New MyERAS® Application: Guidance for Emergency Medicine

The new MyERAS® application was implemented in the 2023-2024 residency application cycle, incorporating new and revised content from the supplemental ERAS application including an updated experiences section, a geographic preferences section, and program signaling for participating residency specialties (including emergency medicine).

Please visit the Applying to Residencies with the MyERAS® System webpage for comprehensive information regarding the MyERAS® application.

EM Program Signaling for 2024-2025

• Applicants will have 5 signals each

• DO NOT signal core EM home / away rotation sites 
  • • Note: this is different than guidance from the 2023-2024 residency application cycle and also different from general ERAS guidance for other specialties participating in program signaling

Education for Applicants & Advisors

High yield resources for applicants & advisors from the Applying to Residencies with the MyERAS® System webpage include:

• 2025 MyERAS® Applicant User Guide
  • • This should be the first guide you read

• 2025 MyERAS Application Applicant Worksheet
  • • This clearly lays out what is/is not included in the MyERAS® application. This allows applicants to begin working on their application offline

• 2025 MyERAS Application FAQs
• Program Signaling Participating Program List

Additional EM specific guidance can be found here:

• 2024-2025 MyERAS Applicant and Advisor Guide for Emergency Medicine 
• AAMC ERAS - Optimal Strategies for Your Residency Application, with a focus on Emergency Medicine: Webinar for Advisors and Applicants: Thurs 7/25 at 2p EST (sign up here)
• EMRA Hangouts Webinar: Thurs 7/25 at 7p EST (sign up will be posted when available)

Webinars from the 2023-2024 cycle can be found here (*Please note: program signaling guidance is different for the 2024-2025 cycle - see above):

• SAEM RAMS Webinar - MyERAS 2023-2024 Updates: Guidance for Applicants 
• EMRA Hangouts Webinar - New MyERAS Updates 
• ALiEM Podcast - The ERAS Application - New and Improved

Education for Residency Programs

Many high yield resources for residency programs can be found on the Applying to Residencies with the MyERAS® System webpage including What You Need to Know About the 2025 ERAS® Application Season.

For EM specific guidance, register for our CORD Connects session on  Wed 7/24 at 1:30p EST.   Before then, you can view our recorded CORD Connects Webinar from May 19, 2023.  (*Please note: program signaling guidance is different for the 2024-2025 cycle - see above)

Research

MyERAS® Content Research Updates for the 2023-2024 residency application cycle can be found here.  ERAS Supplemental Application research, data and reports from 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 can be found here.   

The ERAS® Application Working Group (EAWG) [formerly the Program Signaling Working Group] will be working with the AAMC on various research projects surrounding program signaling in EM as well as implementation of the new MyERAS® application.  You do not require the approval of ERAS or the EAWG to perform your own research on program signaling or the new MyERAS® application in EM.  However, it would be in everyone’s best interest to work together and not duplicate research efforts, therefore we request you contact Alexis Pelletier-Bui (pelletier-bui-alexis@cooperhealth.edu) with research ideas surrounding PS.  There will be opportunities to work with the EAWG and AAMC on individual projects.  If you bring forth an idea that the AAMC or EAWG already plans to research, we can connect you with the appropriate individuals to combine efforts.  Alternatively, if you bring forth a project that has not already been proposed, we may be able to connect you with the resources/data you may need for your project.

Please read the following AAMC research expectations/regulations regarding program signaling & the MyERAS® application:

You can use the ERAS data from your program for research and survey purposes. When conducting your research, please abide by the following guidelines:

1. Any use of ERAS application data for research is bound by the security and privacy provisions that are agreed to when a program uses ERAS for its application activities.
2. Data that are downloaded from the PDWS for research purposes should be stored on secure computers.
3. Access to identified data should be limited to as few persons as possible.
4. To the extent possible, de-identify the research data set to remove personal identifiers.
5. Be clear in any report of the data that the sample is limited to only applicants to your program/institution and not national representation.
6. These data may not be shared with anyone outside the institution of the ERAS program.
7. No publication or presentation of these data may allow for explicit or passive identification of any individual or medical school.
8. Please provide us with any manuscript for our records.  While AAMC review is not required, researchers often find our review helpful; we are happy to provide feedback upon request.​

ERAS Application Working Group

The decision for EM to participate in PS was made by representatives from the Council of Residency Directors in EM (CORD) Application Process Improvement Committee (APIC), CORD Advising Students Committee in EM (ASC-EM), the CORD Board of Directors, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Clerkship Directors in EM (CDEM), SAEM Residents and Medical Students (RAMS), Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA), and American Academy of Emergency Medicine Resident and Student Association (AAEM/RSA) [formerly the PS Working Group (PSWG), now the ERAS Application Working Group (EAWG)].  The EAWG has worked together to create EM specific educational materials and will continue to work together to evaluate the program signaling and changes to the residency application process.