Re: low match rate
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon May 5 09:42:02 2003
Dan
i remembered being told by the late Irwin Kaiser
MD that the Board was looking to certify folks who could bail out a GP
in the middle of the night. times have surely changed.
art
At Mon, 5 May 2003, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>
>On the other hand the law of supply and demand is kicking in. We have
>way too many "OBGYN's" So to keep us busy we have become "Primary care".
>There are people going to take their oral boards who haven't done a hyst
>since finishing their residency.
>
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rossmann@pol.net [mailto:rossmann@pol.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:49 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: low match rate
>
>I hoped, that my daughter and my son in law will chose OB-GYN residency
>to
>continue family tradition, but they both decided for internal medicine.
>I
>am not surprised, considering my $140,000 yearly liability insurance
>premium and rising.
>Charles Rossmann, M.D.
>Valdosta,GA
>http://www.rossmann.salu.net
>
>> Read the other day that ob/gyn residencies matched at one of their
>> lowest levels in years. Things have really changed from when I applied
>> for residencies '89 and ob/gyn was one of the most competitive
>> residencies to match. My partner and I were talking about the match,
>> and remarked that we would have a hard time recommending this
>specialty
>> to a new grad. Don't get me wrong, I love my specialty and take home
>a
>> lot of job satisfaction. But considering all the adverse events
>> happening outside the clinic door but having a direct effect on
>> activities behind the clinic door, I don't think I could recommend
>> ob/gyn to a student. In a way that really saddens me because I think
>> it's a great area of practice. Curious whether others could recommend
>> the specialty to others. Especially curious how our brethren in
>> academia counsel students seeking advice.
>>
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>> Charlie Chambers
>> Hood River, OR USA
>> cchamber@alumni.rice.edu
>>
>> "All good things...come by grace,
>> and grace comes by art,
>> and art does not come easy."
>>
>> Norman Maclean
>>
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
