Class, welcome to rheumatology.
Simon M. Helfgott, MD, is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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Correction
It has been brought to our attention that some of the statistics that I originally cited in the article were wrong. The Doximity study analyzing the rates of medical students pursuing residency training following graduation was incorrect in claiming that Stanford and UCSF scored poorly. In fact, the opposite is true for both schools. Colleagues at both UCSF and Stanford confirmed that their students matriculate to residencies at very high rates, as one would have expected. Since completing my research for my article several months ago, I was unaware that these study results were challenged by these two schools and that the original data had been retracted. I apologize for the error and the misunderstanding.
