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I am interested in Opthalmology, however realize it is a competitive field. Can someone give me an idea as to how competitive (ie. how many schools offer the program, how many applied, etc.)?

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Guest Ian Wong

Ophtho is right up there at the top of the competitiveness scale. This last year might have been a bit of an aberration, with CaRMS stats of 41% matching their first choice program, and 78% matching into an Ophtho program somewhere.

 

www.carms.ca/stats/stats2003.htm

 

Usually the numbers are quite a bit lower than this, ie: for 2002, it was 41% matching their first choice, but only 59% matching into a program somewhere.

 

These are the programs that offer Ophthalmology residencies in Canada:

 

www.carms.ca/programdir/spec.htm#OPHTHALMOLOGY

 

In general, the entire CaRMS site is worth browsing through, as there's lots of old statistics and other such information available.

http://www.carms.ca

 

Ian

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