Finding Your Fit: How To Evaluate What Matters in Residency Programs and Create Your Rank List
In this webinar, a panel of speakers including both residency program leadership and current residents from across the country discussed the factors that are most important to consider throughout the residency application process when determining what makes a program a good fit for you. Ultimately, employing these tools throughout the interview process helps to facilitate creating a prioritized rank list for Spring.
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Taylor Diederich, MD
Member-at-Large
University of Kansas
Taylor Diederich, MD is a PGY-1 Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Kansas, recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She currently serves as a Member-at-Large on the RAMS Board, and as the RAMS Board Liaison to the SAEM Education Committee.
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Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE
Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on to receive his MD from the University of California, Los Angeles, receiving the award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. After graduation, he began his postgraduate residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, specializing in Emergency Medicine, where he received a national award from the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association for clinical excellence in his field and was one of the program's chief residents. He was leader of the team that won the national resuscitation competition SimWars at ACEP in 2014. For the first five years as faculty, he was the Clerkship Director but has now transitioned to an Associate Program Director role as of 2020. He also serves as the course chair for a UCLA longitudinal 4th year medical student teaching fellowship and course faculty for the UCLA Faculty Development Medical Education Fellowship. He participated in the month-long Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers Clinical Teacher Facilitator Training Program, completed a 2-year Medical Education Fellowship at UCLA, and completed the UCLA Simulation Instructor Training course. He is co-chair of a working group aimed at improving educational faculty development at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Pedigo is an avid educator and has authored or co-authored 9 books, 40 book chapters and articles, as well as being the editor of over 300 chapters.
He has been the recipient of multiple awards including the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Best Diagnostician Award (2019), Rising Star of the Year Finalist Award (2019), Outstanding Peer Reviewer for Academic Emergency Medicine: Education and Training Award (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Faculty Teaching Excellence award from EMRA (2018), the National Emergency Medicine Junior Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from CORD (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from his own department (2017), Young Educator of the Year Award from SAEM/CDEM (2017), and the Distinguished Faculty Clinical Teaching Award from the Department of Internal Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (2016). He is also the recipient of the $100,000 Education Research Grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and completed a Master of Health Professions Education degree.
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Harsh Sule, MD, MPP
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Residency Program Director Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Harsh Sule, MD, MPP is Residency Program Director, Associate Director for the Office of Global Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. His areas of interest include global health and social EM, and he has been active in advising/mentorship at the undergraduate and graduate medical education levels for over 10 years. -
Alexandra Nordberg, MD
University of Massachusetts
Dr. Alexandra Nordberg is currently the Assistant Program Director for the University of Massachusetts Chan Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of New York Medical College and completed her EM residency and ultrasound fellowship at UMass prior to joining as faculty. She is dedicated to improving resident education and addresses areas of curriculum design as education needs evolve over time. Dr. Nordberg has been active in the SAEM community and enjoys collaborating with colleagues from around the country in education research pursuits and topics. She is currently enrolled in the SAEM ARMED Med ED program. -
Puja Singh, MD
Mount Sinai Morningside-West
Puja Singh, MD is a PGY-2 Emergency Medicine resident at Mount Sinai Morningside-West, graduated from Cooper Medical School. She currently serves as a Member-at-Large on the SAEM Education Commitee as well as Assistant Vice Chair for the EMRA Education Committee. Her interests are medical education as well as hospital administration, specifically patient safety, quality improvement, and risk management.
