Applying to different specialties?? Please Help

[skiiboy]

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Can anyone please help explain to me what to do in the following circumstance... Lets say your absolute number 1 primary concern is to stay in a certain state for your residency. And lets say that although you would like a field like radiology or orthopedics... you realize that because they are more competitive if you are fortunate enough to get a spot, it may well be out of state. However you are relatively interested in fp or im so you are willing to take those spots so long as you can stay in this given state. What do you do? Can you apply for different specialties at different hospitals when trying to get a residency??. Also do you have to interview at all of the hospitals that you are going to rank on match day, if not are there certain ones you must interview at? How do you find out which spots are offered at all of the hospitals every year so you know where to apply to? Please only people with actual knowledge/experience with the match process respond. Thanks

 

[RadOncMan]

Go for it and apply to multiple residencies at the same location/institution - apply both prelim AND categorical. You don't know whether you'll get the interview for the competetive specialty so I'd apply now anyways. When the time comes and you have a CHOICE of multiple interviews at the same instiution, you could always 1. choose to cancel one or the other, 2. take a prelim medicine interview which you need anyways for something like rads, 3. explain that you have a compelling reason to be somewhere. A lot of people at this stage may not know for sure whether they are interested in a particular speciality, i.e not having rotated in Rads. but want to get the ERAS application going, so I think its understandable to apply both now.

You'll probably need to interview at a program to rank them as it will be highly unlikely they will rank you if you don't interview there.

 

[charliehorse]

i am too in a similar situation. is it okay to apply to two different specialties at the same institution, assuming it is not your school? what are the chances of the two departments discussing the applications/interviewers? if anyone has been in this situation, please respond.