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First off – I’m back from blogging\u00a0maternity leave – celebration dances may commence<\/em>! Oh, you thought you got rid of me because I birthed two babies<\/a> at one time? Oh no, friends, it won’t be nearly that easy to get rid of me.<\/p>\n Now, for our regularly scheduled post of insightful information.<\/p>\n If I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me “hey you did all those interviews (while ridiculously huge and pregnant), did you get a job yet?”<\/em> I’d probably have 14 pesos by now. Nobody outside of medicine understands how this works…and quite honestly, I can’t imagine why they would want to…but I’m going to try to break it down into simple bullets as well as I can. This is an extremely basic overview.<\/p>\n Applying To Residency – The Basics<\/strong><\/p>\n Interviewing For Residency Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n Applicants Make A “Rank List”<\/strong><\/p>\n Programs Make A “Rank List”<\/strong><\/p>\n Match Day – March 15, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n There, clear as mud…now how should I spend all these pesos?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off – I’m back from blogging\u00a0maternity leave – celebration dances may commence! Oh, you thought you got rid of me because I birthed two babies at one time? Oh no, friends, it won’t be nearly that easy to get rid of me. Now, for our regularly scheduled post of insightful information. If I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,38,59],"tags":[173,180,212,526,72,372,380,200,484,485,210],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Match.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nSo, no I haven’t technically gotten a job from all those interviews I did…yet! I will find out on Monday, March 11 IF<\/strong> I got a job and Friday, March 15 WHERE<\/strong> I got a job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nResidency is your first real job as a doctor, we will all technically receive our MD in May. However, residency is continued supervised training. So, while we are doctors and we do get paid (instead of paying tuition, finally), we are just baby doctors. The average resident physician pay is about $45,000\/year and the work weeks are typically 80 hours long. That comes out to $notverymuch\/hr for someone with a doctorate level education, but it makes sense – we’re still learning how to be really great doctors and someone has to make sure we are doing a good job!<\/div>\n