DO Match List Thread 2020

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Who would win in a fight?

  • The most competitive DO match year of all time

    Votes: 37 32.7%

  • A 5+ page discussion about the psychiatry match

    Votes: 76 67.3%
  • Total voters
    113
  • Poll closed .
Neopolymath said:
Who is this UAB anesthesia wizard?
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UAB is a good hospital, no doubt. Is their Anesthesia program that good?
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Angus Avagadro said:
UAB is a good hospital, no doubt. Is their Anesthesia program that good?
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touro NY matched someone to UAB gas also. I dont know a lot about anesthesia programs, but is there something particularly special about UAB? DOs routinely match anesthesia at big name programs (MGH), and Alabama isn’t exactly what you’d call a competitive location.
 
Peach Newport said:
touro NY matched someone to UAB gas also. I dont know a lot about anesthesia programs, but is there something particularly special about UAB? DOs routinely match anesthesia at big name programs (MGH), and Alabama isn’t exactly what you’d call a competitive location.
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Usually southern schools haven't been very DO friendly in the past. None of my students have shown interest in UAB in the past and I have not encountered anyone from their programs. I'm aware of the hospital by reputation only.
 
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Incoming RVUCO student: they do have a surgical simulation center () maybe more exposure? perhaps @bon22 can expand on it?
 
Chibucks15 said:
Apparently RVU has a surgical pathway according to what I read? I have no idea though I just know it ain’t just having a SIM lab
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I never heard/read anything about that when I did my homework on the school or during my interview(unless its really new?). I agree it's not only having a SIM lab that is why I never definitely said it was..just floating out an idea and also why I tagged someone who graduated in RVU-CO's class of 2020 since he/she would have the best answer. It could be a self-selection thing and this year could be an outlier in terms of GS matches too.

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Butters Stotch said:
I never heard/read anything about that when I did my homework on the school or during my interview(unless its really new?). I agree it's not only having a SIM lab that is why I never definitely said it was..just floating out an idea and also why I tagged someone who graduated in RVU-CO's class of 2020 since he/she would have the best answer. It could be a self-selection thing and this year could be an outlier in terms of GS matches too.
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I get the feeling GS matches on the whole are a lot of self selecting. You obviously need a decent app, but otherwise I'd imagine quite a few qualified applicants decide not to pursue fields that aren't overly "lifestyle" friendly.
 
Butters Stotch said:
What pathway is that?
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RVU has some surgical track and I think KCU has something similar. Not sure what the requirements are. They also tend to attract more of the gunnery types that end up following through on their desire to do surgery. Couple both of those things with high board scores and you get a lot of matches. Honestly that surgery list is probably the most solid I've ever seen from a single DO school, even more so when you include the surgery sub matches.
 
RamsFan&FutureDO said:
I get the feeling GS matches on the whole are a lot of self selecting. You obviously need a decent app, but otherwise I'd imagine quite a few qualified applicants decide not to pursue fields that aren't overly "lifestyle" friendly.
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I kinda suspect that's what happened. A lot of solid candidates who just all decided they wanted to do surgery. I'd be curious to see how many applied
 
DNC127 said:
16 general surgery. Wow. nobody in my schools wants to touch GS with a 10 foot pole (Besides @anatomygrey lol) and then RVU has 10% of its class doing gen surg. Crazy to see the difference between schools and interest.
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Def understandable, I remember when I was interviewing they flexed their surgical simulator hard and they felt the most supportive of students going into non PCP specialties just based off my pre-med interviewee perspective (edit: just realized other people have already commented on all this lol)
 
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AnatomyGrey12 said:
RVU has some surgical track and I think KCU has something similar. Not sure what the requirements are. They also tend to attract more of the gunnery types that end up following through on their desire to do surgery. Couple both of those things with high board scores and you get a lot of matches. Honestly that surgery list is probably the most solid I've ever seen from a single DO school, even more so when you include the surgery sub matches.
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KCU has a few honors tracks including ortho and surgery, the requirements are a 3.4 preclinical GPA (class average is about a 3.0), >500 COMLEX, no class failures, etc. But I heard these aren’t exactly “hard” cutoffs
 
Oh_Gee said:
there is no radiology program at Joseph Hospital SCL Health; Denver,
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Yeah that’s an error. Student is doing his intern year at St. Joseph’s and then Diagnostic Rads at SUNY Downstate.
 
Butters Stotch said:
Incoming RVUCO student: they do have a surgical simulation center () maybe more exposure? perhaps @bon22 can expand on it?
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The surgical sim certainly is pretty cool, but I self-selected to not do much of it as I’m not a big fan of surgery. I think a lot of the GS matches this year had to do with personal preference as I knew a bunch of them wanted to do it from the beginning and never really talked about the surgical sim. Just tons of intelligent people in the 2020 class honestly. My class rank was pretty low despite decent grades and step scores.
 
joeception said:
They just sent out some of the initial data to us today but not everyone opted in to share but here are some initial matches by specialty as a glance:

Anesthesiology x 19
EM x 20
FM x 57
IM x 44
Neurology x 4
OB x 10
Ophthalmology x 1
Ortho x 4
Path x 2
Peds x 12
PMR x 4
Psych x 9
RADs x 2
Gen surg x 4
Surgery Preliminary x 4

Some highlights of program locations: John Hopkins, Mayo, Loma Linda, Case, Rush, Baylor, Stanford, Cleveland Clinic, Loyola
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My friend going to DMU said they had a guy match EM at HCMC. That's pretty impressive.
 
Sardonix said:
My friend going to DMU said they had a guy match EM at HCMC. That's pretty impressive.
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Is that Hennepin? Great program, but they usually take a few DOs every year.
 
Schwifty said:
KCU has a few honors tracks including ortho and surgery, the requirements are a 3.4 preclinical GPA (class average is about a 3.0), >500 COMLEX, no class failures, etc. But I heard these aren’t exactly “hard” cutoffs
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The tracks are also pretty meaningless as far as I can tell. All it means is that instead of picking out your 3 electives for M3, they're picked for you in the area of your track and you have meetings around once a month with the track director. The director is usually the department chair for the field, so I guess it's a good way to get a good letter of rec, but I doubt any one of our faculty members carries much clout lol
 
MUCOM

Anesthesiology
Indiana University (3)
Loyola
Riverside University Health System
SLU
University of Iowa
University of Kentucky

Child Neurology
Indiana University

Emergency Medicine
Albert Einstein
Beaumont Health
Christus Health
Henry Ford Allegiance Health
Indiana University (2)
Kettering Health Network
McLaren Health Care Corp
Mercy Health Muskegon
OhioHealth-Doctor’s Hospital
Prisma Health/U of SC SOM Columbia
Promedica Monroe Reg Hospital
SpeCenterum Health Lakeland
University of Buffalo
UT St Thomas Hospitals
Wright State University

Family Medicine
Ascension Genesys Hospital
Bethesda Hospital
Community Health Network (8)
Crozer-Chester Med Center
Firelands Regional Med Center
Florida State University
Franciscan Health (8)
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields
Ft Wayne Med Ed Program
Harrison Med Center
Indiana University
Mayo Clinic
Memorial Hospital
Mercy Health-St Ritas Med Center
Mercy Hospital St Louis
Naval Medical Center-Camp Lejeune
Ohio State University
Penn State
Reid Health
SpeCenterum Health/Michigan State University
St Josephs Reg Med Center (2)
St Vincent Health (3)
Union Hospital
University of Chicago

General Surgery
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital
McLaren Health Care Corp
Naval Medical Center-Portsmouth (2)
St Vincent Health (3)

Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine
Jefferson Health-Northeast

Internal Medicine
Aurora Health Care
Corpus Christi Med Center
Desert Regional Med Center
Icahn SOM So Nassau Comm Hospital
Indiana University (3)
Indiana University Evansville
Jefferson Health-Northeast (2)
Metro Health/U Michigan Health
Naval Medical Center
Naval Medical Center-Portsmouth
New York-Presbyterian/Queens
San Antonio Uniformed Services HEC
SpeCenterum Health/Michigan State University
St Vincent Health (8)
University of Cincinnati
University of Illinois-Chicago
University of New Mexico
University of South Florida
University of Tennessee Knoxville
UCF COM/GME Consortium
University Hospitals
University Hospitals Osteo Consortium
William Beaumont Army Medical Center
Wright Patterson/Wright St/Primer Health

Internal Medicine-Prelim
University of Florida – Shands Hospitals

Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
Penn State
Tulane
University of Illinois – Peoria
University of South Florida
Vidant Med Center/East Carolina University

Neurology
Indiana University

OB/GYN
Kettering Health Network
Lincoln Med Center
Madigan Army Medical Center
Metro Health/U Michigan Health
OhioHealth-Doctors Hospital
St Vincent Health

Orthopedic Surgery
Valley Consortium
Western Reserve Hospital

Neuromusculoskeletal Med
Still OPTI-Northeast Reg Med Center

Otolaryngology
Phil College of Osteopathic Med

Pediatrics
Eastern VA Med School
Indiana University (4)
Loyola
LSU
Southern Illinois University
SpeCenterum Health/Michigan State University
St Vincent Health (3)
University of Connecticut
University of Florida

Pediatrics/PM&R
University of Cincinnati

PM&R
University of Louisville
Indiana University
Marianjoy Rehab Hospital
Northwestern

Psychiatry
Baystate Med Center
Community Health Network
Pine Rest Christian Mental Hlth Svcs

Diagnostic Radiology
University of Louisville
Advocate Health Care
Integris Health-OK
MedStar Georgetown
San Antonio Uniformed Services HEC

Transitional Year
Naval Medical Center

Urology
Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital
 
fldoctorgirl said:
The tracks are also pretty meaningless as far as I can tell. All it means is that instead of picking out your 3 electives for M3, they're picked for you in the area of your track and you have meetings around once a month with the track director. The director is usually the department chair for the field, so I guess it's a good way to get a good letter of rec, but I doubt any one of our faculty members carries much clout lol
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I interviewed for it and then withdrew my application lol. Once they told me there would be meetings with OMM professors to discuss integrating OMM into cases my mind completely noped out mid-interview.
 
risus_sardonicus said:
The only KCU track worth hustling for is ortho. The rest are pointless, and attract non-collegial gunners who you would hate rotating with.


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Why do you say that?
 
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slowthai said:
Why do you say that?
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painting with a wide brush there. I know a few of the people in one of the tracks and they're very nice guys, not at all what I would consider "gunners" or people you wouldn't want to be around, and they are simply there because they have an interest in that track.

in addition - the tracks don't require much of a time commitment, let you be more selective with your rotations, multiple people in the tracks seem happier with their rotations versus people outside of the tracks (my observation from talking to a couple of 3rd years), and it's another positive quality to have on your MSPE. never a bad thing when you're one of 400+ students and invisible otherwise. probably not going to make a huge difference, but if you were able to make it into a track there really is no argument to make that it's a bad thing or unhelpful.

2 cents. sorry for furthering the derailment of this thread.
 
vin5cent0 said:
painting with a wide brush there. I know a few of the people in one of the tracks and they're very nice guys, not at all what I would consider "gunners" or people you wouldn't want to be around, and they are simply there because they have an interest in that track.

in addition - the tracks don't require much of a time commitment, let you be more selective with your rotations, multiple people in the tracks seem happier with their rotations versus people outside of the tracks (my observation from talking to a couple of 3rd years), and it's another positive quality to have on your MSPE. never a bad thing when you're one of 400+ students and invisible otherwise. probably not going to make a huge difference, but if you were able to make it into a track there really is no argument to make that it's a bad thing or unhelpful.

2 cents. sorry for furthering the derailment of this thread.
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There’s nothing positive about it. Such stupid “tracks” don’t exist in the MD world. No one knows what they are and frankly they don’t care.

It’s worthless. Just another gimmick spruced up by Bruce Dubin
 
ChiTownBHawks said:
There’s nothing positive about it. Such stupid “tracks” don’t exist in the MD world. No one knows what they are and frankly they don’t care.

It’s worthless. Just another gimmick spruced up by Bruce Dubin
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Lol, I largely agree with you. But they do have primary care/FM tracks on the MD side. They even have a 3+5 ortho track at Penn State.
 
ChiTownBHawks said:
There’s nothing positive about it. Such stupid “tracks” don’t exist in the MD world. No one knows what they are and frankly they don’t care.

It’s worthless. Just another gimmick spruced up by Bruce Dubin
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Lol exactly what I was gonna comment, couldn’t have said it better.

The ortho track is only worth considering cause most of KCUs ortho matches are in MO/KS, and the tracks give you good connections to those programs. Otherwise, the tracks have no benefit whatsoever, but actually lock you into rotating in the crappy KC clinical sites


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ChiTownBHawks said:
There’s nothing positive about it. Such stupid “tracks” don’t exist in the MD world. No one knows what they are and frankly they don’t care.

It’s worthless. Just another gimmick spruced up by Bruce Dubin
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you're right, no one could possibly infer what an honors track means without an expansive knowledge of KCUs curriculum.

anyways, it doesn't matter if a pd finds it to be a positive or neutral part of your application. I'm sure many don't care. if the program offers you better rotations, which I have heard from multiple 3rd years that they do, that alone is worth it. I don't think anyone goes into these tracks thinking some program is going to be wowed by your track, they are doing it because they want better or more specific rotations in their field of interest.
 
vin5cent0 said:
you're right, no one could possibly infer what an honors track means without an expansive knowledge of KCUs curriculum.

anyways, it doesn't matter if a pd finds it to be a positive or neutral part of your application. I'm sure many don't care. if the program offers you better rotations, which I have heard from multiple 3rd years that they do, that alone is worth it. I don't think anyone goes into these tracks thinking some program is going to be wowed by your track, they are doing it because they want better or more specific rotations in their field of interest.
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You’re missing it pal. They don’t care. PDs, APDs, and their aid are busy as ****. They aren’t going to look into some random thing they aren’t familiar with and even if they would they wouldn’t care because the way kcu uses the designation isn’t what an actual track is (Ie you do the Penn State Ortho track you get into their ortho residency, you do a PCP track you become a PCP early).

These are actual tracks that from day one have a different curriculum and pathway for your entire med school. Not some worthless third year stamp that has no meaningful impact on the years prior or to come, hence the “gimmick” nature of the scam and the fact that no on the MD side knows a lick about the tracks KCU uses

This isn’t undergrad anymore, no one gives a **** if you were in a “honors” track from a DO school.... sure maybe you can wove that into your interview and PS about your dedication but that’s where the buck stops
 
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MADD!!! said:
Loll I guess? Does Emory have any satellite campuses for IM? The list does a poor job differentiating exactly which program it is.
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Yeah I have no idea. I really with they would differentiate with UPMC and UTexas GS programs that are from the PA campus.
 
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MADD!!! said:
Loll I guess? Does Emory have any satellite campuses for IM? The list does a poor job differentiating exactly which program it is.
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Pretty sure there's only one Emory IM program, although they have different tracks (Primary care vs future sub-specialty) within the medicine residency department. This is also the school that listed a UCSF Derm match last year when it was actually pathology, they don't differentiate to make it look better
 
BoneWizard said:
I mean, you could just make another thread instead of derailing this one.
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True, but there is a strand of logic, with the list literally having programs on these match list...

This year, like every year, the "match list thread" is a waiting room with good discussion while we await a new list posting.
 
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Hola.

TCOM's full match list is not yet available to me, but I'll post it here as soon as it is.

Interestingly, though, TCOM matched the most students into Internal Medicine this year where Family Medicine has been king for the past several years.
 
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