Residency Accelerator · Any year, MS1 to MS4: A clear path to the residency you want.
Twelve months of one-on-one mentorship, planned around the stage you're in: boards, clerkships, ERAS, interviews, or your rank list. You work with a mentor matched to your goals, in a program designed by Dr. Dave. Built for MD and DO students and IMGs who want one clear plan they can actually follow.
Match timeline
MS3 · Spring
Step 1 / Level 1
Pass/fail · cleared
Core clerkships & shelves
NBME / COMAT plan
- Now
Step 2 CK / Level 2-CE
Self-assessment review
Away rotations
VSLO applications
ERAS submitted
Experiences · PS · signals
Interviews → Rank → Match
4 mock interviews
Sample dashboard for illustration
The essentials
Residency Accelerator at a glance
- Who it's for
- MD and DO students from MS1 to MS4, and international medical graduates (IMGs)
- Format
- Online: live one-on-one video sessions with a matched mentor, plus interactive lessons
- Length
- 12 months · 50 one-on-one hours
- Price
- $11,995 tuitionStarts with a free consult and a short application
- What's included
- USMLE, COMLEX, and shelf study plans
- ERAS personal statement and experiences editing
- Program list, letters, and signaling strategy
- 4 mock interviews with feedback
- Rank list review and Match Week plan
- Study Hall access
Your next three moves
Where are you in the match timeline?
Pick your stage. These are the three actions that usually matter most right now, and exactly what we plan together in your first sessions.
Build the system before the exam builds pressure.
- 1
Set a weekly study rhythm
Lectures, spaced repetition, and a small daily block of practice questions that you can sustain all year.
- 2
Learn to review questions
Log every miss as a knowledge gap, a misread task, or a reasoning error. Each one needs a different fix.
- 3
Explore without committing
Shadow, join one specialty interest group, and keep short notes on what energizes you.
Five pillars
Everything between you and Match Day.
Boards, clerkships, applications, and interviews are often handled by different people giving different advice. Residency Accelerator connects all of them in one plan with one mentor.
Boards
One plan for every board and shelf exam on your path, with coaching built around how you actually miss questions.
- USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3
- COMLEX-USA Level 1, Level 2-CE, and Level 3
- NBME shelf exams and NBOME COMAT
- OMM / OPP integration for DO students
- Question-bank strategy and review method
- Score-plateau coaching from your self-assessments
Clinical excellence
Clerkship grades and letters come from what you do on the wards every day. We practice it before you are graded on it.
- Clerkship expectations, rotation by rotation
- Oral case presentations that sound like a resident
- H&P, progress notes, and assessment & plan writing
- Reading for patients and pre-rounding efficiently
- Feedback conversations and mid-rotation check-ins
Specialty & application
Choose a specialty with real data about yourself, then build an application that tells one consistent story.
- Specialty selection and a realistic competitiveness map
- Away rotations through VSLO: where, when, and why
- ERAS experiences and most-meaningful descriptions
- Personal statement drafts and line edits
- MSPE awareness: what programs see from your school
- Letter-of-recommendation strategy
- Program signaling strategy: where your signals count most
Interviews
Virtual and in-person preparation until your answers are specific, calm, and unmistakably yours.
- Virtual interview setup, camera, and pacing
- In-person interview days and pre-interview dinners
- Behavioral and specialty-specific questions
- 4 mock interviews with detailed feedback
- Questions to ask programs and thank-you etiquette
Rank list, Match Week & SOAP
Finish with a rank list that reflects your true preferences and a calm plan for every Match Week scenario.
- How the NRMP algorithm works (and why honesty wins)
- Program comparison worksheet and rank-list review
- Match Week timeline, day by day
- SOAP readiness plan, prepared before you need it
- Pre-residency checklist for the months after Match
Year by year
A plan for every year of medical school.
Your 12 months start wherever you are. The plan picks up at your current phase and carries you forward.
- MS1 – MS2
Foundations & boards
Build the study system that carries you through every exam that follows.
- Organ-system study plan that fits your school's curriculum
- Spaced-repetition and question-bank habits from week one
- Step 1 / Level 1 readiness plan with NBME and NBOME self-assessments
- OMM / OPP review woven into every system (DO students)
- Early specialty exploration, research, and service that fit your goals
- MS3
Clerkships & shelves
Perform on the wards, prepare for every shelf, and start collecting letters.
- Rotation-by-rotation shelf and COMAT study plans
- Presentation and note-writing practice before each rotation
- Step 2 CK / Level 2-CE timing and score strategy
- Identify letter writers and build the relationships early
- Narrow your specialty choice with a structured reflection
- MS4
Aways, ERAS, interviews & Match
Turn three years of work into an application, interviews, and a rank list.
- Away rotations through VSLO and sub-internship strategy
- ERAS application: experiences, personal statement, signals
- Interview season with 4 mock interviews
- Rank list review and certification checklist
- Match Week plan, including SOAP if it is needed
How you'll know you're ready
Ready means evidence, not a feeling.
Two finish lines matter most before Match Day: your board exams and your application. For each one, here is what your mentor looks for before calling you ready.
Boards-ready
Self-assessments are data, not a prediction: NBME self-assessments for USMLE and COMSAE for COMLEX-USA. So your mentor looks for a pattern, not one number.
- 1
Recent, timed, and new to you
Taken in the final weeks before your exam, timed and in one sitting, on forms you haven't seen before. An old score or a repeated form doesn't count.
- 2
At or above target, more than once
Your recent self-assessments land at or above the target you set with your mentor, one after another. One good score could be a good day. A run of them is evidence.
- 3
Errors shrinking by type
Your error log shows knowledge gaps closing, and misread questions and timing problems under control, not just a higher number.
Step 1 and Level 1
Pass/fail still has a line to clear.
USMLE Step 1 has reported only pass or fail since January 26, 2022, and COMLEX-USA Level 1 since May 2022. For those exams, the target is a clear margin above passing on your recent self-assessments, not hovering at the line, because a failed attempt stays on your transcript. Step 2 CK and Level 2-CE still report a three-digit score, so there the target is a score goal you set with your specialty in mind.
Not there as the exam date gets close?
We narrow the focus to whatever is costing the most points, and talk honestly with you about whether moving the exam date makes sense, with your school's timeline in mind.
Application-ready
Six milestones, in the order they usually happen. Each one sits on your plan and gets checked off when it is actually done, not when it is almost done.
- 1
Specialty decided
Chosen from your clerkship experience and an honest look at your application, with a parallel plan if you and your mentor decide you need one.
- 2
Letters requested
Asked of attendings who watched you work, with your CV, a draft personal statement, and a deadline in hand. Writers submit them through the AAMC Letter Writer Portal.
- 3
ERAS experiences written
Each entry says what you did and why it mattered, and your most meaningful experiences tell the same story as the rest of your application.
- 4
Personal statement final
Outlined, drafted, and line-edited until it sounds like you and fits your experiences and letters.
- 5
Signals planned
The number of program signals varies by specialty, so you decide where yours count most, and build your program list to match, before you submit.
- 6
Interview-ready
Your core stories practiced out loud, mock-interview feedback worked in, and your video setup tested before the first invitation arrives.
How you learn
Tools built for retention, not just review.
Every lesson is paired with active practice, so what you study on Monday is still there on test day.
Interactive video lessons
Short lessons that pause to ask you a question at the exact moment a concept is explained.
Spaced-repetition flashcards
High-yield decks that schedule each card right before you are likely to forget it.
Board-style question sets
Clinical vignettes with full explanations and a score breakdown by subject.
1:1 sessions with your mentor
Fifty hours of personal mentorship for boards, applications, interviews, and rank lists.
Study Hall
Live, camera-optional co-working sessions every week so you never study alone.
Free preview
Try all three tools in one lesson
An interactive video on breaking a score plateau, a high-yield flashcard deck, and board-style clinical vignettes.
How mentorship works
Same time every week. One clear next step.
Every weekly session runs the same way, so your plan keeps moving through rotations, dedicated study, and interview season.
- Part 1
Check last week's deliverable
Every session starts here: done or not, and if not, what got in the way.
- Part 2
Read your newest data
Question-bank misses by type, a self-assessment, a clerkship evaluation, or the draft you sent.
- Part 3
Work the top priority
The highest-yield item on your plan this week: a weak board topic, an ERAS entry, a mock interview, or your rank list.
Between sessions
One written deliverable, with a set time to do it
Before you leave, next week's task is written down with the day and time you'll do it: a question block and its error log, a self-assessment by a set date, an ERAS entry, or a personal statement revision.
How we keep you on track
Built so sessions actually happen.
Your effort matters most. Our job is to make showing up, and keeping up, the easy part, even on a clerkship schedule.
A fixed weekly time
Progress you can see
An attendance agreement in writing
A short monthly progress note
When it isn't working, we say so.
Rotations, call, and life sometimes get in the way. If a session is missed or a deliverable slips, your mentor asks what's getting in the way and adjusts the plan. If it keeps slipping, we'll talk with you honestly about whether more hours are likely to help right now.
Curriculum
From first exam to first day of residency.
Modules you move through in the order your timeline needs. New tracks and lessons are added throughout the year.
1Month 1Orientation & your personal Match planWhere you are, where you want to go, and the calendar that connects them.
- Intake session: transcript, exams, experiences, and goals
- Personal timeline from today to Match Day
- Study-system audit and question-bank plan
- Weekly accountability rhythm with Study Hall
2BoardsStep 1 / Level 1 foundationsPass/fail does not mean low stakes. Pass with margin and build skills for Step 2 CK / Level 2-CE.
- High-yield physiology, pathology, and pharmacology review
- Microbiology and immunology frameworks
- Biostatistics, epidemiology, and ethics
- OMM / OPP principles for DO students
- Self-assessment schedule and readiness checks
- Test-day strategy and pacing
3ClerkshipsClerkship excellence & shelf examsGrades, evaluations, and letters are earned on the wards.
- NBME shelf and NBOME COMAT plans for each core rotation
- Oral case presentations, from new admission to follow-up
- Notes that attendings trust: H&P, progress note, A&P
- Efficient pre-rounding and reading for your patients
- Asking for and using feedback
- Medicine, surgery, pediatrics, OB/GYN, psychiatry, family medicine, neurology
4BoardsStep 2 CK / Level 2-CE score strategyThe scored exams programs look at closely. Build a plan around your data.
- Clinical vignette method: problem representation first
- Next-best-step and management reasoning
- Self-assessment review and score-plateau coaching
- Error log by knowledge gap, misread task, or reasoning error
- Timing the exam around clerkships and ERAS
5SpecialtySpecialty selection & competitiveness mapChoose with evidence about the work and about your application.
- Values and daily-work reflection exercises
- Reading NRMP and specialty data without overreacting
- Parallel planning and backup specialties
- Mentor and advisor conversations to have this year
6Letters & awaysAway rotations & letters of recommendationTurn rotations into strong, specific letters.
- Choosing away rotations and applying through VSLO
- Sub-internship expectations and acting-intern skills
- Who to ask, when to ask, and what to send your letter writers
- Specialty-specific letter formats (SLOE and others) overview
7ERASERAS application, personal statement & signalsOne consistent story across every section of the application.
- Experiences section and most-meaningful descriptions
- Personal statement: outline, drafts, and line edits
- MSPE awareness: what your school reports to programs
- Program list strategy and application volume
- Program signals: how many you have and where to use them
- Final application review before submission
8InterviewsInterview season: virtual & in-personSpecific stories, calm delivery, and good questions for programs.
- Behavioral question framework with example and reflection
- Virtual setup: lighting, audio, camera, and pacing
- In-person interview days and social events
- 4 mock interviews with detailed feedback
- Post-interview communication and NRMP rules
9MatchRank list, Match Week & SOAPRank honestly, verify carefully, and prepare for every scenario.
- How the NRMP matching algorithm works
- Program comparison worksheet and rank-list review
- Certification checklist and deadlines
- Match Week day by day
- SOAP preparation plan
- Transition-to-residency checklist
10Coming soonSpecialty-specific tracksDeeper preparation for the specialty you are applying into.More coming
- Specialty-specific interview questions
- Specialty-specific application review
- More tracks added by Dr. Dave
11Coming soonAdditional content from Dr. DaveNew lessons, workshops, and resources added throughout the year.More coming
- New interactive video lessons
- Live workshops
- Downloadable templates and checklists
What's included
One mentor. One plan. Twelve months.
- 50 one-on-one hours with your matched mentor over 12 months
- Personal timeline from your current year to Match Day
- Board study plans for USMLE, COMLEX, shelf exams, and COMAT
- Self-assessment review and score-plateau coaching
- Specialty selection and program list strategy
- ERAS experiences and personal statement editing
- Letter-of-recommendation and signaling strategy
- 4 mock interviews with detailed feedback
- Rank list review and Match Week / SOAP plan
- Interactive videos, spaced-repetition flashcards, and question sets
- Weekly Study Hall co-working sessions
$11,995
12 months · 50 one-on-one hours · 4 mock interviews
MS1–MS4 students (MD & DO) and IMGs
Start with a free consult, then a short application. We confirm fit before you pay anything.
Every student's path is different. ProMed United provides education and mentorship; we do not guarantee admission, exam scores, residency match outcomes, or publication.
Meet the founder
Designed by a physician who guides students from boards to residency interview day.
Dr. DaveDO, MBS
Founder & Lead Physician Educator, ProMed United
Dr. Dave, DO, MBS, is a physician, researcher, and the founder of ProMed United, with 50+ peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Dave tutors and mentors students along the whole road to medicine, from the SAT and MCAT through medical school, USMLE and COMLEX boards, research, and the residency match.
- 50+ peer-reviewed publications
- SAT to residency
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Still unsure? Book a free consult and ask us directly.
How much does the Residency Accelerator cost?
Tuition is $11,995, which covers 12 months, 50 one-on-one hours, and 4 mock interviews. You start with a free consult and a short application, and you're paired with a mentor before you pay anything.
How long is the Residency Accelerator?
12 months. The year is planned backward from your next milestone, whether that's a board exam, clerkships, ERAS, interview season, or Match Day.
Who will I work with?
A ProMed United mentor matched to your year, exams, and specialty goals, one-on-one. Dr. Dave, DO, MBS, a physician with 50+ peer-reviewed publications, designed the program and its curriculum.
Is the Residency Accelerator online or in person?
Online. Sessions are live one-on-one video calls scheduled around your classes and rotations, and the lessons, flashcards, question sets, and Study Hall are online too, so you can join from anywhere, including away rotations.
When should I start Residency Accelerator?
Any year works. Starting in MS2 or early MS3 lets you plan boards, clerkships, and letters together, but MS1 students build better habits early, and MS4 students can focus on ERAS, interviews, and the rank list. Your 12 months are planned around where you are today.
Is it for DO students and COMLEX?
Yes. Dr. Dave is a DO, and the program covers COMLEX-USA Level 1, Level 2-CE, and Level 3, NBOME COMAT, and OMM / OPP alongside USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, and Step 3. We also help DO students decide whether to take USMLE in addition to COMLEX.
Do you work with international medical graduates (IMGs)?
Yes. We help IMGs plan USMLE preparation, ECFMG steps, US clinical experience, program lists, ERAS, and interviews. We do not provide legal or immigration advice; visa questions should go to the program and a qualified professional.
Do you guarantee a match or a board score?
No. Nobody can honestly guarantee a match or a score. Residency Accelerator is designed to give you a clear plan, expert feedback, and accountability so you can put forward your strongest application. Every student's outcome depends on many factors.
How are the 50 one-on-one hours used?
Sessions are live by video at the same day and time each week, and you and your mentor decide together what each phase needs. Students in the boards phase often spend more of their time on question review and self-assessment planning; MS4 students spend more on ERAS editing, mock interviews, and rank-list review.
Will you write my personal statement or ERAS experiences?
No. Your application must be your own work. We help you brainstorm, outline, and revise with detailed feedback and line edits so the final writing is specific, consistent, and unmistakably yours.
Can you help me if I failed an exam or my scores have plateaued?
Yes. We review your score reports and practice data, separate knowledge gaps from execution errors, and build a focused plan with fresh reassessment. We also help you plan how to address a setback honestly in your application and interviews.
Is Residency Accelerator affiliated with the NBME, NBOME, AAMC, or NRMP?
No. ProMed United is an independent educational company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NBME, FSMB, NBOME, AAMC, ECFMG, or NRMP. USMLE®, COMLEX-USA®, ERAS®, and NRMP® are registered trademarks of their respective owners and are named only to describe the exams and systems we help you prepare for.
How do I enroll?
Start with a free consult or submit a short application. We review it, confirm the program fits your goals and timeline, and pair you with a mentor before you pay anything.
Can I try it first?
Yes. The free lesson includes an interactive video that pauses to quiz you, a spaced-repetition flashcard deck, and board-style clinical vignettes with full explanations, so you can see exactly how the learning tools work before you apply. No sign-up needed.
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