{"id":8121,"date":"2018-05-18T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.picmonic.com\/pages\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2023-08-10T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:58:23","slug":"matched-into-internal-medicine-student-to-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picmonic.com\/pages\/matched-into-internal-medicine-student-to-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-to-Student: How I Matched into Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nai Chien Yeat is a current M4 at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He matched into Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein\u2019s Moses-Weiler. We reached out to him to hear about his Match Day experience.
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What did you do to prepare for the Match?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I did my best to set myself up as a competitive candidate. I talked to people who had been through the process, and tried my best to keep a cool head during application season. It was a stressful time, but I had good support from classmates, faculty and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, I almost sent in an unedited version of my personal statement because I was frustrated with how long it had taken me to complete my application – but my classmates and faculty mentor helped me take a step back, and gave me encouragement and timely feedback as I took the extra 2-3 days to polish up my application.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very grateful that I could lean on them throughout the process.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


How did you feel when you found out where you matched into internal medicine?
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For the first hour, I felt oddly calm as I sat through the rest of match day; the excitement caught up with me an hour later.
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Are you excited to move to New York?!
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I go to medical school in St. Louis but my fiance’s job is in New York, so we\u2019ve been living in different cities for the last 4 years – I was more relieved than excited when I opened my envelope.
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Do you have any advice for students who are beginning their medical journey?<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I would encourage 1st and 2nd years to treat their pre-clinical classes not as prep for Step 1, but as opportunities to build a strong foundation that they will draw on in the future.  <\/span>As a 4th year, I am constantly surprised by how much the teams I work with draw on knowledge we learned in 1st and 2nd year of medical school.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think there is a temptation to cram to maximize one\u2019s score on an end of block test, but this comes at the expense of long-term retention. We\u2019ve also become kind of blas\u00e9 about forgetting facts, especially preclinical knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Drinking from a fire hose\u2019 is an apt description of the sheer amount of medical knowledge we need to learn. I sometimes caught myself using it as permission to shirk learning topics that I found dry.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish I had known how important it is to study for retention vs. studying for the test. Picmonic has been a great help in ensuring long-term memory retention, and I expect to continue using it in residency. To the Picmonic team: thanks for making such a great learning tool! You’re saving patients’ lives one fact a time!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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