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  1. This won't have any effect (have graded CaRMS applications in residency).
  2. This is wildly untrue, at least at my program. The personal statement is extremely important and definitely differs between applicants.
  3. Why do you want to do the MSc? Very few people do an MD/MSc because it's not really useful in most cases. You can be an academic physician in most specialties without it, and even if it is required, you can do it in a shorter timeline and get paid to do it during residency while also tailoring it more specifically to your needs.
  4. This is way more common than you might think, and will most likely have no impact on CaRMS. Not to mention supplemental exams are often written for reasons other than failure (illness, etc.).
  5. If you do a subspecialty in Canada, IM is only 3 years. Your PGY-4 year counts as both the 4th year of IM and the 1st year of your subspec. So to do cardiology in Canada, you would only do 6 years- which is the same as the US.
  6. OP, would you consider emailing the PD to politely request a short meeting to discuss your interest in their program and plans for applying the following year? I would suspect they would provide you more specific information and you will likely be able to judge from how it goes whether or not you were just not ranked high enough or if you were blacklisted permanently. The fact that this feedback just came from a resident is a bit suspect- was this resident on the selection committee or is this just some random resident in the program? Either way, I think meeting with the PD would answer a lot of questions and guide your decision making. Also I just wanted to add that so much of this process is out of our control. Even if you do everything right, you can still get unlucky. I know going through being unmatched sucks, but please don't think this result reflects at all on your personality or professional capabilities as a future resident/person in general.
  7. That sounds like highly positive feedback if that's all that was provided, sort of gives me the feeling they were fishing for something to put in opportunities for growth. When I asked for reference letters in clerkship, I bluntly (but politely) asked if they could provide a strong reference letter, and the body language/tone of the response usually indicated the answer clearly.
  8. It's a bit of both. 99% of people are going to perform well as they progress through training. What really makes people's lives easier is having someone on the team genuinely interested in the work they are doing as they are more fun to work with and won't mind pitching in extra when needed (as opposed to a "genius" that has no interest and will clock out at 5 pm every day).
  9. I've personally never met a radiologist that was unhappy with their choice of specialty. I'm sure they exist, but overall they appear to be a satisfied group, probably above average in the combination of compensation, time off/vacation, and overall job satisfaction. If you've done electives in it and weighed the pros and cons (which you clearly have), then trust your judgment and rest easy that chances are your concerns may dissipate once you start training. In the worst case scenario, transferring out is also doable.
  10. You title your post as "FRCPC" residencies painting them all as if they were the same. You frame your argument by comparing FM $ to peds/psych and using it to argue "how do people get through FRCPC residencies" lmao. Trying to hide it by arguing that these are the "biggest FRCPC specialties" is bs because you mentioned pathology which is one of the smallest. The point is that there are residencies out there which do NOT need an extra "4-5 extra brutal years during peak age of marriage/kids etc." which end up outscaling FM hard in terms of income & overall life quality (if that is what you choose to optimize for in your work schedule vs. just making a ton of money for a few years then retiring early). Sure some random FM in QC might be making 600k working his/her ass off, but almost every rad or ophtho can make that by default with a way more chill schedule nearly anywhere in the country (plus have the option of going to the US, which by the way as a Canadian trained FM, you permanently close this option and can never practice in the US as far as I understand- feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this). If you actually compare apples to apples, a specialist (in a field that actually makes decent $) can bill double that by "working very hard". And yes, when someone goes down the path of medicine needing 3-4 years of UG + 3-4 years of med school + at least 2 years of residency (at minimum assuming getting into med school on the first attempt), another 3 years is a drop in the bucket compared to the next 30-40 years of attending life.
  11. Well of course family medicine looks good when you compare it to all the low earning specialties lol. But at the same time I've also met a radiologist billing 300k+ (after overhead, before taxes) who takes 6 months off per year...so it is certainly possible to achieve an objectively better lifestyle as a specialist in the right specialty. People should just go into what they're interested in, specialties are wildly different from each other in the day-to-day work and 3 extra years is a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things imo.
  12. Don't worry too much about it - if you get a letter from your core at the satellite site, I think you will be fine. People know each other and talk behind the scenes all the time.
  13. They can practice in Canada with an accredited ACGME US residency if: (1) They are a Canadian citizen/PR, and (2) The length of residency in the US is equal to or greater than the length of residency in Canada. There may be some hoops to jump through like a few months of supervised practice (?), but it's overall a pretty straightforward process.
  14. https://www.usmle.org/inCus/ On the surface, it may seem that this change would not have much of an effect on Canadians writing the test to open up fellowship opportunities in the US, but given the huge emphasis that will be taken off this metric for the NRMP match, I wonder if more Canadians will consider applying to the US match especially for competitive specialties, now that a high USMLE score is no longer a barrier.
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