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This is absolute worst case, five-alarm, quit the field panic-mode. If you are a med student, don’t even think about going through with the match. Literally throwing your MD in the fire. If you are a resident, god help you. Hopefully you did a prelim Medicine internship. I would seriously go back and finish IM if I were a PGY-2 -3 or -4. PGY-5 just try to sign something ASAP.
There is about 30-40% excess capacity that is about to be wrung out of this field by CMS at a time when we’re training double the number of people that we need.
If you continue with the match this year after hearing this news, you forfeit the right ever to complain. The writing is large clear and on the wall. Ignore it at your peril.
If you were a Transitional Year resident starting at a top 15 rad onc program with good job placement what would you do? Stick out rad onc and hope for the best? Try to find a PGY2 residency that accepts TY? Restart and do medicine? What options do current residents have?