OK, I'm a third year medical student, I've always been interested in Surgery but ruled it out when I got married. Now I realized I don't really like anything else in medicine half as much as surgery.
I just completed my 3rd year surgery rotation. I screwed up on the test at the end and will not be getting Honors or Letters for my rotation. So now I'm freaking out because I really want to do surgery, but am off to a horrible start and applications are due in like 6 months or so. I'm not worried about my Step 1 score, but the rest of my clinical rotations grades are not stellar. What can I do to salvage my application? Recently deciding to do surgery, I don't have any long standing contact with the surgery staff, I don't have any research, and other extracurricular activities that are at all attached to surgery.
Any suggestions? How bad is my situation?
Justin
I just completed my 3rd year surgery rotation. I screwed up on the test at the end and will not be getting Honors or Letters for my rotation. So now I'm freaking out because I really want to do surgery, but am off to a horrible start and applications are due in like 6 months or so. I'm not worried about my Step 1 score, but the rest of my clinical rotations grades are not stellar. What can I do to salvage my application? Recently deciding to do surgery, I don't have any long standing contact with the surgery staff, I don't have any research, and other extracurricular activities that are at all attached to surgery.
Any suggestions? How bad is my situation?
Justin