Why no place to go—AFTER Medical School?
This year (2013), nearly 600 U.S. medical students failed to get a residency position through the NRMP Match. That is 310 more students left without a residency than in 2012.
These students went through the entire, anxiety producing, time-consuming, and often expensive process of completing residency application paperwork and traveling to distant cities for interviews. Yet, on “Match Day,” they were left at the altar.
Often, these students made errors in the way they went through the process of selecting a specialty, choosing appropriate training programs, completing the paperwork, and “performing” in their interview.
Eventually, all of them will probably find a residency position, probably not in a specialty of their choice—and possibly for no longer than one year, during which they will have to repeat the entire process, hopefully with better results.
Going through the entire process in a manner to achieve a medical student’s (or resident applying to a Fellowship) desired outcome is the basis of the best-selling “Getting Into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students,” just published in its 8th edition (www.galenpress.com).
Hopefully, the next class of medical students will take advantage of this resource.
http://bit.ly/17iIQAd
These students went through the entire, anxiety producing, time-consuming, and often expensive process of completing residency application paperwork and traveling to distant cities for interviews. Yet, on “Match Day,” they were left at the altar.
Often, these students made errors in the way they went through the process of selecting a specialty, choosing appropriate training programs, completing the paperwork, and “performing” in their interview.
Eventually, all of them will probably find a residency position, probably not in a specialty of their choice—and possibly for no longer than one year, during which they will have to repeat the entire process, hopefully with better results.
Going through the entire process in a manner to achieve a medical student’s (or resident applying to a Fellowship) desired outcome is the basis of the best-selling “Getting Into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students,” just published in its 8th edition (www.galenpress.com).
Hopefully, the next class of medical students will take advantage of this resource.
http://bit.ly/17iIQAd
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