Medical Intern Mismatch
Last year, 937 students, or 24 percent of those who applied, were not accepted by any of the sites they had chosen—and students must complete internships to earn their degrees and venture out into the workplace …
Students who do not match must hunt for unaccredited internships, positions that can hobble their careers. Almost half end up without an internship at all and must try again the next year. According to a 2007 study by researchers at the University of Texas, 44 percent of graduate students who did not match were not able to find a program placement, and many if not most of them had to put off graduation by a year.
See full article on the “intern gap”.
Like musical chairs, perhaps they provide fewer internshiprps than eligible candidates on purpose.
Brian is probably correct. Many of the programs are designed not with the student in mind; rather they are often designed to create free labor for institutions.
Sounds like a zoo.
I wonder how this impacts the quality of their careers, not just delayed graduation, etc
The article is about the mismatch in clinical psychology internships, and not about medical residencies. Do we need more clinical psychologists?
Isn’t the difficulty of successfully finishing a course of study in clinical psychology already well known?