![]() I tried to dodge questions about where I matched to, and for the few people I opened up to, I spent most of the conversation trying to manage their discomfort with not knowing what to say. I had to continue showing up to my clinical rotation and work just as hard with the same positive attitude when I was broken inside. And there I was, sitting at home in deep secret despair. All over social media, people were making happy posts. There was a party on campus where students and their partners celebrated getting into their favorite programs (I didn’t go). Meanwhile, all around me, classmates were happy and relieved. I had a bad feeling, but I still wasn’t prepared for that dreaded email telling me that I didn’t match at the beginning of Match Week. I ended up with only one program on my rank list. Even though I signed up for the exam again and did fine, too much time had passed, and programs told me they had no interview slots available. I was inspired by a recent post in The DO by Nikitta Foston.īack in 2015, I had an unsuccessful interview season after failing to pass my USMLE Step 2 CS on my first attempt. ![]() I have been keeping a secret for four years, and I’m going to open up publicly about it. Javid it has been reposted here with his permission. ![]() Editor’s note: This article was adapted from a LinkedIn post shared by Dr. ![]()
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