Match Day

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Another one comes and goes. Congratulations to the upcoming residents! Condolences to those who didn’t match, hang in there.

Seems like we had a spicy cycle per the spreadsheet.

Two more DO-friendly residencies closed - HCA West Florida and Kettering.

UPMC apparently took 4 international grads, which has to be some kind of record.

Nepotism in the field - I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. While they’ve supposedly identified a couple other instances this year, the kids are breaking out the torches and pitchforks over a chair at a T10 allegedly overriding the interview committee and guaranteeing their kid a spot as a backup for another specialty.

 

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Another one comes and goes. Congratulations to the upcoming residents! Condolences to those who didn’t match, hang in there.

Seems like we had a spicy cycle per the spreadsheet.

Two more DO-friendly residencies closed - HCA West Florida and Kettering.

UPMC apparently took 4 international grads, which has to be some kind of record.

Nepotism in the field - I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. While they’ve supposedly identified a couple other instances this year, the kids are breaking out the torches and pitchforks over a chair at a T10 allegedly overriding the interview committee and guaranteeing their kid a spot as a backup for another specialty.

How did they save a spot as a backup for another specialty? Ophthalmology is early match and requires an intern year. Name and shame.

 

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How did they save a spot as a backup for another specialty? Ophthalmology is early match and requires an intern year. Name and shame.

Supposedly the UCLA chair’s kid was applying plastic surgery primarily. When they didn’t have enough interviews to be comfortable, the parent made the committee rank the kid to match against the consensus. Kid appears to have posted on SDN asking about turning down an SF Match acceptance for another specialty if they got the chance.

I obviously wasn’t in the room, but enough of the comments lead me to believe they might be correct. We all talk about connections being key, but I’d kinda agree with the applicants that this is too much if true.

 

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Anne Coleman?

 

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UPMC apparently took 4 international grads, which has to be some kind of record.

That would be a real shame if the school they came from wasn't really good. Another program did that a few years ago (selecting several Middle Eastern medical school graduates) but that might have been because the interim chair was from the Middle East, including doing his training there.

 

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That would be a real shame if the school they came from wasn't really good. Another program did that a few years ago (selecting several Middle Eastern medical school graduates) but that might have been because the interim chair was from the Middle East, including doing his training there.

No clue, but in my experience the international grads almost universally had finished training elsewhere and then put in years as research fellows to get their chance. I was commenting more on that being a lot when their match rate is so low.

I do know of a couple of Caribbean grads who nepo’d in previously, and their quality is about what you’d expect.

 

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No clue, but in my experience the international grads almost universally had finished training elsewhere and then put in years as research fellows to get their chance. I was commenting more on that being a lot when their match rate is so low.

I do know of a couple of Caribbean grads who nepo’d in previously, and their quality is about what you’d expect.

I perused the UPMC staff website and there are a decent number of international graduates on faculty staff. They do have a lot of staff and I'm not sure if some are true staff or just affiliations. I don't know if that played a part into it, but matching four international graduates is still pretty wild - nothing against them and like most international grads they worked their butts to get there but if I were a UPMC med student that didn't match and had the qualifications, I'd have some very strong feelings.

Also while the issue of nepotism in medicine is getting better, it's still pretty prevalent and unfortunate. That said, the instances where I've seen it, the candidates/doctors themselves were still very well qualified and are good doctors so there is that.

 

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I perused the UPMC staff website and there are a decent number of international graduates on faculty staff. They do have a lot of staff and I'm not sure if some are true staff or just affiliations. I don't know if that played a part into it, but matching four international graduates is still pretty wild - nothing against them and like most international grads they worked their butts to get there but if I were a UPMC med student that didn't match and had the qualifications, I'd have some very strong feelings.

Also while the issue of nepotism in medicine is getting better, it's still pretty prevalent and unfortunate. That said, the instances where I've seen it, the candidates/doctors themselves were still very well qualified and are good doctors so there is that.

Possible, connections are king, although surely they have great resumes too. I can’t find any Pitt students on the match lists posted, so maybe it was a weird year where nobody chose ophtho there.

100%. If you’re applying plastics, I’m sure the kid’s scores and research etc. were fine. If I’m reading the room correctly, the other applicants are mad that, when they have at best a 70% chance of matching, a spot was allegedly guaranteed and taken by someone who didn’t even really want to do ophtho, and at a name brand program to boot.

Stein has always been one of those spots with an iffy reputation for culture. I can’t see this helping matters if true.