@bajamm and then three sets of orals?
Probably. I don’t know. Each exam stands alone and is needed to be able to say she is board certified in that subject matter.
I am just the dumb mom, all I know really is that she will be able to say she is board eligible in 3 things at the end of the residency. Or, board eligible in two and board certified in one if she takes and passes the exam this fall.
Then she has to take the exams and all the stuff in order to say she is board certified in a particular subject. And, she can choose to take one, two or three exams or to take none and suffer the consequences of whatever she decides.
Not all specialties have both written and oral board exams.
Those with both oral and written boards:
Anesthesiology
Diagnostic radiology
Disaster medicine
Emergency medicine
ENT
Family medicine
Gynecological oncology
Interventional radiology
Neurosurgery
Nuclear Medicine
OB/GYN
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics
PM&R
Psychiatry
Radiation oncology
Surgery ( general surgery plus these sub-specialties: colon and rectal, thoracic and cardiac, plastic, pediatric, oral and maxillofacial )
Urology
Vascular surgery
Pediatrics has only a written board exam. No orals. Child psych also has only a written board exam. (The oral was eliminated in 2010.)
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I dont remember Internal medicine having an oral.
It’s not listed as having an oral in the post above.
Residency and fellowship programs now have the option to use AI to evaluate med school transcripts (and thereby help programs screen applicants).
The new AI tool is a built-in part of ERAS and a free opt-in for programs.
Read about how the tool works here:
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Just checking in here to let you all know that my kid is now fully board certified! Passed her written exam and her oral exam. Is licensed in two states!
She has one more board exam to take, I think…and that relates to her fellowship. But I think that is “only” a written exam, and isn’t required to work in her field (but she will do it).
Now…she is making contacts about attending jobs…fellowship ends in June!
She started medical school TEN years before she will finish this fellowship!
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I am on my way out the door for a work trip the rest of this week. I’m just checking in to ask for good thoughts for my D as she takes the first of three certification exams today. She is in a triple board program and will take one exam a year until all three are done. She will finish residency next year and hopes to start a fellowship next summer.
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There were five or six of us who had young women who started their residencies in 2020 (the year of no medical school graduations).
It’s so nice to see these updates about what they are now doing!!
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Big changes coming to the residency application process and ERAS.
OB/Gyn has developed its own application platform and will NOT be using ERAS for the Match 2025 application cycle.
Read about the new process here: https://apgo.org/page/rrrapplicationplatform
Emergency Medicine is strongly considering following Ob/GYN and abandoning ERAS for its own residency application system:
Additionally some residency programs in neurology, urology and anesthesia have withdrawn from ERAS.
The change from ERAS to ResidencyCAS will hurt those 35% or so OB/GYN applicants who dual apply since they will now have to pay fees to apply through 2 different systems. Also OB/GYN applicants who do not match–since they are not applying through AMCAS/ERAS–will not be able to SOAP unless they create a fall back ERAS application well before SOAP opens. (Creating a ERAS application require uploading transcripts, MSPEs, personal statements and specialty-specific LORs and applicants have less than 24 hours between the “no match” notification and the opening of SOAP.)
Remember, OB-GYN is a competitive specialty.
Last year, 13% of MD seniors, 30% of DO seniors, 60% of U.S. citizen international medical graduates (IMGs), and 73% of non-US citizen IMGs who wanted to match in OB-GYN went unmatched.
The Organization of Program Director Association (OPDA) has created a series of specialty-specific Guides for Residency Applicants.
There are guides for all of the following specialties:
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Medical Genetic and Genomics (categorical)
Medical Genetics and Genomics (combined)
Neurology
Neurological Surgery
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedics
Otolaryngology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Preventive Medicine
Psychiatry
Surgery-- General
Surgical Critical Care
Thoracic
Transitional Year Residency
Guide contain helpful info about specialty specific LORs; specialty dept chair standardized LOR requirements; away rotation expectations; signaling; use of USMLE/COMLEX scores; typical date range for interview invitations (including the use of universal interview release dates); interview formats offered; other information for applicants.
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WAPO gift link:
A young doctor’s final words offer a mental health warning for others
Will West, a 33-year-old who was training at George Washington University hospital in D.C., wrote in a suicide note that other residents are “at real risk”
https://wapo.st/401Ifpk
Match Day is next week. Is anyone else watching the residency match this year?
Good luck to the medical school students as they await their decisions!
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Hadn’t visited this thread in a long time. Nice to see the updates. D is in year 5 of residency, planning to apply for fellowships later this fall. Long road…
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Today was the day medical school students found out IF they matched. Friday, they will find out where!
Very exciting time.
for anyone here who is waiting!!
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Looks like no applicants this year 
My guess is there were some, but this area needs some reach out as it’s become a bit inactive.
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DS is getting ready to apply for residency. This year orthopedics has signal process and you can signal to 30 programs.
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Good luck to him!
For those who followed this thread in 2019-2020 when my DD was applying for residencies…
She has started her job as an attending physician. It’s a multiple appointment as an assistant professor at the flagship university medical school, and a doctor in their ED. And she is faculty for the fellowship she just completed as well.
She is very happy…Not bad for a D.O.
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Congratulations to your D on her many successes! She is a great example of the opportunities available for D.O.s.
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