The Medical School Years

Abstract Medical school can be very challenging, especially when students are considering applying to competitive specialties, like emergency medicine. Once medical students know that emergency medicine is the field they want to specialize in, a multitude of other questions arise, including how many EM rotations should they do? How can they shine during their EM rotations? When should they schedule their rotations, electives, and sub-internships? How can they get the strongest letters of recommendation? What are residency program directors looking for? Therefore, we are going to present in the Medical Student Forum section of the Journal of Emergency Medicine a series of six articles covering this and more.