1) Why are you asking me to refute that stuff when that is besides the point and not even an argument I made?
2) why are you conjecturing that he is leading the charge to open a residency? such unsubstantiated BS. we as a group barely have a mild rumor, that maybe at some point PSU was or is trying to open a program, and all of a sudden it's this guy's fault and he's not allowed to talk about the job hunt? This place thrives on **** talk, my god, get a grip.
Sorry if my post was ambiguous. I was bringing up those points because I think its material to a critique about your point. Your point, or one of them, was 'well all fields have these job talks' and I completely agree with that. But in my opinion it is reasonable to view these differently in a field that has published data the market is bad, such as a published oversupply, annual work surveys of the field, the objective increase in 'fellowships' which the ABR chair called out as a false pretense in labeling, etc - that colors the nature of the talk. Particularly because there is information asymmetry - those things are published, but most 'rad onc twitter' and academics seem to ignore this data - and specifically the person giving the talk has cast aspersions on the information provided on SDN. We are certainly anonymous, but I think a lot of us see the data in front of us, fear reprisals from more senior people in the field, and have a clear sense our deal is much worse off than was promised or worked for. So if the guy telling people to discount us is giving a job talk, and not acknowledging the published data (notice how I hammer this point), I think it is very reasonable to delineate that as a different situation then generic 'get a job talk' in a specialty that's not training more physicians than society needs. And that's a 2015 statement, APM and CMS changes as well as hypofractionation only put significant downside pressure on the demand projections. Maybe his talk will acknowledge all of this, though it would seem to contradict his tweeted view.
As for point 2 - you are correct, I do not know 100% if PSU has applied for a residency or what if any steps they have taken in formal application - but certainly you can take a look at how that group is being put together and the structure is pretty consistent with a residency goal in mind with the above information in mind.
My grip is pretty good, most days at least. You let me know again if I am slipping though. I think people who give advice are selfless and that is awesome, but just like there is a difference in getting investment advice from a financial adviser with no fiduciary conflict of interest and a 'pump and dump' advisor (which still exist!), it is reasonable to parse out the differences and motive in the content.
