Considering that thousands of our members are medical students and that so many of our members advise medical students, I decided to share my top 10 pieces of advice for getting into residency programs. Advising medical students on residency placement has been a keen academic interest of mine over the last 20 years. Having served as a residency program director for years in the past, I feel that it helps me share that perspective with future residents. I have had the honor of being an ACOI Visiting Professor at nearly every college of osteopathic medicine (COM) in the nation and advising thousands of medical students and I have been incredibly rewarded by hearing of the success stories of so many medical students.