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Rad Onc is surgery without the hard residency and hard lifestyle (imo). Cool tech AND i get to see my kids on a regular basis AND i sleep uniterupted each night. Also, Only Rad Oncs will get this but my god the first video makes monaco look like an incredible piece of software instead of the garbage it is.

yes. 90% of the work is done. if you have any academic associatin in the future pubs will help regardless of speciatlty.

Also Agree. When I interviewed way back when I was impressed and after my interview experience ranked it higher than some Ontario programs.

Rad Onc PGY5. Gonna disagree with you. Jobs situation is way better than previous. Average is still 1 year fellowship but most have a job out of residency or after 1 year. Ottawa is a good program and suprised it went unmatched over others . I think having everything virtual hurt the smaller specialties as impossible to get a feel for the program without visiting.

Some programs "force you" to enter the second round rather than just not enter it, hense the worse number. The five year GIM program is a waste in my opinion, (just an extra year of labour for the hospital where you get paid 1/5th of what you would make clinically. GIM is an attractive specialty right now. We need GIM more than multiple subspeciaties. 1 year (and only 17 people at that) doesn't make a trend. Its hardly concerning and completley different compared to medical school unmatching.

There's no right or wrong. If I was in your shoes I would do an elective at my first choice. I think that it certainly helps your chances but rad onc tends to be a specialty that doesn't mandate an onsite elective like some surgery programs. I don't know how popular RO will be this year. In the past 4 years rad onc has been in top 5 most competitive specialties as well as bottom 5. In my match year, Ottawa matched 0/2 and UBC matched 2/2. Following year UBC had an unmatched spots. These things are not predictable. Both are good programs. You can always try and do a post carms, preinterview elective. It would be equal if not more effective.

I disagree. The best way is to get the "previous sample" questions that are passed down year to year and practice those.

When you are going to be working non-stop throughout the night (GIM), might as well have good billings. When you are staff busy can be good.

I'm doing one in residency in Education. MHPE program at Maastricht in the Netherlands. Primarily distance but I am doing 2 x 1 month in-person research blocks in the Netherlands (while getting my residency salary). I am in a specialty where advanced degrees are common. I've never been a fan of MD/PHD simply because you don't know what you will do clinically. I know several MD/PhD students who matched to a completley unrelated specailty (Psych/Neuro research matched to Gen Sx, Cardiac research matched to family, Neuroscience matched to family etc). I'm sure you can make the argument that research skills are transferable. Honestly, there is also no comparison between MD/PhD and doing MSc or PhD in Residency. Residents make significantly more than graduate students, have better benefits and will have research goals that are related to their clinical specialty.

I keep saying that they are going to rise soon but I keep being proven wrong. I'm happy because I landed in the sweet spot but people starting over the next couple years will likely see rates rise.

my personal manager. TBH not my highest priority right now. Its probably a matter of a couple of bucks per year difference.

No luck with the Momentum Visa. offered me one year free but wouldn't waive subsequent fees. Sticking with the Rogers MC, AMEX/Scotia Gold Visa.

It sounds counter-intuitive but all the advances in radiotherapy have actually made rad oncs work more not less. Before we were able to just draw our shielding but with the new Stereotactic techniques, we have to contour ALOT more than we used to. We are able to give much higher doses and because of this, we have seen significant improvement in survival and toxicity. The computers do play a role in the planning but our current AIs are terrible at contouring.

Soon they will be paying us for taking their money But in actuality, I suspect that interest rates will soon rise which will probably shock a lot of people. My general sense is that the medical student lifestyle has crept up because of the low rates and students are spending more on trips, nicer apartments, cars etc. The number of first-year medical students who I've met who live alone in downtown Toronto is significantly more than I would expect.