1. Jimmy Renfro, M.Ed. Assistant Director, Career Services
Residency 100 ERAS Primer
Jimmy Renfro, M.Ed.
Assistant Director, Career Services

2. Submit Questions Live

3. What is ERAS? Electronic Residency Application Service
The online common application for most AOA and ACGME internship and residency programs.

4. ERAS Website https://www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/eras/
You will obtain a login to ‘MyERAS’ once ERAS releases the tokens to the class of 2015 (end of June—all medical schools). This is how you will access and maintain your ERAS application.
AAMC ID/VSAS
Other useful areas of the site:
MyERAS login
Important Dates
Resources/User Guide
Lots of great tutorials!
Participating Specialties/Programs

5. What is ERAS? (cont’d) Components: Student: Career Services:
Input application fields/create ‘CV’
Personal Statement (multiple)
Send: COMLEX and/or USMLE
Select programs/assign certain documents
Career Services:
Attach: Letters of Rec (3-4) per student request
Attach: UNTHSC/TCOM Transcript
Attach: Dean’s Letter/MSPE
Attach: Photo-optional (default: ID photo)

6. What is ERAS? (cont’d) Be Prepared to Pay (2014 costs):
$95 for first 10 programs, per Match (AOA, ACGME), per specialty.
Goes up incrementally per program after first 10 applied ($ /ea.)
Board Transcripts: $75/ea. (one time fee)
ERAS fees page (credit card only)
Consider all travel expenses!

7. Letters of Recommendation
Career Services maintains (5 years)
Shoot for 4-6, specialty-specific
Clinical Faculty!
“Confidential” status (default = YES)
Program perception
LOR Request Form (for preceptor)
Summary Request: OrgSync – Career Services
Letter-writers may upload into ERAS directly!

8. LOR Summary

9. Personal Statement One page (appx. 650-900 words)
Specific to your chosen specialty / career goals
Components:
Explain your specialty choice and how you arrived at it, including a discussion of medical school rotations, clerkships, and other experiences that helped you formulate your decision. Also, why medicine as a career?
Describe what you are seeking in a residency program, i.e. research opportunities, academic research, etc.
Discuss your career goals; what do you plan to do in your chosen field? How can the residency program help you achieve your goals?
Send to Career Services for review

10. Medical School Performance Evaluation
Dean’s Letter/MSPE
Also known as:
Medical School Performance Evaluation
Three Phases:
Dean’s Letter Profile~CV/Personal Statement
Advisory College Interview
Writing/editing
‘MyHSC’:
Interview Scheduling
Profile

11. Anatomy of a Dean’s Letter
Identifying Information/Unique Characteristics (from Profile)
Academic History/Academic Progress (from Transcript/Curriculum)
Clinical Comments – Final Evaluation
“Summative” rather than “Formative” comments
Summary (from Interview and Profile)
Sample

12. ERAS Timeline
June Tokens are distributed by ERAS via Career Services around the end of the month (national date set by AAMC/ERAS)
July 1, (projected) - Applicants may begin completion of the online common application (set by ERAS)
July 15, 2014 (projected) - OSTEOPATHIC programs begin accepting online applications

13. ERAS Timeline September 15, 2014 (projected) October 1, 2014
ALLOPATHIC programs begin receiving online applications
October 1, 2014
MSPE/Dean’s Letters for ALLOPATHIC and OSTEOPATHIC applicants released

14. What Now? Now January – July
Develop CV and Personal Statement (Due by Dean’s Interview appointment)
Letters of Rec – request/follow-up
Stay active in OrgSync; join ‘TCOM 2015’
Follow Career Services on
January – July
Online scheduling for Summary Interviews will be available in January
Online Personal Profile: Due by February 1, 2014! (unless otherwise specified)
Dean’s Letter interview with College Advisor

15. MyHSC Login

16. Other Ongoing Services
Residency 101: Friday, March 7, prior to IR Fair (CEEAD Building – Luibel/Atrium)
ERAS Tutorial/Dean’s Letter Workshops
CV/Personal Statement Workshops
Interviewing Skills Workshops
Peer Advisors (February-May)
Class Chats (March-April)
Internship & Residency Fair
March 7, 2014, 2:00-4:00
CEEAD Building - Atrium

17. For CV, Personal Statement, and other ERAS help:
Career Services Contact Info
Jimmy Renfro
Assistant Director
EAD 110-B
(817)
For CV, Personal Statement, and other ERAS help:

18. More Details Soon! I/R Fair – March 7, 2014 Submit program invitation requests to: