residency?

[une]

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How does this work, im just wondering how many times you can really try and get residency? i hear this is a problem in pod school..

 

[arez10]

I wouldn't say it's a problem, per se. Statistically speaking, you have a good chance of landing a residency the first time. But yes, good students got shafted last year. From what I've seen, it looks like about 10% of the class of 2013 remained unmatched following the scramble (but that could be wrong). So if you don't get a program the first time, you can try every year until the day you die. But the odds of matching the 2nd year aren't the greatest, and after that well you should probably look into a different career, unfortunately.

 

[heybrother]

Until such time as you hear there is not a shortage; there is a shortage. The quality of the applicants aside, there are for the continued future going to be more candidates being generated than there are seats available. It is a work in process. Historically, candidates who did not match failed to match in years where there were left-over seats. Either the applicants didn't want those seats or those seats didn't want the applicants. As of this last year there were no leftover seats and even if there had been no left-over candidates from previous years the applicants would have still outnumbered the seats. The general vibe seems to be that the match rate of applicants who reenter the match is ~30% and of those the vast majority that matched stayed active in podiatry by doing a preceptorship. The second-try-match-rate may be different in future years because of the "injustice" the 2013 class experienced (perhaps quality applicants slipped through the cracks by virtue of insufficient seats). Only time will tell. From a statistical perspective most people will continue to match. There may be a case to be made that prior year applicants will pile up and decrease the slots for current year applicants.

 

[AACPMCP]

The shortage is an issue in our profession. However, AACPM is working tirelessly to fix out. Our Residency Genesis Facilitator Dr. Ed Wolf is literally working around the clock to get new programs and slots approved. Several were created for last cycle, and the hope is that many more will be created for this cycle.

The truth is we have the same problem that MD and DO do with this, except that because of our small size, it feels magnified. The impact of one person not getting a slot is a lot larger when there's 500 slots than when there's 3000.

The hope is une, that by the time you graduate from school this crisis will be over and every mechanism is in place to help achieve that goal.

 

[pod101]

Yes there is a podiatry residency shortage...

90% of 1st year applicants across the board got residency positions
30% of repeat applicants get residency positions

Summary: Podiatry school will give you the opportunity to be a podiatrist but can not gaurantee you a position. (technically no school in any profession can gaurantee that). BUYER BEWARE.

(yes I want more residency slots, yes I think we can/should/will improve)

Realistically we as a nation are still feeling the effects of a recession. I could go across the board in every single profession (medical and otherwise) and point out problems, lack of jobs, over qualified kids and adults seeking GED type jobs to make ends meet...

So take everything with a grain of salt.

 

[jonod1107]

How does this work, im just wondering how many times you can really try and get residency? i hear this is a problem in pod school..

The way things stand right now, you have one shot to land a residency. Every subsequent year will make it harder and harder to get one.

Also, I wouldn't compare this with the MD/DO situation at all. Any shortage in their residency is mainly due to controllable elements such as the applicant applying for tougher residency such as ortho, derm, plastic surg when their stats are more in the family med range.