Recent content by Lucca

It’s the public list. Total was 73, 68 chose to be public. Number matching in a year ebbs and flows a lot because vast majority don’t graduate in 4. Only 17 of 73 this year graduated in 4. 15 were MD/PhDs ranging from 6 to 11 years. Don’t read into it too hard. It’s true there’s always a handful...

Thoracic has both integrated and fellowship pathways out of general surgery, as does vascular and plastics. This match there were many applicants without step 1 scores, but others definitely did.

Primary care has a lot of positives going for it. My biggest issue with being a PCP isn’t the money, it’s just that this country simply does not want primary care to work. The amount of insurance wrangling, paperwork, unpaid labor in the form of emailing and messaging your massive patient panel...

very much agree with this. Also, although this year will be a little weird cuz of timing, based on what graduating students are being told this year we should all fully expect that every single specialty will want a S2CK score prior to ERAS starting not this but next match cycle and onwards...

Not sure where this is coming from. The return on investment for grinding on step 1 is very little now. If you want to review boards content early, focusing on overlap between s1 and 2CK is the highest yield strategy but the opportunity cost against other things that can make you stand out like...

Im sorry you’re having these feelings, but they are pretty commonplace. I predict that in about one year you will be very, very thankful that you’re not 150k more in debt for medical school. After the smoke from the admissions cycle and starting med school clears, I think people are happiest if...

u can use wayback to find the in-between years but the latest data from aamc ('21-'22) is 62,443 applicants https://www.aamc.org/media/5976/download?attachment

The short answer is yes: ur school will impact the match. The better question is: how? The lazy answer is that it’s all halo effect secondary to prestige, which is real but IMO not the main factor. I’ll use a few examples based on what PDs in charting the outcomes have said is very important...

Wouldn’t be surprised! There’s a lot of overlap in the pros and cons of both like lack of continuity, shift work, lots of procedures, similar income levels, variety of pathology, etc.

They certainly filled far fewer programs this year so there’s no doubt med student interest overall is down, but we should also ask ourselves: was it weird that interest was as high as it was for as long? A significant chunk of classes were all flocking into EM for like 2-3 years as if it were...

I missed this when it happened, big congratulations! Well deserved and I look forward to hearing about the science down the cancer biology grapevine

Dedicated. You're better off building the foundation off of resources / anki throughout the preclin time instead of jumping into practice Qs too early.

if a med school let u in, it is probably not something that will make u DOA.

What a ride, look forward to the Netflix adaptation

Re: gap years, as someone who went through the 2019 cycle with 2 and had a very successful cycle I don’t think I would’ve had even 2 of the interviews I did without those gap years. That said I don’t regret those at all. I regret that med school is as long as it is, that expectations for...