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13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
So tonight is the deadline for posting my Rank Order List for residency.
It's in. It's certified. It's final.
The programs have also entered their Rank Order Lists. They're final.
And so now the computers at the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) will start churning away. And there is nothing I or anyone else can do at this point to sway the outcome.
On 17 March I will get an envelope. Inside that envelope will be my assignment. On that day, I will be a VERY busy boy. I need to call the program, I need to start looking for apartments, I need to tell everyone I know where I'm moving, I need to find a new doctor, a new dentist, etc.
But for now, as far as the Match is concerned, there is nothing to do...
...but wait.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
Good luck, Lightning!
My fingers are crossed that you get your first choice!
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
Still wiggling
5,967 posts
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Good luck Lightning... hope you have a great St Patrick's day (march 17)!!!
Getting to the other side 
Returning to a unique state of Equilibrium
3,289 posts
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
good luck matey! Theres no fate but what we make!
Josh
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Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom
Good Luck
Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...
Pasta of Muppets
2,722 posts
Location: in the interwebs..., United Kingdom
best of, good buddy!
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Running hippy spinning lemming
15 posts
Location: Scotland
good luck Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering...
Sporadically Prodigal
2,758 posts
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
ooooo - I don't envy you! You must be excited and frustrated and impatient and full of anticipation. What a combo.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
...exciting times......nerve racking times....
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
Lambretta Fanatic
4,998 posts
Location: United Kingdom
good luck dude.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
The funny thing is that I'm surprisingly calm about all this. Rather curious to find out, but not very anxious.
Normally, the nail-biting would start now, followed by butt-clenching, then teeth-grinding, then hair pulling. thus, by 17 March, I would be a nail-less, constipated, toothless, bald guy...
But for some reason...I just know that even if I hit the very bottom of my rank list, I'll be happy.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
what does your ranking look like?
-v-
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member
88 posts
Location: Nottingham (UK)
Good luck dude. Remeber ranking favours the natural born writers of fiction, and is a monkey process regardless.
Yes you will start work.... But finding a dentist/doctor/sensible things, hell I haven't done that yet and I've been working since Aug 04 (oops). Real life kinda slips
All the best for March 17th
(Resist the transferrence of anxiety that occurs in any medic population-avoid them!)
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Well, I need a doctor because I have ADHD and ankylosing spondylitis and I need someone to write me for Enbrel and Concerta (two drugs you don't, to my knowlege, have in the UK.)
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
Good luck!! Maybe you're not nervous, because you know something good will come of it! Or maybe, because you already stated, you're already happy, even if you'd be at the bottom. So, it's less stress for you. Just ride it out, the envelope will come, and I guess things'll start changing!!
I really hope you get a good posting!~ Bobo
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ah...my rank list is as such:
(all of these are for pediatrics)
1) UCLA Community Health Advocacy Track
2) UCLA Categorical General Pediatrics Track
3) Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore (Bronx, NY)
4) Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi (Bronx, NY)
5) Children's Hospital of LA
6) Children's Hospital of Orange County
7) North Shore Long Island Jewish (Long Island, NY)
8) Harbor-UCLA (Torrance, LA area)
9) Tulane (New Orleans)
10) Rush (Chicago)
11) Emory (Atlanta)
Now, I've said that if I hit anywhere in my top 4 choices, I'll be positively ECSTATIC on Match day. And #4 has told me that they're ranking me highly. Which guarantees nothing, but there you have it.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ok. So at this point I'm pretty sure the computers at the NRMP are done with their job. Now, it is up to the reviewers to hand-sort the results and make sure that nobody got screwed.
Which means the match is done. The result is set.
I just don't get to find out what it is... And now the impatience is setting in.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
member
88 posts
Location: Nottingham (UK)
We have TNF a blockers but never herd of the ADHD one... But then I don't come accross much of that (Emergency Medicine).
As I said good luck, I trust they afford you a nice hoiliday prior to starting
Now back to the fascinating world of Primary Subclavian Vein Thrombosis (presentations... Always a pleasure and a joy... And a chance to freak out the squares with a touch of knights move thinking and some RANDOM pictures)
L8R
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
So...Monday is "Black Monday," the day we get told if we didn't match anywhere. I'm expecting not to hear anything.
And a week from tomorrow is...
Match Day.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
2,014 posts
Location: Galveston, TX, USA
Is mtach day not standard at all universities? UTMB is having it's match day on Monday, the 14th. Does that mean our people that don't get matched will have a few day advantage over the people at your place that don't?
517 posts
Location: Sheffield, England
Best of luck mate.
4) Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi (Bronx, NY)
sounds alright.
Jo.
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Ah...my rank list is as such:
(all of these are for pediatrics)
1) UCLA Community Health Advocacy Track
2) UCLA Categorical General Pediatrics Track
3) Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore (Bronx, NY)
4) Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi (Bronx, NY)
5) Children's Hospital of LA
6) Children's Hospital of Orange County
7) North Shore Long Island Jewish (Long Island, NY)
8) Harbor-UCLA (Torrance, LA area)
Wow, you're just trying to be me.
(Living in NYC with 2 UCLA degrees.)
Go Bruins!
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Match Day is the 17th at all med schools. However, Monday is "Black Monday," the day they tell you if you didn't match. That's also standard at all institutions.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
214 posts
Location: London, Brixton
Goooood luck mate
All the best
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Yeah, I dreamed about it last night... I just want Monday to pass uneventfully at this point.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
One day...
And then three.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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