Success stories of rural med students who match into their first choice specialties?

[FailureToThrive]

I feel like rural medical schools really try to force rural family medicine down their students' throat, but I'd really love to be proven wrong. Does anyone have success stories of rural med students who matched into their first choice specialty?

[Ezra]

R1 actuels ayant fait leur médecine au Saguenay (promo 2018): 

1 en anesthésie

1 en chirurgie ortho

1 en génétique

1 en médecine nucléaire

3 en psy 

1 en ped

6 en médecine interne

15 en médecine familiale

Rappelles-toi que d'une part, les campus satellites ont été créés pour faire la promotion de la pratique en région (et qu'en région, il y a moins de spécialistes et plus de généralistes). Donc oui, ils vont essayer de te charmer pour te garder, mais tu peux bien faire ce que tu veux.

[NLengr]

On 2/28/2018 at 1:05 PM, M2/4 said:

I feel like rural medical schools really try to force rural family medicine down their students' throat, but I'd really love to be proven wrong. Does anyone have success stories of rural med students who matched into their first choice specialty?

Just ignore all the rural medicine promotion that the med schools get on with. They're trying to address the need for rural physicians. If rural living isn't for you than just don't apply to rural residencies.

[Edict]

On 2/28/2018 at 12:05 PM, M2/4 said:

I feel like rural medical schools really try to force rural family medicine down their students' throat, but I'd really love to be proven wrong. Does anyone have success stories of rural med students who matched into their first choice specialty?

Many of these medical schools have special quotas for rural students or students from their own province, so i don't see a problem with promoting rural medicine from their point of view. 

I don't like the use of the word "success" and "first choice specialty" in this case, implying that matching to rural family medicine would not be a "success" or someone's "first choice specialty".