Program descriptions from previous years

[jphogenbach267]

Is there anyway to lookup CARMS programs descriptions from previous years?  I know that CARMS archives has only information from most recent year but the electives were disrupted due to the pandemic and they don't have any information on it. I was wondering if I can look up descriptions from prior years when electives were part of evaluation?

 

Thanks.

[bearded frog]

The previous years descriptions are available at https://www.carms.ca/match/r-1-main-residency-match/program-descriptions-archive-first-iteration/, but as far as I can tell doing a little digging the ones prior to that are not easily accessed. The way the descriptions are displayed (injected via javascript from the program's page on their portal) means that the Wayback machine etc. doesn't work either. If you know javascript you might be able to scrub through the individual page description tokens (https://phx.e-carms.ca/phoenix-web/pd/ajax/program/XXXX/YYYYY, where I think the XXXX number doesn't matter because it just shows which match, but the 5 digit YYYYY seems to be every description, without indicating which ones are actually present).