Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast

It's that time of year again. Can you sense it? The anticipation, the anxiety, the dread, the wracking of heart and head? Yes, it's almost time for final year Canadian medical students across the country to submit their rank lists to CaRMS.

On this episode we explore the history of CaRMS and the underlying matching algorithms.

We then talk about some of our top tips when building your CaRMS rank list.

What do you think? How did you make your rank list? Send us an email at podcast.cjs@gmail.com.

Links:
  1. Young TA. Teaching medical students to lie. The disturbing contradiction: medical ideals and the resident-selection process. CMAJ. 1997 Jan 15;156(2):219-22. PMID: 9012725; PMCID: PMC1226912. https://pmc-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/PMC1226912/ 
  2. https://pmc-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.proxy.queensu.ca/articles/PMC1226912/
  3. Roth AE. The origins, history, and design of the resident match. JAMA. 2003 Feb 19;289(7):909-12. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.7.909. PMID: 12588278.
  4. https://impact.stanford.edu/article/how-does-applied-economics-maximize-kidney-transplants
  5. Cal Newport’s books: https://calnewport.com/writing/


Creators and Guests

Host
Dr. Ameer Farooq

What is Cold Steel: Canadian Journal of Surgery Podcast?

The podcast dedicated to discussing how surgeons can be the best versions of themselves, inside and outside the operating room. Hosted by surgeons Chad Ball and Ameer Farooq, Cold Steel explores the many facets of surgical life with guests at the cutting edge of surgical science. The official podcast of the Canadian Journal of Surgery.