The only criticism to Dr dodi’s narrative is he overlooks the outlook on private practice opportunities… most of his positive focus is on academic/corporate jobs… most med students are still hanging onto certain fields where autonomy is still respected/coveted.
Why they don’t offer those unfilled spots to foreign doctor who passed the exams and are struggling with getting into a residency? I’ve got couple of friends who passed the boards and they’ve been applying to get Internal Medicina, Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine residencies multiple times without luck! That’s insane situation and so discriminatory!
@@rickmiguel1975 that’s why and it sucks. They can move to states like MN that’s allowing grads to practice like PAs. Make sure they can tho. There may be rules to this.
You are missing how the process works. This is what pushed to SOAP, domestic students percentage wise hit the main match more often and don’t get soaped but many international students as well as domestic students were jumping for these in SOAP. After SOAP they are all filled with some rare exceptions for unique issues that arise etc. So these were all filled in SOAP but not main! The people you are talking about are after what she is discussing they didn’t even get an open slot in SOAP (the slots she is talking about). Many people every year still don’t get one of these slots that were soaped. The legal US residency cap holds the number of residency slots steady.
Hey doc in your opinion do you think age of the incoming class is a factor? They would be 26-28ish years old, so older Gen Z who were more or less raised on their phones barraged by constant mental health conversations. Could it be this new generation is deterred by the more chronic stress of EM where other generations may have gone into it somewhat for that reason?
Hey M4 here. It really has nothing to do with whether they are GenZ or younger millennials (technically we're millennials). The demand for ED physicians and job market has drastically decreased as the hospitals cut costs by chronically understaffing ED's and stretching each MD further with NP's. It's more stressful because you're responsible for MORE patients and the job market isn't as great. Once upon a time ED was an awesome gig; 3 years of residency and you could be hired literally anywhere for great pay with shift work. With greater patient loads everyone is more impatient/rude because everyone is waiting longer. Pretty complex issue and I highly recommend reading up on it + the role of the ED physician in modern healthcare
Not necessarily because when you apply you don't go for every single spot, you probably go for spots in certain locations. So the ones that went unfilled are likely in less desirable usually more rural locations. For example someone who applied to EM spots only in large cities may have not matched.
The pandemic has forced the entire world to take a good hard look at the medicine for profit industry. While the world burned, hospitals shut down and refused service, made TikToks instead of caring. They revealed themselves. Most of the world is reexamining their assumptions about life. They're recognizing that this is a business which preys on sick people, not a public service or an inalienable right to help. Less people have the stomach for it now that society is turning against them.
