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I doubt such an individual would be found out (unless they were famous world wide). If they were found out, aside from gossip, any issues probably depend on the nuances of the situation.

You're basically signing up to go unmatched for a year so you can relax. If you're doing family med, path it's probably doable to match somewhere the year after. If anything else, you're just adding onto the stress the year after when you have to face the reality of possibly being unmatched "for the first time" (and in the eyes of many programs, for the second time). Honestly if I were you I'd consider applying to another specialty if the one you're looking at makes you want to give up already.

The situation reminds me of medical school where we'd regularly have mandatory small group discussions on the roles of allied health (incl. NPs) and "interprofessional days". Literally everyone was the self-described "quarterback"/essential of the medical team. Everyone but the docs basically spent hours patting themselves on the back. I don't believe unsafe expansion in scope of practice will be as severe for reasons CGreens described. But to some extent it will happen because these professions regulate themselves and many do not understand the level of training it takes to be safe. As t

They're very different specialties in most aspects except for direct patient contact... your comparison is like saying psychiatry is basically the same as cardiology just because you see patients in both. "ROAD" is an artificial acronym... you will still be taking busy call in anesthesia and radiology. To go back to OP, the very fundamentals of radiology include emergency care. Trauma, stroke, bowel ischemia, and many other acute diseases are regularly dealt with in radiology and as such the call work is busy. In pathology you'll be called in late to look at frozen sections a few times pe

IMO those are mostly subjective or reflect gamesmanship, even awards to an extent (some are influenced by a nomination process).

I find it amusing that there's a drive in the first place to standardize LORs so that they look similar to med student evals. Honestly if they removed a few words here and there like "tearfulness" I doubt there would be much to be outraged about.

I'm not a pathologist but once autonomy has been lost, it is very hard to regain.

The junior residents "are slower" because attendings spend time teaching junior residents. The extenders also had more big misses than the junior residents. FYI the paper was also retracted.

Anecdote but I knew two people who wanted to leave. They're now in a surg specialty & radiology. If you search up programs that list their residents, you can see that there are residents from the East coast across various programs in Western Canada/Ontario. Honestly it's not any different from a BC student wanting to come to Ontario, or Ontario to BC, which happens all the time. For radiology (and most specialties), do an elective at places where you want to go and do well. Assuming no red flags and you look reasonable on paper, historically that has been sufficient express interest i

It is difficult, but people are mostly speaking relatively to their 2nd year. Other specialty residency 1st years are typically even more work/stress. Internal medicine, surgery, radiology all spend essentially all of their first year doing inpatient rotations in medicine/surgery/ER. In contrast most FM programs have eliminated surgical rotations from mandatory curriculum so as long as you're comfortable with some inpatient medicine/ER/OBGYN you'll be fine. If you do end up in one of the few programs that still mandates a surgical rotation or two, it'll be a bit tougher but it's the same

More than half of billings disappears to overhead and taxes. Then some of the money has to be set aside from other debt acquired during residency, typically a mortgage. When you join a practice there may be some need to pay out some initial lump sum or the group may ask for some portion of your billings as a junior attending (usually in saturated academic centres). Then you'll be paying per month for things like disability, life, health insurance, and retirement. Still, all in all FM is a good career from the financial perspective. Attending positions are generally still considered well p

The general interest levels rise in FM as students get closer to the match in M4. In the earlier years students want to keep their options open and some of the competitive mindset from premed is still winding down. Once the reality of clinical years hit, lots of the idealized sunshine and roses are wiped away and many become dissuaded with spending 5+ years of their lives training in the hospital doing q4-q7 call (or worse). Additional factors include students realizing they have to consider their SO's life/family life, learning more about the job market reality for many specialists, watc

Can't really lump all those cities together IMO. The situation is also less clear cut as some people can find jobs but not in things they want to do or are underemployed.

There are very few dedicated NM physicians. The majority of NM programs have integrated with radiology to become a fellowship; the remainder feel academic in nature to me. As noted above, job prospects are often difficult and rely purely on word of mouth & retirees. Over the years the bread-and-butter of the specialty has been taken over by radiology (and cardiology for the heart). This does not mean nuclear medicine is becoming less important. PET/CT has or is becoming standard of care for malignancy staging (e.g. look at how recent PSMA PET/CT is and how quickly it has revolutionize

This is pretty inaccurate, most of the listed specialties are 1-2 years less. Lots of specialties do not need fellowships to practice or need less than what you're describing.