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Did you end up applying IR or DR? Pumped to see where you match
MD & DO co'21 Residency Panic thread
Started by kraskadva
This is so true. IM is so prestige-heavy where namebrand has mad pull. Someone from JHU or HMS with 230s Step 1 and avg grades will have no problem getting interviews from the big 4 whereas a DO or low tier MD with 250s-260s and essentially a perfect app will get ghosted. this happens on many occasions coming directly from the mouths of residents ive spoken with and PDs. its actually sad
My liver is taking a pounding this week guys.
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I only applied DR. My match is not going to be anything impressive. I am happy I matched , I was sweating bullets there near the end . I was dumb enough to listen to my advisor and not apply to many programs . I wonder if it was a ploy to keep me at the home program all along or if the specialty Pd was just clueless .
I didnt remember the GERD being the bad last time i drank this frequently
It's called getting old. Trust me. It hurts coachI didnt remember the GERD being the bad last time i drank this frequently
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Pros and cons to everything! I tell myself Id think the opposite "could have better training over comfort...etc" if I switched my programs again. Your ranks were what they were for a reason!
Yeah I attributed the low quality sleep to the residual cortisol in my blood .
Wait till the hangovers start lingering for longer and longer.I didnt remember the GERD being the bad last time i drank this frequently
I honestly bet itll be great! Youre a rockstar
Quick question: Hypothetically, if your #4 has to soap and you matched, why does that mean you probably matched to 1-3? Couldnt you be part of the accepted cohort at #4, or drop lower? For some reason it is not making sense to me.
You matched 1-4 with the important assumption #4 didn't DNR you.
I think you could still have matched at the SOAPing program, but this means you didn't drop any lower than 4.
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Anesthesia was rough this year
Please elaborate.
Can’t believe our schools know where we all matched already. So crazy.
Makes me want to volunteer at my school stuffing envelopes(if this still was relevant). Promise I won’t look! 👀
OB seems to be a blood bath as well.
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AnatomyGrey12
I certainly hope so, but I doubt it.
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Tbh they should be releasing it every year since the merger happened in '20. I never understood why it's an every other year thing. Makes zero sense to me
Is there data out on this already?
Less than a day!!!
not that I'm aware of, but on twitter every other unmatched tweeter is an ob applicant.
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The OB outcomes aren’t any different than they could’ve been. There was never a question about the fact that everyone who wanted it couldn’t match into it.
honestly, it feels like medtwitter overall did not match well.
Yeah lots of people with 12+ interviews on the google sheet having to SOAP. (some with 17 - that's really crazy awful) .
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From a PM&R standpoint- close to 1000 applicants for ~470 spots (I’m sure there are plenty of dual applicants). 2 programs went unfilled this year (3 total spots for advanced/categorical in the Soap). PM&R usually fills completely.
It can be sneakily competitive being such a small specialty. I heard of one person who didn’t match with almost 20 ranks. Another said they got a love letter but still didn’t match.
(Also, <24 hrs... AHHHHHH)
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This is a low key really good point
Yeah I guess this is what I mean by "blood bath". Lots of incredibly qualified applicants with great love via interview #s and not matching. Anecdotal but still
Anyone thinking ahead and may be doing a cross country move/multi-state move? Any experience with this? Or moving companies in general? Looking online casually and the pods company seems simple enough they drop one off and you load it up and they move it to your next place. I don't really mind packing and moving it, it's the driving the truck 12 hours to a different state that I'm trying to avoid
UHaul. Their vehicles are affordable for a 2 day rental period and if you need professional movers for a minimum of 2 hours, UHaul has several companies they work with. There may be cheaper options but UHaul is well known and pretty solid. The vehicles (whether you rent a moving truck or buy a trailer to hitch to your pick up) are not hard to drive either.
You won't see me crying about it. They're a bunch of whiny crybaby blowhard SJWs that retweet ridiculous **** like this. If I was a PD, I'd DNR half of them after viewing their racist and controversial twitter pages. You really want people in your program that refer to their classmates as a disease on the basis of their skin color?
Whiteness Is a Pandemic
I don’t have much to add here today that hasn’t already been said.
verysmartbrothas.theroot.com
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I actually kinda noticed that too; lots of OB/GYN.
I feel you. I *did* switch my 4 and 5 just before the deadline, and feel like it was the right call. However, I also switched my 2 and 3, and that was probably a mistake. If I match at my new #2 I will be across the country from my family and in a program with one of the most brutal call schedules in my specialty....
Even though it’s not been that way in forever, I still feel like a lot of people think it’s not that competitive. This includes advisors.
Check out pack rat, there containers are bigger than pods and if you get a quote from pods pack rat will beat it.
We did the UBox pod for our last move (it wasn't fully cross-country, but far enough we didn't want to drive a uhaul). Was also the most affordable and we definitely saved by not having to replace any furniture for med school.
I don't think it's really representative right now, though probably depends who you follow - i saw a ton of celebratory posts on monday including many very competitive specialties, but the soap posts are getting a lot more amplification as the people who matched well are still waiting to find out final results. And I think people are being more open about not matching when in the past we just would never have heard about it. I'm not sure how good of an idea some of the stuff happening on twitter right now is (I've seen some stuff that i think might border on match violations) but for better or worse it has become a professional networking site so people are doing everything they can think of to find a spot
I normally do this with each multi-state move I've done in the past. I'm trying to avoid driving a trailer or my own uhaul. Leaning towards one of those pods and just pack it up and meet it at the destination. I'm willing to shell some money to save stress of driving a uhaul 60 mph for 14 hours
I’m not very into med Twitter. I have a Twitter account but I only follow/am followed by <10 medicine related people and didn’t make a special professional account (the bulk of my Twitter is related to my undergrad sports teams). However, I did search some of the related tags the last couple days. I have seen a ton of stuff that crosses the line of a match violation.
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The SOAP is over as of 3pm today, I believe. Either NRMP fishing for match violations or someone that is extremely....and i mean extremely... uninformed
