"The Perfect Match" movie

[cbrons]

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Anyone know what the deal is with this movie?

Says on the official website that it is supposed to be released around Spring 2017?

I think it was done by a Vanderbilt alumna.

 

[AthleteDoc7]

don't know anything about it, but looks cool. idk why anyone outside of medicine would care, but i think it looks intriguing

 

[sloop]

Is this supposed to be like a feature length thing?

I mean, emotionally for a those involved, the match is intensely meaningful and exciting. Objectively to the external observer, it's like watching paint dry.

"Come see the harrowing tale of a 4th year medical student defying the odds to overcome a moderately above average USMLE score and match into Rad Onc. Join us as he negotiates power dynamics to diplomatically encourage his letter writers to submit and professes his undying love to his #1 in an inconsequential email."

 

[zero0]

Is this supposed to be like a feature length thing?

I mean, emotionally for a those involved, the match is intensely meaningful and exciting. Objectively to the external observer, it's like watching paint dry.

"Come see the harrowing tale of a 4th year medical student defying the odds to overcome a moderately above average USMLE score and match into Rad Onc. Join us as he negotiates power dynamics to diplomatically encourage his letter writers to submit and professes his undying love to his #1 in an inconsequential email."

Or just simply "watch predominantly white/Asian neurotic upper middle class people experience first world problems."

 

[cbrons]

Is this supposed to be like a feature length thing?

I mean, emotionally for a those involved, the match is intensely meaningful and exciting. Objectively to the external observer, it's like watching paint dry.

"Come see the harrowing tale of a 4th year medical student defying the odds to overcome a moderately above average USMLE score and match into Rad Onc. Join us as he negotiates power dynamics to diplomatically encourage his letter writers to submit and professes his undying love to his #1 in an inconsequential email."

This is kind of cynical. People watch documentaries on pointless garbage all the time. A lot of people dont know the various steps of physicians training and it is somewhat interesting to a lot of lay people.

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[Psai]

Or just simply "watch predominantly white/Asian neurotic upper middle class people experience first world problems."

Who hurt you?

 

[Doctor Strange]

I would not go to my Match Day if I had to stand in front of my entire class and their loved ones to reveal where I matched.

 

[zero0]

Who hurt you?

My first gf. Never date a girl with daddy issues.

 

[Mad Jack]

Is this supposed to be like a feature length thing?

I mean, emotionally for a those involved, the match is intensely meaningful and exciting. Objectively to the external observer, it's like watching paint dry.

"Come see the harrowing tale of a 4th year medical student defying the odds to overcome a moderately above average USMLE score and match into Rad Onc. Join us as he negotiates power dynamics to diplomatically encourage his letter writers to submit and professes his undying love to his #1 in an inconsequential email."

There's a lot of documentaries about mundane things that are amazing. Jiro Dreams of Sushi, for instance, is about a guy running a sushi restaurant, which is objectively incredibly mundane and boring. The success or failure of a documentary hinges on the storytelling more than the subject.

 

[chibaddie]

My first gf. Never date a girl with daddy issues.

I laughed when I read this. Then I laughed even more when I read "everything i hug dies".

 

[tennislover1989]

I would not go to my Match Day if I had to stand in front of my entire class and their loved ones to reveal where I matched.

I agree, that is my nightmare. I'm only an M3 but I'm already planning to take my envelope and go sit in one corner of the room so I can open it and react without an audience.

 

[cbrons]

I would not go to my Match Day if I had to stand in front of my entire class and their loved ones to reveal where I matched.

Interesting, this is how our school does it.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Interesting, this is how our school does it.

Our school just hands out the envelopes and we can do whatever.

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[Ace Khalifa]

I would not go to my Match Day if I had to stand in front of my entire class and their loved ones to reveal where I matched.

Interesting, this is how our school does it.

Same here. Everyone goes up to the podium in front of the other students, parents, family, faculty, etc. and announces where they're going after they open the envelope. It's exciting to hear where everyone's going. The whole thing gets live-streamed and recorded for posterity as well.

 

[Ismet]

I didn't think I would announce, but I did, and it was great. Announcing wasn't mandatory at ours, and we could go wherever we wanted to open the envelope, even out of the auditorium to react completely alone, and then leave if they want or come back in and celebrate. Most people ended up announcing.

 

[NWwildcat2013]

I didn't think I would announce, but I did, and it was great. Announcing wasn't mandatory at ours, and we could go wherever we wanted to open the envelope, even out of the auditorium to react completely alone, and then leave if they want or come back in and celebrate. Most people ended up announcing.

Similar setup at my school. We can choose to open the envelope early and then decide whether to announce it or not. Or we can roll the dice and open it at the podium.

 

[Crayola227]

Is this supposed to be like a feature length thing?

I mean, emotionally for a those involved, the match is intensely meaningful and exciting. Objectively to the external observer, it's like watching paint dry.

"Come see the harrowing tale of a 4th year medical student defying the odds to overcome a moderately above average USMLE score and match into Rad Onc. Join us as he negotiates power dynamics to diplomatically encourage his letter writers to submit and professes his undying love to his #1 in an inconsequential email."

there's way worse on reality tv
I don't know how hooked into that scene you are, but I recently got a big ol dose of it

plus, the cute lil girl had a teddy bear wearing a matching outfit with her on stage!!

the drama is seriously ****ing real
it's not just neurotics

I know people whose continued marriages were riding on match day,
gonna have to move away from terminally ill parents,
handle pregnancies or newborns alone or long distance
kids long distance for years
spouse careers thrown in the gutter
years and years and years down the tube in a ****ing lottery!

and it's all in a field where you can hype the human drama element and you can frequently inject some life or death tension without even stretching

if you have the show go for years and follow people up on where they land, the reality tv potential is enormous

you get people invested in little girl with teddy bear,
moves away from old mom and dad cross country to dream program in surgery,
where she is daily abused, watch her go from happy go lucky pretty in dress to looking like ****, crying,
and then capture the moment she's at work and picks up her cell phone to the call that dad, who was sick but she didn't have time to see, just died.
Watch her scrub in anyway.
Watch her ask for time off for the funeral and while it's technically in her rights she tells the camera the blowback is making her miss dad's funeral.
On top of it, her boyfriend who we saw on stage with her match day, is now leaving her.
Now, we can watch this year as her little sister goes through the match......

you just have to create drama around how ridiculous this situation is and how much it causes a "rags or riches" or "wheel of fortune" type story
MATCH DAY - EASY

there's not a lay person I have ever talked to that didn't ever entertain the idea of "what it would be like" to be a doctor, a surgeon, a pediatrician, a cancer doctor, ED doc, that sort of doctor that just does butts, and didn't wonder what it took to get there, and 99% of them have no clue, and 99% of them are shocked to find out it's a goddamn lottery system that literally exists in no other occupation, let alone one that people put on a pedestal that they would like to think it's a calling and wasn't just **** chance that your ED doc "saving your life" is just pissed he's not in rads

TLDR:
in my experience
teddy bears!
divorce!
universal interest in doctoring
universal surprise at the process
when my class matched we were already joking WTF this is not a reality tv show already?
med school is an easy sell if you pick good drama queens, just like packing the MTV Real World house for a show

 

[EMMILLY]

Really interesting and informative. Same setup my school also following.

 

[AthleteDoc7]

there's way worse on reality tv
I don't know how hooked into that scene you are, but I recently got a big ol dose of it

plus, the cute lil girl had a teddy bear wearing a matching outfit with her on stage!!

the drama is seriously ****ing real
it's not just neurotics

I know people whose continued marriages were riding on match day,
gonna have to move away from terminally ill parents,
handle pregnancies or newborns alone or long distance
kids long distance for years
spouse careers thrown in the gutter
years and years and years down the tube in a ****ing lottery!

and it's all in a field where you can hype the human drama element and you can frequently inject some life or death tension without even stretching

if you have the show go for years and follow people up on where they land, the reality tv potential is enormous

you get people invested in little girl with teddy bear,
moves away from old mom and dad cross country to dream program in surgery,
where she is daily abused, watch her go from happy go lucky pretty in dress to looking like ****, crying,
and then capture the moment she's at work and picks up her cell phone to the call that dad, who was sick but she didn't have time to see, just died.
Watch her scrub in anyway.
Watch her ask for time off for the funeral and while it's technically in her rights she tells the camera the blowback is making her miss dad's funeral.
On top of it, her boyfriend who we saw on stage with her match day, is now leaving her.
Now, we can watch this year as her little sister goes through the match......

you just have to create drama around how ridiculous this situation is and how much it causes a "rags or riches" or "wheel of fortune" type story
MATCH DAY - EASY

there's not a lay person I have ever talked to that didn't ever entertain the idea of "what it would be like" to be a doctor, a surgeon, a pediatrician, a cancer doctor, ED doc, that sort of doctor that just does butts, and didn't wonder what it took to get there, and 99% of them have no clue, and 99% of them are shocked to find out it's a goddamn lottery system that literally exists in no other occupation, let alone one that people put on a pedestal that they would like to think it's a calling and wasn't just **** chance that your ED doc "saving your life" is just pissed he's not in rads

TLDR:
in my experience
teddy bears!
divorce!
universal interest in doctoring
universal surprise at the process
when my class matched we were already joking WTF this is not a reality tv show already?
med school is an easy sell if you pick good drama queens, just like packing the MTV Real World house for a show

damn, when you think about the match this way it kind of makes it look ridiculous that it even exists. idk if there's a better way to do it, but so much in this profession just looks and sounds so stupid when you step back and think about it lmao

 

[hallowmann]

It's kind of funny. Logistically, DO schools have a lot of trouble with this because half the people are in one match and the other half are in the other 6-7 wks later, with handfuls in random matches. What do the mil/AUA/SF match people do at MD schools during match day?

Plus it's hard to get everyone in one place in the middle of rotations.

I'm going to find out by email at 1pm on the 17th in the middle of my rotation. Not really as whimsical I guess.

 

[Ismet]

It's kind of funny. Logistically, DO schools have a lot of trouble with this because half the people are in one match and the other half are in the other 6-7 wks later, with handfuls in random matches. What do the mil/AUA/SF match people do at MD schools during match day?

Plus it's hard to get everyone in one place in the middle of rotations.

I'm going to find out by email at 1pm on the 17th in the middle of my rotation. Not really as whimsical I guess.

I don't think anyone in my class military matched, but we had people AUA and SF match, and they came to our Match Day to celebrate right alongside us. Plus for those who need a TY/prelim year that's not "included," they find that out on Match Day too.

All 4th years were excused from clinical duties that day so we could attend Match Day and celebrate with our families and friends.

 

[Crayola227]

It's kind of funny. Logistically, DO schools have a lot of trouble with this because half the people are in one match and the other half are in the other 6-7 wks later, with handfuls in random matches. What do the mil/AUA/SF match people do at MD schools during match day?

Plus it's hard to get everyone in one place in the middle of rotations.

I'm going to find out by email at 1pm on the 17th in the middle of my rotation. Not really as whimsical I guess.

Usually in any given class there's not many doing mil/AUA/SF so we don't notice too much they're going through a different process. Some schools it's mandatory everyone be there, other times it's hit or miss who shows up or not, so you can't always tell by who came or didn't what match they're in.