Graduating medical students undergo a cutthroat “match” process pairing them with a residency program for postgrad training. It's often a joyful, but also stressful, moment for students, one that Dobbs has made much more complicated. andreagonram reports
Rose Al Abosy was on the last day of their maternal-fetal medicine sub-internship last year when thecame down. The end of the constitutional right to an abortion made it clear to the fourth-year medical student at Boston University that they could apply to obstetrics and gynecology residency programs only in states where the procedure is protected. “Residency applications are very, very competitive,” they say. “It is a risk to narrow your list in a geographic way.
So Al Abosy, who is also a board member of Medical Students for Choice, a nonprofit that helps offer abortion training to students, applied to 80 programs — nearly twice as many as the 40 to 50 applications that advisers typically recommend. The process was grueling; Al Abosy had to research programs, attend orientations, discuss their options with residents and mentors, prepare for interviews, and try to figure out the political landscape before ranking their preferred choices.
Graduating medical students like Al Abosy undergo a cutthroat “match” process that pairs them with a residency program at hospitals where they’ll continue their postgraduate training. There are a finite number of slots available, especially in highly competitive specialties such as OB/GYN, for the 40,000 people
in the U.S. As a step that signals the culmination of medical school, matching is often a joyful, but also stressful, moment for students, one thathas made much more complicated. “What I did and what everyone around me did was do their best under very, very uncertain circumstances,” Al Abosy says. When applying to a residency program, medical students have always weighed a wide range of factors, including location, specialization, access to the populations they hope to serve, and research opportunities. Ariana Traub, a third-year medical student at Emory University, has been surveying other medical students about howhas affected their career decisions.
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