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AOGME RFC & CORP Webinar on Residency Interviewing

This webinar featuring Zoom Breakout Rooms will provide fourth-year medical students with advice and tips on how to prepare for residency interviews

This educational session presented by the AOGME Residents and Fellows Council (RFC) and AACOM's Council on Residency Placement (CORP) will provide fourth-year medical students with important information and expert advice on how to prepare for residency interviews.

This session will feature an opening panel followed by a 25-minute interactive Breakout Room session for students to interact and ask their questions to the panelists.

Facilitator:

  • Holly Waters, DO, MMEL, Assistant Professor & Vice Chair - Osteopathic Principles and Practice, OPP Predoctoral Fellowship Co-Director, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine

Panelists:

  • Kimberly Warfield, C-TAGME, Career and Residency Counselor, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Dimitri Tito, DO, Clinical Faculty & Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Linda Logan, DO, Breast/GYN Pathology Clinical Instructor, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC
  • Maria Jones, DO, PGY-4 Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine, ChristianaCare Health System
  • Brie Howerton, DO, MSBE, PGY-2 Emergency Medicine, Corewell Health East Dearborn
  • David Shumway, DO, Capt., USAF, Internal Medicine BE / Aerospace Medicine
  • Ryan Barnes, DO, PGY-3 Psychiatry, Inspira Health
  • Deandra Kuruppu, DO, PGY-2 Internal Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
  • Cassandra Smith, DO, PGY-3 Family Medicine Chief Resident, Northwestern McGaw Family Medicine at Lake Forest
  • Omari Baines-Waiz, DO, PGY-2 Psychiatry, Atrium Health - Carolinas Medical Center
  • Nicholas Tito, DO, PGY-2 Psychiatry, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center
  • Tanzina Nawrin, DO, Assistant Professor, Faculty Practice Associates, Mount Sinai Doctors Medical Group

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