Do adcoms consider intended area of practice?

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I’m sure that not every premed is rushing to medical school to go into geriatrics.
If there are opportunities to denote intended area of practice, does that indicate adcoms are looking to admit a “balanced” class of intended areas of practice?

 

[LizzyM]

No one expects anyone who declares an area of interest to stick with it so there is no point in trying to admit a balanced class by intended area of practice.

 

[DoctorSnow]

Not about a balance of specialties but many of the schools I applied to have preferences for individuals interested in primary care/rural medicine. MCW-Green Bay, U of MN-Duluth, U of ND, U of SD to name a few. You can always look at their match list for ideas on where the students end up.

 

[Mike Bagwell]

I was never asked once about about where I expected to be in 10 years.

I'm at a state program and we do not have any particular focus on any area of practice.

There are those programs that do however place an emphasis on primary care or doctors who will serve the surrounding community. Most programs don't have that criteria. DO programs might have some preference for those who are passionate about primary care.

 

[Goro]

I’m sure that not every premed is rushing to medical school to go into geriatrics.
If there are opportunities to denote intended area of practice, does that indicate adcoms are looking to admit a “balanced” class of intended areas of practice?

As per LizzyM, we always assume people will change their minds.

 

[ciestar]

Step 1 also changes a lot of people’s minds.

 

[Catalystik]

Do adcoms consider intended area of practice?
If there are opportunities to denote intended area of practice, does that indicate adcoms are looking to admit a “balanced” class of intended areas of practice?

Maybe you haven't seen this:

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/

"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.

 

[XWing5000]

I spoke with an adcom from UC Riverside and they want individuals from the inland empire that will practice primary care in the IE. The inland empire has a huge shortage of primary care docs, I believe 34 primary care docs per 100,000 residents. They even offer an early assurance program where you don't have to take the MCAT and a lot of scholarship opportunities. I don't know where you're applying but I'd figure send the info out.