{"id":5396,"date":"2016-01-17T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.omsa.ca\/?post_type=hub_post&#038;p=5396"},"modified":"2024-05-05T00:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:13:18","slug":"carms-journey-the-team-behind-every-applicant","status":"publish","type":"hub_post","link":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/hub_post\/carms-journey-the-team-behind-every-applicant\/","title":{"rendered":"Parcours CaRMS\u00a0: L\u2019\u00e9quipe derri\u00e8re chaque candidat"},"author":6,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[37,35,32],"class_list":["post-5396","hub_post","type-hub_post","status-publish","hentry","category-clerkship","tag-carms","tag-reflection","tag-uottawa"],"acf":{"title":"CaRMS Journey: The Team Behind Every Applicant","post_content":"<p class=\"rtejustify\">CaRMS is like a black box. It is a step in medical school that you always know will come, you realize everyone makes it through, but what exactly happens in between is a mix of rumours, some facts and a healthy dose of faculty injected fear.<\/p>\r\nThe best I felt I could do to face this was to make lists and be organized which kept me focussed and on track. It avoided going back to re-check my past steps to make sure things were complete.\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Starting early and working on the application nearly daily were key. And again, as I had noted in pre-clerkship, I needed to continue prioritizing, putting work first and learning to say \"no\". While facing this challenge, I realized how important it was for me to apply a skill I often fail to use; help.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Writing personal letters was humbling; though I knew I was not the best writer, I could never have anticipated how many drafts I would write to obtain the final product. Reaching out to family and friends for input was difficult, and being critiqued on my work was a hard bite to swallow. During the process, I had to practice not taking their feedback personally but rather as a favour towards obtaining a better final product.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">As I have now received good news for my interviews in the programs of my choice I am tremendously grateful to the people that supported me through the application. Though I am not out of the CaRMS black box yet, this whole process only reinforces that as a well rounded physician identifying others\u2019 strengths and using the help they offer is critical to success.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">On match day, CaRMS will only spell out my name by the selected program but truthfully, there should be a list of all the cheerleaders I\u2019ve had along the way because behind every success there is always a strong supporting team.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>Claudine Davidson, Class of 2016, University of Ottawa<\/strong><\/p>","embed_pdf":"","post_category":"Clerkship","post_tags":[],"embed_video":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_post\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/hub_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_post\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_post\/5396\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omsa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}