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carms competition for rads this year

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Hopefully this is not true....because that would be a sad, sad day for medicine in Canada.

 

I remember reading an interesting editorial written by an ER doc a while back. One of the points he argued was that when half the class of Harvard goes into derm (which they do), there is a serious prevalence of "doctors not behaving as doctors" syndrome. Don't get me wrong, skin is important. But to be the most competitive residency in North America--sad, sad situation.

 

There are obviously people out there who enjoy working with skin. My problem is with the more ubiquitous derm hopeful who actually finds skin boring. I could never possibly believe that "genuine" interest in SKIN could be that high.

Can you please link to this editorial?

 

Half the Harvard class going into Derm just sounds peculiar to me.

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I saw the match list somewhere, and about 15 students matched into derm.

 

Oh, that's still less than 10%...

 

Anyway, some people are gonna be in medicine for easy money (or so they think). It doesn't surprise me that this number is sizable and more than 10% at any med school. Going to Harvard makes one more likely to be a high achiever and capable of getting into what I read is the best lifestyle specialty.

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