Tonight my medical school class had a meeting with the administrators to discuss matching and the 4th year. Well, I have been set for a little while now on Neurology and so I was paying attention to some of the data that they were giving us. I saw one figure where it showed the percentage of applicants who did not match each specialty that they applied to. Neurology's was 0.7%, this was the very bottom. This shows me that most people are either not applying as much or want to do Neurology as much as other specialties. Another data was in the SOAP match where people placed their preferred specialty vs the number available spots and Neurology and Child Neurology were at the very bottom, meaning that people were not wanting to be in this specialty.
I know some of the arguments are money and work. I don't' buy the money part as much because many of the other specialties were FM, IM, or something similar that is not as high income. The work might be it, but the residency length can't be it because it is right in the middle. I was wondering if anybody here has gotten some insight as to more of why. Some of my classmates stated that the knowledge base and work are too challenging for many people to want to pursue this career, but I was just looking for insight in general.
I know some of the arguments are money and work. I don't' buy the money part as much because many of the other specialties were FM, IM, or something similar that is not as high income. The work might be it, but the residency length can't be it because it is right in the middle. I was wondering if anybody here has gotten some insight as to more of why. Some of my classmates stated that the knowledge base and work are too challenging for many people to want to pursue this career, but I was just looking for insight in general.