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09/02/2026

The Synapse stop in Miami covered a lot of ground: AI's growing role in medical training and selection, what a physician's path looks like from pipeline to practice, and how programs support trainees well past Match Day.

The room reflected that same range, health system leaders, program administrators, workforce consultants, and the innovators building the AI tools for clinical training. Thank you to everyone who joined and helped push the conversation forward.

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08/25/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined Session 5 of The Pathway to Residency, powered by Thalamus Dot Org and Thalamus!

More than 1,100 students, advisors, faculty members, and future physicians already registered for the series.

Session 5, The IMG Journey: Strategy, Risk, Opportunity, and the Reality of the Match, offered an honest, experience-based discussion of the IMG recruitment landscape, including how programs evaluate IMG applicants within the broader context of residency recruitment and common misconceptions surrounding the IMG Match.

Throughout the year, The Pathway to Residency will provide practical guidance, behind-the-scenes insight, and transparent conversations designed to help applicants navigate residency recruitment with greater confidence, perspective, and clarity.

Up Next

Session 6 - AI, Holistic Review, and the Future of Residency Recruitment: Separating Myth from Reality
🗓️ August 27, 2026 | 7 PM ET
🎤 Jason Reminick, MD, MBA, MS, CEO & Founder, Thalamus
Vlad Eidelman, PhD, CPTO, Thalamus
Alexander Thompson, MSc, Product Manager, AI, Thalamus

Artificial intelligence has become one of the most discussed, and often misunderstood, topics in residency recruitment. Led by Thalamus technology and product leadership, this session explores how AI and technology are actually used within recruitment today, where human judgment remains essential, and why many online assumptions about automated screening fail to reflect reality. Participants will gain clarity on the role technology plays in supporting holistic review, fairness, transparency, and operational efficiency throughout the recruitment process.

If you're preparing for residency applications, or advising students who are, we invite you to join us.

🔗 Register once to receive access to the entire series: https://hubs.ly/Q04vcQKJ0

08/24/2026

: Charting the Trajectory.

Nothing holds a straight course on its own. Houston's agenda moves from the physiology of human limits to the daily mechanics of building a program, with AI, leadership, and workforce planning each exerting their own pull on where GME is headed.

Highlights from Day One of the Houston agenda include:

Aerospace Medicine: Advancing Human Performance for Generations
Amy Kreykes, MD, MPH (University of Texas Medical Branch)

AI in GME Recruitment: Effeciency, Equity, and the Human Touch
Moderated by Bailey Woods, featuring Nikola Dragojlovic, DO (UTHealth Houston), Alex Dummett, MD, FACP, ABPM-CI, CPPS, CPHFH (Socratic AI)

AI in GME: From Curiosity to Capability
Terri Feist, BBA, PMP

Reimagining Workforce Development: Cultivating Curiosity & Building Careers
Moderated by Bailey Woods, featuring Matthew Blank, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine)

The Road Traveled: Reflections on Leadership & Educational Growth at Houston Methodist
Moderated by Brooke Moore, MBA, PMP, featuring Trevor Burt, EdD, MS (Houston Methodist)

Day Two will focus on Applied Operational Mastery & Recruitment Readiness, including interactive modules on season foundations, applicant experience, and using data to improve your next recruitment cycle.
Guest Alisha Procter, EdD, MsC CD (Sam Houston State University) will co-lead the session on professional development, alongside Brooke Moore, MBA, PMP.

Houston makes the case that no single force sets the arc. Performance science, artificial intelligence, workforce strategy, and leadership all pull on it at once. This Synapse encourages leaders to navigate that landscape together.

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08/20/2026

The Next Pathway: What’s New at Thalamus

Another residency recruitment season is almost here, and we have a lot to share.

Join us Wednesday, August 26 from 4:00–5:00 PM ET for a first look at what’s coming to Thalamus this season.

We’ll introduce:
→ A refreshed Thalamus Core experience
→ A redesigned Applicant Experience across web and mobile
→ New Applicant Acknowledgement packages
→ A new Cerebellum experience with specialty-specific dashboards
→ Redesigned Scoring supporting competency-based, holistic review
→ And more

And we’ll unveil something entirely new.

We’ll share the next step in Thalamus’s approach to responsible AI in GME recruitment: technology designed to help make holistic, human-led application review more achievable at scale.

We’ll show you what we’ve built and why we built it, share how we’re approaching transparency, fairness, validation, and responsible use, and introduce an opportunity for the GME community to participate in, and help shape, what comes next.

New experiences. New capabilities. And a first look at what’s next for responsible AI in GME recruitment.

📅 Wednesday, August 26
⏰ 4:00–5:00 PM ET
🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q04tG5Kz0

Join the Thalamus team for a first look at what’s coming for the 2026–2027 residency recruitment season.

08/18/2026

GME Professionals Day is Friday, August 21! 🎉

Many members of Team Thalamus are former professionals, with more than 200 years of combined experience.

This year, we asked a few of our GME experts to finish one sentence: "I love GME because ___." Their answers reminded us just how much heart and passion goes into this work.

Now it's your turn: 💬 Finish the sentence yourself in the comments, 🏷️ Tag a colleague who is your GME hero.

Let's fill this thread with the reasons GME matters.

08/18/2026

widens the lens. 🔎

This stop on the tour brings together questions about AI's role in medical training and recruitment, what a physician pathway looks like from pipeline to practice, and how to support trainees well past Match Day.

Highlights from Day One of the Miami agenda include:

When AI is the Smartest Person in the Room: Rethinking Medical Training, Selection, and Judgement
Moderated by Bailey Woods, featuring Alex Dummett, MD, FACP, ABPM-CI, CPPS, CPHFH (Socratic AI)

Designing the Physician Pathway: Rethinking Recruitment from Pipeline to Practice
Michele Li and Kristen Smith

Mapping the Physician Pipeline: AdventHealth’s Approach to GME Retention
Moderated by Bailey Woods, featuring Jahaira Jimenez, MHA, FACHE (AdventHealth), Felicia Bonfante, MHA, BSHCA (AdventHealth)

Beyond the Match: Preparing Physicians for the Business of Practice
Mariela Alvarez-Sosa, MBA, SPHR, CPRP, PPMC (Lucid Healthcare Consulting Inc.)

AI in GME: From Curiosity to Capability
Ashley Page, MHA

Day Two will focus on Applied Operational Mastery & Recruitment Readiness, including interactive modules on season foundations, applicant experience, and using data to improve your next recruitment cycle.

Taken together, these conversations give GME and physician workforce leaders here a broader view of what recruitment could look like next, one that doesn't stop at the Match and doesn't treat AI, training, and career support as separate problems to solve.

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08/17/2026

The tour made its way to last week, a fitting stop for a city built on connection.

Conversations ranged from staying grounded in academic medicine during an uncertain stretch, to the choices shaping tomorrow's physician pipeline, and how AI is actually showing up in day-to-day GME work.

What stuck with us: the range of voices in the room, from health system leaders to program directors to the people building the tools. We are grateful to everyone who joined us and contributed to the discussion.

9 cities down. 3 to go.

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08/12/2026

The team finished out last week in , the city where medicine takes root.

Leaders across medicine came together to tackle today’s most challenging questions around recruitment innovation, workforce strategy, and the AI tools reshaping how programs run.

We're grateful for everyone who traveled in, spoke up, and pushed the conversation forward.

8 cities down. 4 to go.

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08/11/2026

Healthcare connects .

As a crossroads for industries, ideas, and people, Chicago is a natural stop for this conversation. This leg of the tour gathers leaders from healthcare, graduate medical education, and physician workforce development to work through where GME and physician recruitment are headed next.

Highlights from Day One of the Chicago agenda include:

The Next Ten Years: Building a Future in Academic Medicine at a Time of Great Uncertainty
Moderated by Kevin Lindbergh, featuring Bess Wildman, MBA (University of Chicago)

Crossing Paths: A Conversation on Two Careers Guided by Values
Moderated by Terri Feist, BBA, PMP, featuring Michelle Armstrong, MAEd, MA (American College of Surgeons), Mallory Williams, MD, MPH, FACS, FICS, FCCP, FCCM (John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County)

Recruitment Doesn’t End on Match Day: Supporting the Whole Trainee Through the Transition to Residency
Jess Risk, Ed.D. (Indiana University)

Shaping the Shortage: What Residency Choices Mean for the Physician Pipeline
Austin Chatlin (CHG Healthcare)

AI in GME: From Curiosity to Capability
Terri Feist, BBA, PMP

Day Two will focus on Applied Operational Mastery & Recruitment Readiness, including interactive modules on season foundations, applicant experience, and using data to improve your next recruitment cycle.

Chicago sits at the intersection of the country. A city built on connection makes this the perfect place to bring GME and physician workforce leaders together to chart what's next.

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08/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined Session 4 of The Pathway to Residency, powered by Thalamus Dot Org and Thalamus!

More than 1,000 students, advisors, faculty members, and future physicians already registered for the series.

Session 4, What Programs Actually See: Understanding How Residency Applications Are Reviewed, provided an insider’s perspective on how residency programs evaluate applications, including what differentiates a completed application from a compelling one and how programs assess alignment, professionalism, consistency, and context throughout the review process.

Throughout the year, The Pathway to Residency will provide practical guidance, behind-the-scenes insight, and transparent conversations designed to help applicants navigate residency recruitment with greater confidence, perspective, and clarity.

Up Next

👉 Session 5 - The IMG Journey: Strategy, Risk, Opportunity, and the Reality of the Match
🗓️ August 11, 2026 | 8 PM ET
🎤 Jason Reminick, MD, MBA, MS, CEO & Founder, Thalamus

For International Medical Graduates (IMGs), the Match process can feel especially complex and uncertain. This session offers an honest, experience-based discussion of the IMG recruitment landscape, including specialty competitiveness, strategic application planning, and how programs evaluate IMG applicants within the broader context of residency recruitment. Participants will also explore common misconceptions surrounding the IMG Match while gaining perspective on balancing ambition, opportunity, and realistic decision-making.

If you're preparing for residency applications, or advising students who are, we invite you to join us.

🔗 Register once to receive access to the entire series: https://hubs.ly/Q04srJpN0