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Compared to other competitive specialties? Will getting good board scores and clerkship grades be enough?
YesCompared to other competitive specialties? Will getting good board scores and clerkship grades be enough?
Will getting good board scores and clerkship grades be enough?
What else is there? Yes, getting good board scores and good clerkship grades will guarantee you a spot at an EM residency somewhere unless you are certifiably, hopelessly odd with even the slightest social interaction.
Ignoring the thinly veiled taste of "How little can I do?", I never understood attempts to categorize the networking, friendly social interaction, and small acts of kindness as "gunning", or some other negative verb, when they are normal human behavior in any professional setting not involving a decade of hiding inside the cocoon of standardized testing.
Ripping pages out of library textbooks and spreading misinformation is gunning. Getting to know the handful of people interested in the same thing as you over the 4 years you work in their institution is called being social.