anon: how does the match work?

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When you do the residency match
> program. Do you get
> to pick what hospital you get to go to? I read the
> stuff from your site but
> it didn't really help me.
> thanks

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First, you interview. Then you rank the hospitals in the order which you
would like to go. Then, the hospitals rank the candidates it wants. If you
rank a hospital first, and you are high enough on their list, you end up there.
The residents pick always gets priority (that is, if you rank a hospital last
and it ranks you first, you will not end up there unless you couldn't get in
anywhere else.)
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Then, the hospitals rank the candidates it wants. If you
rank a hospital first, and you are high enough on their list, you end up there.
 
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This necrobump is so old even the skeleton of this thread has been reduced to ash

Edit: I just realized that AOL was still the primary source of the internet for many Americans at the time OP posted this thread......and promptly responded to himself on a different account.
 
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First, you interview. Then you rank the hospitals in the order which you
would like to go. Then, the hospitals rank the candidates it wants. If you
rank a hospital first, and you are high enough on their list, you end up there.
The residents pick always gets priority (that is, if you rank a hospital last
and it ranks you first, you will not end up there unless you couldn't get in
anywhere else.)
Jim Henderson, MD
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Jim Henderson, MD of Medicalstudent.net

Thanks Jim Henderson of Medicalstudent.net!
 
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Was everyone in old timey SDN named Jim Henderson?
 
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Then, the hospitals rank the candidates it wants. If you
rank a hospital first, and you are high enough on their list, you end up there.

Monster first post- you bumped a 17 year old thread. Very impressive
 
"The residents pick always gets priority"

I find it comforting that even in last century people had no idea what that admittedly true but basically irrelevant sentence means. It has to be the most overhyped and misunderstood sentence in all of match literature.

Maybe by the year 2100 med students will have it figured out. I doubt it.


Also: TOS rule 18 prohibits sockpuppeting (multiple accounts)... should we put Dr. Henderson on probation?
 
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"The residents pick always gets priority"

I find it comforting that even in last century people had no idea what that admittedly true but basically irrelevant sentence means. It has to be the most overhyped and misunderstood sentence in all of match literature.

Maybe by the year 2100 med students will have it figured out. I doubt it.


Also: TOS rule 18 prohibits sockpuppeting (multiple accounts)... should we put Dr. Henderson on probation?
Pretty sure the statute of limitations has run out in this case...
 
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I thought I was having a stroke until I reached post 4 of this thread.

10/10 would read again. Great question Jim Henderson. Thanks for the prompt answer, Jim Henderson! One's in Missouri, one's in Iowa! What a day to be Jim Henderson.
 
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Thanks Jim Henderson of Medicalstudent.net!
There is another incident of Jim Henderson speaking to himself in the past. I mean when you strip it all away, aren't we all a little bit of Jim Henderson on the inside?
 
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This necrobump is so old even the skeleton of this thread has been reduced to ash

Edit: I just realized that AOL was still the primary source of the internet for many Americans at the time OP posted this thread......and promptly responded to himself on a different account.

Actually what was going on was that sometimes users would send us private messages and ask us to post them for them anonymously. They did not want wish to create an account.

Therefore Dr. Henderson was quoting another user but posting it under his account. Then of course he was responding as himself in a separate post. I can see where the confusion comes from but not really sock puppet Ing.


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Actually what was going on was that sometimes users would send us private messages and ask us to post them for them anonymously. They did not want wish to create an account.

Therefore Dr. Henderson was quoting another user but posting it under his account. Then of course he was responding as himself in a separate post. I can see where the confusion comes from but not really sock puppet Ing.


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Why did he have two seperate accounts though?
 
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I'm building a time machine to go back to the year 1999. Who's coming with me?

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