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Are any of you applying to non match IM subs?

 

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Are any of you applying to non match IM subs?

There is no one here that is sandbagging....... Hard to believe.


I got an endo fellowship which I wanted so no worries for me. From what I have heard from PD is that is apps this year jumped 3-4x last year. ERAS is the reason and plus endo has no match. So people in other IM subs can get a “safe” position and then in June when they match in another field, they can run…

No one wants to admit to it?

 

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There is no one here that is sandbagging....... Hard to believe.


I got an endo fellowship which I wanted so no worries for me. From what I have heard from PD is that is apps this year jumped 3-4x last year. ERAS is the reason and plus endo has no match. So people in other IM subs can get a “safe” position and then in June when they match in another field, they can run…

No one wants to admit to it?

For most IM folks applying for subspecialties, it's do or die. You either get to do what you really want to do, or not (and go into general IM practice)... Even if not, you can always try again next year. It's at a stage where you will be perfectly fine from career standpoint even if you dont match, and most people who are in IM programs should be in a situation to be a good internist even if they dont become a specialist. I dont see any reason to "safey".

The biggest rise to the number of applications after introduction of ERAS relates to the ease of people applying to multiple programs with a few mouse clicks. Imagine if you are doing paper apps, how many programs would you apply to? I know for certain I would not have applied to some programs I ended up applied to, but did anyways becuz it's just much easier with a cliick, and you get 10 programs at base cost anyways. And this especially made life easier for FMG's where nothing is certain, I have heard of stories of FMG's now can spam like 50 or 60 apps now in some competitive specialties with ERAS. Crazy stuff.

 

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For most IM folks applying for subspecialties, it's do or die. You either get to do what you really want to do, or not (and go into general IM practice)... Even if not, you can always try again next year. It's at a stage where you will be perfectly fine from career standpoint even if you dont match, and most people who are in IM programs should be in a situation to be a good internist even if they dont become a specialist. I dont see any reason to "safey".

The biggest rise to the number of applications after introduction of ERAS relates to the ease of people applying to multiple programs with a few mouse clicks. Imagine if you are doing paper apps, how many programs would you apply to? I know for certain I would not have applied to some programs I ended up applied to, but did anyways becuz it's just much easier with a cliick, and you get 10 programs at base cost anyways. And this especially made life easier for FMG's where nothing is certain, I have heard of stories of FMG's now can spam like 50 or 60 apps now in some competitive specialties with ERAS. Crazy stuff.

I agree regarding ERAS, but I also know for a fact from my program that people are sending to multi subs, so they will not be a PMD. Not many people want to be PMD's, and if they do they must already have a nice bank acct.
They are sending to many different programs and different subs as one person told me, "You think i have all these loans to be a PMD, I do not want any doors to be closed."