Taking into consideration the very helpful info above and in other threads (
Radiology vs. MICU rotation to prepare for intern year/neuro residency?), could I get some advice on options for my Jan, Feb, March, and April of M4 year (I didn't wanna start a new thread):
Background: already have Neurology rotation and Radiology rotation scheduled in summer/Fall (with a lot of time in Neuroradiology on my Rads rotation), along with ambulatory stuff, 2 vacation months, and an easy rotation september. So my fall is set, looking for advice for rotations to take Jan-April - I WILL be taking Medicine Sub-I one of these months, I WILL need another "acting internship", and i don't care the order (my school doesn't offer a Neurology Sub-i or Acting internship, just elective).
Goals are:
1) get high yield experiences that I'll need as a Neurology resident that I won't get much of in residency
2) get exposure to stuff I could do as electives in Neurology, so I can determine if I love or hate it AND have more info earlier on so I'm more prepared to set up residency schedule to get experiences early enough to decide fellowship options
3) no fluff (have enough fluff in fall, and I like rotations better than home, seriously)
Options (order doesn't matter):
Month #1: Medicine Sub-I (will be taking)
Month #2: (pick 1, listed in order of my interest level)
- Neurosurgery Acting Internship (will try and see some epilepsy surg and NIR, as well as cases requiring intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring)
- Inpatient Cardiology Acting Internship
- Child Neurology Acting Internship
Month #3 and 4 (pick 2 of following, very loosely ranked by my interest level):
- Cardiology elective (if didn't do Inpatient Cardiology Acting Internship)
- Sleep medicine (to rule in/out interest)
- NICU (but residencies I'm looking at have >3mo NICU already and early enough to help me know if I like it or not)
- Ophthalmology (with some neuro-ophtho)
- Brain Injury medicine
- multi disciplinary mgmt of vascular disease (before picking I'd ask rotation coordinator if I could do most of my experience in stroke/NIR related areas)
- Infectious Disease (I suck at ID, which is why I want to take this to suck a bit less...)
- Emergency Med (but I already have a lot of experience in EM)
- Peds Neurology (if didn't do Child Neuro Acting Internship)
- Away Neurology rotation in January (prob not, hard with family sched)
Thanks in advance for your help! I wish I had one more month available, but I want to keep 2 months free for interviews and want a chill September for my application...