I really don t understand this cloudy background surrounding the whole procedure of getting into a residency. We get a score that means nothing percentilewise,we don t get the answers for our test, so there s no way to verify if what you got is really what you wrote. We re not officially told what are the criteria for each residency programm, but instead we re left guessing, speculating, assuming.. How do I know that, in an effort to make students score higher, study more, some residency directors didn t let PURPOSEDLY out a rumor about high USMLE scores, cut off scores etcetcetc?As long as it s not on paper, it doesn t exist, isn t that right?It doesn t hurt to spread out a rumor if there s no proof it was just a rumor.I mean, there are all kinds of information in FREIDA, except for the most critical for an applicant: the requirements,"we want you, Theodore, to fulfill the a,b,c,d requirements, we want you to have a 99 percentile score in both steps,we want you to have a flawless degree, we want you to have contributted in at least 50 publications in JAMA, have an IQ of 200 or more, be proposed for the nobel prize in 3 different categories and having won it on at least two of them.We want you to be more than 6'5" tall, have a bodyfat level less than 5%, weighing between 80 and 90 kilos, we want you to have yellow eyes, green skin, 4 hands and 5 legs.". It s absurd not to show critical info, when at the same time you give out whether parking is free or not in the hospital area!!! Ok, I understand that each application is worth some bucks, but personally I would fill out 100 or so application forms either if I knew the precise requirements of the programms or not.Some times I m wondering whether it has crossed your minds to officially complain about this thing. I mean, if a programm(which may be sponsored by the government itself) lets you hoping that with an x score you can apply for the z specialty while in reality they only take those with 2x scores or more, this programm is actually DECEIVING YOU, isn t it? And I m sure that many of us wouldn t care about the lost bucks IF we manage to match somewhere, but what if that lost application could be used for a programm in which we would have more chances of being matched? In that case, you may have a theoretically brilliant brain, good character,hard working, that will not match, you will have someone who s life will be CHANGED for the worse, and NOONE has the right to do that to ANYONE. Uff, my bp went up now, sorry for the aggressive style, but I can t digest that the country with the best healthcare system in the world shows such lack of organization in some critical fields..
