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Covid + 180-200 grads/yr + hypofrac + APM regulations that increase hypofrac usage in light of oversupply + supervision change = disaster,
now lump on the recent astro/abr news of threatening young attendings politely voicing dissenting opinions on board exam reschedules in light of covid + sexism + job market issues + MDACC witholding 7 contracts and offering fellowships instead in light of covid + that recent June ACR job market webinar where all that was said was network more (even Vapiwala said so, and she is the better of the leadership) and no real solution offered, its a disservice to med students this year to apply.
Maybe if someone has an app viable for a top 20 radonc (high step + rotation scores, onc publications), should apply only to top 20 radonc and dual apply to top diagnostic rads, anesthesia, or IM (with intent to go into heme onc as those onc publications will really help count for hemeonc fellowship ) in case it gets even worse. Last year was bad enough, this year is worse. And if someone has a weaker app, it's still probably a good idea just to apply to only the top 20 radonc programs and just go for im, diagnostic radiology, or anesthesia concurrently.
And whoever just matched/soaped in and is starting intern year, can only hope things don't get worse. at least theres 5 years to see what happens