No interviews!

Thank you for that post, very helpful. When you are looking through applications in regard to Geographic area, do you look at hometown, where they went to college, and medical school. If so, which one is most important to you? Thank you.

Alright all you ortho ballers, I'm going to need some of you to start canceling one or two of your 65 interviews so that I can jump on those openings. Throw a dog a bone!

Anyone else in the "no interviews" club? I some programs to put the HOPE back into ortHOPEdics...

After reading this I realize more and more that selection process is a joke
ERAS was initiated to match the applicants to the program of their choice and vice verse. It was not invented to eliminate people's future. Ortho is just different speciality and not a prise for academic achievements. Out-screening applicants by score/AOA eliminates most of the people who is truly interested in art of restoration...some of them even does not apply because they know if your score is less then say 220 you just can not be an Orthopaedic surgeon. You are not smart enough. It is funny that most of the other speciality residents traditionally think that orthopods are primitive...Indeed that medical school knowledge will atrophy because not used. Therefore at the end of the residency same person who scored on USMLE step 1 say 260 initially now if takes same exam will likely score 216 only. So why do you use Step 1 score as a criteria. Step 1 is not about clinical medicine or orthopaedic surgery. Also you will see it all the time - excellent test taker but has shaky hands and avoids surgeries. Regarding geography of the applicants, did you notice that some places think they will get better residents if they look for them as distant as possible. We say neighbors grass is always looks greener

my situation is completely different and has nothing to do with selection committee screening

After reading this I realize more and more that selection process is a joke
ERAS was initiated to match the applicants to the program of their choice and vice verse. It was not invented to eliminate people's future.

Maybe you meant the match process, but ERAS is essentially a job application like any other. It is not meant to ensure that everybody who wants to become an orthopaedic surgeon gets into a residency program. There aren’t enough jobs for everybody who wants one, so there have to be criteria to whittle down the applicant pool to the 70 or so people who interview and then to the fortunate few who actually end up matching at a given program. Unfortunately for some, many competitive specialties have decided that USMLE scores are a good way of quantifying academic achievement and the ability to pass in-training exams and the boards. Maybe these scores are no the best predictor of this, but there’s nothing else that is standardized across all medical schools.

it all about exams, funding....Isn't it?, it is not about profession or art to be a surgeon (old standards) USMLE Step 1 is indicator of how hard you can study but to me has a little significance, Step 2 or 3 is better prediction of physician abilities. Yes, for the interviews there are no other score to compare. I know some excellent people with low Step 1 score and very high Step 2 like 260 applying second and even third time but every time get eliminated by this screening process....