Residency applications / Choose your next step
Start with the problem you need to solve. Official instructions explain the application. A workbook gives you a place to practice and organize your own writing. Individual advising addresses questions that a general PDF cannot resolve.
Compare the three pathsUse free official guidance when you need field instructions, current requirements or the application workflow. Check your specialty and programs directly rather than treating a general planning guide as their policy.
Read AAMC’s current MyERAS FAQsConsider a self-study workbook if you know which application you are completing but want exercises, fictional teaching examples and reusable planning pages. You supply the facts, draft the responses and judge whether each exercise helps.
Inspect the residency workbookBring eligibility, specialty strategy, a complex application history or program-specific uncertainty to the appropriate school adviser or official program contact. A workbook cannot assess your individual candidacy. This page does not offer a residency advising service.
A useful question identifies the exact requirement, what you have verified and the remaining uncertainty.
Medical applications
Two complete fictional specialty statements, experience/reflection pairs, program and signaling research tools, interview exercises and decision checklists. Current references concern the 2027 ERAS season.
$49 USD · One-time purchase
The collection’s scope is residency application writing and preparation: fictional specialty statements, experience/reflection pairs, research tools and interview exercises. It is a PDF resource, not application submission, clinical instruction, personal feedback or a Match prediction. Read the current product page for the included file and exclusions.
A list of responsibilities and a meaningful reflection do different jobs. Work through an original mentoring example, then audit your own description for role accuracy and repetition.
ERAS experience description vs. reflection: a worked exampleResidency follows medical school; it is a different application task from entering medical school. If you are preparing AMCAS writing or MCAT CARS practice, use our medical-school preparation comparison instead. A residency workbook is not an AMCAS guide.
Verify your application service and current instructions before adapting an exercise. Do not assume that every specialty uses ERAS or that one platform’s fields transfer to another. Keep patient identifiers and confidential institutional information out of drafts and shared examples. All final statements must remain truthful and in your own words.
Reviewed October 27, 2026. Official application guidance: AAMC MyERAS FAQs. Writing context: University of Maryland’s experience guidance. Product details come from our current catalog. The comparison and fit test are Ascend Ivy’s editorial guidance, not an official admissions rubric. Authorship, AI assistance and corrections.