Contingency plans

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(02-28-2018, 02:10 PM)Guest Wrote:

(02-27-2018, 09:20 PM)Guest Wrote:

(02-27-2018, 08:38 PM)Guest Wrote:

(02-27-2018, 06:21 PM)Guest Wrote: Bumping this thread. Assuming good board scores and grades , if an applicant "falls through the cracks", what is the best course of action? Would it be to pursue a research year, get some new letters, do new aways and apply again for both NSG and another back-up?

 trust me, no one "falls through the cracks" 

if you don't match there's a reason - and if you truly have good board scores and grades, then you likely have a personality deficit / sociopathy that you have poor insight about.

Nice try med student.  It happens every year that good, normal candidates don't match.  The only deficit is with the system

Nice try sour grapes med student

Attending here. I didn't match the first go around.  It happens. I like to think I fell through the cracks, but I suppose you know better and I have some sort of deficit.

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You probably do. Being an attending and still making time to post in a forum like this one.

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(02-28-2018, 05:25 PM)Guest Wrote: You probably do. Being an attending and still making time to post in a forum like this one.

Life as an attending is pretty good.  Have my residents open and close, just come in for time out or the critical portion.  Depending on the day I have far more free time than I did as a resident.

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I think it's cute that there's so much faith in the process involving 3-10 "So....tell me about yourself, ummm, Mr. - errr Dr.? Jones. Why... neurosurgery?" -style interviews to effectively identify and eliminate nascent psychopaths with Patriot-missile-like precision, especially considering the fulminant psychopathology that we've all seen on display during subinternships provides a direct, falsifying counterexample to the claim. I guess it doesn't take a brain surgeon to post on this forum.

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(02-28-2018, 07:51 PM)Guest Wrote: I think it's cute that there's so much faith in the process involving 3-10 "So....tell me about yourself, ummm, Mr. - errr Dr.? Jones. Why... neurosurgery?" -style interviews to effectively identify and eliminate nascent psychopaths with Patriot-missile-like precision, especially considering the fulminant psychopathology that we've all seen on display during subinternships provides a direct, falsifying counterexample to the claim. I guess it doesn't take a brain surgeon to post on this forum.

No one is arguing that we eliminate all psychopaths. 

But if you can't even hold it together for 1 day that's a problem (specificity is high).

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If you don't match and really want to do it, you should find an honest advisorand figure out where things went wrong and come up with a plan to avoid that mistake the next time around. I don't know whatthe match rate of reapplicants is

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That would be really useful data to have, to help those decide what to do if they don't match. If the match rate of reapplicants is 65% vs 15%, it makes a big difference in someone coming up with a different backup plan.

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(04-08-2018, 11:55 PM)Guest Wrote: That would be really useful data to have,  to help those decide what to do if they don't match.  If the match rate of reapplicants is 65% vs 15%, it makes a big difference in someone coming up with a different backup plan.

It is in the nrmp data. There are three subgroups:  us seniors, us grads, and fmgs.  The match rate for us grads is somewhere around 10%.  That is to say, you finished med school first and did something for a year because you didn't match and were applying.

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thanks

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Unless your research year is at a program that is going to show you loyalty... I would be really careful. Have a few back up plans, including applying to other specialties and maybe even doing a sub-i in that field at your home for a letter.