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Health Sciences

Career Development

The Office of Academic Success helps medical students prepare for residency by offering career advisement, which includes providing application resources, reviewing and editing application documents, one-on-one career advising meetings and assisting students with the match process.

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Residency Fair

The Residency Fair is an opportunity for OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine students to learn about the residency application process and network with physicians in various specialities.

2023 OSU-COM Residency Fair

Friday, October 27, 2023
OSU-CHS Campus

Contact Jessica Langston at jessica.langston@okstate.edu with questions

 

Application Resources

CVs, Personal Statements, Noteworthy Characteristics

We provide assistance to medical students by reviewing and editing their curriculum vitaes, personal statements, and noteworthy characteristics.

• Example CV #1
• Example CV #2
• Example CV #3
• Instructions/Examples Noteworthy Characteristics
• Example Personal Statement

Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE)

The MSPE is a summary letter of evaluation intended to provide residency program directors with an honest and objective summary of a student's experiences, attributes, and academic performance. This document includes noteworthy characteristics, academic history, grades on clinical clerkships as well as comments from preceptors, and class rank. The final version of each students' MSPE will be uploaded by the school into the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).

• Sample MSPE

 

Additional Resources

Careers in Medicine

Careers in Medicine is a career planning program that helps students explore career options, choose a specialty, and select and apply to residency programs. 

 

Match Resources

Match Statistics

• OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine graduate outcomes 

NRMP Match

The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), or The Match®, is a private, non-profit organization established in 1952 at the request of medical students to provide an orderly and fair mechanism for matching the preferences of applicants for U.S. residency positions with the preferences of residency program directors.