 We're applying for residency. All right, guys, what is going on? Luxury for the empty journey, helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. Sorry about the silly intro, but obviously I'm excited because tomorrow is one residency applications officially open for the rest of the programs. And you would know that if you follow me on Instagram. So follow me if you haven't. And we can you can see what life behind the camera looks like. But this video is going to be episode, I believe five, correct me if I'm wrong. Of the residency chronicles is just going to be talking about what the process will be like from this point on applications have been turned in. So tomorrow is September 15th as of making this video. And the residency start to see all my stuff. All right, guys, what is going on? Luxury for the empty journey, helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. Sorry about the silly intro, but you know, I'm excited. If you follow me on Instagram, you know why it's because tomorrow residency applications open. And that means different programs can start seeing my application. So today is going to be episode number five, I think, correct me if I'm wrong. And it's just going to be a quick spiel on what the process is going to be like from here on out. So so this week I turned in my residency application, super excited. And tomorrow, different programs will be able to see my extracurriculars, my personal statements, a lot of recommendations and my grades. And so it's going to be potentially that I can start getting interviews as early as sometime next week or the weeks after, depending on what field you go into when you apply to residency here in the United States. Different specialties and schools will offer interviews at different times. So certain specialties like urology can be on a totally different timeline than somebody like me who's applying internal medicine. So the goal of this whole process is you want to one apply to enough schools that you give yourself a shot to match. I'll go over the match in a different video, because it's pretty complicated, but it essentially it's a computer system that when I get my interviews, I have to basically rank the schools that I interviewed at from a list of legislation I interviewed at 10 schools that I would rank them from one to 10. And then the schools themselves interviewed a collection of students. Let's say they interviewed 100 students and they had 10 spots. So they would rank the students one to 100. And the system would start matching it to where I got into a school that I matched in order. And the schools, if they only had 10 spots to fill, got their ideal, the highest people on their list, right? So if I ranked the school number one and I was in their top 10, I would go there. But if I ranked the school number one and they had I was like 12, then I would be having to hope that there's other people on the list ahead of me that choose to go somewhere else. So that's kind of how the match works. And it's a computer system on one day in March. You learn with the rest of your medical school peers of where you're going by opening up an envelope. Obviously, it'd be taking you guys when that moment comes. But the idea of residency is to try to get enough of those interviews under your belt. That way you can rank a good amount of schools, but it's also good to get enough exposure. Every program is different in some sense. They can be a community program. They can be a private program. They can be a big residency class or they can be a small one. And they can have different potentials for future careers. Some of them may be where you just finish residency and you go out and get a job. And other ones are more likely where you get a job or you you do residency and you go for fellowship. So it really depends on where you go. So it's nice to get that kind of exposure to different cities, different environments, different patient populations, a lot of things to consider. So when I was deciding for the schools I want to go to, one, I decided on only applying to cities and institutions that I would honestly consider going to if I matched. You never want to be in a position where you match to somewhere and you have regrets. So while I did apply to less programs, I definitely scrutinized each program severely. And I only selected the ones that I would honestly be OK. And me and my my significant other would be OK with going to as I'm really excited to get any offers that would be a grateful moment because it's a program that I'm considering. So I'm glad that they'd be considering me. So I'm trying to get some exposure and get enough interviews under my belt within the next few weeks. And then I'm going to start scheduling interviews any time from like mid-October to late December. And we'll go from there. So obviously we take you guys on the interview trail, but that's kind of where the process is. And it's really exciting because now it's kind of a little bit out of my hands. I'm waiting for people to like look at me a paper, which is really hard to do and saying, you know, I think you may be good enough or worth a shot. And so fingers crossed that we started getting some interviews soon. As always, I'll be taking you guys on the journey, not telling you the schools I'm applying to, obviously, just for confidentiality's sake and for the respect of the institutions themselves, but just giving you an idea of what it's like to be in this process. It's stressful. It's, you know, it's anxiety provoking. But at the same time, it's fun. This is this is what we signed up for. You're about to become a physician. What's exciting and terrifying at the same time. But I'm ready. I'm really confident. I feel good. And I just I just want to get some exposure to these different institutions. It's been four years since I've done the interview trail myself. So I'm going to be a little rusty and so I'm going to have to look up things that I need to reflect and learn about myself. And that's going to be covered in a video that I already made, which I'll link up here, which is how I prepare for my interviews in general. So if you guys are having your med school interviews, this will be a perfect segue to check that out. So enough blabbing and babbling. So enough babbling. You guys get the point. Residency applications are in. Hopefully some interviews start to trickle in within the next few weeks. And so I'll take you guys on my first couple and then we'll go from there. But hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and there's many exciting, many huge announcement. Thank you guys so much for following my journey so thus far. I'm really appreciative of all you guys. I really do act like I'm talking to you on the other side of the screen and not the other, you know, many subscribers. So just thank you for taking the time out to watching this video from start to finish. As always, if you guys have any questions that I can answer on your journey to help you a little bit, please comment down below. Most of my subscribers know this already, but if you comment down below with any questions or anything, or if you just put the hashtag, the MD journey, I'm always picking one random subscriber, sometimes two, where they get my books and my video course for free. So if you want to are interested in getting those for free and you have a question or if you just want to put the MD journey, put that in the comment section down below. I'm going to end this video. 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