UNSOM Students: 4th Year Class

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Welcome to your final year of medical school! This year is a time to decide upon specialty, choose to take elective courses in the medicine you are interested in exploring, travel to other medical schools or out of the country for learning experiences, interview for residency, learn where you'll be for the rest of your training and, finally, graduate.

Scheduling Your 4th Year

• Office of Medicine Education 4th year Scheduling InformationYear IV consists of student-selected electives. The only required course is the Advanced Clinical Experience in Rural Healthcare.
• Elective Course Listing
• The Office of Medical Education offers a Year IV planning workshop in January for third year medical students.
• Applying to Out-of-State Electives - The Office of Student Affairs, Reno and Las Vegas, assists students applying for away electives at medical schools throughout the US.

 

Applying to Residency

• Timeline - Applying to Residency
• ERAS - Electronic Residency Application Service
• NRMP - National Residency Matching Program
• Early Match (San Francisco Match) and Military Match
• Outcomes of the Match - Characteristics of Matched Applicants as tracked by the NRMP
• Office of Student Affairs Workshop PPT- Nuts and Bolts of Applying to Residency
• Students can attend workshops, receive career advising, and other services from the Office of Student Affairs, Reno and Las Vegas campuses, as they begin their final year of medical school.
• AAMC Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) Applying to Residency Advice

Interviewing

• Residency Interviewing
• Sample Interview Questions

Personal Statements

• Personal Statements

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

• CV strategies
• Sample CVs by specialty

Letters of Recommendation

• Guidelines for students
• Guidelines for letter writers
• Cover Sheets/Waiver Forms

           Las Vegas       Reno

•  Guidelines for LoRs in ERAS

• Emergency Medicine Standard Letter of Recommendation Form (SLOR) EM ONLY

Medical Student Performance Evaluations

• Medical Student Performance Evaluation (Dean's Letter)

Financial Planning

• Financial Exit Interviews - debt management workshops for all senior medical students who took out loans during medical school. Held each March or April of senior year.

Residency Match

• The Match
• UNSOM Match Results

Graduation

• General Information
• Applying for Graduation
• Graduation Questionnaire