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This event will be live-streamed over the Internet to grant-funding research scientists at the National Institutes of Health and American Institute for Research.

They are taking an increasing interest in how medical recruitment programs like this can be used to even out health disparities in the U.S.

• Test preparation strategies that work

  • Scheduling reading, practice testing, quizzing and life
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of your plan before the exams
  • Proper use of real exams for practice
  • 14 Categories of study techniques
  • How to quickly classify different types of material
  • Matching study techniques to your innate style

• USMLE/COMLEX/MCAT resources via N.I.H.

  • Making the imperfect “system” work for you
  • Grant-funded research helps you get into residency and medical school
  • Virtual Tutoring

• Health Disparities

  • Who needs a doctor? Stats and figures of physician distbution
  • What type of doctors are needed? (Why specialties other than Family Medicine won’t do.)
  • How specialists can help alleviate health disparities (don’t neglect general health issues, encourage a PCP, etc.)
  • What efforts are being done to correct the disparities?
  • Where can I help?
  • How many foreign medical graduates are contributing to the underserved?

• Match  A Resident and Scramble Secrets

  • The landscape: numbers of medical students in the match and scramble, percentages of positive matches for all groups
  • Job opportunities for US Medical School grads versus FMG’s and US-Caribbean grads.
  • IMG documentation for the match and programs’ varying requirements
  • Recommended number of schools to apply for by US grads and IMG’s
  • The cost of residency applications and the problem of irrelevant apps
  • Dr. Sam Musa’s solution.

• Test Anxiety

  • Fine line distinguishing pathologic anxiety
  • Defining the internal dialogue that is non-productive
  • Harnessing the internal dialugue with biofeedback and other techniques
  • Meditation, visualization, and the winning mindset

• Show me the money

  • How to make money in medical school
  • Cost of education, loan strategies
  • Scholarships and loan repayment programs
  • Leveraging your experiences to provide value for others

• Career path/applications/essays

  • 200 journal articles on medical education journey in a mindmap
  • Perform Mock Interviews
  • How to write personal statements
  • 5-Year Medical School Alternative Plans
  • Younger generation prefers lifestyle balance – don’t fear a workload that is unmalleable and forced upon you
  • Molding your job into what you dreamed medicine would be like

• GPA

  • GPA defined
  • Pass-fail systems and their effect on self-esteem
  • GPA prediction calculators
  • Evidence-based course selection in undergrad

• Professionalism and the Pervasive Lack Thereof

  • Mastering the Fear of Failure (failing patients, classes or tests), a root of professional error
  • Unnecessary classes and sometimes less-than-inspiring teachers
  • How to be right and humble at the same time

• The Emotionally Intelligent Physician

  • INTRAPERSONAL EMOTIONS

    • The Emotional Quotient
    • Dealing with difficult colleagues
    • Taking Better Care of Yourself: food, sleep, R & R
    • Perfectionism vs. Imposter Phenomenon: Feelings of inadequacy at the top of the academic ladder
    • Genuine leadership in practice
    • Practicing medicine the way YOU want to, despite a negative environment
    • Work-life balance: erosion of your preferred social life
    • Identify common causes of stress form personal experiences
    • Discern the difference between positive stress and negative stress
    • Determine your levels of personal and work-related stress
    • Differentiate between the two groups of emotions to better understand how you are feeling and why
    • Recognize the ways you may be unintentionally contributing to your own stress levels
    • Identify aspects of your personal and professional lifestyle in relation to your management of emotional well-being
    • Define seasons of personal mastery and its impact on your work life
    • Evaluate your emotional debt and discover ways to pay it off
    • Analyze situations so that your emotions do not sabatoge the results you want

  • INTERPERSONAL EMOTIONS

    • Use your mirror listeneing skills to understand how others are feeling
    • Identify feelings and the reason why people feel the way they do
    • Recognize when to be assirtive in interacting with others
    • Constructive assertive messages using the XYZ technique
    • Identify rituals that presently exist in your life and classify rituals according to purpose
    • Create a personal action plan to implement your learning back at work

• Mastermind groups with hands-on practice

  • Mock interviews: answer the question, Who are you, where have you been, and where are you going in your life?
  • Owning your expertise
  • Practice vision statement

• Time Management

  • The Long Haul: Effects of and Survival Techniques for the duration of medical training
  • Convert frustrating drives to effective study times
  • Shifting focus from managing time to managing self
  • Identifying personal time-wasters
  • Creating personal Time Mastery Plan
  • Using a robust planning process
  • Defining goals; establishing important and valid priorities
  • Creating a realistic and productive schedule
  • Creating productive and efficient routines to support core goals
  • Organizing and managing work environment
  • Identifying ways to deal with self distractions and interruptions
  • Increasing productivity by using technology efficiently
  • Selecting the right form of communication
  • Identifying ways to manage e-mail
  • Prioritizing and choosing activities to balance life and work
  • Creating personal “no” script

• Training the trainer – The Resident-Teacher

  • Distinguishing problems that can be addressed by training
  • Identifying and crafting learning objectives
  • Facilitating presentations and activities
  • Understanding and creating brain-friendly lectuers
  • Using learning tools and applying lecture alternatives
  • Exploring when and how experiential learning approaches can meet training challenges
  • Extending the value of training
  • Evaluating training
  • Delivering/facilitating an actual 10-15-minute training