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NLengr, do you mind sharing your thoughts about which surgical specialties wouldn't make one's life a living hell during residency ?

I think at some point in every physician's life medicine just becomes a regular job.

If you really wanna talk about throwing darts ........ it is the IMG match for sure ......... nobody knows why anyone matched or did not match ........ you can find an applicant with high scores who matched .......... and one with high scores who did not match ........ one with a low score who matched ....... and one with a low score who did not match ............ there is absolutely no trend ..........

Do you know where grades really matter ? The IMG match ! Where even family medicine is competitive and most IMG's would just love to match to anything rather than just drive cabs and deliver pizzas ! Talk about double standards ! If you simply pass the exam you have 0 percent of matching to even FM. They completely ignore any medical experience you have in your home country and only evaluate 2 things: exam scores ( they want say a cardio-thoracic surgeon who has been practicing for years to study psych, ob/gyn, peds, IM again and expect him to do well in the exam) and canadian medical experience (which is impossible to get if you have been a practicing doctor for many years).