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Hey guys, i came upon this interesting thread. I had no idea about any residency shortage within the field. Is this something i should worry about? The reason i'm asking is because since I'm going to invest a lot of money in my education and don't want to find out at the very end that I'll be left high and dry with no residency. This is simply to big of an investment to ignore this issue. This is something i will definitely investigate more in detail. link: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=932948. Any input is well appreciated. Thanks.
... 100 graduates and only 90 residency spots...
Probably the best short term solution is making sure that you don't graduate at the bottom of your class.
Also future classes should not have people accepted based on a DAT or GRE score.
From what I last heard from Dr. Edwin Wolf, DPM (who is heading up the residency genesis project) - keep in mind, this was earlier in the year and things may have changed - the current plan is a remaining 10% deficit in residency spots for the class of 2013, an equal amount for 2014 graduates, and a projected 10% surplus of spots by the time the c/o 2015 graduates.
If dtrack22 pops by he knows more than I do so maybe he can chime in to the subject.
Here is a video that was posted about two weeks ago where Dr. Wolf addresses the residency shortage.
He pretty much says the same thing I had said above about wanting to increase residency spots to equal 110% of graduating students. I thought I would post the video here so interested students could watch it.
Statistically speaking how many pod students don't match??? if it's 10-15% or less i wouldn't worry too much unless you plan to be at the bottom of your class.