Thanks to everyone so far for the help, you guys are great.
Ok, so I'm finishing out my third year with a month of Neuro and a month of Psych. I've still got A's across the board in my clerkships, but no Honors unfortunately. I get great evaluations (both subjectively and objectively) and do well on the shelf exams, but my school is notoriously stingy with handing out Honors it seems, which is really really frustrating.
Anyway, I've talked with some people in our derm department and I'll be able to shadow in the derm clinic once a week or so during this month and next. I've also discussed starting a research project with another of the derm faculty members and that should hopefully begin very shortly. Finally, I also was able to become involved in a case write up/presentation (sort of like a grand rounds) already. So I'm making some headway, it's just still all pretty daunting thinking about the road ahead.
After I finish my psych rotation in June, I'll then have a home Derm elective the first month of M4 in July, followed by (hopefully) an away elective in Derm. After that, I have a medicine sub-internship for a month in September, and then hopefully October I will be doing a research elective in Derm. Would there be any tangible benefit to switching the away rotation and research elective (perhaps so that I could get involved with more meaningful research earlier)? I scheduled the away slot early thinking the earlier the better, but I'm not really sure if that's the case or not.
If anyone has any other input/advice, I'd love to hear it. I'm working hard on this all, and thankfully have some very supportive faculty. I think my main worry at the moment is my lack of clinical "Honors", because it seems like all the people who match on here pretty much Honored their entire third year.
Ok, so I'm finishing out my third year with a month of Neuro and a month of Psych. I've still got A's across the board in my clerkships, but no Honors unfortunately. I get great evaluations (both subjectively and objectively) and do well on the shelf exams, but my school is notoriously stingy with handing out Honors it seems, which is really really frustrating.
Anyway, I've talked with some people in our derm department and I'll be able to shadow in the derm clinic once a week or so during this month and next. I've also discussed starting a research project with another of the derm faculty members and that should hopefully begin very shortly. Finally, I also was able to become involved in a case write up/presentation (sort of like a grand rounds) already. So I'm making some headway, it's just still all pretty daunting thinking about the road ahead.
After I finish my psych rotation in June, I'll then have a home Derm elective the first month of M4 in July, followed by (hopefully) an away elective in Derm. After that, I have a medicine sub-internship for a month in September, and then hopefully October I will be doing a research elective in Derm. Would there be any tangible benefit to switching the away rotation and research elective (perhaps so that I could get involved with more meaningful research earlier)? I scheduled the away slot early thinking the earlier the better, but I'm not really sure if that's the case or not.
If anyone has any other input/advice, I'd love to hear it. I'm working hard on this all, and thankfully have some very supportive faculty. I think my main worry at the moment is my lack of clinical "Honors", because it seems like all the people who match on here pretty much Honored their entire third year.