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- Sep 4, 2002
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As I review our match list and the match statistics for FM as a whole, I am very disappointed. Although we did fill, we went way down to the bottom of our rank list. Family medicine has become a buyer's market indeed.
The advice you give medical students on how to match into a good program has always been - do a sub-I there, make yourself known. Interestingly, there was a girl who did a sub-I at my program who was from a real good school, rubbed a few people the wrong way by coming in late - and didn't end up being ranked.
So my advice to medical students who want to match into a specific FM program. Don't rotate at the program, just put together as good of an application as you can (even if you fail your boards once or twice), rank them #1 and you have a 97% chance of matching.
The advice you give medical students on how to match into a good program has always been - do a sub-I there, make yourself known. Interestingly, there was a girl who did a sub-I at my program who was from a real good school, rubbed a few people the wrong way by coming in late - and didn't end up being ranked.
So my advice to medical students who want to match into a specific FM program. Don't rotate at the program, just put together as good of an application as you can (even if you fail your boards once or twice), rank them #1 and you have a 97% chance of matching.