re: Match Day 2018

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Hope you get proctology.

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Everyone on the ot is already an expert in dealing with assholes.

Difference is, he would be a true ot baller in a few years as a proctologist

They get access to a list of unfilled spots called the SOAP or “scramble” and start doing phone calls to those programs immediately

And if that doesn’t work, they have to wait another year and try again

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That night was nauseating for me and my spouse.

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Same here.

Posted in a different thread recently: If you combined all the nervousness in my lifetime prior to that point, it might be half of what I was feeling on match day.

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They get access to a list of unfilled spots called the SOAP or “scramble” and start doing phone calls to those programs immediately

And if that doesn’t work, they have to wait another year and try again

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So from how I understand it, thankfully I didn’t have to find out from first hand experience just from what happened to my roommate, once you find out you don’t match on Monday they send you the list of the unfilled programs. Then you get 45 application and you can start sending them out at 12 noon that day. The programs can then start calling unmatched applicants at 3pm the following day. That goes on until Thursday sometime. If you still haven’t gotten a spot then you can scramble until Friday at noon and start calling places and essentially begging for spots.

Thankfully that’s not me.

I’m pretty sure last weekend waiting on the “did I match email” was one of the most stressful times in my life

I match in next year. I’m going into internal so not worried so much as others trying for the surgical sub specialties.