Having a hard time matching. Who do you blame?

Who is to blame for people not matching?

There's no need to look far. The culprit is right around the corner. Turn right and walk down the hallway until you come across the large mirror on the wall. Yes. Its you. Its me. We are to blame for having a difficult time matching.

You can only blame yourself for the blemishes on your record; you can only blame yourself for not buffing up your resume; you can only blame yourself for not putting in the kind of effort that others have put in; you can only blame yourself for going to school out of the US. 

This is my second time applying for the match. I did not match the first time around because I know my application had holes. If I had been more cautious and cognizant of what I needed to do I would not be in this situation. It is where I am so I worked hard to build up my resume. 

That said, there is another even bigger culprit and that is the system itself. Think about it, if we have shortage of doctors and we have a plethora of medical school graduates, why should there any problems filling the spots? Exactly, there shouldn’t be a problem. However, there is. Change is necessary, both long lasting change dealing with how residents are hired and trained, and short term solutions dealing with ways graduates can utilize their degrees to do something patient related.

There are glimpses of short term solutions.Some states are tackling this problem by providing other avenues where MD’s can utilize their degrees. These attempts are still in their infancy. Hopefully, soon there will be more pervasive changes to the residency system to give more competent physicians the ability to serve patients.

Until things change to accommodate more applicants, we need to accept part of the blame for having a difficult time matching. We need to take an honest look at the short comings of our applications and then aggressively work on buffing up our resumes.

There are 20 days to the Match now. Good luck everyone.


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