Patrick Sullivan1 reports that 177 residency positions remained unfilled after the first iteration of this year's resident match, but I am unclear why he believes that the 71 unmatched Canadian medical students “should match easily when the second iteration is held.”
The Canadian Resident Matching Service projects that for the second round of matching, 758 international medical graduates will also be competing for those same 177 positions.2 These numbers are bad news for everyone involved, including the Canadian public, who would benefit greatly if funding were made available to train each and every one of these qualified students as soon as possible.
Gregory Silverman 4th-year Medical Student University of Toronto Toronto, Ont.