Thank you for watching this extremely specific video about the residency match process. Good luck to everybody applying this year!

Dr Glauc pushing at his own face with his own hand all the while recording the video with his other hand and still managing to give the best comical performance possible is PURE GOLD ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

The Match algorithm is based off of a publicly known algorithm for a similar problem. A man in 2015 made his own version of the Match algorithm and simulated the entire 2014 Match process. His algorithm took approximately 17 seconds to match over 37,500 medical students to residency.

The dedication involved to mash yourself in the face just to entertain us 😂😂😂

I can only imagine what your wife and kids must think when they see you doing these skits. Kids: “Mom dads hitting himself in the face.” Mom: “ Look the other way.” 🤣🤣🤣

This made me laugh way harder than it should have 🤣

Hey Dr. Glauc, kinda random but wanted to tell you about this. I've seen my general doctor weekly for the past year + a half due to struggles in the mental health system & needing a weekly support in which I'm very grateful to have a doctor who cares enough to deal with me so often. We tend to spend most of these appointments rambling on about random things we both find interesting, and we happen to both be regular watchers of your content (as well as other medicine comedians, but you're the fav) so we talk about you quite often! Living in a small city in Australia, it surprises but joys me that so many medical practitioners that I've met watch your content as well as just random people - I think it's amazing that medical knowledge from a good source is being spread to so many people in a lighthearted way. You are one of the reasons I've gained an interest in medicine that may lead to me doing it in the future which gives me a little hope in myself to stay alive 💗

I just have to say, he's so good at playing different characters that sometimes it seems like he's actually talking to different people, lol. Does anyone else feel that way, too?

“Stop hitting yourself" takes on a new meaning

It's just like waiting for your MCAT score, or your boards score

Jajajajajaja Hahaha ! You are genius ! I love it ! Thank you for the laugh. Yes I remember those days. ER doc here, yesterday I was talking to medical students about their rank list haha. Exciting times for them. If you are reading this and you are waiting to match I wish you all the best !!!!!

I LOVE THESE!! I’ve bee in practice for 27 years this August and I really enjoy the looks at specialties, you have gifts beyond Medicine , keep it up and Thank You!!

You bring joy to my day, Sir.

Omg I finished certifying my rank list 2 days ago and waiting for the results (comes in 2 weeks) is agony!!! Press that button already lol (update: I matched to the combined program of internal medicine and pediatrics [Med-Peds] in California!!!!!)

The timing for this short is impeccable, as I'm sitting here waiting for my Super speciality placement for more than a month!

So accurate! Even the STEP 1 and STEP 2 scores are delayed, and those are completely automatized scores!

Hello! I discovered you through recommendations earlier today and binged your whole channel and subscribed. I used to want to be a doctor of some sort, although now I’m more interested in biomedical science. I have to say though, your videos have really been making me want to change my path again 😂 Thanks for another great video!

BAHAHHAA!! Our vet school match date for internships and residencies is on MONDAY! This is soo accurate! Thank you!

The delayed gratification bit made me laugh, but also it made me sad. "retire when you're dead"

We're 2 days away from match day on the vet side but its very much the same since institutions finalized their lists 10 days ago... I'm screaming internally.

Another good one. You never run out of videos. It’s awesome

I love anytime his characters have to cross the divide and interact with each other… or themselves… or himself… something like that.

As both a Recruiter and a college student trying to figure out the whole grad-school thing, I feel like these 2 fight in my head constantly.

Just 10 days more! Thank you for making these videos, they really help with the waiting process! :) Good luck to everyone else applying!

Dad’s a retired neuro in his mid 60’s, the hospital had him stay on as head of surgery before allowing him to retire, he’s earned it

I'm still a few years away from applying for med school, but I'm grateful for these insights into what to expect! Even if it's not always, ah, the most encouraging material 😂

Ok, who held the camera while you clenched your own arms over the button? Was it Jonathan?

I love the subtle irony that you used a Staples "easy" button. Waiting for "that was easy."

The waiting is agony... spot on!

Pharmacist here! We definitely feel this pain too. Waiting to see where I match for second year of residency right now 😬😬

This hits me at a spiritual level. I am painfully waiting now 😵‍💫

And that's how they broke the button, only to wait 2 full months.

I can say with perfect certainty, this skit is best performed by this one person.

The fight between Winston and the boss was one of the BEST things you have ever done 😂😂😂

Omg this one is hilarious!! I'm glad my husband got matched early so I don't have to get so anxious anymore 😆 well, I'm getting anxiety for other reasons, but still 😅

Why is that even a thing in medicine in the US? Around here you just apply to the specialty you want to go into and it seems to work just fine

Despite being a pharmacy student, the ending hit home so hard it hurt.

When you see Doc in the red jacket, you know there’s a disgruntled idealist.

*27 seconds ago. Never clicked on a video so fast in my life.

The fight scene- beautifully choreographed, expertly executed

Im in the software development startup industry. I know little to none medicine. Yet I love Dr. G videos. I’ve watched them all🤣

Reminds me of processing DITY (do it yourself) moves in the Air Force. They’d submit their paperwork and then I had to sit with it in my inbox, actual paperwork, for 9 business days, before I could do my part to process it. Then I had to give it to my NCO who had to sit on it for 2 full weeks before he could touch it. All said and done, from the time the paperwork was submitted to the TMO office until the time you got paid for it, it could be 2-3 months.

I'm just imagining Dr G in his office clutching his face in front of his camera. 😂

As a clerkship and fellowship coordinator, I feel this deep in my soul

These always manage to brighten up another day of hospital work when they get posted

i feel this video. had this exact conversation with my med school friends right after submitting my ROL. Very unnecessary two weeks

As a junior doctor waiting months for my foundation programme match, this is painfully accurate

The acting here is truly top-notch!

Watching you fight with yourself really made my day. 😊

That was SO hilarious and really great how you were able to get all of those scenes done!!!!!

The delayed gratification part is gold

I feel this exact way about Step 1 now that it's pass/fail. They know as soon as you submit. They just LOOOOOVE the drama.

I was in the Match the last year in which you could go outside the Match. One of my two favorite programs called me and asked if I’d go outside the Match with them. I said, “Done!” Please send me a written letter of offer and hire me. I will drop out of Match.” I even got to start early!

This is what life feels like these days. I laughed so hard at this! Thank you again for your wonderful sense of humor! God bless! In His Love -Melissa

😂😂😂😭😭😭😭 too real. 9 more days until we find out!

That's one of your best - your acting is so good.

I love the way you humor the rotten medical education in the world, i think this is a step towards the change

I would pay good money to see the behind the scenes of this skit. I.e just be a fly on the wall as you fight yourself

I firmly believe if Dr. Glauc were not a doc, he could have won at least a dozen Oscar awards.

UK med student here - we call them deanery rankings, everyone finds out Thursday. They already know! But we have to wait until Thursday.

I'm not in medicine, but this is such a funny video!! 🤣

Going through match was such a ridiculous strange twilightzone game thing... I'm so glad its in the past.

Can you put up a room cam so we can see what it looks like behind the scenes when you do things like fight yourself? I think the Flock would love it. BAGAAK

This is his best work yet

Winston is the hero we all need.

The fight with oneself is a reflection of my daily struggle

Send this straight to NRMP. I want it in their mailbox, on their windshield, in every cubicle, in their toilets if you have to.

Another video, that I'll be looking things up! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. I friggin love your videos!!!😁

The accuracy of this… I’m not sleeping until March 14 …

Ah, yes, the unnecessary waiting...so we can have empathy towards patients waiting on the hall 😂

As someone who applied to Neurosurgery i'm very offended 🤣🤣

I had a student once… she asked me why I locked all the upcoming assignments… (so she didn’t finish them in a week), I still tease her about it 6 years later! LOLOL

Dr. Glauc, Thank you for showing the unnecessary and expensive manipulations that young doctors and medical students go thru. And I also like how you point out elsewhere that (for-profit) health insurance companies are practing medicine without a license by second guessing doctors to increase profits.

I can relate to that, PLAB 1 results take 6 weeks to be announced despite they are only MCQs and they are computer based marked. This puts examinees on their nerves for long period. Lots of cortisol

I believe the waiting is for something called the scramble. Students who didn’t match into residency have the option to try and fill in any remaining open slots in other programs that weren’t filled. This happens before the match is revealed so that people don’t have to know you didn’t match if you don’t want them to.

I feel like that . . . waiting since November for authorization for off-label use of a medication that is commonly prescribed for that off-label use. Unnecessary suffering. Untold frustration. Horrible burden on PCP, nurse, clinic pharmacist, me. Insurance, Medicare, and Pharmacy Benefits Manager need to get it together. Just grateful to have a little feeling left for those poor med students waiting for their matches! Inhumane!

Laughing out loud. You’re the best! Hilarious and sadly true!

Not a doctor, but getting paired with a teacher for student teaching took a whole summer because there was a new principal coming in to the school I wanted to be placed at the most. I understand the pain. (And, yes, I did get into my preferred school and preferred grade level!)

Dr.Glaucomflecken and Dr. Cellini are voices for long-overdue change within the medical establishment and Med Schools costs.

just met a med student when I was seeing my new endocrinologist for trans related hormones- she was great! So was the doctor. Makes me happy to know after years of searching that there's awesome, competent people in the field.

I remember match day very well. I got my first choice. But I am past 55 and still in debt (although I got started 10 years after most other students...) And it cost a lot less back then. I think the algorithm probably did take longer in the mid 90's but today it might take a few seconds!!

Yea but you gotta make sure to bring a notarized request for time off with 5 backups available before death.

I love that you were pushing your own face, twice.

I love that he’s fighting with himself 😂😂😂 Also I have a PhD but not in medicine… would love to get out of debt by 55 but that will most likely NEVER happen for me!

Got a belly laugh from the neurosurgery line.

So it's a worldwide phenomenon!!!

😂 "...is all about delayed gratification"

Same arbitrary wait as the veterinary match program. Someone push the damn button lol!

All I can think of is begin the scenes of this video…you know…looking so silly with Jonathan’s hand shoved to his face😂

Two weeks to run an algorithm like that is actually pretty fast. Imagine how angry everyone would be if they issued the results and then found an error. No system is completely bug free, so you really do have to check the results. You also need to check the data going in, since it is never as good quality as it should be.

Wonder what they neighbours thought walking past and looking into the window on that ‘fight’ 🤣

In the Boss's defense, this is not a good time to tell people to just press any big red buttons lying around... Also the way he says "No!" like a spoiled 5-year-old is just too good.

Oh, l love you! That was brilliant.

The secret's been let out...

In Denmark we have a 3 months wait to get the specialty certificate. Everything in the registration is digital. The job for the administration is to confirm that all 50 boxes are checked in a web-system. And it costs the doctor 800usd

“Nobody knows” 😂

doc,,, can we have the behind-the-scene footage for the fight scene??

Beautifully done pushy-hands effect!

In the UK we wait a whole month from finalising our preferences to matching. My university also helpfully scheduled the first day of our finals exams on the the match day. What am I getting myself in to?

The funniest part of that video was picturing how you probably recorded yourself fighting yourself.