HOW TO GET RESIDENCY INTERVIEWS | VSAS Audition Rotations

VSAS Step By Step:
1. Getting Started
- Personal information: Go to AAMC profile then contact details, address, biographic information (just add native language)
- Add Academic Information: core clerkships
- Find electives (top of page): specialty, country, state, and make a list of which ones you are interested in and click the save box for each
- Go back to My Application (top of page): add electives from saved list, add dates for each one (I did three dates for each site), save and continue

2. Requirements
- Anything that says it has to be completed by Home Institution don’t worry about
- Watch out for some sites that want Attestation Letters (basically they want you to say if they give you an audition you’ll reject all other auditions)
- Letter of Intent: 2-3 paragraphs of why you want that specialty/their program
- Letter of Recommendation: ask your school to upload the letter to your profile.
- AAMC Standardized Immunization Form: see step 6

3. Preferences: order the dates in order of priority & select how many electives you want to do at that site (I usually said 1)

4. Pay & Submit

5. Notify your school so they can complete your application

6. AAMC Immunization Form
- Download the form template and fill it out
- Go to combined PDF and upload the template with all the immunization records they ask for
- Email this form to your school for a signature
- Upload the form on VSAS

7. How many to apply for and when?
- Honestly no one knows. It is basically whatever you’re comfortable with.
- I applied to a lot of auditions because they are all competitive. However, if you know of a program you like and it’s not competitive maybe don’t apply for so many auditions because you don’t want to have to tell a bunch of programs you are going somewhere else. I don’t think they actually care but who knows.
- I did audition rotations up until February which is considered pretty late. I left the month of December off for interviews.
- Subspecialty rotations can also be a chance for you to audition because you never know who you are going to meet on the rotation.

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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Why I Did So Many Audition Rotations
03:58 - How To Approach Auditions
07:07 - How Many Audition Rotations Should You Do
07:52 - How To Get Residency Interviews
09:39 - How To Get An Audition

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