Dr. Munavvar Izhar founded Medical Student Rotation LLC (MSR) in 2022. Dr. Izhar is an Internist, Nephrologist, and Transplant Specialist. He was the Chief of Nephrology at various teaching hospitals in Chicago and now he is involved in Graduate Medical Education (GME) for practicing physicians, nephrologists, residents, and fellows.

A few years ago, he and his colleagues (most of whom are chairmen or heads of departments) noticed that numerous entities in the US were charging exorbitant fees for outpatient and clinic rotations from medical students. Outpatient and clinic rotations are not considered very favorably by program directors. Even hospital-based rotations with general attending physicians were charged $2500-$4000 per rotation by these entities. According to Dr. Izhar and his group, this was a blatant exploitation of students and hence he and his group floated Hospital-Based, Hands-On rotations with Faculty like the Chairman, Heads, and Chiefs of departments at very reasonable prices of $1500-$2000.

Within a year of starting, MSR has been very successful in getting medical students matched into residency programs. This is only because the value of our rotations lies not only in them being hospital-based but also in being under the Chair, Chiefs, and Heads of the departments at teaching institutions.

With the prices of our rotations being almost half of the others and our rotations being much better, the students are spreading our goodwill by word of mouth. What started a year ago as an offering of 3-4 rotations in Chicago has now increased to 50-60 rotation options extending into New York, Dallas, and Houston. Our commitment to keep the prices of rotation low and the standard of rotation high remains.

Dr. Izhar believes in helping FMGs and IMGs achieve their dreams of getting into a residency program in the USA. His motto is that “In their success lies our success”.