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Final residency program rank lists for the Match were due this week. Here, one applicant looks back on how she shaped her list and reflects on how her residency interviews factored in.

For physicians in training in the U.S., the global refugee crisis will likely bring patients with unique stories and challenges to your clinic. Here's how to help.

Have you thought about what makes medical school worth the effort? What story do you tell people when they ask? In this two-part episode, we hear one student explain her very personal motivation, and Perry Tsai explains how his storytelling sessions work.

If you’ve spent more than five hours learning about proper LGBT health care techniques in your formal medical education, you may be the outlier. Transgender patients face major health disparities, often because health providers haven’t received adequate training on how to ask the right questions to deliver respectful and effective care.

What does the county fair have to do with the journey to becoming a physician? In one student's experience, a lot. Stories are great for connecting people and learning from the experiences of others. In this episode, Joey Johnson tells about his own waiting game on the way to med school from a rural community.

Is it possible to maintain a creative life outside of medical training? Is it worth it? When M.D./Ph.D. student Lee Hong found herself drifting away from her poetry amid the grind of training, rather than give in, she wrote a poem about the challenge itself. Here, she reads from and discusses her work and the value it has brought to her in medicine.

Med school admissions isn't just about GPA and MCAT scores. Applicants have to explain how medicine is a good fit for them, and vice versa. But how do they convey that in their application? We talk to admissions expert Dr. Gary Rose.

Even if you are not a non-traditional student, there's a lot you can learn from their experiences, like lessons on how to capitalize on the unusual aspects of your career in the med school application process.

Think study abroad will help your med school application? It might do the opposite, if you choose a program that takes advantage of patients. Here's how to spot the dangerous programs.

To get the most out of an international training experience, future physicians have to appreciate both difference and similarity in other systems. Otherwise, there's a risk that those differences will simply reinforce biases, even unintentional ones. Pavitra Krishnamani talks us through some steps to avoid the "us vs. them" divide, as well as how to deal with typical ethical conflicts on the ground.