I did intern year in internal medicine. I failed to match to one of those cushy transitional years and I had to scramble in to an IM spot…fortunately the new program director at my institution had mistakenly not ticked the box to roll unfilled neurology intern year spots into the main match…so it was a nod and a wink before the official handshake the moment the scramble opened. It was chaos for them as they had 2 of the 89 unfilled spots in the whole country…but both were filled essentially instantly.

I matched in what was then a competitive specialty at a top program but failed at the easy part :)