A presentation by Ayman E. Ahmed, General Surgery Resident, University of Minnesota in SAMA Annual Meeting, held on 9.1.2012, Chicago

1. SAMA Professional Development
Supporting Match Applicants
Achievements over the last year
Ayman Ahmed, MBBS

3. Activities

4. Observership / LOR
PS / CV review
 Interview skills workshop (SAMA 3rd
annual meeting)
Providing career advice to Residency Match
Applicants through

5. Observership / LOR

6. • Started July 2010
• Link applicant with sudanese attendings
• Goals
– USCE (for CV)
– LOR

7. Flow of work
1. Applicant:
– Send a request
• Website
• Email: match@sama-sd.org

8. Database

9. – First come first serve
2. Contact attending
3. Contact applicant after approval

10. Figure 6. Number of observerships by
SAMA since July 2010
50
waiting
40 0
12
10 referred (awaiting
1 confirmation)
2
Number of Observerships
30
unsuccessful
20 successful
31 30
10
0
2010.2011 2011.2012

11. • Obstacles:
– Lack of man power for coordination /
residency (working to improve)
– Communication
– No. of volunteer attending (not all states
covered)

12. • Special thanks for sponsoring observerships
to
– Abdalla
Zarroug, MD, FACS, FAAP, Rochester,
MN
– Khalid Ahmed, MD, FACP, Flint, MI.
– Seif Alasad, MD, Flint, MI
– Tahir Mohamed, MD, Detroit, MI
– Mohamed Elfatih
Bashir, PhD, Chicago, IL
– Dr. Khalid Baashom, MD, Detroit, MI

13. PS / CV review

14. Personal Statement (PS) Review
• Each personal statement is reviewed by
1-2 physicians who provide feedback to
the applicant

15. • Application through
– previews@sama-sd.org
Run by: Dr. Mohamed Gaffer Elhassan

16. Interview skills workshop
(SAMA 3rd annual meeting)

17. • Bad AF + good interview =
• Good AF + bad interview=
• Will be 5 - 7 pm

19. • Dr. Abdalla Yousif (IM, PD Raritan Bay Medical
Center, Perth Amboy, NJ)
• Dr. Abdalla Zarroug (Assist Prof., Peds
Surg, Mayo, Rochester, MN)
• Dr. Dalia Bashir (R4, Peds, Hershey, PA)
• Dr. Nizar Talaat (R4, IM, Res fellow, Detroit, MI)
• Dr. Abubakr Ali (R3, Surg, Detroit, MI)
• Elnasif Ahmed (R3, Radiology, Detroit, MI)
• Faris Elkhider (R3, IM, Detroit, MI)
• Yassin Mustafa (R3, IM, Alexandria, VA)

21. • Personal statement ready
• Feed back (oral & assessment form)
• Video taping (optional)

22. career advice

23. SAMA website

24. Facebook page

25. – SAMA Match Applicant Program during
SAMA Annual Meeting Sessions.

26. Lectures in Sudan – Road to Residency
• coordinated by the SAMA chapter in
Sudan led by Alaa Elkhider (TA, Dept of
Medicine, U of K)

28. 1. Research opportunities
– Pre-existing researches
– Sudanese attendings’ researches
– SAMA’s researches
– Short period Vs long term

29. 2. Medical student clerkship
– Great impact on AF
– 1-3 months
– Mayo clinic (step1)
– Attendings help needed

30. 3. Organized schedule for
observership
– Applicants/period
– Period length /attending
– Available months/attending

31. attending Available Periods’ Applicants/ Offered
months length period spots
X Jan, March- 1 week 1 2 (April)
(email) August, 1 (June)
(Phone No.) October 3 (August
(location)
(specialty)
Y April - 2-4 weeks 2-3 1 ( April)
(email) December 2 (July)
(Phone No.) 1(August)
(location)
(specialty)

32. 3. Organized schedule for
observership
– Attending notification
– Facilitate the work (who to contact and
at which time)
– Less efforts, more outcome

33. 4. Step 2CS workshops
– Why?
– When, Where, Whom?