SAMA Professional DevelopmentSupporting Match Applicants

Achievements over the last year

Ayman Ahmed, MBBS

Activities

Observership / LOR

PS / CV review

Interview skills workshop (SAMA 3rd annual meeting)

Providing career advice to Residency Match Applicants through

Observership / LOR

• Started July 2010

• Link applicant with sudanese attendings

• Goals – USCE (for CV) – LOR

Flow of work1. Applicant:–Send a request•Website• Email: match@sama-sd.org

Database

– First come first serve

2. Contact attending

3. Contact applicant after approval

Figure 6. Number of observerships by SAMA since July 2010

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• Obstacles:– Lack of man power for coordination /

residency (working to improve)

– Communication

– No. of volunteer attending (not all states covered)

• Special thanks for sponsoring observerships to– Abdalla Zarroug, MD, FACS, FAAP,

Rochester, MN – Khalid Ahmed, MD, FACP, Flint, MI.– Seif Alasad, MD, Flint, MI– Tahir Mohamed, MD, Detroit, MI–Mohamed Elfatih Bashir, PhD,

Chicago, IL– Dr. Khalid Baashom, MD, Detroit, MI

PS / CV review

Personal Statement (PS) Review

• Each personal statement is reviewed by 1-2 physicians who provide feedback to the applicant

• Application through – previews@sama-sd.org

Run by: Dr. Mohamed Gaffer Elhassan

Interview skills workshop (SAMA 3rd annual meeting)

• Bad AF + good interview = • Good AF + bad interview=

• Will be 5 - 7 pm

MatchNo Match

Why??

When??

Where??

• Dr. Abdalla Yousif (IM, PD Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ)

• Dr. Abdalla Zarroug (Assist Prof., Peds Surg, Mayo, Rochester, MN)

• Dr. Dalia Bashir (R4, Peds, Hershey, PA)

• Dr. Nizar Talaat (R4, IM, Res fellow, Detroit, MI)

• Dr. Abubakr Ali (R3, Surg, Detroit, MI)

• Elnasif Ahmed (R3, Radiology, Detroit, MI)

• Faris Elkhider (R3, IM, Detroit, MI)

• Yassin Mustafa (R3, IM, Alexandria, VA)

Who??

10 min

• Personal statement ready

• Feed back (oral & assessment form)

• Video taping (optional)

career advice

SAMA website

Facebook page

– SAMA Match Applicant Program during SAMA Annual Meeting Sessions.

Lectures in Sudan – Road to Residency

• coordinated by the SAMA chapter in Sudan led by Alaa Elkhider (TA, Dept of Medicine, U of K)

1. Research opportunities

– Pre-existing researches

– Sudanese attendings’ researches

– SAMA’s researches

– Short period Vs long term

Future plans

2. Medical student clerkship

– Great impact on AF

– 1-3 months

–Mayo clinic (step1)

– Attendings help needed

Future plans

3. Organized schedule for observership

– Applicants/period

– Period length /attending

– Available months/attending

Future plans

attending Available months

Periods’ length

Applicants/ period

Offered spots

X(email)(Phone No.)(location)(specialty)

Jan, March-August, October

1 week 1 2 (April)1 (June)3 (August

Y(email)(Phone No.)(location)(specialty)

April - December

2-4 weeks 2-3 1 ( April)2 (July)1(August)

3. Organized schedule for observership

– Attending notification

– Facilitate the work (who to contact and at which time)

– Less efforts, more outcome

Future plans

4. Step 2CS workshops

–Why?

–When, Where, Whom?

Future plans