How hard will it be to soap to family medicine from DO

[havil]

granted that you are willing to go anywhere

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[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

If you pass everything, you have to have a serious issue with your personality to not match *somewhere* if you're applying to non-competitive specialties. There are more slots than US applicants for FM, meaning they'd rather pay for a visa or accept a foreign-educated American than you if you can't SOAP into FM.

 

[havil]

If you pass everything, you have to have a serious issue with your personality to not match *somewhere* if you're applying to non-competitive specialties. There are more slots than US applicants for FM, meaning they'd rather pay for a visa or accept a foreign-educated American than you if you can't SOAP into FM.

would anesthesiology or psych be considered non comp to u?

Also i dont understand this part "there are more slots than US applicants for FM, meaning they'd rather pay for a visa or accept a foreign-educated American than you if you can't SOAP into FM"

fm programs would rather accept foreign graduates than DOs who soap?

 

[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

Anesthesia is fairly competitive right now but that can always change. Psych is probably low-medium competitive.

I'm saying if you can't SOAP into FM it's because you have a super obvious personality disorder or something else that seriously sticks out in a really negative way. I have DO friends that failed their boards, repeated a year, etc and still matched FM fairly high on their match list. There are more FM training positions than US students, so some programs have to pay for foreigners to come take up those slots. They don't want to pay if they can get something decent for free.

 

[Angus Avagadro]

Anesthesia and Psych are becoming more competitive, and I see this to continue. Look at Charting Outcomes from 2022 and see the match rates for DOs in those specialties. It comes out every 2 years.

 

[havil]

. There are more FM training positions than US students, so some programs have to pay for foreigners to come take up those slots. They don't want to pay if they can get something decent for free.

uhhh if i get accepted into an MD/DO, i would still need to be sponsored visa to go to a residency program because i am not a citizen or a greencard holder, not sure if what you are saying applies to me ..........

 

[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

uhhh if i get accepted into an MD/DO, i would still need to be sponsored visa to go to a residency program because i am not a citizen or a greencard holder, not sure if what you are saying applies to me ..........

Oh, getting any job becomes more difficult if you need a visa but I don't know how that works if you're a US school grad tbh.

 

[Angus Avagadro]

Having a green card makes things easier. I'm not sure how it works, but a work visa should be required to match a residency. I'd definitely find this out earlier than later. Good luck and best wishes

 

[Mr.Smile12]

uhhh if i get accepted into an MD/DO, i would still need to be sponsored visa to go to a residency program because i am not a citizen or a greencard holder, not sure if what you are saying applies to me ..........

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[AlbinoHawk DO]

granted that you are willing to go anywhere

Why are you not accepted into any residency? If everything in your profile is perfect and you applied reasonably and didn't match, people would wonder about your personality.