tarzi Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Hello - just wanted to get an idea of how difficult it is to match into your 1st choice specialty assuming that it's part of the ROAD and surgical specialties? Do a large % of students wishing to enter those fields end up matching into their 2nd choices instead? Are there students who somehow get pushed into primary care because other fields are too competitive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsteen Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Hello - just wanted to get an idea of how difficult it is to match into your 1st choice specialty assuming that it's part of the ROAD and surgical specialties? Do a large % of students wishing to enter those fields end up matching into their 2nd choices instead? Are there students who somehow get pushed into primary care because other fields are too competitive? Hi there, In terms of surgery, the competitiveness of the program depends largely on the discipline. The ratio of spots to applicants is much smaller for Plastics or ENT, on average, than for other surgical specialties. The CaRMS "Statistics" section is a good source for this type of data. Cheers, Kirsteen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0tus Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Hey, Here's a link to the CARMS site that Kirsteen mentioned: http://www.carms.ca/eng/operations_R1stat_e.shtml These are the numbers for 2006 (taken from the CARMS site): Keep in mind that the numbers change every year. Except for the ROAD (+ Otolaryngology) specialties and a few others (Obs/Gyn), 80% of Canadian grads matched to their preferred specialty. The success rates by program are a lot less, but if you are dead set on a particular specialty you should be reasonably successful matching into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzi Posted February 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 Hey, Here's a link to the CARMS site that Kirsteen mentioned: http://www.carms.ca/eng/operations_R1stat_e.shtml These are the numbers for 2006 (taken from the CARMS site): Keep in mind that the numbers change every year. Except for the ROAD (+ Otolaryngology) specialties and a few others (Obs/Gyn), 80% of Canadian grads matched to their preferred specialty. The success rates by program are a lot less, but if you are dead set on a particular specialty you should be reasonably successful matching into it. Are there statistics for IM residents who match into their first choice fellowship - such as cardiology? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuma Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Hey, Those matches are done seperately from CARMS, so there is no central source for those kinds of stats. (that I know of) Good luck with your career planning! Keep in mind that by the time you get to that stage of decision making, things may be quite a bit different than they are now. So try not to focus too far down the road in terms of matching...never hurts to try and figure out what specialty you like though since most of us change our minds as we go along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackers Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 For the R4 match, the numbers of applicant offers and accepted positions are available on the website for this year; however, I don't think there is a national list of how many people applied to each fellowship. You can count the number of subspecialty spots across the country for each discipline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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