Going Over My Entire MEDICAL RESIDENCY APPLICATION | CaRMS Tips and Full Breakdown

This is my entire application breakdown from the 2022 Medical Residency application cycle. I applied to family medicine and was offered interviews at every program that I applied to and ultimately accepted my first choice offer. After medical school in Canada, students need to apply via the CaRMS application in order to match a medical specialty that they are interested in. In this video I go over my medical school transcript, my clinical electives, my reference letters and my personal essays. Hopefully the tips I share are helpful, but feel free to ask any questions that you'd like and I'll try my best to help out. Good luck!

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⏳Chapters:
Intro: 0:00 - 1:12
Part 1, Med School Transcript: 1:13 - 7:07
Part 2, Clinical Electives: 7:08 - 10:56
Part 3, CV and Reference Letters: 10:57 - 16:39
Part 4, Personal Essays: 16:40 - 18:16
Closing Thoughts + How Long?? 18:17 - 19:52

Bio:
Hi everyone, its nice to meet you 🤙 I'm a first year family medicine resident physician at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. I'm just trying to document my experiences throughout my medical training and beyond to hopefully help inspire/guide some other students... and make things more fun for myself :) I post a new video once per week.
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[jeanetteraichel]

Oh my, lots of flaming hoops to jump through to sell yourself as the ideal candidate fir their program! You work pretty hard to get what is needed fir the application.

[oakville]

Thank you for posting this video. I am an Asian father that is very involved in my older son's life. Perhaps overly so. I have had no contact since Dean Harnett's BHSc welcome meeting in 2012.09, may God bless his soul.
Your post is the most relevant and reassuring since then. I will sleep better tonight than I have had in the ten years. :)

[michaelwu]

Beautiful video bro :DD Happy to see u very refreshed!

[thiagolusvarghimd]

Great video! I have to start preparing for my applications this year.

[shockwaverules]

Fantastic video as always Gianluca, so excited to see you start doctoring!

Any chance you could make a video on how you maintain such a positive/growth mindset during your medical journey, including premed, med, and pre-residency?

As I prepare to apply to med school next year, the stress and competitive nature of the Canadian system is quite daunting.

[katherine]

Congratulations, Dr. Gianluca! Thank you so much for such an informative video; it has definitely helped me understand the residency application process. It's crazy that I started watching your videos three years ago when you started your medical school journey and I was a first-year university student. Now, you've graduated and are an official doctor and I will be heading to medical school in the fall! Thank you so much for all your amazing videos, advice and information you've provided over the years. Wishing you the best in your family medicine residency and will definitely be keeping up with your journey for the years to come!

[rosaalmonte]

Hey!!!! Congrats !!! I have a question. I am an (well, working on being lol) IMG applicant. I know you’re aren’t an IMG but would you please make a video explaining the process with physiciansapply all up to the MCCQE1, it’s really confusing to me.

Wishing you all the best!

[budtalks]

Thanks for this video I think it’s really helpful. Much love

[shane]

Congrats again doc! Best of luck on your next chapter (residency)!! Rooting for you!

[patc]

I'm really surprised with the simple differences between countries. Here, in Venezuela, my Medical School Transcripts just said my grade per rotation and that's it. Canada system is so detail.

[henriquedaga]

Hey Dr Gianluca. This is an amazing video, congrats on this incredible work. Would you mind answering one question?

Speaking about rotation's statement, I am an IMG and I don't have this kind of evaluation on my medical records. My grades were given differently, based on grades basically. Do you think it would be a problem for my future residency application as IMG or as IMG this specific point is different from Canadian Medical graduates?

Thank you for your help and for all the helpful videos on your channel.

[andreacruz]

Thank you for this video! Great info. As a Canadian citizen studying medicine abroad, do you know whether the MCCQE is necessary as well? What I got from this video is that it would, regardless of citizenship status, but I'd like to confirm :) Thank you

[mahaabdul]

i have a question why are the electives so short, is 2 weeks really enough for you to know what you like ?

[abhaymenon]

Are you thinking about starting your own practice?

[nala]

What would be some adjacent electives for someone wanting to match to ophthalmology?

[MoodJay]

hello Dr, I am thinking about going for 2nd iteration ( and i also heard that there is something called post-match as well) because I didnt pass my qe1 for first iteration. my first questions is, there are multiple streams i have read about for 2nd iteration ( CMG, IMG, competitive, regular...etc) but they are confusing. for instance i am an IMG but when I read about 2nd iteration requirements it seems I can apply to other streams as well. Can you please clarify? because I want to know what my chances of matching are. question2 : i got 1390 on nac osce, from what I understood, it is decent but not that great, so If I score well on qe1 ( say in 260s or 70s) will that help me in applying to competitive specialties?