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> I'm not too familiar with residency- I wonder if hospitals submit a list of potential students they accept? The article does mention that, "Med students and
by jdmichal 12y ago
> I'm not too familiar with residency- I wonder if hospitals submit a list of potential students they accept?
The article does mention that, "Med students and hospitals are currently ranking their top choices from these interviews." I would assume that the hospital only ranks students they interview and would consider acceptable for the program.
> Each set member must rank every member of the other set.
I would assume that they just fill in the blanks with some value that prevents matching. I don't think a hospital or a resident would be very happy with what would amount to random assignment of the leftovers.
- JasonFruit 12y agoYes, they only rank students they interview. Those students who don't match before the rankings are exhausted "scramble"; they speed-date programs that still have openings in the hope of matching, so the leftovers are not randomly assigned. (Whether the outcome for them is better than random is hard to say.)