Cards/GI Question

[MD2017done]

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[Smurfette]

Moving to PreAllo as OP is not yet a medical student.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Dude... Chill out.

 

[487806]

Dude... Chill out.

👍 OP, to answer your question, residency/fellowship only cares about what you did in med school... by getting into med school, your work done in college doesn't matter to residencies.

 

[MD2017done]

I thought publications stay with you for life. It doesn't matter if I got them in college, medical school, residency?

 

[Instatewaiter]

I have been building "contacts" at the NIH. I have gotten to know some directors of the NIH. Will this help any? They all did IM first and then ID

Is it safe to say that if one were to do IM at (ANY) university program that one would have a good/reasonable shot at Cards/GI?

I have had a weird experience with standardized testing. I scored in the top 99 percent of the country on the SATs, went to a top 20 college, got a good gpa, got published at the NIH and then did horribly on the MCAT, (80 percentile). I will probably end up at a mid-tier MD program. This is making me wonder what will happen if I am a screw up in medical school because most medical students score an 80 percentile on the MCAT, so I will be just average at best in medical school. I know I am not superstar who got into a top 20 medical school...... Just trying to see what will happen if I am a screw-up in medical school.

lol, I guess I am just really anxious about doing well in medical school....I don't want to say I am interested in diagnostic radiology because I don't know how I will perform in medical school, I am not going to be some genius at a top 20 medical school; so lets say the best I can do in medical school is a low-tier university IM program....Will I have a decent chance at Cards/GI?

[/B]

Relax.

I came from a mid/low tier med school and matched to a very well respected IM program and then a very well respected cards fellowship. While it does matter where you go to med school it doesn't matter that much.

Your research h will help. Do more in med school.

The reason why you went from 99th percentile on the sat to 80th percentile on the mcat is because every idiot who tries to go to college takes the sat. Then many people are selected out over the years and you are left with less stupid cohort to take the MCAT. 80th percentile is still exceptional.

 

[MD2017done]

^ Thanks for the reply man, I appreciate it. 😀