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Application Criteria
All applications are accepted through the Electronic Residency Application Service and will be taken through December 31st.
Interviews are scheduled between November 1st and January 31. Our interview day begins in the morning and includes a brief time on inpatient rounds with our family medicine service, personal time with the program director and another faculty member, tour with a resident, and lunch with another resident or two. We plan your interview day so that you will have an opportunity to meet with different levels of residents, and have time to have questions answered about their satisfaction with the program. The day usually begins around 9:00 a.m. and is done by approximately 2:30 p.m. A hotel room is provided the night before the interview and evening interactions with residents will be arranged if the applicant’s schedule permits.
US Medical/Osteopathic Graduate Criteria:
- MSPE
- Transcript
- Personal Statement
- Curriculum Vitae
- USMLE or COMLEX transcript*
- Two letters of recommendation
* You must be able to be licensed in SD, which requires passage of each component of the USMLE in three attempts or less
International Medical Graduate Criteria:
The minimum criteria for foreign medical graduates that must be met to be considered for interviews in our program:
- All criteria as stated above for US medical/osteopathic graduates
- USMLE scores must be 80 or higher on parts 1, and 2, and the interval from passing part 1 to part 2 must not be greater than 7 years.
- You must be ECFMG certified.
- You must have lived in the US for at least two years.
- You have permanent residency or citizenship (the only visa we sponsor is J-1), and you must address any visa/citizenship issues. We do not have staff to do this for you.
- Time interval since completion of formal training (medical school or residency) must be less than 3 years.
- Time interval since most recent clinical experience (educational or practice) must be less than two years.
- You must demonstrate excellent and understandable written and spoken English language communication skills.
- All applications are accepted through ERAS and the NRMP. When applications are received after it is practical for completion of interviews prior to submission of match lists, qualifying applicant files will be held until match results are received. If openings exist at that time, those applicants may be invited for interviews
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