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Hi there,
I'm a Med-3 at a relatively decent med school in Canada intending to apply to ENT. My ultimate goal is an academic career (I am actually rather partial to research). I am being told a lot that unfortunately the job situation for ENTs in Canada is not too fantastic, and that that holds true especially in academia. Furthermore, I have been told (and looked it up as well) that ENT is the only specialty in which Canadian residency graduates are not board eligible in the U.S., which would further decrease the chances for an academic career (smaller pool of university medical centers to apply to for jobs).
So now I am wondering as to whether I should try applying to the States.
Pros Canada
- probably better chance of getting into ENT
Cons Canada:
- not board eligible in U.S.
Pros U.S.
- board eligible in U.S. and Canada
Cons
- due to needing a visa, the amount of programs I can apply to is limited
Other Info
- Canadian schools do NOT count as IMG schools in the match (at least for the purpose of ERAS, I don't know about how ENT programs view them obviously).
- I'm a decent / ok candidate I think so far, but not amazingly spectacular. Good clinical evals so far (nailed my surgery clerkship), decent research (4 pubs, 4 under review 1 being written up currently, whole bunch of abstracts and conference presentations) that I can actually talk about (wrote the protocol and ethics for 8/9 projects, so I know them reasonably well), not too horribly socially awkward in person / on rotation (I'd like to think) but only mediocre for ENT USMLE Step 1 score (238)
- I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie
Any advice re my situation would be greatly appreciated. =)
I'm a Med-3 at a relatively decent med school in Canada intending to apply to ENT. My ultimate goal is an academic career (I am actually rather partial to research). I am being told a lot that unfortunately the job situation for ENTs in Canada is not too fantastic, and that that holds true especially in academia. Furthermore, I have been told (and looked it up as well) that ENT is the only specialty in which Canadian residency graduates are not board eligible in the U.S., which would further decrease the chances for an academic career (smaller pool of university medical centers to apply to for jobs).
So now I am wondering as to whether I should try applying to the States.
Pros Canada
- probably better chance of getting into ENT
Cons Canada:
- not board eligible in U.S.
Pros U.S.
- board eligible in U.S. and Canada
Cons
- due to needing a visa, the amount of programs I can apply to is limited
Other Info
- Canadian schools do NOT count as IMG schools in the match (at least for the purpose of ERAS, I don't know about how ENT programs view them obviously).
- I'm a decent / ok candidate I think so far, but not amazingly spectacular. Good clinical evals so far (nailed my surgery clerkship), decent research (4 pubs, 4 under review 1 being written up currently, whole bunch of abstracts and conference presentations) that I can actually talk about (wrote the protocol and ethics for 8/9 projects, so I know them reasonably well), not too horribly socially awkward in person / on rotation (I'd like to think) but only mediocre for ENT USMLE Step 1 score (238)
- I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie
Any advice re my situation would be greatly appreciated. =)
