These specialties are often compared for their similar scope of practice. One thing that I really haven't seen is a discussion on the effects that duty hours has on training to be a surgeon of the head and neck. Does the presence (or lack thereof) of duty hours make a difference in competency at...
Like every year, this thread is for interview updates and information for the 2017-18 PRS Independent Match. Seems like it has helped others. Post interviews as they come in the following format as done in previous years:
Program (date offered): interview dates offered (i.e. State University...
Repeating an open invitation, this time for Visiting Residents:
The UC Davis Division of Plastic Surgery is seeking Visiting Residents to help cover our service starting APRIL 2017. We currently lack any intern coverage for the months of April, May, and June 2017. I've received some responses...
It's about that time! As has been done in previous years, post your dates you want to swap here.
EDIT: When your swap is resolved.
Example:
I have St. Louis University Jan 22, want Dec 18 or Dec 11
Let me know. Thanks!
As has been done in previous years, please post if you get an interview invite.
In this format: School (month/day interview invite sent): interview dates offered.
ex: Duke (10/10): 12/5, 12/6
ex after someone already listed a school: Duke (10/10, 10/23): 12/5...
Copy the last post and put...
I am applying this year to integrated PRS. I have always wanted to be a plastic surgeon and am just nervous about the whole matching process and was hoping to get some feedback and thoughts on how my application compares to the rest of the pool.
My application is as follows:
Step 1: 248
Step...
Background:
I am a 3rd year gen surg resident who failed to match into PRS out of medical school who is trying to determine if an additional year or research is necessary to match into an independent PRS program
Hello,
I seem to not be able to find this information very easily online, but how...
Our program at UC Davis has two (2) openings for visiting subIs this coming 2016-17 academic year:
(1) June 27 - July 22, 2016
(2) October 24 - November 18, 2016
If submitting VSAS soon, please let me know about yourself in more detail so I can relay your interest to our PD, our program...
Hey Y'all,
hab38 posted an awesome spreadsheet last year about feedback from away rotations at integrated PRS residency programs. Will people please post their experiences from the 2015-2016 away rotations? And how they made their decisions on which programs to do their away rotations at...