Episodes

Friday Jan 24, 2025
EM Match Advice 46 | Program Directors Share Match Season Insights
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
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

Sunday Aug 18, 2024
EM Match Advice 45: 2025 ERAS Updates - What EM Applicants Need to Know
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
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

Monday Jun 24, 2024
EM Match Advice 44: Approaching your EM Sub-Internship Clerkship
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
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/

Monday Apr 29, 2024
EM Match Advice 43: EM Program Directors Reflect on the 2024 Match
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
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/

Thursday Jan 04, 2024
EM Match Advice 42: Mid Interview Season Check-In
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
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/

Friday Jul 21, 2023
EM Match Advice 41: The ERAS Application - New and Improved
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
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

Tuesday May 16, 2023
EM Match Advice 40: PD’s Reflect on the 2023 Match
Tuesday May 16, 2023
Tuesday May 16, 2023
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

Thursday Dec 29, 2022
EM Match Advice 39: Mailbag Q&A as a Mid-Interview Season Check-in
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
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

Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
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)

Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
In this episode of EM Match Advice, our new host, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford University), already has her finger on the pulse on the 2022-23 EM residency application season. Hot off the presses, the Council of EM Residency Directors just released its Standardized Letter of Evaluation (SLOE). We are honored to have CDEM president, Dr. Sharon Bord (Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. Doug Franzen (University of Washington), walk us through the document and the behind-the-scenes thought processes.
Co-host: Dr. Michelle Lin (UCSF)
Sound Engineer: Kellen Vu
https://www.ALiEM.com/em-match-advice-38-our-2-cents-sloe-standardized-letter-of-evaluation