Saturday, 20 January 2007
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I sit to myself and wonder, why should a job placement, where you spend the next 5 years of your life be determined by a computer algorhythm? In all honesty, what business, or anything that offers any type of position in our great country conduct their selection process this way? What happened to a good ole interview, I like you, you like me, lets sit down and talk, shake hands and sign a contract?

Then I look at other things in our society. I look at how college football uses a computer ranking system to determine who plays in the national championship...how 1/3rd of the BCS is determined by a computer system that doesn't know players or watch games, just takes in stats as variables and spews out who is the best...I mean how wacky is that? What has our world come to?

I mean I understand great technology and all, but come on, this is ludicrous. The match is a ridiculous process for competitive specialties, it shouldn't be like this...it should be like any other interview, the interviewer likes the interviewee, he offers, interviewee excepts or declines, and on down the line...what was wrong with that? I mean it works for our entire country on down the line, its how business has been conducted for so many years, what makes this match algorhythm that much better? Is it so old fashioned to sit down and shake hands to make a commitment of 5 years, instead of "certifying" your rank list....I mean wow, what a system, what computer weanie drew this one up...just my .02 at this time, excersising my freedom of speech....
19 years ago
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Just keep bitching about the match, you will change your mind once fellowship comes around and most (except hand) specialties have "rolling" admissions. You then get screwed by not having had the luxury of being able to interview everywhere prior to deciding where you like the best. Instead you run the "risk" of being offered a spot after, say, your 3rd out of ten interviews. Maybe it is in what you envisioned your top 3. You still have to decide to take or leave it without looking at 70% of the places that were interested in you. Some specialties, like trauma, are starting to have an agreed upon date before which no one will offer spots (like the annual OTA meeting for example)

As far as why it takes several weeks to get the results, well I never understood that either. It cant take THAT long to double and triple check the results for validity (no one wants a repeat of the Urology match debacle of a few years ago when they had to REDO the whole match)
19 years ago
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What I wonder is why it takes 3 weeks for the computer to work out the matches and mail out those nice little envelopes to each program. It should be instantaneous.
19 years ago
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One problem with your plan. What happens if you interview at a place that is not your first choice before you go to your first choice and they offer you a position? They say take it or leave it (you have to decide now and they won't hold the spot). Evidently this happens enough during fellowship search that people complain about it. I am not saying the match is great, but at least it gives you the best chance at being at your first choice program without worsening your chances at other programs.
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