Didnt match, looking for some advice

[vanilla60]

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Hey everyone,

I didnt match this cycle, and was unable to secure a preliminary year during the scramble and I am now trying to figure out what to do for this year off.

Has anyone been in this position? If so would you please PM me?

I am just kinda unsure going forward and I would really appreciate the advice of some people who have been in my shoes.

THanks so much

 

[BADMD]

This is tough to answer and the answer has to your question has to do with why you didn't match.

Do you have massive redflags?
Are you too geographically limited?
Are you an AMG?

I don't know what kind of prelim you were looking for, but right now, you have to seek and find anything. That may mean the scummiest, dumpiest, most scutfilled surgical prelim out there in east bumble. Missing a year of clinical experience is about the worst thing that can happen to you if you are a marginal candidate. It isn't a death sentence, but it is bad. It also helps address the shortcomings on your application. You can get new evaluations that show improvement.

If you can't get into something, then looking for clinical research where you are more than just a scut monkey enrolling patients is next best. You want something where your name will actually be on a paper. You can try to get observerships and other stuff to maintain some clinical accumen.

You also want to find a state that will let you register for step 3. You need to kill Step 3. Spend whatever time and money it takes to blow it away.

If you have huge red flags and/or are not an AMG, you must consider a back up plan. The Residency market is getting tougher. While you may be able to match, it gets tougher and tougher the further out you are.

 

[vanilla60]

THanks for your response,

I appreciate your advice. I totally understand that its a bad situation but its where I am right now and I am trying to move forward. If anyone (especialy program faculty or people who have been in this situation in the past) can please PM me I would really appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

 

[gman33]

Hard to advise without any specifics.

 

[Belleza156]

There are various prelim programs that are off the match which may still have positions open. You weren't "allowed" to contact them during the SOAP last week because it violated the contract, but now all is fair game. You need to do some research and find where those spots are start making phone calls. Have everything ready to fax, scan at a moments notice.

 

[Shadow16]

Thank you all in advance for any advice that may come my way. The thread has been up and down with getting down right nasty in some cases and though tensions run high and anger, sadness and being bitter is ok for the time being, please try to not get jaded. So here's my story;
Non traditional US senior in public state medical school; long story short, had to work EMS through medical school for financial reasons. Bad at managing both and ended up repeating 2nd year for a single course failure in which remediation was not an option. Tough coming back from it but I will finish my coursework with no other failures on my record. Passed all Steps first time with below average scores(1-221 2-208 CS - P). I was always passionate about EM, Honored all my EM aways, clerkships and continued to participate in research projects that will be submitted for publication this month and next. I applied early and widely on the eastern seaboard, knowing that EM is getting more and more competitive. My application was held up until late October for one letter of rec from an away program. I received 6 interviews, which I thought had gone well, and was counseled to apply to IM/prelim as a back-up. Only received one interview at my home institution and was told by the PD that my application was so EM heavy that it was no surprise that I did not receive more IV invites in my back ups.
NOW: No match, No SOAP and about 500k in debt and not sure about my future.
Plan: Try to scramble on Monday, keeping an eye out for any openings that might occur while in the meantime returning to work to live and try to participate in anypublishable research that might bolster my re application next cycle where I will try for EM even more widely and more IM programs as many as I can afford to apply to.
Any advice out there of anything more that I should do? Constructive comments would be greatly appreciated. Best of luck to all of you....please message me if I can give more information that might help.

Keeping calm and carrying on...

 

[Old_Mil]

Honestly, if you go FM and do urgent care medicine at a place that doesn't see medicaid patients I suspect that 10 years from now you will be pretty happy with the way things turned out.

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[deleted109597]

As a previous scrambler who successfully matched the second time around, all I can offer is this.
1. Good Luck.
2. Work your ass off.