How can you see these and what is available? I can't help but feel like I need to in some way be realistic and try to take whatever offer I am presented with through the SOAP as opposed to waiting for a spot that I am not sure will be vacant and available through the scramble. Advice on this would be appreciated.
You can log into the NMS match and see available positions in the post match. Alternatively, you could look at the 2017 AOA programs match data on, I think, the AOA site. That will show you the programs, how many spots offered, how many filled in the match, etc.
There's not really a ton other than FM, IM, and TRIs. Handfuls of a few other fields (5 out less each).
I hear there are typically lots of TRIs available but I'm not sure if that's true this year. If offered a spot via SOAP, I would certainly take it. Unfortunately I have not received any phone interviews.
There's usually a lot of TRIs left over, and it seems there are plenty this year, but who knows by Thurs.
Hopefully you won't have to worry about this, but if you don't get anything by Thurs, contact as many programs as you can. I would also reach out to your school, and absolutely contact (and if possible have someone from your school contact on your behalf) any unfilled program in your school's OPTI.
As the match gets tighter and tighter every year I predict more and more pressure to go this route:
On Saturday, the AOA House of Delegates passed a resolution calling for the profession to advocate for federal legislation to allow U.S. medical school graduates to lay first claims on U.S. residency positions.
Members of the New York State Osteopathic Medical Society (NYSOMS), which submitted the resolution, believe that the nation’s residency positions should first be offered to graduates of U.S. medical schools before international medical graduates (IMGs) can secure them.
“There’s a collision between the numbers of graduates of U.S. medical schools and the limited number of residency positions currently in the U.S.,” says Robert B. Goldberg, DO, the dean of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York. “Soon, those positions will be saturated before we count one internationally trained physician vying for one of the slots.”
Steven I. Sherman, DO, the president of NYSOMS, says he wrote the resolution because the numbers of medical students are increasing while U.S. residency positions have remained relatively stagnant.
http://thedo.osteopathic.org/2014/0...ng-residency-slots-us-med-school-grads-first/
Dude, this is almost 3 years old and went nowhere. What's the point of posting this in this thread, especially since this thread contains mostly IMGs in a rough spot? Seems pointless and in poor taste.
Me too. Nothing. I should have added FM to the IM, prelim IM/Surg, and anesthesia. I feel like I shot myself in the foot so badly.
I assume with no interviews now, we wont match through SOAP. So we do the phone call interviews Thursday?
Contact and have your program contact open AOA spots if you're in that situation.
can anyone explain regarding paying back the loan if all of mine is from fed govt and not getting a spot through soap this year? if that happens, does that mean I will need to pay back the loan without earning anything, which will make my life so miserable? Thanks!
Make sure you submit a tax return for this year. Assuming your income was zero in 2016, you can sign up for income based payments and save for upcoming payments. You can also defer payments for a period. I don't know the details though, so I would talk to your financial aid office.
Well I have had 0 calls or emails today. I feel pretty screwed. Anybody have good experiences matching after SOAP into a DO preliminary?
I feel broken down and have no idea what the next step could be. Doesn't help my post-graduate department isn't in today either...
TRIs exist. A lot of DOs don't make it in the SOAP (something like 75% of them), so many end up scrambling into either an AOA categorical or TRI position. I would look into them now, and make a list of programs you want to contact right away on Thurs of the SOAP doesn't work out.
After SOAP, if there are still spots unfilled... can we then call them / initiate contact to the programs that SOAP already?
Yes, but on the MD side it sounds like this was horrible last year.
I never thought I would end up in AOA spot but you're right, at least I can apply to an additional few dozen programs that are DO spots.
A lot of DOs don't match in the NRMP match. ~600 out of ~3000 last year. It's not a small number, so a lot of people need to scramble into AOA spots. In the future, people are really going to have to adjust how they apply so that they have more backups built in, because in a few years it'll be only the match and SOAP.
Good luck, I hope it works out either through the SOAP or scramble. At this point scrambling into AOA FM or IM is a good deal, because you will finish in 3 years and be in a good spot even if your program doesn't make it through the transition.
Sorry but you really needed to get this taken care of at least 30 hours ago. By this time the vast majority of programs have downloaded apps and many have completed their SOAP interviews. You are very late to be asking this imo. Good luck!
Rubbing salt on a wound without giving any beneficial advice regarding their question. Yeah this is absolutely in poor taste.
If standard protocol is to match in the first place, then why is it that med school grads have to go through this process year after year? It's like a matter of fact at this point.
Leaving this here btw for those that are interested:
http://pr.mo.gov/assistantphysicians.asp
There are more applicants than spots. On top of that, people have redflags or they really just apply/rank unrealistically. Some people just had bad luck. It's guaranteed that some people are going to be unmatched by the end of it.
US DO, 220s/240s, passed PE first try, 7 interviews, 7 ranks. I knew it wasn't the magic 12 but I felt pretty solid with my top picks. Not too excited about a surgical prelim cause those guys eat their young, but I'll do what I have to.
Just out of curiosity, how many programs did you apply to, and did you have your SLOEs in?
I know a few DOs in your position that scrambled into TRIs, reapplied the next year and matched ACGME EM. Unfortunately, EM seems to be getting tougher lately.
