Prelim Surgery and SOAP

[Function Doctor]

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Can someone tell me how hard it is to match Prelim Surgery through the SOAP? I am a little worry about matching advance and not prelim medicine. I look at last year's match results and saw that there was about 37 unfilled prelim surgery positions in Illinois, which is about average for the last 3 years. Will it be difficult for one to Soap into one of these spots?

 

[KN.MD]

Generally, prelim surgery is the easiest of the prelim spots. It's likely because it's the most punishing. It's essentially working for the most brutal services/specialties, all of which have no vest interested in you. Anyway, shouldn't be hard unless you want to stay in a very specific area, such as Chicago. Even then, plenty of community spots in Chi.