How easy is it to scramble for a medicine residency position? Does anyone know of any programs that traditionally take scramble candidates? Anywhere I should look? Any help would be great. If I dont get my top choice im spots I will be looking to scramble for a place.

the ease or difficulty of scrambling depends on many things, including your scores as well as your dean being an advocate for you during the process.

in any event, the match is a ways off (third thursday of march), and i would venture to guess that it would be impossible to plan to scramble into any specific program at this point.

Why are you thinking about scrambling? did you only apply to one program? I ask this because IM should not be that difficult to match into....if you apply to and interview at enough programs.

How easy is it to scramble for a medicine residency position? Does anyone know of any programs that traditionally take scramble candidates? Anywhere I should look? Any help would be great. If I dont get my top choice im spots I will be looking to scramble for a place.

Don't count on scrambling. Last year there were less than 70 spots open with a large chunk of them coming from one large program out west. Check out the NRMP website for more information. Medicine programs are filling their spots in the match these days - sometimes with known FMGs instead of unknown US grads who didn't match.

As mentioned above, last year the allo scramble for Medicine was brutal with very few spots which filled extremely quickly.

As people have said before: scrambling has gotten "competitive". In 06 match only 99 IM spots and 10 of them came from a program in NY that only accepts people with USMLE in the high 230's (Methodist in NY) and last year only 70 something spots.

So try and to everything possible to get a spot before the scramble.