<p>Here’s an overview presentation from UNC. [Georgette</a> A. Dent, MD Associate Dean for Student Affairs University of North Carolina School of Medicine georgette_den](<a href=“http://www.slideserve.com/avery/georgette-a-dent-md-associate-dean-for-student-affairs-university-of-north-carolina-school-of-medicine-georgette-den]Georgette”>PPT - Georgette A. Dent, MD Associate Dean for Student Affairs University of North Carolina School of Medicine georgette_den PowerPoint Presentation - ID:363319)</p>
<p>Wow, I really am blonde. i have zero idea what any of that means.</p>
<p>I think I’ve hit my ceiling of helping my daughter. </p>
<p>Somebody needs to dumb it down for me. :(</p>
<p>Peek behind the curtain. Some wild stuff here. lol </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.im.org/Meetings/Past/2012/2012APDIMSpringConference/Presentations/Documents/PA%20Meeting/Wksp%20203_Adams.pdf[/url]”>http://www.im.org/Meetings/Past/2012/2012APDIMSpringConference/Presentations/Documents/PA%20Meeting/Wksp%20203_Adams.pdf</a></p>
<p>GA, just skip over the big scary words. That’s what I do.</p>
<p>We’re gonna have to learn this crap together. At least I am. D informed me on her mini-break that I was going to be expected to know something. Just when I thought I was out…she pulled me back in. I could see the fence, too. I just didn’t make it over.</p>
<p>I’d rather take a Harley ride and forget about the rest.</p>
<p>Timeline </p>
<p>[Match</a> Timeline - Specialty Selection and Residency Resource Guide - DML’s Research Guides at Dahlgren Memorial Library](<a href=“http://researchguides.dml.georgetown.edu/content.php?pid=104456&sid=1399577]Match”>http://researchguides.dml.georgetown.edu/content.php?pid=104456&sid=1399577)</p>
<p>Selection of residency</p>
<p>[Specialties</a> - Specialty Selection and Residency Resource Guide - DML’s Research Guides at Dahlgren Memorial Library](<a href=“http://researchguides.dml.georgetown.edu/content.php?pid=104456&sid=1037444]Specialties”>http://researchguides.dml.georgetown.edu/content.php?pid=104456&sid=1037444)</p>
<p>Basic primer.</p>
<p>[AOA</a> Guide to Residency](<a href=“Welcome to the Jefferson Libraries”>Welcome to the Jefferson Libraries)</p>
<p>Don’t know anything about these folks. May be useful, may be not. </p>
<p>[Residency</a> Match Guide, NRMP Residency Match Tips, ERAS applications, Personal Statements, and Interview - Medfools](<a href=“http://www.medfools.com/match/overview.php]Residency”>Residency Match Guide, NRMP Residency Match Tips, ERAS applications, Personal Statements, and Interview - Medfools)</p>
<p>Wow! Thanks for compiling all this info, Curm. This is chock full of good info. I hope we continue to hear back from the alumni of these threads; NCG, BDM, Shades etc.</p>
<p>I am counting on it, Pharmagal. Everybody likes cookies, right? We could bake them some cookies. Or better yet. Y’all can bake them some cookies and I’ll sign the card. ;)</p>
<p>LOL! I just bought a case of excellent Spanish red wine. Maybe if we open a couple of bottles to go with cookies…</p>
<p>I just got my parent invite for my “parents” meeting for son’s MS2 year. We did one the day of white coat ceremony for our MS1 orientation. Then mid way thru MS1 year we had a friends and family day “picnic” for more orientation and hand holding for the parents.</p>
<p>Dent’s slide show above is typical of all the info sessions, meeting of mentors and advocates. Seriously son says they spend more time with their advisors, mentors and profs then they do in lecture and lab. They have different ones for different purposes.</p>
<p>Remember they don’t test every 8-16 weeks rather they have exams every other Monday. No cumlative just incremental. With reviews and study guides, online lectures, online reviews, study groups…enough to annoy son to no end. He doesn’t use study groups, just bugs him. His first undergrad required little to no homework just problem sets with no credit…2 exams and that was your grade every semester. </p>
<p>But for me all the info is so helpful. They have brown bag lunch seminars, workshops…he likes that they feed him practically every day and he gets to wear scrubs. </p>
<p>So whatever info I can glean from the process I will gladly give yall a heads up. It probably won’t be coming from him. They take very seriously the “family” concept at his med school. Everybody is a part of the ongoing process, again makes my son nuts.</p>
<p>I think it is fantastic which irritates him even more, makes me so happy!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Just remember, Kat. As I tell my D…our job changes when they become pubescent. Until then, we are here to protect them. From then to adulthood, we are here to make their life a Living Hell On Earth. After that, we are just here to annoy them. So…you’re good to go. ;)</p>