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  1. A friend is someone upon whose doorstep you can show up, unannounced, at any time day or night, and who will give you a couch to sleep on. (Doesn't matter if you haven't seen them in years, if they give you a place to sleep they're your friend ) For residents or clerks: Will your next rotation be more or less brutal than your last?
  2. Aye, there's the rub: "Ménard said the decision on whether to comply with a patient's request would be left to doctors to judge, on a case by case basis." I wonder who this is going to fall to. It sounds like marijuana and methadone - most MDs avoid these morally / legally complicated situations like the plague. Are there going to be "death docs" who spring up to become specialists in choosing who qualifies for physicians assisted suicide? (You might think of the palliative care docs, but the palliative med guys and gals around here would - I think - be absolutely opposed to this.) Thoughts?
  3. That's what I hear http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/19/demand-high-but-medical-specialists-not-finding-work-in-canada/
  4. On the beach! How is the weather where you are right now?
  5. Most provinces don't publish their hard cut offs, but historically Ontario family medicine has stated (in writing) that they don't consider anyone with a MCCEE <271, and that their interviewed applicants are above 318 (~75th percentile) And don't forget that for the Canadian match, in Alberta (but not Ontario or BC, as far as I can tell), there are additional requirements e.g. province specific OSCEs / MMIs or NAC-OSCE. Reference: http://carms.ca/eng/r1_eligibility_prov_e.shtml - when you're in your final year, read through all the CaRMS info very carefully - there's a lot of detail and CaRMS is notoriously inflexible about their requirements (I just did the matching thing this past year).
  6. Gen surg rotation: I'm a human retractor. Why no bookwalter?!
  7. I misread your first post. So, in summary, DOs may apply first round to 38% of positions at 41% of schools.
  8. Seriously? Add up the number of Ontario & BC spots (minus IMG spots) and divide by the number of total spots (minus IMG spots), then multiply by 100. I'm vicious, my classmates are vicious, the process is vicious and you better hope you can bring the vicious, too. The US match is supposed to be worse than the Canadian one, and getting ever more cut-throat with each passing year. You'll see when you finally get there. Yes, we will try to psych you out. Yes, we will play rough. Because this is as Darwinian as it comes. But intimidating noobs won't do me any good at this point.
  9. This is a very erudite summation of the advantages and disadvantages. I accept that lau2218 knows full well what s/he is doing, and wish him/her good luck.
  10. It's 38%. Admittedly, I'm a fairly average for a CMG. And yes, I will hit you with a brick from behind and claw my way over your bleeding corpse to get to my residency spot. CaRMS is brutal, and so are we
  11. I mention it because you never do: Being DO means you can apply to ~38% of the CaRMS positions to which an allopathic grad could apply. I wonder if we asked this of the last three posters considering going DO (spoudaios, sethpark28 and lau2218), would they say they realized that they would be excluded from the majority of spots in Canada? And that those that they can apply to are arguably the most desirable and competitive in the country? For the sake of people who are considering this pathway someone needs to temper your enthusiasm . . . . . . with reality.
  12. Just important to make sure everyone understands: DOs may only apply to Ontario and BC in the CaRMS match (first round). The rest of the country doesn't accept DO applicants. http://www.carms.ca/eng/r1_eligibility_prov_e.shtml
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