Academic Life in Emergency Medicine

EM Match Advice 47 | EM Program Directors Reflect on the 2025 Match

The Emergency Medicine (EM) Match process continues to evolve, with the specialty experiencing significant shifts in recent years. In this 47th installment of the EM Match Advice podcast series, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford EM PD) hosts the annual program director reflection on the Match with Dr. Abra Fant (Northwestern EM PD), who returns for her fourth consecutive year to share insights on the NRMP Match trends and data. 

Podcast sound engineer: Dr. Kaitlin Bowers

https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-47-2025-em-match-by-the-numbers/

EM Match Advice 46 | Program Directors Share Match Season Insights

As interview season wraps up, medical students across the country are preparing their rank lists for the upcoming Match. EM Match Advice podcast host, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford EM Program Director) recently sat down with Dr. Melissa Parsons (University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville EM Program Director), to discuss the match process from both program and applicant perspectives.

https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-46-program-directors-share-match-season-insights/

Podcast sound engineer: Dr. Kaitlin Bowers

EM Match Advice 45: 2025 ERAS Updates - What EM Applicants Need to Know

Dr. Sara Kryzyzaniak (EMMA Podcast Host and Stanford EM Program Director) gives an early heads-up for senior EM medical students who are applying to the 2025-26 residency match. There have been some key updates in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) rules for the MyERAS application form. 

https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-45-2024-eras-updates/

 

Podcast sound engineer: Kellen Vu

EM Match Advice 44: Approaching your EM Sub-Internship Clerkship

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Jessica Bod (Yale EM Clerkship Director) who gives thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into the EM sub-intern clerkship. What if you decide to pivot into EM relatively late in your medical school career? What should I be thinking about after the clerkship? 

https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-44-sub-internship-clerskhip/ 

EM Match Advice 43: EM Program Directors Reflect on the 2024 Match

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Abra Fant (Northwestern PD) to reflect on the 2024 Match, after last year's shockingly high number (554) of unfilled positions in the match. We discuss our updated table of match metrics and help provide some context, especially as we look to the future.

https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-43-program-directors-reflect-2024-match/  

EM Match Advice 42: Mid Interview Season Check-In

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Aaron Kraut (University of Wisconsin PD) in this insightful, rapid-fire, practical episode through the lens of residency program directors.

• What does the ERAS data show so far?
• Have there been any surprises or changes during interview season?
• Has the program signaling option been working? 
• What should students think about in the post-interview stage? 

Audio engineer: Kellen Vu

EM Match Advice Series: https://www.aliem.com/em-match-advice-series/

EM Match Advice 41: The ERAS Application - New and Improved

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Alexis Pelletier-Bui (Cooper University Hospital Associate PD) and Dr. Elizabeth Werley (Chair of CORD Application Process Improvement Committee, Penn State Hershey). Both serve as key representatives on behalf of the EM specialty on the AAMC ERAS Supplemental Application Working Group.

We discuss the changes made, why they were done, and potential sticking points for medical students while completing the application. We also do a deeper dive on "program signaling". What is it, how many programs can EM applicants list, and nuanced decisions to consider.

Audio engineer: Kellen Vu

EM Match Advice 40: PD’s Reflect on the 2023 Match

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by the Dr. Abra Fant (Northwestern PD) and Dr. Richard Church (University of Massachusetts PD) to debrief each other and you with what went down with the unprecedented results from 2023 EM Match. There were 132 programs with a total of 554 (18.4%) positions that went unfilled. Contrast that to our usual unfilled rates of 0-30 positions in 2015-2021.

We review "The Slide" with all the numbers from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) from the past few years. We propose reasons why there were so many unfilled positions in 2023. What does this mean for the upcoming 2024 Match?

Show notes and tables at: https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-40-program-directors-reflect-2023-match/

Audio engineer: Kellen Vu

EM Match Advice 39: Mailbag Q&A as a Mid-Interview Season Check-in

Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by the always-wise Dr. Matt Pirotte (Vanderbilt University PD) to answer questions that YOU, the students, submitted to us regarding interview season. We tackle questions involving the nuances around:

• Preference signaling 
• Writing letters or emails of interest
• Meaningfully connecting with busy program directors

Also we answer the perennial question of "Really, how important IS the interview in my overall application?"

Audio engineer: Kellen Vu

ACEP E-QUAL 52: How to build a Bridge Program and pay for it | Opioid Initiative

Speakers:

• Arianna Campbell, PA-C (Marshall Medical Center)
• Aimee Moulin, MD FACEP (Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of California Davis, Chief of the Division of Addiction Medicine)

Host: Jason Woods, MD (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado)

Audio engineer: Kellen Vu (Stanford University)