Choosing a specialty is the most consequential decision an applicant makes before residency, and the one most often made for the wrong reasons. Most guides try to sell you on a field. This one tells you, honestly, what the work looks like at 2pm on a Tuesday, who thrives, and who should choose something else. Some of these pages will read like a fit. Others will tell you, plainly, this is not for you. Both readings are useful.
Read the specialty guides →An honest guide for the year before residency, the year of residency you are applying out of, and the years that follow. Written by physicians. No individual bylines. We do not sell coaching. We do not rank named programs. We do not tell you you are guaranteed to match. We do tell you what each decision actually means.
What this site will not do: tell you that you are guaranteed to match, rank named programs against each other, or pretend any single strategy works for everyone. What it will do: give you the clearest available picture, written by physicians, of what each decision in front of you actually means.