Re: Going into medicine
From: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD (zygote@icsi.net)
Sun Jan 30 14:09:50 2005
Prelim data suggests only 650-700 Am graduates will be applying for 1150 slots.
About the same as last year!
On 28 Jan 2005 at 12:42, dean@thehuffpeople.net wrote:
> .
>
> I think the match rate for OB/GYN last year was about 65-70%. Wonder
> what it will be this coming March?
>
> Dean Huffman
>
> - - - -
>
> Quoting "D. Ashley Hill" <dahmd@cfl.rr.com>: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:07:53
> -0600
>
> > I'm not surprised. I have not met a medical student in the past 3
> > years who has chosen ob/gyn. When I ask why not, they all tell me
> > "too many hours, too much stress, not enough sleep, too many chances
> > for things to go wrong during delivery, and too many lawsuits."
> >
> > Ashley
> >
> > At Fri, 28 Jan 2005, art fougner, md wrote:
> > >
> > >FInally, this little gem -
> > >
> > >of the 128 graduates of U of Maryland Medical School in 2003, NONE
> > >chose to pursue a career in Obstetrics.
> > >
> > >art
> > >
> > >At Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
> > >>
> > >>Following our comments about crazy to go into medicine these days,
> > >>I am wondering what you'd say in teh following instance.
> > >>
> > >>I am sure we all get these questions. What is your response when
> > >>a patient says "my daughter / son wants to go into medicine ...
> > >>can he / she come talk with you?"
> > >>
> > >>--
> > >>Joanne Bulley, MD
> > >>Keene, NH, USA
> > >>
> > >>"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary
> > >>security, deserve neither liberty nor security." -- Benjamin
> > >>Franklin
> > >>
> > >--
> > >art fougner, md
> > >
> > > "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere
> > > else."
> > >Lawrence Peter Berra
> > >
> >
> > --
> > D. Ashley Hill, MD
> > Associate Director
> > Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
> > Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency
> > and Loch Haven Ob/Gyn Group
> > Orlando, Florida
> >
>
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Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD
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