How I Matched To a Competitive Medical Specialty | 6 Tips to Match Competitive Specialties

If you’re looking to Match into a competitive medical specialty like ophthalmology, dermatology, urology, ENT, plastic surgery or any others then it’s important to prepare yourself with as much knowledge on how to Match into these hard and most competitive medical specialties. I hope these tips help!

[SebnemEgriboyun]

I’m a fifth-year medical student in Turkey hoping to apply to ophthalmology in the US and your videos are always motivational, thank you! I realized I already do most of these tips which made me feel optimistic about my chances 💛

[domkieran]

Thank you Dr Zac! Please make more videos targeted for medical students, much love!

[mahmoudgamal]

Can you explain in future videos how have you acquired knowledge and skills in surgical devices designing

[saadalosemi]

I'm excited to suggest topic for next video
Can do video regarding how to be competitive residents? With many tasks residents should do it
From reading to finishing the clinic and oncalls
I really finding ophthalmology residency exciting and fun

[nisargshines]

What about dermatology ? How many publications required ? Is it difficult to get into for non us IMGs ?

[taylormari]

Can you give a rough estimate of how many publications are recommended to match optho?

[cooperbahr]

Does the type of research matter, and is some favored over others? Bench research vs case reports, etc.