Optimize your prelim year electives to demonstrate fellowship readiness: targeted rotations, high-acuity months, and strong letter writers.
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Decide if a prelim year is a smart backup plan or a career trap. Learn when a prelim residency helps, pitfalls, and steps to keep your specialty goals on track.
Navigate student loans during your prelim year. Compare deferment vs IDR, understand salary impacts, and avoid costly repayment mistakes.
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What is a Preliminary Year?
Prelim vs Transitional: Comparing Match Data Across Competitive Specialties
Compare prelim vs transitional year match data to guide PGY-1 choices for competitive specialties, match rates, Step score trends, and strategy.
What is a Preliminary Year?
Conversion Rates: How Often Prelim Residents Move Into Categorical Positions
Know real prelim-to-categorical conversion rates: realistic odds by specialty (IM, surgery, TY), common outcomes, and why relying on upgrades is risky.
Couples Match
Can We Still Couples Match If Only One of Us Is Applying This Year?
Learn realistic strategies when only one partner is applying to NRMP - alternatives to couples matching, location tactics, and how to persuade programs.
Match Day Results Explained
Matched to a Surgical Prelim Year: How to Navigate Your Next Step
Matched to a surgical prelim year? Step-by-step guidance to convert your prelim surgery year into a categorical general surgery spot and plan reapplication.
What is a Preliminary Year?
How Many Preliminary Programs Should I Rank Alongside Categorical Ones?
Applying to an advanced specialty? Discover how many preliminary (prelim/TY) programs to rank, target numbers by competitiveness, geography, and risk level.
Residency Applications
Match Week Timeline: What Happens Monday Through Friday in Detail
Navigate Match Week hour-by-hour: what happens Monday-Friday, SOAP strategy, and steps to manage NRMP Match Day and unmatched outcomes. Read now.
Competitiveness of Different Specialties
Didn't Match Derm or Ortho? Step-by-Step Plan to Stay on the Path
Didn't match derm or ortho? Follow this step-by-step plan to stabilize, analyze gaps, pursue SOAP or research year, and reapply stronger, with clear next steps.