with the federal government implementing a statute that protected the National Resident Matching Program from federal antitrust laws.
While much of the attention surrounding the Match concerns graduates not matching into programs, it is important to note that programs themselves are sometimes left unfilled as well. Perhaps the door will be opened then, Grieco says, for looking at elements such as number of match positions. By doing so, the hope is to align program and applicant interest earlier in the application cycle than the Match itself, a crucial step that returns some autonomy to physicians in a process that already affords them such little control- one’s residency placement essentially dictates the life choices of clinicians and their families for 3 to 7 years and largely determines where they will practice medicine for the rest of their careers.
Following graduation, Dr. Ramsi Katragadda began an internship at Riverside Methodist Hospital while simultaneously reapplying to residency programs. “To see where you're going to go and where you've been working and striving towards, hearing the cheers and feeling a tear of happiness.
Become a RN, then PN (faster and cheaper)
Perhaps they should lower the standards for more “diversity and inclusion”. 🥴
Dr. Shortage actually did my vasectomy last fall. Great guy!