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Recently published:
Match Applicants Shocked to Find Med School Personal Statement was Legally Binding
For full article: https://gomerblog.com/2014/01/match...ed-school-personal-statement-legally-binding/ Selected excerpts:
"In a stunning reversal of fortune, fourth year medical students around the country are reacting to the shocking news that their medical school admission essays penned some four years prior were, in fact, legally binding contracts locking in their career choices."
". . . Medical school admission is a highly competitive process, and ultimate selection of the student body at each of the nation’s LCME-accredited medical schools is predicated on a variety of factors, specialty balance chief among them. Obviously it makes no sense to carefully allot positions to future family practitioners, ob/gyns, and ’baby doctors for rural Africa’ only to have students change their minds and wreck the balance down the line.”
"The NRMP therefore auto-populates the residency personal statement with the applicant’s prior med school admission essay, and has written an algorithm which cunningly selects the programs to which the student’s application is sent based on the content of the essay."
"BY THE NUMBERS
Final allotments for the nation’s 18,000 medical students:
– 10,620 “serving the underserved”
– 1,780 “cultural competency”
– 5,000 “global health specialists”
– 599 “pediatric neurosurgeons, like my hero, Ben Carson”
– 1 dermatologist"
With thanks to @Winged Scapula for bringing this important new satire to SDN attention.
Match Applicants Shocked to Find Med School Personal Statement was Legally Binding
For full article: https://gomerblog.com/2014/01/match...ed-school-personal-statement-legally-binding/ Selected excerpts:
"In a stunning reversal of fortune, fourth year medical students around the country are reacting to the shocking news that their medical school admission essays penned some four years prior were, in fact, legally binding contracts locking in their career choices."
". . . Medical school admission is a highly competitive process, and ultimate selection of the student body at each of the nation’s LCME-accredited medical schools is predicated on a variety of factors, specialty balance chief among them. Obviously it makes no sense to carefully allot positions to future family practitioners, ob/gyns, and ’baby doctors for rural Africa’ only to have students change their minds and wreck the balance down the line.”
"The NRMP therefore auto-populates the residency personal statement with the applicant’s prior med school admission essay, and has written an algorithm which cunningly selects the programs to which the student’s application is sent based on the content of the essay."
"BY THE NUMBERS
Final allotments for the nation’s 18,000 medical students:
– 10,620 “serving the underserved”
– 1,780 “cultural competency”
– 5,000 “global health specialists”
– 599 “pediatric neurosurgeons, like my hero, Ben Carson”
– 1 dermatologist"
With thanks to @Winged Scapula for bringing this important new satire to SDN attention.
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