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Hello,
Would like suggestions on how to best pave that road to get into a second residency, after completing a residency and not practicing that specialty. I do have a journey to share.
1. I graduated from medical school after failing to match into a very competitive specialty. I was in the third quartile of a decent medical school (top 30), had step 1 that is below the average for the specialty, and step 2 that is above the average.
2. I leveraged into a second choice specialty in a top program (still very competitive), but was fired from it. The reason that I got fired was that I was not ready to be a PGY-2 after transferring from the prelim program where I did PGY-1. PGY-2 program was tougher than PGY-1 program, while in PGY-1 program I did better (I was able to do an upward PGY1 to PGY2 transfer because I did decently in PGY1 program - I did get rec letters from PGY1 program to be considered for PGY2 at the better program). I was told at the time I was fired by PGY2 program that I would have full support doing the same specialty at a community program (my in training scores were above average in PGY2 class) - but this was undesirable for me.
3. I next matched to an uncompetitive specialty at a great hospital. I did decently as a resident, was made chief resident in my last year, and received an award at the end. However I am not satisfied with this result because I have little desire to pursue a career in this specialty in the first place. I chose to be at a good hospital doing a less desired specialty, as opposed to a community hospital doing a more desired specialty, for strategic reasons. During this residency I leveraged into a business field, and am doing this now. I did take boards and passed, but did not practice this field, and instead got a business job out of residency.
4. During my years in residency, I did a lot of self-assessment, dissecting why my performance during medical school was lackluster and why I totally got burned during the tough PGY2 year. I made a point to work on these things, which is one reason why I could get into a competitive business field (I really had to work on confidence after all of the above that has happened). I have really been trying to redeem myself.
5. I have always kept my top choice residency in mind (the one I didn't match into out of medical school), throughout all of my career struggles - and still have a strong desire to pursue residency in this field. I see myself as a physician as well as a business person, doing either alone seems one-sided.
I understand that I should probably reach out to the department at the hospital where I completed residency in. I want people to comment on how I should sell myself to this specialty, given my circumstances.
Thanks for helping me.
Would like suggestions on how to best pave that road to get into a second residency, after completing a residency and not practicing that specialty. I do have a journey to share.
1. I graduated from medical school after failing to match into a very competitive specialty. I was in the third quartile of a decent medical school (top 30), had step 1 that is below the average for the specialty, and step 2 that is above the average.
2. I leveraged into a second choice specialty in a top program (still very competitive), but was fired from it. The reason that I got fired was that I was not ready to be a PGY-2 after transferring from the prelim program where I did PGY-1. PGY-2 program was tougher than PGY-1 program, while in PGY-1 program I did better (I was able to do an upward PGY1 to PGY2 transfer because I did decently in PGY1 program - I did get rec letters from PGY1 program to be considered for PGY2 at the better program). I was told at the time I was fired by PGY2 program that I would have full support doing the same specialty at a community program (my in training scores were above average in PGY2 class) - but this was undesirable for me.
3. I next matched to an uncompetitive specialty at a great hospital. I did decently as a resident, was made chief resident in my last year, and received an award at the end. However I am not satisfied with this result because I have little desire to pursue a career in this specialty in the first place. I chose to be at a good hospital doing a less desired specialty, as opposed to a community hospital doing a more desired specialty, for strategic reasons. During this residency I leveraged into a business field, and am doing this now. I did take boards and passed, but did not practice this field, and instead got a business job out of residency.
4. During my years in residency, I did a lot of self-assessment, dissecting why my performance during medical school was lackluster and why I totally got burned during the tough PGY2 year. I made a point to work on these things, which is one reason why I could get into a competitive business field (I really had to work on confidence after all of the above that has happened). I have really been trying to redeem myself.
5. I have always kept my top choice residency in mind (the one I didn't match into out of medical school), throughout all of my career struggles - and still have a strong desire to pursue residency in this field. I see myself as a physician as well as a business person, doing either alone seems one-sided.
I understand that I should probably reach out to the department at the hospital where I completed residency in. I want people to comment on how I should sell myself to this specialty, given my circumstances.
Thanks for helping me.