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I was just wondering whether the prospect of doing 3 years of internal medicine bothers anyone. Not for any practical reason (I think IM is great from a substantive standpoint), but from, I suppose, a somewhat petty egotistical standpoint.
Personally, I worked really hard in college to get into an excellent medical school. Now that I've been admitted, I'm taking out a boat-load of money in loans to pay for it, when I could have gone to a state school for almost nothing (relatively speaking). So now, in order to get to where I want to be, I need to first spend three years in internal medicine: a residency that's comprised of more than 50% IMGs (according to freida) and many other students who were out partying or something while I was hunched over my books for four years. I forewarned you that it was petty, but still I can't help but let it bother me.
Anyone else tempted to apply to something like radiology or ENT just to do justice to how hard you've worked and to your achievements up to this point? I just can't help thinking that, with cardiology, I'll be first entering a field that I could have entered had my MCAT score been 8 points lower, my GPA been a whole integer lower, and my step 1 been 50 points lower.
Just wondering if anyone else has thought at all about it. Thanks.
Personally, I worked really hard in college to get into an excellent medical school. Now that I've been admitted, I'm taking out a boat-load of money in loans to pay for it, when I could have gone to a state school for almost nothing (relatively speaking). So now, in order to get to where I want to be, I need to first spend three years in internal medicine: a residency that's comprised of more than 50% IMGs (according to freida) and many other students who were out partying or something while I was hunched over my books for four years. I forewarned you that it was petty, but still I can't help but let it bother me.
Anyone else tempted to apply to something like radiology or ENT just to do justice to how hard you've worked and to your achievements up to this point? I just can't help thinking that, with cardiology, I'll be first entering a field that I could have entered had my MCAT score been 8 points lower, my GPA been a whole integer lower, and my step 1 been 50 points lower.
Just wondering if anyone else has thought at all about it. Thanks.