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Top 10 specialties with the most medical residency positions
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Residency specialties that medical students are researching most
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The road to residency starts in M1. Here’s how to begin navigating it.

First-year medical students are years away from residency applications. But there are steps to take to prep for a successful Match when the time comes.

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The Road to Residency

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What is residency?

Residency serves as a crucial phase in a physician's training, following the completion of medical school.

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Health Care Definitions
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Meet Your Match: How to transfer residency programs, with David Savage, MD

In this episode of Making the Rounds, learn how those considering a transfer should approach that decision.

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Making the Rounds Podcast
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Meet Your Match: Reapplying to Match, with Drs. Keirns and Irwin

In this episode of Making the Rounds, learn strategies for reapplying for the Match.

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Quickly search and sort more than 13,000 fellowship and residency programs with easy to use filters that can be saved to your member-only dashboard.

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FREIDA™ by the numbers

Take an insider’s peek at FREIDA™ and discover which residency programs are capturing the interest of your peers.

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Residency specialties that medical students are researching most

From anesthesiology to urology, this exclusive user data reveals which medical specialties get the most attention when your peers weigh their residency program options.

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Top 10 specialties with the most medical residency positions

 In a unique view of FREIDA data drawing from more than 60,000 first-year residency positions, we reveal which medical specialties offer the most opportunity.

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Most-viewed residency programs by state

 In a unique view of FREIDA data drawing from more than 12,000 programs, we reveal the top 10 states based on the number of programs.

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Obstetrics and gynecology programs with the most residency positions

According to FREIDA™ data, obstetrics and gynecology offers 1,600 first-year medical residency positions. Here are the programs offering the most opportunities.

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