Application Procedure

Applications are accepted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). American medical graduates please contact your medical school Dean's office for a copy of The Student Workstation Manual and the necessary software to submit your application. International medical graduates, please contact ECFMG at P.O. Box 13467, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3467, USA or on the internet at: www.ecfmg.org/erasinfo.htm to request an ERAS application kit.

ERAS applications to include:

• Completed general application 

• Official dean's letter from your medical school 

• Official copy of medical school transcript 

• Three letters in support of your application from faculty members 

• USMLE Scores Step 1 and Step 2 (if available) or COMLEX Scores 

• Personal statement 

• Photograph (requested but not required) 

Following review of completed applications, qualified applicants will be invited by e-mail to arrange for an interview. Interviews, scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis, are one and a half days long, beginning at 11:30 a.m. on the first day and completing at about 2:30 p.m. the following day. We will interview up to ten applicants per interview day.

Interview dates for 2006-2007 are: 

November: 13-14; 20-21
December: 7-8; 11-12; 14-15, 18-19
January: 2-3; 11-12

Applications will be accepted through Friday January 5, 2007.

For further information please contact the Med-Peds Residency Coordinator by email: medpeds@umn.edu.

The Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Internal Medicine participate in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). For information regarding NRMP please contact:

NRMP, 2501 M Street, NW, Suite 1, Washington, DC 20037-1307