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Hey guys, please let me know if there is a better place/thread to put this but I was hoping to get some advice.
I'm an MS4 and just started looking into Rad Onc when I recently heard a friend of a friend matched into it. So far I have no actual clinical experience - I'm just making judgments based on things I've read or heard.
I have started getting everything together to apply for anesthesia, and while I like anesthesia well enough, I initially decided on it because I had a pretty good relationship with some of the residents and attendings and had no strong feelings about any of my core clerkships.
So, I'm not sure how to proceed. My anesthesia rotation starts in just over a week and I don't have time to do another rotation before applications are due. I worry that if I try to switch into a Rad Onc elective and end up disliking it, I won't be able to get good anesthesia letters, but vice versa I won't even be able try Rad Onc before applications are due.
From what I can tell, I don't have a super competitive application for Rad Onc, but I don't have a weak one either (Step 1 is high 240s, a few pubs in a different oncology field, top 20% class rank at mid tier state school not AOA).
One of the Rad Onc attendings is on a committee that I'm also on which is meeting late next week and I plan to ask him what he thinks in person, but any advice I can get from you guys would be appreciated.
I'm an MS4 and just started looking into Rad Onc when I recently heard a friend of a friend matched into it. So far I have no actual clinical experience - I'm just making judgments based on things I've read or heard.
I have started getting everything together to apply for anesthesia, and while I like anesthesia well enough, I initially decided on it because I had a pretty good relationship with some of the residents and attendings and had no strong feelings about any of my core clerkships.
So, I'm not sure how to proceed. My anesthesia rotation starts in just over a week and I don't have time to do another rotation before applications are due. I worry that if I try to switch into a Rad Onc elective and end up disliking it, I won't be able to get good anesthesia letters, but vice versa I won't even be able try Rad Onc before applications are due.
From what I can tell, I don't have a super competitive application for Rad Onc, but I don't have a weak one either (Step 1 is high 240s, a few pubs in a different oncology field, top 20% class rank at mid tier state school not AOA).
One of the Rad Onc attendings is on a committee that I'm also on which is meeting late next week and I plan to ask him what he thinks in person, but any advice I can get from you guys would be appreciated.