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FSU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE ANNOUNCES MATCH DAY RESULTS</p>
<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-- All 73 students in the FSU College of Medicine Class of 2009 received notification today of where they will enter residency training this summer after graduation.</p>
<p>Thirty-three of the 73 graduating students, or 45 percent, are entering residency in primary care specialties, including family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine and obstetrics/gynecology.</p>
<p>Other students matched in anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, neurology, ophthalmology, pathology, psychiatry, radiology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and urology.</p>
<p>The quality of the programs to which our graduating students have matched is exceptional, validating the medical education they have received from a faculty that includes more than 1,500 of the best physicians in the state of Florida, said Dr. John Fogarty, dean of the College of Medicine.</p>
<p>The residency match, conducted annually by the National Resident Matching Program, is the primary system that matches applicants to residency programs with available positions at U.S. teaching hospitals. Graduating medical students across the country receive their match information at the same time on the same day.
<p>Congratulations to all the FSU medical college graduates!</p>
<p>Fifty-two of the 73 graduating students, or 71 percent, are entering residency training outside of Florida. The outside of Florida residency appointments are at some excellent, well known hospitals; but how many of these FSU medical college graduates will return to Florida to practice medicine? Only two graduates get to go to the “mother of all Florida public hospitals” Jackson Memorial in Miami.</p>
Sure it does, at least if you’re talking a US residency program. There are vastly <em>more</em> residency spots in the US than medical school graduates – if memory serves, it’s something on the order of 40% more.</p>
<p>Jackson’s OB/GYN program is on probation and not too many instate students want to go there for that specialty. And FSU is a community based medical school. Not too many FSU students want to turn around and go to a residency program in a huge teaching hospital in the inner city. Others have have spent their entire lives in Florida, and want to venture out of state at least for residency. And since FSU is community based, there is no central teaching hospital, and no home hospital full of residency training spots to keep them. There are a vew that look for a big hospital since they did not have that exposure at FSU. They took senior electives at big teaching hospitals and decided to return there to train. </p>
<p>The problem in Florida is that we are adding UCF, FIU and FAU Med Schools but not focusing on postgraduate residency training slots. The majority of Florida medical school graduates will have to go out of state once these programs start graduating physicians. And we will loose a lot of those students. Some will stay due to the contacts they have made away at residency. Some will stay and do fellowships. Some will meet a spouse and put down roots. Too many will not be back.</p>
<p>BlueDevilMike, students at med schools everywhere DO NOT MATCH under the matching program. In fact they have to scramble for a slot in a program that did not fill. Several days before match, medical school deans have to notify the students that did not match, and they have to scramble to find a slot in a program that did not fill. Students who are in the lower quartile of their program, or who did not score well during medical school, or who did not interview well (smart but lacking people skills) may aim too high. They might apply and interview at programs that are all reaches. If you don’t have a safety, or if you think a reach is a safety, you won’t match. You might end up taking a general internship year, and having to start over again with the match the following year. </p>
<p>Sorry, but just because you get into med school, does not mean you are guaranteed a slot on Match Day. The process remains competitive throughout, and there is no senioritis, or reason you can slack off once your in.</p>
<p>First, something approximating 95% of US seniors <em>do</em> in fact match.</p>
<p>Second, that’s not actually the original claim we were discussing. The original claim was that not everybody gets a residency slot. Everybody does, in fact, get a residency spot. 5% of them (or so) have to scramble, but they still get a residency.</p>
<p>All i know is that after high school i can not slack off, if i want to be a surgeon i have to exceed a gpa of 3.6 (thats the average GPA for med schools), i am aiming for a 3.8-4.0. Im also gonna study like a maniac to get a really high score on the MCAT.</p>
<p>Just bear in mind that not all students who study hard automatically do well on the MCAT. “Studying like a maniac” is important, but it is not sufficient on its own. Many people work very hard and still do poorly.</p>
<p>Absolutely. Just remember that doing your best doesn’t necessarily mean an obsessive focus on one particular plan – at this age, it’s best to explore broadly and follow diverse interests.</p>
<p>of course, im planning on doing a major in Political Science and do all my core science classes, then start studying for the MCAT. Dont get me wrong, im also going to enjoy college.</p>
<p>I only mentioned Jackson Memorial because it truly is unique in Florida the way it serves such a diverse population, on such a large scale. The large numbers of poor it serves in Miami-Dade surely brings it within the scope of FSU’s stated mission of providing care for underserved populations. Many of the hospitals FSU med grads will be doing their residencies at have different departments under probation, just like Jackson Memorial. It isn’t a big deal as long as the hospitals correct their shortcomings.</p>
<p>P2N, You’re right. Posting on cc once in a while helps sharpen my always in need of improvement writing skills.</p>
<p>One thing I recently discovered reading about medical colleges is that Florida didn’t have a medical college of its own until UM opened in the early 1950s and UF a few years later. In the big picture, Florida medical colleges are all young. Still to this date, Florida doctors get much of their training outside Florida as evidenced by the number of recent FSU med school graduates doing their residency training in other states. </p>
<p>The FSU medical college appears to be on the right track with what they are accomplishing.</p>