Any Current PGY-1 AP/CP Openings? Need advice

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Hi all,
I really in a problematic situation. I'm already past the point of being overwhelmed and need to switch to what I really had a passion for in medical school. I know, it's my fault for choosing anesthesiology as I cannot take my prelim program anymore. If you or you know of any open PGY-1 spots, please message me as I do not know where to turn anymore. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 
Hi all,
I really in a problematic situation. I'm already past the point of being overwhelmed and need to switch to what I really had a passion for in medical school. I know, it's my fault for choosing anesthesiology as I cannot take my prelim program anymore. If you or you know of any open PGY-1 spots, please message me as I do not know where to turn anymore. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

My advice would be for you not to make any decisions in regards to switching prior to completing at least your PGY2.

I take it your passion in med school was pathology. Med school pathology, especially nowadays more than ever before, is no reflection of path is practiced.

Stick to what you've got until PGY2, and speak with as many attending docs as you can, in both fields, to gauge what life after training will be like.
 
hmm... consider signing up with residentswap.org and following the traditional ERAS application for residency.
 
This comes up a few times every year, so search around for similar threads.

Most people go through a rough first year or so, which is worth keeping in mind. As already stated, pathology residency and practice is a far cry from what most students are exposed to in medical school, which seems to mostly be a handful of lectures from PhD's. It's been my experience that most non-pathologist clinicians don't understand the role or lifestyle of pathology all that well, so it's exceedingly difficult for them to transfer useful information about it to students. So, if you didn't during medical school, find some way to spend time with a working pathologist -- especially AP, not just following a blood banker around a few times, because AP is where a lot of the hard yards are in residency -and- where most end up spending a lot of their professional practice time. The biggest problem pathology residents face is not knowing what they've gotten themselves into.

With that aside, you need to get in contact with the local pathology department. Ideally they will have a residency program, but if not, if they are a medical school department they should still have some contacts and ways to help you. Lacking that, make contact with the closest academic pathology department to you and see if you can use them as a sort of base to explore this further.
 
pgy2 will be nothing like the prelim year. Stick it out
 
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