AOA election in 4th year and residency notification

[vtucci]

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Quick question- for eligible medical students who may be elected to AOA as a 4th year medical student, as most of us will have submitted our ERAS application by the time we find out this information, should we contact the programs to let them know (in the even that we are fortunate enough to be inducted in AOA)?

 

[Supercluster]

Quick question- for eligible medical students who may be elected to AOA as a 4th year medical student, as most of us will have submitted our ERAS application by the time we find out this information, should we contact the programs to let them know (in the even that we are fortunate enough to be inducted in AOA)?

I notice that the AOA question is in one of the few editable regions of ERAS (in the Profile section), probably for this very reason--a lot of people might not know until after they submit 👍

 

[vtucci]

I did not know we could edit that as it was part of our application. Good to know.

 

[Pinner Doc]

At my med school, we were elected to AOA in our fourth year. I found out after I submitted. To be on the safe side, I had some up-to-date CVs with me on the interview tour, but program directors already seemed to know my updates.

Good luck!

 

[Apollyon]

Yeah, I NEVER had that problem to worry about.

 

[roja]

Yeah, I NEVER had that problem to worry about.

😀
Me either.


I would say update it on ERAS. If you feel reassured, carry your updated CV.


Realize in EM, AOA status matters very little (there is a good article out there on what matters most to residency programs that I will try and dig up) but this was WAAAAAY down there.

Mostly places want to know what your grades are (care less about class standing), that you have a functioning brain, work hard and aren't pathological.

To draw an analogy: you are a cake. AOA isn't the icing. Its like one of those tiny little icing flowers. Its pretty, but doesn't add a whole lot. It makes the overall cake look a tiny bit prettier but its only part of it. And the icing and flowers don't make up for a inedible cake. 😀


Article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10894243