Match Day: May we have the envelope, please?
Posted on March 20, 2008
Filed Under Diversion, General |
Would YOU buy an appendectomy from this woman?
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The process starts at the beginning of the fourth year for med school students everywhere. Disciplines are chosen - Anesthesiologist? Pediatrics? Surgery? - and applications for residency made to those programs around the country that fit the criteria. There are acceptances and rejections, the acceptances then lined up for interviews. Students fly all over the country Nov - Jan meeting the physicians and residents involved, each evaluating the other. At the end of the interview process, students make a priority list of those programs in which they’d like to participate, in order of preference; progams make a priority list of those students they’d like on staff.
Then they put it in a computer for a Match, matches to be announced this year on, well, March 20.
So. Kelly picked general surgery. She found out two days ago that, yes, she’s matched. There are nine programs on her list.
As I type this, she and every other fourth year med student in the United States is gathering in a room, each with his or her own class, and being handed an envelope. At exactly 9:00 - noon EDT - those envelopes are opened and everyone will find out where they’ll be spending the next four to eight years of their lives.
And we think there’s pressure in real estate…
UPDATE: LSU Med Center, New Orleans. Kelly’s thrilled, her dad’s thrilled, LSU’s thrilled. When I talked to her a little after nine there was absolute pandemonium in the background, so a warning: Every fourth year medical student in the US had today off.
[Damn, I love my kids…]
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