Hello all! It’s been a while since I posted about not matching into general surgery earlier this year and I wanted to post an update about my intern year and how I’ve been doing. For everyone who told me as a med student that residency is hard and I will want to go back to […]
My Journey: The SOAP
For those who don’t know, the SOAP (Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program) is a program designed to help applicants who didn’t match find a spot at programs who had unfilled spots. Unfilled categorical general surgery spots are very rare and there were almost none this year. On the other hand, there are usually hundreds of […]
My Journey: Match Day
The weeks leading up to match week seemed to last forever. I was doing the ACGME match so we already had to wait more than a month after our colleagues partaking in the AOA match found out where they were going. I was thankful to still be on rotations so I’d be distracted throughout the […]
