How has residency admissions changed in 2025?

What's new with residency admissions in 2025? Shirag Shemmassian has been guiding students through medical school and residency admissions for over 20 years. In this episode, Shirag shares his unique insights into how residency admissions has changed in 2025, including which specialties are hot right now, how geography can affect your application, what's new in the process itself, and how the USMLE Step 1 is being weighted now. Achievable offers affordable and effective online prep courses for the MCAT, USMLE Step 1, PTCE, NPTE, CSCS, and other medical exams. Visit https://achievable.me/exams/gre/overview/#s=podcast to try any of our courses for free and see if they're the right fit for you.