Any fellow premeds scared about the recent match?

[med etudiant]

Our members don't see this ad.

Total remaining spots are few and far between. I believe there's a chart on AUA's forum showing only 66 remaining spots, nationwide, for family medicine. It will be 5 years before I match, and I'm just wondering what it will look like then.

I'm very concerned!
Thoughts?

[med etudiant]

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[Chopdoc]

Always important to keep the big picture in mind about the career path.....but you should be concentrating on the here and now....go study!


If I had been worried about such things I would never have gone to med school. Lots of people tried to talk me out of it.....told me all kind of horror stories.....

[dadoc]

There is always going to be a demand for doctors. Dont look at the match now, the demand is going to rise.

[med etudiant]

But the number of residency spots has not rose.

[medguy]

I don't know where you got that figure from. If you look at the chart, there were 224 unfilled FM slots. That's almost 10% of the total. Also, you need to take into consideration that a lot of slots aren't even put into the match since there are a good number of pre-matches. I don't know about other schools but I hear SGU does about 30% pre-matches (including me).

So, don't worry about it. Just work hard.

[med etudiant]

Comforting to hear. Thanks.

Anyone match or know anyone that matched in Utah? I would LOVE for someday to work at U of U!

[WannaBdoc25]

Med e, do you go to carib pre med program.?

[tennisball80]

Originally Posted by medguy

I don't know where you got that figure from. If you look at the chart, there were 224 unfilled FM slots. That's almost 10% of the total. Also, you need to take into consideration that a lot of slots aren't even put into the match since there are a good number of pre-matches. I don't know about other schools but I hear SGU does about 30% pre-matches (including me).

So, don't worry about it. Just work hard.

30% pf pre-matches ? That's low !

[medguy]

That means that 30% of the students sign residency contracts outside of the match.