Jennifer A. Sbicca, MD, Katherine Gordon, MD, and Stefani Takahashi, MD
Match applicants and residency program directors may express their interest in each other, but the cardinal rule of the match is they cannot ask the other how they will be ranked.
Many patients in settings where residents operate can only afford to seek care in a public hospital. The hospital, faculty, and resident surgeon must find ways to minimize the risk to those patients.