So how exactly do you get a residency?

Pre-Med & Medical School
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<p>Im curious as i do not know how this works and would like to pursue medicine in the future.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.nrmp.org/”>http://www.nrmp.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Your med school performance (grades, standardized scores, research, clinical rotation evaluations, aptitudes, interests, letters of recommendation) determines your eligibility to enter specific specialties. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/programresultsbyspecialty2012.pdf”>http://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/programresultsbyspecialty2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://residency.wustl.edu/CHOOSING/Pages/ChoosingASpecialty.aspx”>http://residency.wustl.edu/CHOOSING/Pages/ChoosingASpecialty.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Near the beginning of your 4th year of med school, you will be asked to identify one or perhaps two potential specialties. During your 4th year, you will complete more in-depth and comprehensive elective clinical rotations ( called a sub-I) in your interest areas. In early August of your 4th year, you will apply to residency programs in your chosen specialty. After 1-3 months of intensive interviewing, you will submit a ranked list of programs to the NRMP. The programs will also submit a ranked list of candidates they want to enroll. (For a well qualified candidate to a less or moderately competitive specialty, 12-18 programs is typical. For competitive specialties, the list can be up to 40-50 programs.) A computer algorithm will match the 2 lists.</p>

<p>If you fail to match, there is a week long SOAP (Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program) where unmatched med grads are placed in any available remaining residency positions. (And not necessarily in your specialty choice.) An unmatched resident also has the option of “sitting out” a year, improving his application and trying again the next year. However, the longer a med grad remains unmatched the less likely it is he will ever match into a residency.</p>

<p>Currently the number of residency training positions exceeds the number of US med grads (MD and DO); however, starting around 2016-18, the number of US medical grads will exceed the number of available residency slots unless Congress changes the funding formula or state legislatures step up to fill the funding shortfall. (IOW, don’t hold your breath….)</p>

<p>The process matching into fellowship subspecialties (like into cardiology from IM) is very similar to the residency matching process–including the use of computerized matching algorithm.</p>

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<p>@WayOutWestMom‌ thanks for a great answer! Answered all my questions. </p>

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<p>Attend Med. School, everything else just follow. If you are not in Medical school, then you do not care one way or another. You will not antestand anyway, no reason to inguie, nobody who has no connection to a Medical School will understand.</p>