Matching to a residency program through the NRMP® (National Resident Matching Program) is a competitive endeavor. Even strong candidates – especially IMGs (international medical graduates) – can have difficulty getting PGY-1 (post graduate year one) positions in many specialties. Those that do match may not get their first or second choices, leaving them in suboptimal locations or programs. Consequently, professional residency admissions consulting have become increasingly important in optimizing residency applications and ensuring that candidates get into the programs they desire.

 

Residency admissions consulting companies come in a variety of forms. Some are larger companies that focus on admissions to several types of graduate programs – not just medicine. Others are smaller companies that provide a medical focus, but have a pool of consultants of varying quality. Finally, elite companies offer both the medical focus and a highly experienced consultant who works one-on-one with clients. These professionals are ex-admissions officers from respected medical institutions. They have the inside knowledge of how residency admissions work, providing personalized guidance to optimize candidates’ residency personal statement, ERAS® and interview skills.

 

Because applicants can unknowingly undermine their chances of success with poorly compiled materials, underdeveloped residency application personal statement and inadequate interview skills, a qualified, personalized residency admissions consultant provides a great advantage.

 

An expert consultant can offer a variety of services to improve a residency application:

 

1. ERAS® (or alternative application) editing. The Electronic Residency Application Service is a centralized program that transmits applications and other supporting credentials from the applicant to program directors using the Internet. Most residency programs now use ERAS®; a few have individual applications. ERAS® and other applications include a section for describing all of an applicant’s accomplishments. Ensuring that a candidate’s activity descriptions are optimally-worded is essential for showcasing the applicant’s accomplishments to residency admissions officers.
2. Personal statement for residency application. The ERAS® essay allows the applicant to demonstrate his or her distinctiveness as a candidate. Excellent organization, format, syntax, grammar and spelling are essential.
3. Curriculum vitae (C.V.). The C.V. is a standardized medical resume that is offered to faculty to improve candidates’ letters of recommendation (LORs), highly important factors in the residency application process. The C.V. can also be used for the rest of the applicant’s professional career.
4. Mock interviews. Few people would take the Boards without practicing first. But many applicants mistakenly arrive at their residency interviews unprepared. Being coached by an experienced professional makes an enormous difference in an applicant’s confidence and presentation to program directors and residency admissions committees.

 

When choosing a residency admissions consulting company, an applicant should verify the company’s references and research its consultants. Elite companies that offer both the medical focus and a highly experienced consultant who works one-on-one with clients offer a large advantage for residency applicants, especially during these competitive times.

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor advised that you must change your diet and to start a program of regular exercise. Your doctor may have made you an appointment with a nutritionist. You will be able to get a dietician and diabetic recipes out off the internet.

Diabetics are at increased risk of heart disease and problems in the flow of blood in the legs. They have to follow a healthy diet low in fat and a diet that also helps control the level of blood sugar.

So what can you do to manage their diabetes, and to be healthy?

The Diabetes organization has developed a healthy eating food pyramid as a guide to healthy eating for diabetics. They recommend eating: –

1. 6-11 portion of grains and starches per day – bread, pasta, rice, cereals, dried beans and starchy vegetables like potatoes.

2. A minimum of 3-5 servings of vegetables a day – look for vegetable recipes and diabetic recipes using vegetables.

3. 2-4 servings of fruit a day.

4. 2-3 servings of low fat or no fat milk.

5. 4-6 ounces (about 112-168g) of meat and meat substitutes, per day – This should be shared between meals and not eat at a meal. Visible fat should be trimmed off meat should be cooked and healthy – grilled, baked or grilled instead of fried. Meat alternate are cheese, cottage cheese, nut butters, dried beans, eggs and tofu.

6. The smaller group is alcohol, fats and sweets that need to be limited. Alcohol and sweets should only be consumed as treats in small portions. Use recipes low fat and non fat or low fat products.

Other suggestions for diabetics are: –

- Look for specific diabetic recipes to help you follow a healthy diet for your situation.

- Eating the same amount of food at the same time every day – eat regularly to control their level of blood sugar.

- Add starchy foods such as dried beans and bean soups and casseroles to increase their intake of starch. Look out for diabetic recipes that use these starchy foods, because it will have a positive effect on the level of blood sugar.

- Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables for soluble fiber helps reduce the absorption of glucose in the intestine.

- Control your weight – This is particularly important for type 2 diabetes because extra body fat causes the body to have difficulty making and using insulin. Look for diabetics and healthy recipes low fat recipes to help you lose weight and weight control. If you lose a few pounds, you may even be able to reduce medication.

- Control your intake of carbohydrates in meals by carbohydrate count. Your medical professional will be able to advise you on how you need many carbohydrates in each meal, based on their level of exercise and medication.

- Follow a diet low in fat – Diabetics are at a greater risk of heart disease so try to limit your fat intake below 30% of their total daily calorie intake.

“The People” have had enough apparently!

An “insider” revealed today that the “World of Medicine” is scamming people – and even worse: with the help of “law-makers!”

It seems that “money” (as usual) has blinded doctors and medical practitioners to the degree that they are now willingly *suppressing* the truth regarding Heart Disease – its control, management, and even its cure!

That’s right: “cure!”

And what should shock you even more:

It seems that it’s against the law to say the word “cure” when describing anything that actually cures you.

Yet it’s very much okay to say that something “treats” or helps “offset” the symptoms of some health condition or disease.

But if you say “cure” (and even including when you in fact have a real and bona fide cure for something and can even prove it!) you can get arrested.

Ever wonder why we have a “healthcare” industry and not a “healthcure” industry?

It’s simply because no one’s out to “cure” anyone because there’s little money in doing so.

Instead, keeping you sick and marginally pain-free is all anyone’s really out to do for you these days – as doing so means you being “forced” to buy all the same drugs over and over again, and again, and … (you get the point!)

Of course, if a cure came along it would mean you buy it one time, and then you’re cured – and that’s that (over and done!)

But a number of doctors, philanthropists, and just plain old “good folks” armed with “real answers” and “real solutions” are stepping up and are NOT afraid of “Uncle Big-Bully Brother!”

One courageous fellow by the name of Melford Bibens, CPT, is doing exactly this, as he’s helped others overcame “naturally” the condition known as “Heart Disease!”

Not only that, but Melford has lectured and personally helped individuals beat the disease to the point that proven sufferers have actually gotten re-diagnoses as “no longer having the disease at all!” (Something that’s pretty much always been ruled out as a possibility altogether! – and now which may even be against the law!)

But it’s not certain how long Melford will be allowed to do this because “Uncle Sambo” has actually started using “Gestapo” tactics whereby people and businesses truly offering “cures” have been raided with masked armed police who even go to the point of forcing customers in the stores to get down on the floor at gunpoint!

So, if you’re wise and want to find out about this while it’s still possible for you to do so, then just visit this link now:

   ~~~>  http://www.UltimateHealthyHeart.com/amdigital

But don’t be surprised if one day soon you return to find this site completely removed with a US Flag waving in its place (in the name of “freedom” no less!)