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ResourceHow To Ace Your Anesthesiology Rotation
A guide to acing an anesthesiology rotation shows a student who has positioned the patient, placed monitors, prepared drugs, …
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ResourceACGME Proposes Resident Rest Hour Reductions
In this Arabic-captioned sketch, Jimothy questions his boss about a proposal attributed to the ACGME that would shorten mandatory …
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ResourceHow To Ace Your Radiology Rotation
A radiology trainee impresses the attending by making the worklist lighter in every sense, after hacking the electronic record to …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your General Surgery Rotation
A general surgery rotation sketch shows trainees racing through rounds in under a minute after reporting which patients passed gas …
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ResourceHow To Ace Any Residency Interview
A montage of mock residency interviews, with each specialty's interviewer revealing its stereotypes through absurd questions and …
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ResourceHappy Match Day!
This Match Day video is a rapid-fire compilation of short clips from across Flanary's sketch world, cutting between specialties and …
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ResourceMed Student’s Last Day of General Surgery
On his last day of general surgery, a medical student is praised as the finest retractor the attending has seen in over a decade, …
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ResourceThe Residency Interview
A residency interview goes off the rails when the interviewer discovers the applicant has no research or publications, having spent …
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ResourceBill Graduates Residency
A very short, mostly musical sketch: Bill finishes residency, exchanges a few words with Phil, who is just starting, and offers only …
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ResourceMatch Day Phone Calls Part 3
An Arabic-captioned compilation of Match Day phone calls in which personified specialties welcome newly matched residents with …
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ResourceMed Student’s Last Day of Internal Medicine
On a medical student's last day on internal medicine, everything goes impossibly well: the presentation earns extravagant praise, …
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ResourceMed Student Home Invasion
A medical student takes an attending's assignment far too literally, appearing in the attending's home at night, family nearby, …
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ResourceThe Residents Form a Union
Administrators at a faculty meeting react with alarm to news that residents have formed a union and may seek fair pay, childcare, …
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ResourceMed Student vs Brain
Flanary personifies a medical student's own brain as a tormentor who wakes the student the night before an exam and insists that …
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ResourceMatch Day Phone Calls Part 2
In this second Match Day phone-call sketch, newly matched students are welcomed by a rapid rotation of specialties, each revealing …
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ResourceConversation Starters While Scrubbing for Surgery With Your Attending
A medical student fills the awkward silence of scrubbing in beside an attending with a stream of small talk, jokes, and confessions. …
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ResourceMed Student Tribunal
A mock tribunal of medical students puts an internal medicine attending on trial for refusing to dismiss a student who hinted at …
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ResourceIt’s Residency Application Season!
This Arabic-captioned sketch stages a celebratory office party for the opening of the ERAS residency application system, with …
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ResourceIntern’s First Order
A new orthopedic surgery intern calls pharmacy to double-check his first order, for acetaminophen, and the pharmacist patiently …
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ResourceMed Student Mafia: The July Effect
Bill repeats the idea of a dangerous July effect when new interns start, and medical students confront him with evidence. Flanary, …
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ResourceMatch Day Phone Calls
Newly matched students receive welcome calls from a parade of specialties, each revealing its culture in a few lines. Flanary has …
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ResourceThe Med Student Goes to Therapy
A medical student who did not match comes to therapy feeling like a failure, and the psychiatrist character reframes his record by …
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ResourceThe Residency Match
An employee of the residency matching organization is eager to run the match now that students have certified their rank lists, but …
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ResourceHow to Ace Your Radiology Residency Interview
Presented here with Arabic captions, this mock radiology interview features an applicant motivated by childhood x-ray glasses and a …
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