Ireland vs SGU

I WILL ONLY SAY THIS ONE MORE TIME YOU ****************S

It's called I have classmates from a very well regarded medical school in the ****ing US of A that were way smart and hard working, and when things didn't go right for their career, ie didn't match, didn't match well, or had to try for a different program, (all of them mostly due to family/medical problems and understandable, but there is always someone to take your place) IT IS VERY UGLY AND SOME NEVER GET TO PRACTICE CLINICAL MEDICINE EVER AGAIN DESPITE BEST EFFORTS.

Please, tell me, how many people with US MDs and matching issues do you know? I know at least 5 personally from my own class. Two students I know a year behind me, and another after that. There was an IMG dismissal and suicide in the news reported on the board in the last year. One other thread of match despair I read yesterday. 2 others I can think of from SDN in the last month. 4 IMG colleagues of mine IRL that were research faculty at well regarded US schools for years before they got a chance at residency just because some AMGs got too sick to finish categorical intern years and they had majorly impressive post grad apps and not from the Carribean and their fellow faculty pulled the strings, these were MDs that had another path and had to accept they would never get a chance and another caeer but for serendipity 3-5 years later. Those positions never got posted they just got filled. Another very good grad from my school a year ahead that was AOA and a tutor and was unlucky in match and years later stuck in research no matter what they've tried. Another one that took time off mid med school due to physical injury, in terms of yrs enrolled the ERAS will see a red flag, let's see how the match goes.

Just accept that if you don't match you had better be prepared to hang up that steth and get another degree, or do research, and it will be be uphill with tears and with a lot of debt.

Turns out residents and attendings know a helluva a lot more about life on the other side of that ****ing piece of paper called a medical diploma no matter where it comes from than anyone without it.

Knowing what I know from first hand experience, if I went back to do it over and you tried to force me to attend even a US medical school set in paradise but with an 80-90% match rate based on statistics they WON'T provide, I would burn that insitution to the ground instead. Seeing what happened firsthand to peers you couldn't get me to accept anything less than a 97% match rate, and match day that's still enough to make you wanna piss your pants.

Before you say "well you just went to some **** school" let me remind you, having even up to 5 unlucky kids, it was a 97% match success rate. Go to a school where the only reason there's ises in the match is cancer or a set of twin babies, not YOUR ****ING DIPLOMA.

The most important thing to know about a medical school is their step 1 pass rate and match rate. You must do both with success or WILL NOT BE A DOCTOR IN THESE UNITED STATES.

M'KAY?

Please google "not matching residency kiss of death."

Or cling to some imaginary idea that if you get an MD you've got the golden ticket.

Smh.

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Ireland vs SGU