Can A surgeon (I mean future surgeon) get some help?

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Hello Everyone,
My name is Benjamin I am a first year med student studying at columbia's program in Israel.
I want to go into surgery.
Now I am an MS-1, what do I have to do to get a good residency application.

- How do I find a mentor and how is he/she supposed to help me

- I have to do research. In what? surgery? so little opportunities!?

- Is shadowing important?

- Are there any official internship opportunities (summer) for MS-1 interested in surgery.

Your help will be welcome

Thanks

Ben
 
Hello Everyone,
My name is Benjamin I am a first year med student studying at columbia's program in Israel.
I want to go into surgery.
Now I am an MS-1, what do I have to do to get a good residency application.

- How do I find a mentor and how is he/she supposed to help me

- I have to do research. In what? surgery? so little opportunities!?

- Is shadowing important?

- Are there any official internship opportunities (summer) for MS-1 interested in surgery.

Your help will be welcome

Thanks

Ben

Best to contact your school advisor for specific instructions.
 
Find yourself a practicing surgeon @your medical school, preferably one with a high rank like full professor. Attach yourself to him. Try to spend time observing him in the OR. Ask if he knows anyone who needs a research assistant for next summer.

You could search the AMA and AMSA web sites for lists of summer opportunities. Your med school should have such a list also (? student or academic affairs office).

Try to get a research position this summer, working with a surgeon who has published numerous research papers. Perhaps you could find something @Columbia in New York, if you try. Try sending a short email to the chair of the general surgery dept. there, and perhaps other faculty who are involved in research. Working with an MD is helpful > working for a PhD. Working for an MD surgeon > working for an MD in other specialties (i.e internal medicine trained, etc.).
 
My school has lots of specialty interest groups with people that can answer these questions. See if your school has them too.
 
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