"Some of the habits of some highly successful emergency medicine residents and emergency medicine applicants:
If you haven't figured it out so far, you are going to figure this out during your interviews: People who apply to emergency medicine, and residents in emergency medicine are not like people applying in other specialties. They are the people that you are going to gravitate towards in hospital cafeterias, in hotel lobbies, and in the terminals at the airports while you travel to your interviews. These are the folks you want to sit next to. They are a lot of fun; these are just attractive people. They are interested, interesting; they are high energy. They like to work hard; they like to play hard. They have interests outside of medicine. They are very committed and want to make the most out of their emergency medicine residency program. These are people who know, "I am only going to do this once, I really don't want to miss anything." So they subscribe to that philosophy that, "Whatever isn't prohibited is mandatory." They want to taste everything that they can; they don't want to leave the buffet of EM Residency Training without a full plate.
In general, you may not find that type of high energy person applying to residencies in other specialties. It's self-selection and it's going to assure the success of our specialty in the future."
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