carms2015 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 Can anyone (i.e. resident) comment on which family medicine residencies are most competitive and least competitive. It is not practical for me to attend all interviews since I received interviews from every program except Northern, Laval, Newfoundland. I would like to attend interviews at several "safety" schools to ensure I successfully match (if such safety schools exist) Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newfie Posted January 3, 2015 Report Share Posted January 3, 2015 I can't speak to competitiveness of various programs, but I do think that unless there's something wrong with your application, you're doing pretty okay with that number of interviews. Interview at the programs that interest you, as many as is practical, and then rank accordingly. I can only speak for myself but I wouldn't want to suffer through a program that I didn't like in a city I didn't want to live in, just because I wanted a "safe" option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkmedic Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Based on last year's experiences and which programs all filled out in first iteration, competitive FM programs include : Toronto, UBC (urban sites like St. Paul's), Queen's, and Calgary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conan88 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Can anyone comment whether any FM programs use MMI as their interview format (sorry if the answer is available online as I can't seem to find it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drake19 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Can anyone comment whether any FM programs use MMI as their interview format (sorry if the answer is available online as I can't seem to find it). They j n dicate which ones ard mmi in the intefview invitation ? They all say how manh pol inte r vies you and time lenght I th I n km only alberta schools are mmi correct if erong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkmedic Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 Can anyone comment whether any FM programs use MMI as their interview format (sorry if the answer is available online as I can't seem to find it). I haven't heard of any FM programs using MMI as an interview format. I attended a handful of FM interviews last year, and from talking to friends who also interviewed for FM, no one seemed to have had to do MMI. They're all panel format, with either one or two interviewers in the room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubcgrad12345 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 St. Paul's Hospital Family Medicine at UBC is the most competitive program in the country. Some of the sites at U of T (St. Mike's, Sinai, TWH) are probably almost as competitive, but at U of T you match to the school first and there's a second match for the site, so the program as a whole isn't as competitive as St. Paul's. Hard to say which is the least competitive program…there's plenty of rural programs that regularly don't fill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I can't speak to competitiveness of various programs, but I do think that unless there's something wrong with your application, you're doing pretty okay with that number of interviews. Interview at the programs that interest you, as many as is practical, and then rank accordingly. I can only speak for myself but I wouldn't want to suffer through a program that I didn't like in a city I didn't want to live in, just because I wanted a "safe" option. Yeah but that would only happen if you failed to match everywhere else by definition (as you would rake your less desired options last). So the the question is whether you would rather go unmatched completely than spend two years in a city/program you didn't like as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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