Recent content by acapnial

Remember, bros disclose

I think you should probably be honest. You will definitely have to explain it and if you seem evasive or like you're hiding the reason for the LOA's it might play out very badly. And if similar issues come up in residency, it would be far better to have a program that is understanding of the...

When I was a resident I was told our positive opinions on rotating students (and the attending's opinions) could potentially move you up the rank list somewhat, but would never turn a non-interview into an interview

Agreed. Students should ideally do anything residents do, if nothing else, to get an accurate picture of what day to day life in a given residency is like.

As long as OP doesnt decide on the program shrugging it off as an ending

Definitely. Toward the end of my residency when step 1 was announced to become P/F I talked to my own PD and the local TY PD and both felt they would have no choice but to emphasize step 2 scores in the same way step 1 used to be. My last year in my program, they got around 5000 applicants for...

I also wouldn't worry too much if that's the worst of it. In my residency (med school was too long ago, residency is my better reference point), if you got called into the PD's office because someone complained about you, there were basically 3 ways it could go. A) Someone complained and the...

Unless you said something REALLY bad I doubt you'd get a book thrown at you hard enough to go on your MSPE. But you do need to be careful with social media, if your social media account is tied to you or your school/hospital and you say something they feel is a bad look, they can take that...

At my program we had an open invitation to email the pd and tell them if there were any students we thought were really good. It wouldn't turn a non interview into an interview, but could bump you up on the rank list. Not a huge difference all in all.

Just to clear the air with some match definitions, matching exclusively refers to the match which occurs pre-SOAP. If someone has to SOAP, that means they didn't match. Placement refers to getting into residency in any way (match, soap, outside of the nrmp). So while the placement rate may...

What are their political litmus test questions? Or do they just dive right in and ask if you're conservative?

Are you given your evals? Or does someone in the clinical department of your school just sum up the evaluations for you?

Nobody will care about volunteer/work experience so don't stress too much about it

We had two residents in one year that were infamous for getting into explosive fights. Both were going into the same subspecialty, both had very strong opinions about pretty much everything, both had short tempers. Otherwise complete opposites, one approached medicine with a...

I definitely don't know the real number