Hello,
One of my friends from my school has gone on multiple interviews for Osteopathic Internal Medicine and Family Medicine programs. She recently has had a change of heart and has decided Psychiatry is what she would like to pursue and is all but set on not ranking any of the IM and Family programs she has interviewed at(close to 12 programs). She has only taken the COMLEX series but has solid scores on both the level 1 and 2(mid 500s ) as well as a pass on the PE(CS equivalent).
Below is her dilemma in her own words:
"I am a fourth year student currently in the process of applying for internal medicine residency. However, I recently realized that my real passion is not in internal medicine, but in psychiatry. This realization comes in late at this stage of game. I wonder if you can help me with the strategy of matching.
My thoughts on game strategy are as follow
- for DO match, I submit an empty rank list and wait for scrambling. Then scramble into a osteopathic psychiatry program. I looked up the data from the past 5 years, there were range fro 9 - 12 unfilled positions each year. (https://www.natmatch.com/aoairp/aboutstats.html)
- Or I register for allopathic match, then scrambling into psychiatry program. Again, submit an empty rank list and scramble into an allopathic psychiatry program. There are about 600 unfilled psychiatry program each year. (Page 22. http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Main-Match-Results-and-Data-2015_final.pdf)"
Any ideas as to what options she has? She seems to be rather determined to not spend a year doing IM or family medicine and then transferring into Psychiatry.
One of my friends from my school has gone on multiple interviews for Osteopathic Internal Medicine and Family Medicine programs. She recently has had a change of heart and has decided Psychiatry is what she would like to pursue and is all but set on not ranking any of the IM and Family programs she has interviewed at(close to 12 programs). She has only taken the COMLEX series but has solid scores on both the level 1 and 2(mid 500s ) as well as a pass on the PE(CS equivalent).
Below is her dilemma in her own words:
"I am a fourth year student currently in the process of applying for internal medicine residency. However, I recently realized that my real passion is not in internal medicine, but in psychiatry. This realization comes in late at this stage of game. I wonder if you can help me with the strategy of matching.
My thoughts on game strategy are as follow
- for DO match, I submit an empty rank list and wait for scrambling. Then scramble into a osteopathic psychiatry program. I looked up the data from the past 5 years, there were range fro 9 - 12 unfilled positions each year. (https://www.natmatch.com/aoairp/aboutstats.html)
- Or I register for allopathic match, then scrambling into psychiatry program. Again, submit an empty rank list and scramble into an allopathic psychiatry program. There are about 600 unfilled psychiatry program each year. (Page 22. http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Main-Match-Results-and-Data-2015_final.pdf)"
Any ideas as to what options she has? She seems to be rather determined to not spend a year doing IM or family medicine and then transferring into Psychiatry.