home dermatology programs may struggle to find mentors in the field, we share advice on how these students can obtain the mentorship and guidance needed to match into dermatology.
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spelling pubmed-88946912022-03-04 Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond Rehman, Rafey Shareef, Sarah J. Mohammad, Tasneem F. Potts, Geoffrey Fahs, Fatima Clin Dermatol Comment and Controversy Dermatology has historically been one of the most competitive residencies to match into. One commonly overlooked factor is the importance of having mentors in the field, as they have experience guiding successful applicants and can provide great insight into what residency programs are looking for. Given that many students without home dermatology programs may struggle to find mentors in the field, we share advice on how these students can obtain the mentorship and guidance needed to match into dermatology. Elsevier Inc. 2022 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8894691/ /pubmed/35248689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.01.003 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
title Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
title_full Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
title_fullStr Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
title_full_unstemmed Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
title_short Applying to dermatology residency without a home program: Advice to medical students in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
title_sort applying to dermatology residency without a home program: advice to medical students in the covid-19 pandemic and beyond
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894691/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2022.01.003
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