The Mental Health Toll of Not Matching medpagetoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medpagetoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A transformative year for GME recruitment: How the process has changed forever
The 2020-2021 GME recruitment season was transformative. While it was full of new and old challenges for stakeholders, the impact of the first-ever entirely virtual recruitment season will be substantial and long-lasting.
Before COVID-19, the long-standing process of in-person interviews was considered “sacred” by many. But this system was simply not possible during a global pandemic. In the transition to virtual interviews, applicants saved significant time and expense but the canceling of away rotations, difficulty scheduling USMLE exams, and a delayed start of the application season brought novelty, anxiety, and frustration to an already stressful endeavor. Specifically, international medical graduates (IMGs) were faced with current and future VISA restrictions combined with an unclear ECFMG verification process, all of which presented additional challenges.
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Boston, MA (April 30, 2021) - Research presented today at the AATS 101st Annual Meeting, shows that the six year Integrated Cardiothoracic (CT I-6) residency continues to be the most challenging to match, while the pool of applicants has become more diverse. The study, which aimed to identify applicant characteristics associated with a successful match, used data from the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP), Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for Thoracic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Otolaryngology (ENT), Plastic Surgery, and Vascular Surgery for 2010-2020.
Data compared number of applicants and residency positions, gender, race, and qualifications among CT I-6 applicants with those of other competitive surgical subspecialties, including Orthopaedic Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Otolaryngology, Plastic Surgery, and Vascular Surgery. Competitive subspecialties analyzed include
Match Nightmares: Med Students Share Stories, Fight Stigma medscape.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medscape.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Adam Litwin, MD, is now anxiously awaiting his chance to become a real doctor.
After graduating from St. James University in the Caribbean in 2018, this is the second match cycle Litwin has entered to vie for a position in family medicine.
While his hope and anxiety are shared by other residency applicants hoping to match this week, Litwin has taken a much different path to getting there.
More than 20 years ago, Litwin disguised himself as a resident physician at UCLA, and was arrested and jailed for impersonating a doctor.
Now, proclaiming that he is reformed, Litwin hopes that his dream of practicing medicine becomes a reality especially in a year when the pandemic has brought a dire need for healthcare professionals.