Today's the day we find out who our new recruits will be, starting in July 2009. The results are posted at 11am, which means I'll likely be late for my 11:30 meeting off campus.
For those who aren't familiar with post-graduate medical training, we don't get to just interview candidates, pick who we want and offer them a position. There a whole magical process. We get 300 or so applications, interview about a dozen of them, then spend a month or so debating who we like. In the end we go into the magical online system and rank the top ten candidates we want in order of preference. Meanwhile, each candidate may interview at up to 15 or so programs, and then they log into the same magical system and rank their top choices for programs. On a specified day (for us that would be NOW) the magical computer does it's whirling and buzzing and pops out a list of who is matched up where. If our top four choices all ranked us #1, we'll get our top four choices. If they didn't, then we'll see where we land at 11am today.
Last year we fared amazingly well. Those guys are starting in our program next month. Today I'm a little more nervous. We had more good candidates than open positions. A great problem to have, but it's created more controversy and debate than usual. As of 8:15 this morning I was still trying to work out solutions to the potential fallout. Things will get more interesting around here in about 2 hours.
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Gee, just like national signing day in college football!
Well ... ?
Much like national signing day indeed!
And now I'm staring at a blank email on the brink of figuring out how in the world to announce to the faculty and staff the mixed up situation, which is only partially final, and filled with weird exceptions I can't fully explain. Thus is my day.
convoluted
To put it mildly. But of all the bizarre things I've dealt with in the past few weeks, this is probably the least convoluted of them all! That's just sad.
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