The Career Development and Research Office understands the importance of supporting and guiding residency and fellowship applicants and trainees from the time of the application process until they can put their foot on the right ground at the start of their training. As part of that process, setting the new interns up for a strong start during their first year of residency training constitutes a completion of the process that led them to being selected as residents in their programs.
Hence, guiding materials are being developed for that. Currently, the “Intern Survival Guide” project is being developed, with already multiple guiding and educational videos being prepared to assist new interns gain understanding of the nature of residency in the US. Those videos and other activities are based on the 5 core competencies of ACGME that residency programs follow and use as a guide to train and evaluate their interns.