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- AAMC Events
- New Features in the Residency ExplorerTMTool
- New Fee Structure and Expanded Fee Assistance for 2025 ERAS Applicants.
- Program Signaling Information and Updates
- Thalamus Information for ERAS Applicants
- What's New for the 2025 MyERAS Application
- ERAS Resources
AAMC Events
Upcoming
- June 12, 1p.m. ET: Program Director's WorkStation (PDWS) Welcome Webinar for New Users.
- June 25, 7 p.m. ET: Effectively Utilizing the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
- Specialty Spotlight Webinar Series: Optimal Strategies for Your Residency Application. Join the ERAS and Careers in Medicine (CiM) teams for anew series of specialty-specific webinars for medical school advisors and 2025 residency applicants. Each webinar includes a program director and an advisor who will share best practices in preparation for the 2025 ERAS application season.
Pediatrics, Tuesday, June 11 at 2 p.m. ET
Internal Medicine, Thursday, June 27 at 2 p.m. ET
General Surgery, Wednesday, July 10 at 2 p.m. ET
Emergency Medicine, Thursday, July 25 at 2 p.m. ET
- Joint AAMC-Thalamus Webinars
The AAMC-Thalamus Collaboration in the 2024/25 ERAS Application Season: A Webinar for Medical Schools and Advisors.Tuesday, June 18 at 1pm. ET
The AAMC-Thalamus Collaboration in the 2024/25 ERAS Application Season: A Webinar for Designated Institutional Officials.Thursday, June 20 at 1pm. ET
The AAMC-Thalamus Collaboration in the 2024/25 ERAS Application Season: A Webinar for Students and Applicants.Wednesday, July 17 at 1 p.m. ET
Recordings and Resources
- Dean's Office WorkStation (DWS) Training for Medical Schools.
- The AAMC-Thalamus Collaboration in the 2024-25 ERAS Application Season: Webinar for Program Directors, Coordinators, and GME staff.
- Optimal Strategies for Your Residency Application, with a focus on Family Medicine: Webinar for Advisors and Applicants.
New Features in the Residency ExplorerTM Tool
There are exciting changes and improvements for the upcoming 2025 ERAS season, specifically with the Residency Explorer tool. Representatives from nine partner organizations in the transition to residency have been working hard to enhance your experience and provide even more valuable insights as you navigate the residency application process. The Residency Explorer tool empowers you with the information you will need to be successful in your residency application journey. For this season you will find:
- Interview Data: You can compare yourself to past applicants who received interview invitations from the programs you are researching.
- New Data on Program Signals and Geographic Alignment: You will be able to see interview invitation rates of applicants who used Program Signal or had Geographic Alignment at the program level.
- Personalized Profile Comparison: See how a program aligns with your personal needs and career interests by selecting program characteristics important to your residency training.
- Original Source-Verified Data: We're proud to provide original source-verified data from the six national organizations involved in the residency transition process. The Residency Explorer site offers the ONLY tool that includes data from all these sources.
New Fee Structure and Expanded Fee Assistance for 2025 ERAS Applicants
You’ll be pleased to know that the AAMC is addressing the costs associated with applying for residency:
- We’ve improvedour fee structure to make the application process more affordable. Most applicants will save up to 36% over previous seasons.
- We’re expanding the AAMC Fee Assistance Program to include ERAS residency applicants. Beginning in the 2025 ERAS season, eligible applicants will automatically receive a 60% discount on up to 50 ERAS applications. Eligible applicants will see an indicator on their MyERAS dashboard.
Program Signaling Information and Updates
The MyERAS application gives you the ability to use program signals to indicate your genuine interest in a program at the time of application. They are designed for programs to use, as one of many data points, in deciding whom to invite for interviews.
- Visit the Program Signaling for the 2025 MyERAS Application Season webpage for detailed information on program signals, including the 22 specialties participating this season.
- In the upcoming 2025 ERAS season, as a residency applicant or a December fellowship applicant, you can indicate your interest in the program.
- You can assign and send signals to programs. The number of available signals varies by specialty.
Thalamus Information for ERAS Applicants
The AAMC has teamed up with Thalamus to improve the transition to residency. Now, you have access to a centralized platform that simplifies and enhances the interview scheduling and management process.
- All Thalamus products are free to applicants.
- Experience the convenience of mobile interview scheduling (with downloadable apps for Apple and Android).
ERAS applicants, you can set up your Thalamus accounts beginning in July 2024.
- After registering your ERAS token, you will receive a Thalamus account creation email link from no-reply@thalamusgme.com.
- After finalizing your Thalamus account, you will be ready to receive and respond to interview invitations after the start of the September residency cycle.
- Check out the Thalamus Applicant Guideand the Thalamus Applicant Checklist to learn more.
What's New for the 2025 MyERAS Application
We make MyERAS application updates every season based on research and community feedback. All changes are intended to improve the application process for applicants and programs, support holistic review, and contribute to developing a more diverse physician workforce. For the 2025 season, changes have been made in the following sections:
Personal Information
| Content | New for 2025 MyERAS Application |
|---|---|
| ACLS, PALS, BLS certificate information | Questions removed from Personal Information section. Additional certificate information moved and added to the Licenses &Certificates section. |
| SSP, AOA, and GHS statuses | Moved to Education under new Honors & Awards subsection as Honor Societies. |
Biographic Information
| Content | New for 2025 MyERAS Application |
|---|---|
| Language Fluency | Simplified the question to solicit language proficiency at a Good level. Added Yes/No response for English. |
| Self-identification Information | Expanded ethnicity category and subcategory options. |
| Hometowns | Changed the number of available hometown entriesfrom 5 to 3. |
Education
| Content | New for 2025 MyERAS Application |
|---|---|
| Higher education institution and field of study | Replaced the institution open text field with menus and added a write-in option with the ability to select or manually enter multiple fields of study. |
| Honors & Awards | Added new subsection with other Honors or Awards and the ability to add multiple honors and awards by type. |
| Professional Memberships | Added new subsection under Honors & Awards where professional memberships can be added individually. |
Experience
| Content | New for 2025 MyERAS Application |
|---|---|
| Medical Education/Training Interruption | Moved to Education section with updated language.The language update narrows the focus to professionalism and academic issues. |
| Hobbies & Interests | Removed from the selected Experience type menu and reinstated as separate section. |
Licenses & Certifications(Formerly Licensure)
| Content | New for 2025 MyERAS Application |
|---|---|
| Board Certifications | Added new questions to accommodate all board certifications. |
| DEA Registration | Moved into separate subsection. |
| Other Certifications | Added new questions to accommodate other health care related certifications (ACLS, PALS, BLS, etc.). |
Publications
| Content | New for 2025 MyERAS Application |
|---|---|
| Publications | Replaced APA citation style with AMA. |
ERAS Resources
2025 ERAS Residency Applicant Worksheet
Program Signaling for the 2025 MyERAS Application Season
ERAS Participating Specialties and Programs(Page will be updated for 2025 season in June).
MyERAS Applicant Guide (coming soon!)
2024 MyERAS Content Research Updates
2025 ERAS Timelines
- Residency Applicants
- International Medical Graduates
- Fellowship Applicants
