Child Psychiatry Scramble Prospects

[Burning River]

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I applied to child psych fellowships this year and only received two interviews, leaving me with a reasonable suspicion that I may not match. Does anyone have knowledge or insight about the types of programs that are available at the scramble stage or what one might expect from this process?

 

[shoomer]

Tons of open positions in SOAP and scramble last year. Look at the NRMP data and you'll see the programs that didn't fill.

 

[Candidate2017]

No one likes child psych. You'll get in.

 

[Auvelity]

Love the comments. I applied very late as well. Received 3 interviews after emailing a bunch of programs that already “were done with interviews”. 2 of those programs offered out of the match contracts but the program I liked the most, is going through the match so I am taking my chance with a single program in my ROL.
That being said, a co-resident of mine was in the same spot a couple of years ago. She did not match but all the programs with unfilled spots get the people that applied and didn’t match so at that point you might get a bunch of offers from actually great programs that due to location or sheer luck didn’t get filled and you will get to choose 🙂
Hope that’s helpful and good luck!