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What if Internal Medicine is what they wanted? There are people out there who do want to go into Primary Care, like myself.
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What if Internal Medicine is what they wanted? There are people out there who do want to go into Primary Care, like myself.
How is that unimpressive? That must be the most ignorant comment I've heard on sdn lately.
Because a lot of people who can't get into ortho, ENT, derm, ophtho, rad, etc even though they originally wanted to usually end up going into Internal Medicine.
That and also because Internal Medicine is not a very difficult specialty to match into.
How so? To go into subspecialities like cardio, gastroenterology, etc you have to finish a residency in internal medicine.
Lmao...look at where they matched, not too shabby.
If by "NS" you mean Neurosurgery, and by "main depots" you mean large producers of, Georgetown matched 5 students into neurosurgery as well.
since when was Duke considered an ivy?
That's pretty good. Actually the only school that I am sure about is Columbia because I have seen their matchlists for several years. All these other schools are from just one year. It would be nice if we could have access to matchlists with aggregated data from three or more years. They would be much more meaningful then and would more or less squelch staunch critics like Law2Doc.
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You have no basis for saying this. How do you know, are you in their class? Don't assume that everyone wants to go into derm or ophtho. It's simply not true.
Fixed for you. (Being a Princeton alumnus kid, it's engrained in me to list Princeton first -- that's all) 😉
As for the list, yes, Dartmouth is one and Yale. There are 8.
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That's fine. I don't mean Ivies in the strict sense. Perhaps I could use a smaller letter. To me, Stanford, Duke, Hopkins, Rice, and to some extent MIT and Caltech represent a very special level of colleges that are not just "top," but are also very famous (including abroad) in a way that schools like WashU and UCSF do not even come close. I don't have a particular name for these schools, so I call them "ivies" since they are up to par with the prestige and fame of the real Ivies. I haven't come up with a better name and for now will have to just keep using the small letter "ivy." I am sure you can cope. Just call Stanford the Ivy of the West, Duke the Ivy of the South, etc.
This is irrelevant. You can give me an example of any system and I can tell you hundreds of things that we may not know. Instead, try to concentrate on what we do know. You see a school producing a good number of NS residents on a yearly basis, for example. Then you know for sure that the school has the proper means and the advising process to get you there. Just that fact answers all of your hypotheticals above. Don't be too wooed by lawyerism. I have a lot of experience in that area myself, though admittedly, not as much as Herr L2D.
It's because you need the foundation of medicine in order be be a competent medical specialist. Dermatologists are never the primary team of a patient, but the GI and Cards services are. In fact, much of the IM residency at large hospitals is spent on the GI, Cards, Heme-onc, etc. service.
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Not everyone will, but I agree with you. One match list can tell you very little, but 5 years of match lists can give you trends. They can at least hint at the emphasis of the school and the quality of advising in various departments.
Now your "Princeton of the South" comment makes total sense.
There is no small letter "ivy." You're just wrong.
Hmm, well the architecture is strikingly similar. I thought that's what she was referring to.Now your "Princeton of the South" comment makes total sense.
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Now your "Princeton of the South" comment makes total sense.
Well... mostly based on hearing that Duke's architectural style was based on Princeton's. Since it was related to Princeton, I just happened to remember the tidbit.
Edit: wow... totally missed MrBurns' post last night. She was right. =)
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Aren't there some programs looking at "fast-track" residency models for cards?
I think this model may come more into play for residency sort of like integrated plastics, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery...
I know! As I said, it is a personal choice for me. Let's not get too picky. I can call it perhaps "Ivylike" to prevent several posts about the same point.
Yep, I believe the "fast track" cards residency is 2 years of IM and 4(?) of cards. It's not too popular right now, but my friend told me it at least exists.
Just curious - maybe you can help me out here, but what is the main purpose behind a program like Medicine-Pediatrics (Med-Peds)? I've seen that on a few matchlists and was wondering what that was all about.
It's a combined residency program. 4 years total when pediatrics or medicine by itself is 3 years each. It gives the person the ability to see adults and children, but have some more specialization with each compared to Family Med. And there's no OB/gyn involved, like in Family Med.
Edit: You can also do a bunch of fellowships and follow patients for their whole lives: eg. med-peds cards and then follow adult patients with congenital anomalies. One meds-peds I met this year is doing a Medicine ID fellowship, and she can see regular peds electively.
There are a few combined programs:
Med-geriatrics
Med-neuro
etc.
Explained beautifully! I've known a few students who ended up choosing med-peds because they weren't sure which one they'd rather do in the long run.
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I agree. Plus, FM is more outpatient-oriented while IM/Peds can be inpatient, outpatient, or both.
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And you can specialize in IM/Peds. You can't do cards, GI, etc fellowships as a FM doc.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
Anyone have or know where i can find University of Arizona's match results?
Totally agreed with everyone else as well. Good work team! =)
Look at that teamwork...and all without PBL!
University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago Campus 2009 Match:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcam/osa/careers/MatchData/2009MatchResultsbySpecialty.htm
http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcam/osa/careers/MatchData/2009MatchResultsbySpecialty.htm
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Even though there are a lot of FM/Internal M, I must say that the Drexel list looks pretty good. Impressive matches both in terms of locations and specialties. I guess this would be one good example of "low tier school" and high caliber matches.
Add Yale and that's all 8.
Took a research year out. Too bad I have decided to apply to a different field (whoops!). How about you?
i dont see what the problem with this is
can someone post up WAKE FOREST? thank you. this thread needs less useless chat and more MATCHLIST info.
idea: post up links to each school's matchlist alphabetically similar to the accepted, waitlist threads.
add each school after each post, so that SDNers dont have to roam through 8 pages of useless arguments over duke being classified as an "ivy" or not. thanks
add each school after each post, so that SDNers dont have to roam through 8 pages of useless arguments over duke being classified as an "ivy" or not. thanks
I have the Wake Forest 2009 match list but my copy has student names on it so I don't want to post it. If anyone has specific questions about it, I may be able to post that. There are 95 names on it and it looks like there are 6 that didn't match.
You are more than welcome to do that yourself, but don't expect someone else to do it for you. thanks. 🙄
Where are the rads people going?
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