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Anatomical Pathology: Calgary (Feb 3), Ottawa IMG (Feb 2), Queen's IMG (Feb 4), McGill (Feb 8) Anesthesiology: Cardiac Surgery: Dermatology: Diagnostic Radiology: Emergency Medicine: Family Medicine: Montreal (Feb 1), Sherbrooke (Feb 1), Laval (Feb 1), Ontario Joint Panel IMG (Feb 4) General Pathology: General Surgery: Laval (Feb 1) Hematological Pathology: UBC (Feb 7) Internal Medicine: Medical Genetics and Genomics: Calgary (Jan 31), UBC (Feb 2), Ottawa IMG (Feb 9) Toronto (Feb 10) Medical Microbiology: Calgary (Feb 5), UBC (Feb 8), Manitoba (Feb 9), McMaster (Feb 10) Neurology: Dalhousie (Feb 7) Neurology - Paediatric: McMaster (Feb 3) Neuropathology: Neurosurgery: Dalhousie (Feb 4), Toronto (Feb 8), Ottawa (Feb 10) Nuclear Medicine: Sherbrooke (Feb 10) Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Ophthalmology: Orthopaedic Surgery: Dalhousie (Feb 10) Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery: Pediatrics: Plastic Surgery: PM&R: Psychiatry: Manitoba (Feb 1), Memorial (Feb 3), Western (Feb 9), McMaster-Waterloo, Hamilton, & CIP (Feb 10), UBC Research Track (Feb 10), UBC (Feb 10) UBC IMG (Feb 10), Dalhousie (Feb 11) Public Health and Preventive Medicine: USask (Feb 4) Radiation Oncology: Manitoba (Feb 3), McMaster (Feb 7), Queen’s (Feb 10), Dalhousie (Feb 10), UBC (Feb 10) Urology: Laval (Feb 7) Vascular Surgery:

Based on my anecdotal evidence, This definitely happened. It also seems that the schools in bigger cities faired better in the match vs others.

HAPPY 420 ERRRRRRONE

Omfg those dreams fuckkkk me right up. Or like thinking you forgot to do an assignment and that you’re gonna fail if you don’t hand it in and you wake up frantically checking your phone aaahhh man. This time of purgatory is slowly killing me inside

anyone have some fun nightmares? One of mine I forgot to submit my rank list so it autodrafted like in fantasy basketball and then a follow up dream I couldn't login to CaRMS to check if my ROL had submitted or not Another one I got my match results and it was like for a different person and a different specialty and it changed eveyr time I checked.... anyways sleeping REAL great

I can try to help, with the caveat that my cons might be someone else's pros and vice versa. UBC Pros: Great for research, niche specialties, bigger centers, addictions, BC is pretty, multiple sites Cons: bigger program (not sure about much else, didnt apply here) Alberta: dont know much about Calgary Pros: tight knit program, solid child & adolescent (able to do more blocks in it if you're interested in doing a fellowship after), alberta is pretty Cons: 4 blocks of internal med, Alberta's healthcare system is kinda rekt rn Sask: dunno much about Manitoba Pros: tight knit group, solid CL Psych (6 months in 4th year, most schools only do 3) and big on addictions, great rural psych opportunities (get to go to nunavut), psychotherapy is decent, protected academic days Cons: lots of healthcare disparities within the population, Winnipeg isn't the greatest for getting around on transit, its cold af NOSM: dunno much about Western Pros: great for psychopharmacology, Dr. Javeed Sukhera's there and is a huge advocate for SDOH Cons: Program's on probation Mac Pros: 2 sites, tight knit program, do have some access to more niche specialties, decent forensics, decent psychotherapy, close to Toronna if you're a city rat, protected academic half days Cons: I find the program is a bit overboard with supervision (but this could be a pro in that there's a lot of support and supervision in the beginning), the call is brutal (volume wise), their psych emerg has been a long-standing issue but it looks like they've been approved to expand it as the current space is ..well, bad lol. Toronto Pros: niche specialties, solid psychotherapy, research ++, robust, biggest pro here is the exposure you'll get I'd say, and Toronto's a cool city Cons: lottery for which hospital site you end up at, there's 'collegiality' among residents but not the same vibe that you'd get at programs with < 10 residents per year. It's just too big for that. They don't do socials etc. No yearly book fund, no formal academic half days Queen's Pros: small/tight knit program, research opportunities especially in ketamine use, really good for work-life balance, the program's very accommodating and the PD has your back, they have a great geri psych program i'd say, home call!!, Kingston's on the water Cons: Child & adolescent exposure is lacking, high turnover rate on their acute psych floor, just lower volumes overall; psychotherapy is okay but you have to seek out opportunities if you want more niche subtypes Ottawa Pros: tight knit but still big enough center, good research opportunities, really solid child/adolescent and psychotherapy, probably the lead in health policy and really good in forensics, cool city Cons: were on probation recently but have fought well to make a comeback, the call can be busy, I think they're just adapting to CBD and haven't really updated their website yet.., bigger emphasis on independence it seems McGill Pros: from what I've heard tight knit group, incredible psychotherapy / transcultural psychiatry program, Montreal is amazing, idk much else about the program tbh Dunno the rest of the french schools Dalhousie Pros: seem like a close group, ++ focus on work-life balance, protected academic half-days, good rural psych exposure, PGY-4 selective opportunity in additional psychotherapy modalities, coastal cities are pretty, lots of supervision (good or bad depending) Cons: 10% of your training has to be outside of halifax, only 2 months of CL in PGY-4, i'm not sure what their research opportunities are like Memorial Pros: very kind and tight knit group, early on exposure to emerg psych and opportunity to do mobile crisis block in PGY1, can help neurosurgery at a locum, beautiful coast, exposure to ECT training (usually dont get this in other centers), great for rural Cons: not known for research, psychotherapy was lacking but has improved in recent years apparently, more so geared towards training in general psychiatry vs niche. Anyway hope this helps. And again, this is my perspective and other people may have different views / experiences that I don't know about!

Glad I’m not the only one who felt that way bahahaha

Queen’s psych just released their panel interview offers!!

I talked to Sharon (The PA) and she said they'll be releasing panel invites either Friday afternoon or Monday!! She also runs the undergrad clerkship blocks and the 2022s just started a new block this week soo she said it's hectic..

you. i like you.

can we talk about how match day is on 420 and how that can't possibly be a coincidence on CaRMS' end...

GOOOOD MAWWWNIN!!!

10000000%!!! The least they could do

Lmaooooo so I emailed and they replied saying they got a large volume of these requests today. Me to me: hmm gee I wonder why ...