I hate this ranking deal

[toughlife]

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does anyone pay attention to things like opportunity for moonlighting when ranking or am I the only fool who cares about this?

 

[ear-ache]

I think picking your top programs, and subsequently ranking them, is difficult enough without worrying about 'softer' criteria such as: moonlighting, meal tickets, size of OR's, parking, electronic charting, the axis II diagnoses of anesthesia techs, etc.

I consciously had to leave these things out of the equation or I would have driven myself insane making my rank list.

 

[Idiopathic]

I certainly considered moonlighting as important, as the head of a one-income household with 4 members.

 

[fishtolive]

i've used those "perks" to distinguish programs which look similar and feel similar (like, almost all of the ones i interviewed at) from one another. so to me they ended up being fairly important.

 

[ear-ache]

I certainly considered moonlighting as important, as the head of a one-income household with 4 members.

Dude. You can't claim goldfish as dependants. 😉 (just kidding Idio)

 

[aredoubleyou]

i've used those "perks" to distinguish programs which look similar and feel similar (like, almost all of the ones i interviewed at) from one another. so to me they ended up being fairly important.

I've got a similar system, which is the average temperature in January - warmer the better. You think I'm joking, dont you...

 

[Sugar72]

I've got a similar system, which is the average temperature in January - warmer the better. You think I'm joking, dont you...

That is totally on my list too!
I also put a lot of stock in the whole gut feeling aspect. I want to end up at a program where I felt like I could get along with my faculty and fellow residents. I was talking to someone today who said he was going to rank one program number one because it was a "top" program and then hope to match at his number 2 choice - where he felt like he would be happier. That way he didn't really have to choose. Doesn't really seem like the best approach!

 

[aredoubleyou]

That is totally on my list too!
I also put a lot of stock in the whole gut feeling aspect. I want to end up at a program where I felt like I could get along with my faculty and fellow residents. I was talking to someone today who said he was going to rank one program number one because it was a "top" program and then hope to match at his number 2 choice - where he felt like he would be happier. That way he didn't really have to choose. Doesn't really seem like the best approach!

Happens every year and you see (I hear from others who went thru this before) there are people crying on match day cause they got there number one and had convinced themselves it was impossible.

I know my top two (not defenite about the order) and 3rd & 4th (also not defenite about the order), but if I can't figure it out, I'm breaking out weather.com's average Jan temp graph to give me the answer!