I am looking for some advice…
First time posting on SDN, so please forgive me if this is not the right thread for this.
I think I really screwed up my odds of matching into EM.
My wife and I are both new OMS-IVs looking to couples match together, she in Family Med and myself in EM. Her dream residency just happened to be allopathic, so for the last few months I focused all my effort on getting allopathic audition rotations, in the hopes that if I could just land one or two I could really shine and have a shot at matching to a less competitive allopathic EM program near(ish) to her dream residency.
I now recognize this was foolish as my COMLEX, grades, class rank and everything else about me is extremely average and I did not take the USMLE. Unsurprisingly I haven’t gotten any offers to audition at any allopathic EM programs.
Last week I finally was able to see the writing on the wall and frantically began applying for auditions at AOA and AOA/ACGME programs. So far I have heard back from about 10 programs and been put on the wait list at most of them.
Does anyone know my approximate odds of getting an audition this late in the game? I was offered a few for December, but I am pretty sure those would be way too late to matter. When would be the latest I could do an audition that would matter for either the AOA or ACGME matches?
I don’t want to give up on EM, it’s my dream career, but I want to be realistic.