Welcome to fourth year!
Reminder to check your Canvas course calendar for required classes/groups. Personal calendars are awesome, but sometimes they can get finicky and drop events.For a list of resources for each unit of Phase I (including Learning Objectives, diagrams, links to helpful external resources, and more), click below:
Class Updates
Interview Tips: In preparation for your upcoming interviews, we have posted several ‘tips and tricks’ documents in Canvas: Interview tips: Student Life Resources and Requirements (instructure.com). Please contact OSL, your specialty advisor or the director of career advising (Jenny Soep) if you have any questions about prepping for your interviews. Good luck!!
Interview Tracker: The first interview tracker was sent on Wednesday. It takes a minute or less to complete and it is very important that everyone participates. Having complete data allows us to see the range and average of interviews in a particular specialty. We can also reach out to individuals with fewer interviews in order to help them secure more. Even for those of you who have release dates later in the cycle, please fill it out and indicate you have no interviews yet.
Mock Interviews: Congratulations on submitting your residency applications! Mock interviews are being offered by the specialty advisors. The director of career advising (Dr. Jenny Soep) is also working with some of the advisors to offer interviews. We’ll do our best to make these as authentic as possible for your specialty, so please list this in the sign-up comments. We will spend ~20 minutes asking typical interview questions and then ~10 minutes debriefing and providing feedback.
Please use the following link to sign up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A49A5AC29A75-52063084-mock
If none of these work, you need additional practice or you have any concerns/questions, please contact Jenny Soep (Jennifer.soep@childrenscolorado.org).
USMLE: Make sure you released your USMLE transcripts with your application!
Students applying in primary care fields, specifically Family Medicine and Pediatrics- opportunity to learn and refresh your dermatology knowledge!
WHAT: I am a pediatric dermatologist recruiting 4th year medical students to participate in a 2 hour pediatric dermatology eConsult workshop with me. You get to review some basic dermatology clinical description and diagnosis skills, learn about the eConsult process as well as get to do several real pediatric dermatology eConsult cases with me. As future PCPs, you will likely be sending eConsults in your near future so it will be valuable to learn the eConsult process as well as get a refresher on dermatology content. Following the session I will send you a fully optional eConsult workshop survey to assess the impact of this workshop.
WHEN: Select Thursdays at 1:30 PM -3:30 PM VIRTUAL over zoom
September 26, October 3, October 10, October 24, November 7, December 5, December 19
HOW: If you would like to join a particular date, please email Aditi Murthy to receive the calendar invite with a zoom link.
Required Resources Attestation: MS2s, MS3s, and MS4s are required to review all Required Orientation Resources and attest that this has been completed. These resources are updated on a yearly basis in the summer. The attestation is due October 15, 2024 at 5:00pm. MS1s have already completed this during orientation.
Updated Resources for Residency Applications: Click HERE for more info!
Occupational Medicine: Are you interested in a career in medicine that balances clinical care with preventive care and unique opportunities in public health? Interested in getting your MPH (funded with protected time to complete this) while finishing residency? Interested in a schedule with no call or weekends for PGY-2 and PGY-3 years and an excellent work-life balance? Then Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM)
TEXAS Star: T-Star notified us that they are getting overwhelmed with emails and asked that we pass on these instructions.
Texas Web Portal: users can find all related up to date documents,
https://ais.swmed.edu/texastar/portal
Below 3 are most important:
Please read/follow Generic Access Guide to activate your access: Generic User Access Guide to Texas STAR Dashboard 2024
All users will need to follow above to get access.
User can follow above to request additional invitation.
Above document explains system structure and all possible issues user might run into and solutions.
Residency or Fellowship may be right for you! If you would like to learn more about The University of Colorado’s OEM Medicine Residency or more about this specialty in general, please reach out to one of the current OEM residents, erin.bammann@cuanschutz.edu.
NRMP Number: Registering for the Match is a separate step. Registration will open next month, and you will be able to go back and add your NRMP number to your application.
Other Residency Sites: We are aware of the deadlines for the military, ophthalmology, plastics, OB, urology, etc. and will upload (email for military) documents accordingly.
Co-Presidents: YooJin Yoon & Andy Ascencio
Vice President: Mohamoud Ahmed
Treasurer: Aditya Mantha
Secretary: Sera Sempson
Class Representative: Ryan Turner
Colorado Springs Branch Representative: Rebecca Ripperton
Ft. Collins Branch Representative: Megan Mazzotta
Sustainability Representatives: Caroline Walsh & Douglas Fritz
Anschutz Student Senate: Erika Bunge & Sam Gendelman
At-Large Members: Carolyn Watts & Douglas Fritz