pekingroastedduck Posted March 17, 2021 Report Share Posted March 17, 2021 Currently MS2 with almost no research and average-below average ECs during med school. I am interested in IM and IM seems to be getting more and more competitive each year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded frog Posted March 17, 2021 Report Share Posted March 17, 2021 This is an impossible question. For 2020 IM, of 453 first choice applicants, 408 (90%) matched to IM, 36 (7.9%) matched to a 2nd choice, and 9 went unmatched (2%). 1172 people applied to FM as a second or lower discipline choice, and 264 (23%) matched to FM as their 2nd or lower choice (Although I'm sure many of them matched to their first choice making this number not terribly helpful). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corona_with_lyme Posted March 17, 2021 Report Share Posted March 17, 2021 Depends on how broadly you apply. And of course, the more interview offers you get, the higher chance you will match somewhere. From 2020 interview data for CMGs, only 57.11% of applications to IM programs received an interview offer. For FM, it was 87.5% CMG applications that received interview offers (only Anatomical Pathology, Neurosurgery (probably due to self-selection) and Medical Genetics have higher % of interview offers). 2021 data might be looking even worse. With trends for increasing subjectivity and stochasticity of CaRMS selection process, I think there only 2 main antidotes to this: a) you increase the quality of your application by targeting multiple attendings (ideally at different schools) who will write you strong research+clinical reference letters; b) applying to the maximum # of programs you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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