QUESTION
Why do vacancies in residency positions occur at NYC Health And Hospitals?
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Despite numerous applicants, NYC Health And Hospitals experience vacancies in residency positions due to mismatches in speciality preferences and maintenance of high standards.
- Out of thousands of residency positions, a small number of vacancies, such as 18, is considered relatively minor.
- Mismatches between the specialties students desire and those available lead to unfilled positions.
- Strict standards and unsuitable candidate backgrounds contribute to persisting vacancies.
- NYC Health And Hospitals prioritizes maintaining quality standards over filling every available slot.
- The matching process aims to align student preferences with available specialties, but perfect matches are not always possible.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Residents Residences are notoriously difficult to get into.
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New York City Residences are among the most competent competitive because so many students want to practice here.
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Despite this, there are still vacancies in residency position of at h and h.
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There there were 18 vacant resident position in 2023.
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Can you elaborate on how this happens and even with the last minute scrambling to match students with empty residency because we know they need that spot.
Mitch Katz
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Right.
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So even with the scramble, remember that we have hundreds of hundreds of, more in the thousands.
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So 18 is a pretty small number.
1:54:48
You can have mismatch.
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So you can have a residency that nobody that there you have people who want, say, a surgical residency,
Medha Ghosh
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Mhmm.
Mitch Katz
1:54:59
And they didn't match their looking, but what you have is pathology.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Got
Mitch Katz
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it.
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Or psych, and they're not interested in that.
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So so you do your best, but I think 18 is pretty good for a system our size because you're never gonna get a 100%.
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Also, of course, we have standards, and there are people who graduate from medical school who have terrible recommendations.
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If we read that someone would not did not have a history of being nice to their patients in medical school, we would not accept them even if we had a vacancy.
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So it'll never be a 100%.
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We we We want programs to maintain standards.
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We don't want them to say, okay.
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Well, you're you're you have a pulse come join us.
Mercedes Narcisse
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So it's a process that prevented
Mitch Katz
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it.
1:55:50
It's a process.
Mercedes Narcisse
1:55:51
Yeah.
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Right.
1:55:52
Yeah.
1:55:52
My son say that brainwash him to become a orthopedic surgeon.
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Like he was good sewing with my grandmother.
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So now he should be telling me thank you.
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Right?
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Yes.
Mitch Katz
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I hope he's a grateful son.
