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Memories of the resident scramble
Editor’s note: Hello readers, Today’s blog post was written by frequent Residency Manager Blog commenter and radiology residency coordinator, Diane Slosser. Enjoy!
As I paraded candidates through my program today, I had a flashback to the time we had four slots open and matched with no one. It was my very first year as a coordinator. . . my first interview season, my first rank, and now my first scramble. I had no idea what was coming.
Monday’s Poll: New candidate application deadlines
Saving ERAS applications electronically
Does everyone download copies of matched candidates’ ERAS applications?
If not, you should consider it. They’re good to have for future use and reference. I just encountered a situation where I needed an ERAS application of a transfer resident, and his intern year institution only had a hard copy.
After Match Day, It is extremely easy to just download a PDF copy of the ERAS application for all of your your matched residents. You can pick and choose which documents you want, but you might as well download the whole application.
Once they’re on my computer, we save them in folders categorized by year. This way we have them forever. I recommend you put a strong security software, such as a firewall, on the computer you store these documents because they contain so much identity-sensitive information.
While I keep a hard copy too, it is great to have the electronic version also because many resident want to see their files when they apply to fellowship. (I exclude the score sheets when I send back to them)
Does anyone else have any other clever ideas for storing ERAS applications for your residents?
Match data available
If you or your program director like data regarding the Match, the NRMP Web site has some interesting statistics summarizing the March Match results. A press release on the site says, “The 2008 Match offered more positions and made more matches than ever before in the NRMP’s history, and the match rate for U.S. allopathic seniors (94.2 percent) was the highest in 30 years.”
The Web site also offers a more in depth look at the Match results in a 100 page report, “Results and Data: 2008 Main Residency Match.”
Check them out…
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