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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Dominate the Match – Episode 4: "Rank and Match"

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Interview season is over! There’s just one last hurdle in this residency application process to overcome- ranking and matching! Join our education fellow, Dr. Jessica Millar, and Dr. Charles Friel as they pull back the curtain on the ranking process and discuss how tooptimize your success in the match!

Guest:
Charles Friel, MD- Professor of Colorectal Surgery, Surgical Director - Digestive Center of Excellence, Chief - Section of Colon & Rectal Surgery, and General Surgery Residency Program Director- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

“How the NRMP Matching Algorithm Works”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvgfgGmemdA&list=PLr0LH_NifZSpvQTwTqXVYn9jXfUKOTFN6&index=11

Important Dates
1. Ranking opens 2/1 at 12PM
2. Rank lists are due 3/1 at 9PM
3. Match status available 3/13 at 10AM
4. Match day results available 3/17 at 12PM EST

Please visit https://behindtheknife.org to access other high-yield surgical education podcasts, videos and more.

If you liked this episode, check out the rest of our “Dominate the Match Series” here: https://behindtheknife.org/podcast-series/medical-student-and-intern-survival-guide/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you

0:12.0

dominate the day.

0:22.5

Are you a passionate surgical educator with something to say?

0:25.7

Then join behind the Knife and let the world hear.

0:28.4

Behind the Knife is the number one surgery podcast in the world, with each episode

0:31.6

reaching 20,000 listeners.

0:33.8

Our current group of subspecialty teams have created incredibly diverse and engaging

0:38.0

content, but their commitments are nearly finished and we want to open up the opportunity

0:42.2

to all of our listeners.

0:43.7

We're looking for teams of three to four surgeons who will develop one new subspecialty

0:47.4

podcast every four months.

0:49.6

To learn more, check out the show notes or contact us at hello at BehindTheKnife.org.

0:55.0

Applications are due February 13th.

0:57.2

Welcome back to Behind the Knife and part four of our Dominate the Match series.

1:02.2

We hope you've been enjoying the series so far and have found our tips and tricks helpful

1:05.6

throughout the residency application and interview cycle.

1:09.2

We hope everyone had a successful and fun interview season and that you're looking forward

1:13.1

to the next part of the residency application process, ranking and matching.

1:18.6

This was probably the most fun and you had the most anxiety-producing part of this whole

1:22.8

process for me.

1:24.4

Today, we'll focus on pulling back the curtain and discussing how the match process actually

1:28.9

works, how you should approach your rank list in order to be successful, and couples matching

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