Written by Residency Directors and residents from all specialties at Harvard University, Insider Tips for the Match, is designed to be an ?insider?s guide? to the whole match process. In addition to general information about the match, program directors and residents will write specific chapters tailored to each subspecialty, which will provide medical students significant insight into how the residency directors evaluate their applications. Unlike books that are written solely by residents, the authors? goal is to offer unprecedented access to how departmental decisions about the Match are made. The primary audience for this book would be the large number of medical students who each year apply for coveted residency positions in the United States. This includes many foreign graduates, and the authors will tailor specific chapters to these readers. A secondary market would be physicians actively involved in the residency program, who could use the information in the book to properly advise medical students at their institutions. Because the competitiveness of each specialty changes every few years based on demand and health care policy, there would be a constant need for revisions every three years to have the book continually up to date. While there are a few books tailored to this subject, the authors feel that they have an opportunity to distinguish themselves and capture a large market share.

Providing insight into the residency selection process from one of the most internationally recognized medical schools in the world will have broad appeal, including to foreign medical graduates. The authors will recruit residency directors from each subspecialty to comment on the specific details of their field, which is not offered in competitors? books. In addition, they will provide perspectives on academic versus community based programs and will include advice to students from international medical schools.