Yes, prestige matters much more than many on SDN would like to admit.
I think you can't discount geographic self selection as it's been discussed. If you want a mid-Atlantic residency for example, going to UCLA or Oregon would be ill-advised.
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Yes, prestige matters much more than many on SDN would like to admit.
Yes, prestige matters much more than many on SDN would like to admit.
I think you can't discount geographic self selection as it's been discussed. If you want a mid-Atlantic residency for example, going to UCLA or Oregon would be ill-advised.
I think you can't discount geographic self selection as it's been discussed. If you want a mid-Atlantic residency for example, going to UCLA or Oregon would be ill-advised.
please enlighten us lowly premeds more.
... (or even the bottom, since my understanding is they really have no way to differentiate students there) ...
I have noticed that contradiction as well. Either the students are different or the schools are different or both (even if that difference does not equal better). It can't just be consistent random chance (an oxymoron).
...Most people get their #1 or #2. What percent of applicants do you think rank a malignant program #1 or #2? Making things worse, malignant to you might be benign to someone else....
This isn't about hate. It's a VERY strange thing to put into a match list because (1) it isn't a match, it's a hiring outside of the match, and (2) it is something that is considered a failing by most med schools because pretty much all med schools have the mission, whether explicit or implicit, to educate clinicians and researchers. There are very limited seats to med school and the demand for physicians is huge. So folks who end up going into other things represent a failing by the school of their mission. Whether they lost these folks on admission or along the way is unknown, but they got into medical school and ended up going into a non-medical industry, at a time when bright minds in medicine are in high demand.
As for your point #3 above, I don't consider this a criticism of the match list because honestly this isn't something that belongs on a match list. It's not an accident that other programs don't list this. It's not a match. It's attrition from the profession. And listing them is spin. And yet another reason maybe the match list is a dangerous thing to look at, because here you are being fed a bill of goods. These smart people, after 4 years of med school (and more education than that if they truly were PhD/MD types), chose not to be doctors. At most places that wouldn't be construed positively, although this program is spinning it that way.
Wanted to agree with Law2Doc here. The only think unique about Harvard is that they post their non-medical "matches" publicly. Most schools do not, as they're rather frowned upon.
Consulting, as we all know, recruits unknown, untested people to the world of finance in the hope that their credentials will impress clients. Else no newly-minted doctor in the world would be hired for such a gig.
And as someone who went through that phase a few years ago, I can assure you that the starting salaries are in the low $100s, and only the rare few rise up to make substantially more than that (on partnership track).
I would much rather have an MD running my hospital than some MBA who has no idea what they are talking about.
It's not random chance at all -- it's a selection effect. Schools select for different things on admissions. The person who chooses a good midwest state school might have good numerical stats, but their application otherwise would look very different than a person who chooses a prestigious northeastern med school. Each school chooses people who will be a "good fit" for their school. Good fit isn't about numbers, and it's not just a term to let students not feel bad when they come up short. And it absolutely has some bearing on what people will want to go into at the other end. If you focus on people who are motivated to eg have lots of patient contact in their future, or express an interest in certain fields, or come from certain communities, you are going to get very different match lists than if you focus on folks whose application is research heavy with goals of finding "the cancer gene", and a certain kind of undergrad experience or pedigree. It's different kinds of applicants who are deemed "good fit" by different places, even where numbers aren't far apart (and in fact the numerical stats range amongst med schools isn't all that vast and overlaps at every school).
Each school strives to put together a diverse class in terms of backgrounds and interests, but the "average" student within each diverse mix isn't going to be interchangeable, they will have certain attributes the school finds most suited for that school. It's sort of why fraternities look the same year after year -- the jocks pick jocks as pledges, the music oriented pick musicians, etc. Med schools have their own internal biases as to what is a good fit. It's just the hazing of med school is more substantial.
So the bottom line is that what you end up going into and where very much depends on your own efforts more than the school, but schools are very good at picking who fits a certain mold, and so the same type of person who is going to be uber intense 4 years to get derm is probably the same person a school that certain schools consider a good fit. The side corollary of this is that the same person could really achieve the same things anywhere, he'd simply be doing it at a school that doesn't select for his kind of personality.
Do you know what goes into running a hospital?
...Nowhere does it say that medical schools have to train clinicians. ...
Second, most people get one of their top selections FROM WHAT THEY ARE ABLE TO RANK. You can only rank places you get interviews at. Meaning if you want ortho, and you only get 2 interviews, you can only rank 2 programs. So NRMP is going to publish that you got one of your top 2 choices and it statistically sounds good, but in fact you may have APPLIED to 50 programs, gotten interviews at 2, ranked both, and ended up with the latter, so it would really be your 50th choice. That's why match statistics are misleading. As for what percentage rank a malignant program #1 or #2, again that depends on how many interviews you get. If you are applying to a very competitive fields, you often won't get as many interviews as you'd like, so it's possible that you are stuck ranking the places that talked to you or choosing another specialty. For some, going to, say, a malignant ortho program is better than their fallback of gen surg, and so you see folks ranking the 1-2 ortho programs they got interviews at at the top of their list, notwithstanding that the surgery programs they ranked lower are more benign. This happens EXTREMELY FREQUENTLY when folks shoot for very competitive things with only moderately competitive numbers. So you rank the two ortho spots you got interviews at, end up with #2, a malignant program, and shrug and say "oh well, at least I get to be an orthopod if I survive this". It isn't really your dream, but beggars can't be choosers. Which is fine, but then some pre-allo person sees ortho on a rank list at a big name place and, because s/he doesn't know good from malignant, inappropriately thinks this is an amazing match, even though when you started applying this was going to be the 50th option, and you might even be feeling bad about and second guessing it. That's all I'm saying. And that's why you can't just look at program names on a match list and decide -- this is good, this isn't. You sit down with a mentor late in med school and get the real skinny, or you can't know.
anyone have albert einstein's list?
Harvard had 17 Derm applicants and 12 matched. It looks like most of the Harvard students were basically recruited into the affiliate hospitals.
This bothers me:
"Business/Consulting (5)
McKinsey & Co-Palo Alto, CA
McKinsey & Co-Florham Park, NI
McKinsey & Co-Washington, DC
Genzyme Corp-Cambridge, MA (Business Development Manager)
Consulting, Boston, MA"
I'm not impressed with that at all.
Why is this so bothersome? I understand that one of the major reasons behind many of our health care system's shortcomings is the shortage of practicing physicians (especially primary care physicians). However, health care consultants play an important role in making health care delivery more efficient (considering how much we spend for health care in this country, why not get more out of that investment).
Aside from the fact that the average premed:
-has no idea what the "competitive" residences are aside from recognizing Ivy League names
-has no idea what the percentages of matched students are i.e. 7 people matching ortho isn't so hot if 14 were applying
-has no idea how far people fell on their rank list
-has no idea what confounding variables like desire for location or couples match came into play for a particular individual
You get a great feel from a match list.
Nope -- malignant isn't an individual judgment call, it's an objective state, not a subjective one. A place is malignant if they have a culture where they treat the residents a certain way. If you are a masochist, you may perhaps like being treated that way, but that doesn't make it non-malignant. It simply means you aren't bothered by the malignancy. Much as someone who doesn't mind having cancer might not be bothered by the malignancy. the cancer isn't gone because you have your own way of dealing. The term is not dependent on the likes or dislikes of the victims -- it is an objective concept.
Yes, prestige matters much more than many on SDN would like to admit.
"U.S. seniors who graduated from top 40 NIH research intensive medical schools and who preferred the competitive specialties had median predicted probabilities of match success of .98 compared to .97 for graduates of other medical schools. Being a graduate of a top 40 NIH research medical school was not a significant predictor of match success for U.S. seniors who preferred highly competitive specialties."
Some of these "malignant" places also have incredible training. I know people who would prefer to go to the residency where they will get the best training, regardless of whether or not the program is "malignant".
And those people are idiots, or just very naive.
As already pointed out, some people simply aren't bothered by it. My home program has several residency programs that have been labeled "malignant", and why I could see how some people may not want to deal with it, I don't think it would have bothered me that much.
http://med.brown.edu/about/matchHey guys,
I was wondering if anyone had Brown's 2009 Match List. They have the 2008 Match list on their website, but I couldn't find 2009's.
Thanks!
ANESTHESIOLOGY
Loyola Univ Med Ctr-IL IL Anesthesiology
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Anesthesiology
UCLA Medical Center-CA CA Anesthesiology
U Washington Affil Hosps WA Anesthesiology
PGY2 Virginia Mason Med Ctr-WA WA Anesthesiology
PGY2 Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Anesthesiology
Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Anesthesiology
PGY2 Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Anesthesiology
DERMATOLOGY
PGY2 Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Dermatology
PGY2 Mayo School of Grad Med Educ-MNMN Dermatology
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Harbor-UCLA Med Ctr-CA CA Emergency Medicine
Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Emergency Medicine
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Emergency Medicine
Hennepin Co Med Ctr-MN MN Emergency Medicine
FAMILY MEDICINE
UC San Francisco-CA CA Family Medicine
GENERAL SURGERY
Brigham & Womens Hosp-MA MA General Surgery
NYU School Of Medicine NY General Surgery
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL General Surgery
U Washington Affil Hosps WA General Surgery
Howard Univ Hosp-DC DC General Surgery
SUNY Upstate Med University NY General Surgery
Yale-New Haven Hosp-CT CT General Surgery
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL General Surgery
INTERNAL MEDICINE
Hosp of the Univ of PA PA Internal Medicine
NYP Hosp-Columbia Univ Med Ctr-NNY Internal Medicine
Hosp of the Univ of PA PA Internal Medicine
Stanford Univ Progs-CA CA Internal Medicine
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Internal Medicine
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Internal Medicine
Stanford Univ Progs-CA CA Internal Medicine
Massachusetts Gen Hosp MA Internal Medicine
NYU School Of Medicine NY Internal Medicine
George Washington Univ-DC DC Internal Medicine
Winthrop-Univ Hosp-NY NY Internal Medicine
Emory Univ SOM-GA GA Internal Medicine
Mayo School of Grad Med Educ-MNMN Internal Medicine
NYU School Of Medicine NY Internal Medicine
Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Internal Medicine
Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Internal Medicine
University of Hawaii HI Internal Medicine
Santa Clara Valley MC-CA CA Internal Medicine
Hosp of the Univ of PA PA Internal Medicine
Barnes-Jewish Hosp-MO MO Internal Medicine
U Texas SW Med Sch-Dallas TX Internal Medicine
B I Deaconess Med Ctr-MA MA Internal Medicine
University of Virginia VA Internal Medicine
U Texas SW Med Sch-Dallas TX Internal Medicine
NYP Hosp-Columbia Univ Med Ctr-NNY Internal Medicine
U Utah Affil Hospitals UT Internal Medicine
Barnes-Jewish Hosp-MO MO Internal Medicine
U Michigan Hosps-Ann Arbor MI Internal Medicine
NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY
Rush University Med Ctr-IL IL Neurological Surgery
OB/GYN
U Illinois COM-Chicago IL Obstetrics-Gynecology
Loyola Univ Med Ctr-IL IL Obstetrics-Gynecology
Meharry/Metro General-TN TN Obstetrics-Gynecology
Yale-New Haven Hosp-CT CT Obstetrics-Gynecology
Johns Hopkins Hosp-MD MD Obstetrics-Gynecology
OPHTHALMOLOGY
PGY2 Med College Wisconsin WI Ophthalmology
PGY2 Baylor College of Medicine TX Ophthalmology
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Orthopaedic Surgery
Detroit Med Ctr Corporation-MI MI Orthopaedic Surgery
Mt Sinai Hospital-NY NY Orthopaedic Surgery
UC San Francisco-CA CA Orthopaedic Surgery
U Colorado SOM-Denver CO Orthopaedic Surgery
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Orthopaedic Surgery
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Orthopaedic Surgery
U Utah Affil Hospitals UT Orthopaedic Surgery
Baylor Coll Med-Houston-TX TX Orthopaedic Surgery
OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Loyola Univ Med Ctr-IL IL Otolaryngology
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Otolaryngology
PATHOLOGY
U Rochester/Strong Mem-NY NY Pathology
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Pathology
PEDIATRICS
Stanford Univ Progs-CA CA Pediatrics
Childrens Hosp-Philadelphia-PA PA Pediatrics
Stanford Univ Progs-CA CA Pediatrics
St Louis Childrens-MO MO Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Hosp-MD MD Pediatrics
U Minnesota Med School MN Pediatrics
St Louis Childrens-MO MO Pediatrics
UC San Francisco-CA CA Pediatrics
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Med Ctr-NH NH Pediatrics
Med Coll Wisconsin Affil Hosps WI Pediatrics
UCLA Medical Center-CA CA Pediatrics
Advocate Christ Medical Center IL Pediatrics
Northwestern McGaw/CMH-IL IL Pediatrics
U Washington Affil Hosps WA Pediatrics
PLASTIC SURGERY
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Plastic Surgery
PSYCHIATRY
Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Psychiatry
Cambridge Health Alliance MA Psychiatry
U Maryland Med Ctr MD Psychiatry
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Psychiatry
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Psychiatry
Massachusetts Gen Hosp MA Psychiatry
RADIOLOGY - ONCOLOGY
PGY2 Stanford Univ Progs-CA CA Radiation-Oncology
PGY2 Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Radiation-Oncology
PGY2 Vanderbilt Univ Med Ctr-TN TN Radiation Oncology
RADIOLOGY - DIAGNOSTIC
PGY2 Barnes-Jewish Hosp-MO MO Radiology-Diagnostic
PGY2 Northwestern McGaw/NMH/VA-IL IL Radiology-Diagnostic
PGY2 U Michigan Hosps-Ann Arbor MI Radiology-Diagnostic
Univ of Chicago Med Ctr-IL IL Radiology-Diagnostic
PGY2 Brigham & Womens Hosp-MA MA Radiology-Diagnostic
PGY2 U Washington Affil Hosps WA Radiology-Diagnostic
PGY2 Stanford Univ Progs-CA CA Radiology-Diagnostic
PGY2 Duke Univ Med Ctr-NC NC Radiology-Diagnostic
UROLOGY
PGY2 Johns Hopkins Hosp-MD MD Urology
PGY2 UC San Diego Med Ctr-CA CA Surg-Prelim/Urology
haha, thanks! I swear it was the 2008 list a few days ago 😛
Yep. My school is not a primary care-focused school, I have never pretended otherwise.^^^
"That sound you hear is primary care slowly choking to death. That other sound you hear is people dying as unqualified providers try to fill the void. I don't blame anyone, because there is no way in hell I'm going into primary care as the situation is right now. It just doesn't make economic sense.
Kind of sad, I think."
-meister
Btw, this is one of my favorite quotes on SDN.
So not everyone got their releases in on time, thus some of the discrepancies in numbers listed and programs listed. Also, I have no idea what happened with the pediatrics listings (I have 7 programs listed for 6 people). I must have written down peds instead of path or something. And it says we have one family medicine match but it wasn't listed on the match list. But here it is, for the most part...
Anesthesiology - 9
Duke x 2
University of Washington
Brigham and Women's (Harvard)
Michigan
University of Virginia
Stanford
Massachussets General Hospital
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Wash U in St. Louis)
Dermatology - 3
Barnes-Jewish (Wash U in St Louis)
Mayo
Stanford
Emergency Medicine - 6
Duke x 2
Mt. Sinai
UCLA
U of New Mexico
Ohio State
General Surgery - 5 categorical, 2 prelim
Duke
Wake Forest
UCLA
Stanford
UCSF
Washington Hospitals- DC
Naval Medical Center
Internal Medicine - 25
Duke x 6
Massachussets General Hospital x 2
Beth Israel Deaconess (Harvard) x 2
Brigham and Women's x 2
University of Washington x 2
Johns Hopkins
Stanford
Columbia
UT-Southwestern
Michigan
Pittsburgh Memorial
Internal Medicine-Pediatrics - 6
Duke x 3
Indiana
University of North Carolina
Michigan
Neurology- 1
UCSF
Neurosurgery - 4
Duke
Mayo
UCLA
NYU
Ob/Gyn
Einstein/Montefiore (NY)
Ophthalmology - 12
Duke x 2
Massachussets Eye and Ear x 2
Johns Hopkins x 2
New York Eye and Ear
Pitt
Howard
LSU
Wayne St.
NYMC
Orthopaedic Surgery - 4
Duke
Boston University
Carolinas Medical Center
Utah
Pathology - 5
Duke
UCSF
Columbia
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Pediatrics - 6?
Duke x 3
University of North Carolina
Children's Hospital- Philadelphia
Vanderbilt
LSU
Plastic Surgery - 1
Michigan
Psychiatry - 2
UT-Southwestern
Palmetto Health (SC)
Radiation Oncology - 1
University of Maryland
Radiology - 10
Duke x 2
University of Southern California
Johns Hopkins
Stanford
U Miami- Jackson Memorial
Michigan x 2
Medical University of South Carolina
Emory
Consulting -1
Boston Consulting Group
-hahaha, sorry. I had to put this in there.
Unless 20 applied?😱 impressive, 12 matched in ophtho!
My understanding is that 13 applied, 12 entered the match (one decided on a different field after interviews). My year will probably be another big year in ophtho...not really sure why, the eye creeps me out personally.Unless 20 applied?
lolMy understanding is that 13 applied, 12 entered the match (one decided on a different field after interviews). My year will probably be another big year in ophtho...not really sure why, the eye creeps me out personally.
My year will probably be another big year in ophtho...not really sure why, the eye creeps me out personally.
My understanding is that 13 applied, 12 entered the match (one decided on a different field after interviews). My year will probably be another big year in ophtho...not really sure why, the eye creeps me out personally.
Edit: and I think originally 17 planned on ophtho but 4 opted out prior to application season.
Personally, I would be bored silly just focusing on the eyes. I did a summer internship that deal with researching an eye disease. I pretty much learned everything there is about the eye in just a few weeks.
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