1. International Medical Graduate Advising Recommendations From the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine Advising Student Committee
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Adam R. Kellogg, Mary Ann Edens, Adam Kenney, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, Dimitry Danovich, Xiao Chi Zhang, Zachary J. Jarou, and Emily Hillman
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medicine.medical_specialty ,education ,Graduate medical education ,IMG ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,emergency medicine ,Medicine ,health care economics and organizations ,Accreditation ,business.industry ,advising ,General Engineering ,Medical school ,computer.file_format ,Residency program ,Medical Education ,Medical graduate ,Emergency medicine ,international medical graduate ,Training program ,business ,computer ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Residency training - Abstract
International Medical Graduate (IMG) physicians applying to residency training programs in a country different from where they completed medical school, bring beneficial diversity to a training program, but also face significant challenges matching into an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited residency program. Despite the growing number of IMG applications in Emergency Medicine (EM), there is a paucity of targeted recommendations for IMG applicants. As a result, the Council of Residency Directors (CORD) Advising Students Committee in EM (ASC-EM) created a dedicated IMG Advising Team to create a set of evidence-based advising recommendations based on longitudinal data from the National Residency Match Program (NRMP) and information collected from EM program directors and clerkship directors. IMG applicants should obtain at least two EM standardized letters of evaluation (SLOEs), review IMG matched percentages for programs-of-interest, analyze their objective scores with the previous matched cohorts, and rank at least 12 programs to maximize their chances of matching into EM.
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- 2020