MD co ‘20 Residency Panic Thread

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camng11 said:
My #1 choice right now is in an excellent location 50 min away from my home, and is prestigious. The only problem is that the other residents are from top schools and seem to be high achievers, I'm the opposite, more laid back, and well kind of lazy. I know Im not the best fit for this program, but the location and program is too good. Is this a mistake?
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Couple ways to look at this
1. If the program ranks you high enough that they take you, it means they think you’re a fit. If not, they saved you from not fitting. Some programs are prestige/numbers ****** and there’s not much to change their minds.
2. You don’t want to get the rep as the “lazy resident”, so if that’s a concern I wouldn’t rank there high.
 
camng11 said:
My #1 choice right now is in an excellent location 50 min away from my home, and is prestigious. The only problem is that the other residents are from top schools and seem to be high achievers, I'm the opposite, more laid back, and well kind of lazy. I know Im not the best fit for this program, but the location and program is too good. Is this a mistake?
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I ranked a couple “better programs” at the end of my list just because I didn’t fit in at all. I felt like I wouldn’t be happy there. But I don’t think you should worry about the overachievers unless you really felt like you would be unhappy there.
 
I’ve been thinking about my list all week. I think next week I’ll just put my list in, certify, and not open it again.
 
CidHighwind said:
I’ve been thinking about my list all week. I think next week I’ll just put my list in, certify, and not open it again.
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I did that today. I redid that Elo Rating thing posted here a few pages ago, noticed that i was still being consistent. I made one major change, though. I went with my gut and I am pretty satisfied as of now.
 
Was just told by a resident at my top programs that they do their applicant rank list on Friday and residents submit their input tomorrow. I guess it’s good to know after Friday the die is cast and there’s literally nothing else I could do. Seriously, guys. I’m fine, totally not freaking out.

*smiles*takes Xanax*smiles*
 
rukia013 said:
I heard that there's a candidate on the MP interview trail who's only planning to rank 2 programs so they can try to SOAP into one of the top tier programs since in the past MP has always had unfilled seats (including big name programs whose ranked candidates all matched into other big name programs)..
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Whats MP
 
Having a rank list crisis. I think I would be interested in a competitive fellowship but I’m not a big research person at heart. I’m wondering if I’m fooling myself about thinking I can be something I’m really not.
Ugh identity crisis.
Also the reality of moving across the country is starting to feel daunting to me. Which is making me question my entire list.
**needs Xanax**
 
Does anyone else actually hear internal screaming when going through this? Like there's a little guy in my head just yelling real loud. Or am I just losing my mind?
 
Seanman111 said:
Does anyone else actually hear internal screaming when going through this? Like there's a little guy in my head just yelling real loud. Or am I just losing my mind?
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yup. The closer we get to match day the worst it gets
 
MerYangBey said:
For me it’s one day going “I can’t wait to move to the city my #1 is in! I’m pretty confident I’ll end up there” then the next day panicking “omg there’s a really good chance I might not match. Do I need to think about preparing for the SOAP?!? What if I never find a residency??? *remembers something from an interview day that makes me cringe*”
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Same, plus weird vaguely match and medical related stress dreams.
 
Do the expectations for medical students hit the floor after match day? I’ll be halfway through a cardiology rotation then and really doubt I’ll have motivation.
 
marathonermedicinegal said:
Similar question I hope someone could answer. Got an unsolicited positive email from a program in my top third. Was sent from PC but was signed by the chair. Pretty generic but I know not every applicant got it. Should I reply? I was leaning towards no but there’s that nagging feeling at the back of my head
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I don’t think I’m going to respond. They said they already completed their ROL anyways and just wanted to inform me of my position so I guess it doesn’t require a response, but I have that same nagging feeling lol.
 
ciestar said:
Ive gotten zero love letters. I feel like i should worry
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I wouldn't worry. It's honestly specialty based and I went to a lot of programs who made it known during the interview day that they don't send love letters so don't be alarmed or think we are not interested.
 
marathonermedicinegal said:
Similar question I hope someone could answer. Got an unsolicited positive email from a program in my top third. Was sent from PC but was signed by the chair. Pretty generic but I know not every applicant got it. Should I reply? I was leaning towards no but there’s that nagging feeling at the back of my head
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If it was me I’d shoot back a simple thank you, enjoyed your program, yadda yadda. I did this for all unsolicited correspondence; my philosophy was to keep a “closed loop” communication of sorts, and thus didn’t leave any communications open ended.
 
The love letter frequency seems to be quite different from specialty to specialty. Most of my friends in IM have gotten none, same with surgery.... I’m in FM, and have gotten several - but those from Midwest states that are known to be on the friendly side.

There’s a great many factors playing into these communications, only one of them being the applicant.
 
Epilepsy365 said:
Haven’t had any love letter as well.

well, my hours in surgery from 6 am to 6 pm are keeping me busy. LOL
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It helps for sure lol
Im on a crazy busy consult service (20+ consults yesterday, came into at least 10 more)
 
star.buck said:
The love letter frequency seems to be quite different from specialty to specialty. Most of my friends in IM have gotten none, same with surgery.... I’m in FM, and have gotten several - but those from Midwest states that are known to be on the friendly side.

There’s a great many factors playing into these communications, only one of them being the applicant.
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Also FM but almost all PA programs with two in surrounding states and nothing really lol
Sent a LOI to my #1 but never heard back. Not that this PD didn’t already know this... lol
 
ciestar said:
Also FM but almost all PA programs with two in surrounding states and nothing really lol
Sent a LOI to my #1 but never heard back. Not that this PD didn’t already know this... lol
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I heard nothing from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and a few other states... most of the love came from Wisconsin (which was overall a VERY friendly state anyway)... I am willing to be it's partially regional.
 
Dantrolene FC said:
Everyone got that.

You’ll also get an email on 3/13 telling you you’re eligible for the SOAP. That does NOT mean you didn’t match.
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I know. My school went over this in depth so we wouldnt freak lol
 
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