Student Seminars

Applying for residency is crazy, and we're here to help! Join us for a series of Zoom seminars to help find your footing. 

2023 - 24 Application Season

Prior Years Seminar Recordings

Acing Your Application: Match Advice

Speak with residency program faculty and expert advisors about the EM residency application process, how to strengthen your application, and how to best use your fancy new Preference Signals.  Our Q+A will answer any questions you have!


Meet the Chiefs - Why Baystate EM?

Come meet our Chief Residents and find out why Baystate EM is a great place to train!

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Baystate EM

Join members of our faculty, fellows and residents for a live discussion on diversity, equity and inclusion at Baystate EM, including discussion on where we are now and what our future goals are. 

Come talk with our residents to find out what makes Baystate awesome!

Speak with residency program faculty about the EM residency application process and how to strengthen your application.  Our Q+A will answer any questions you have!

Meet the Baystate chief residents!  Hear why they chose Baystate EM and listen to a live Q+A

We've trapped our wilderness medicine faculty inside for one night only to discuss wilderness emergency medicine during residency and beyond.

Meet the Baystate physicians committed to health equity and learn what we're doing about it.

TheUMass Chan Medical School - Baystate Faculty includes three past Chairs of the CORD-EM Advising Students Committee (ASC-EM), the creator of the EMATCH Tool, a co-developer of the EMRA Match Residency Navigator, and the authors of the EM Advisor Blog

Our panel of experts: Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton, Liza Smith, and Adam Kellogg, will answer all of your questions on how to make the most of your application to Emergency Medicine. Our panel has expertise in advising applicants across the United States and are happy to provide advice to all. 

Join Zachary Testo, Baystate EM's Wellness and Resiliency Champion and Director of the Leadership in Wellness Fellowship, Rachel Gershaw, Leadership in Wellness Fellow, and other members of the Baystate EM Wellness Division for a discussion of the importance of a well and resilient EM work force and the culture of wellness at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate. 

Join Elizabeth Schoenfeld, Vanna Albert, Nadia Villarroel, Caitlin Farrel, Bill Soares, and more members of the Baystate EM Social Emergency Medicine team for a discussion of the importance of tackling social issues from the ED and how this can impact your residency training and career. 

Join Ben Church, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director, our Wilderness Medicine Fellows, and other members of the Wilderness Medicine Division for a discussion of Wild Med experiences available to residents training at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate.

Join Niels Rathlev, Chair of the Emergency Department, Joe Schmidt, Vice Chair and Chief of Service, and other members of the leadership team at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate to discuss the importance of leadership in medicine by EM, and how this impacts residency training.

Join Ben Osborne, Residency Program Director and Vice Chair of Education, Margaret Goodrich, Medical Education Fellow, and other members of the Education Division for a discussion of how get the most our of your residency training at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate or at any EM residency program.

Join Gavin Budhram, Ultrasound Fellowship Director, Sarah Badach and Tom Burgess, Ultrasound Fellows, Carla Sterling and Jeff Dan, Ultrasound Faculty, and other members of the Ultrasound Division for a discussion of the importance of gaining POCUS skills during residency and the US education of residents at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate.

Join Wook Beltran, Alex Zozula, Nate Stanaway and other members of the Disaster and Prehospital Care (EMS) Division to discuss the role of EM physicians in Prehospital care and the training experience for residents at UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate.