Most thread reviewers agreed that commenters, which included medical students, were concerned about the pathology job-market and that medical students who viewed the threads would be less likely to pursue pathology residency.
To test this hypothesis, 5 pathology residents were asked to read all 11 threads and then complete a survey. It was reasoned that job-market concerns within SDN threads may have discouraged students from pursuing pathology. Seven of the 11 (63.6%) job-related threads were created from 2009 to 2011, corresponding with the start of the decline in medical students pursuing pathology residency. However, the term “job(s)” was rarely used by 14 other major medical specialties. The words “job” and “jobs” were used in the title of 11 of the 50 (22%) threads, which altogether received more than 400,000 views. So, the 50 all-time most-viewed SDN pathology threads (as of February 2018) were analyzed.
Because the Student Doctor Network (SDN) website is widely used by students at American medical schools during the residency application process, SDN has been shown to influence career decisions. To possibly explain this trend, we sought to identify major concerns about pathology which were made during this time. From 2010 to 2019, 40.5% fewer senior students from United States (US) allopathic medical schools pursued pathology in the Main Residency Match.
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