caribbean getting interviews?

[NOUSEFORANAME29]

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Just windering if any caribbean grads getting interviews? just trying to gauge how competitive this year is. I have 4 so far, mostly from community programs.

 

[buntatog]

hi. i'm a caribbean student and have 8 interviews so far, 7 university programs and 1 community. i got my interviews early on since I applied first week of september. its been 2 weeks since I'v gotten anymore invites, rejections have been pouring in though. I think carib students have a decent chance at landing interviews, with good scores and good LORs.

 

[NOUSEFORANAME29]

Congrats on your IVs. If you dont mind, what are your stats? It would be nice to know what board scores correlate with the number of interviews for us Caribbean grads. Mine is 215/89 step 1, 225/94 step 2. Everything else is ok.

 

[buntatog]

thanks. 95 for both step 1 and 2CK, 3.98 GPA, excellent LORs. Which school you from?

 

[NOUSEFORANAME29]

I am from ross. How about you? What do u think of the competitiveness for this year is. How have ur interviews have been? do u see caribbean grads on ur interview trail?

 

[RussianJoo]

wow guys thank you so much for posting your stats. I am an SGU student and will be applying for anesthesia next year for the 2010 match. my step1 is a 95 (227), will probably get something higher on step2, hopefully i'll be lucky enough to get interviews like you. I have a few questions if you don't mind answering. how many programs did you apply to? and at how many places did you do your anesthesia electives? I am planning on doing two electives one at the hospital I am doing my cores and another at a hospital affiliated with my school. Also what part of the country are you guys mostly getting your interviews?

thank you so much for your replies and good luck on your interviews. also please let me know how many more interviews you guys get after the MSPE came out on Nov1st.

thanks again.
RJ

 

[buntatog]

My first anesthesia interview is this week. I have met a couple of carib students during one of my prelim medicine interviews, 1 from Ross and the other from SGU. I can tell you that we IMGs are at a disadvantage since some programs review AMG applications first followed by all others (as I learned from calling a few programs). I applied mostly to NE to SE programs and some midwest programs. It's just the nature of the beast. I know of some students that are carib and they haven't gotten even 1 interview yet. My advise is to interview at each program as if that was the program you had your heart set on. Make it apparent that you will work your butt off, that you will take more calls if necessary, that you aren't phased by the ghetto location of the program. After all, you put in 3 or 4 years, and you get your license and then you can do whatever you want afterwards. Just suck it up, i believe if I have to take leftover programs i will. As one former anesthesia program director told me who is now an attending at a top anesthesia residency prgram in NYC, he could not tell the difference between an ivy league anesthesia residecnt from a never-heard community program.

Oh and I am from Saba University.

 

[911_turbo]

As one former anesthesia program director told me who is now an attending at a top anesthesia residency prgram in NYC, he could not tell the difference between an ivy league anesthesia residecnt from a never-heard community program.

I hope you don't believe this.

 

[buntatog]

I actually do...no offense to the ivy-leaguers

 

[911_turbo]

Maybe for B&B cases only.

 

[buntatog]

Russianjoo,

I think doing 2 anesthesia electives is good. Make sure to get great LORs from those rotation and do them early so that when ERAS opens up you have a complete application. I think the reason I got my interviews is because I applied early on. I applied to 75 programs and gotten several interviews from boston, michigan, ohio, philly, NY, NJ and surprisingly most were university programs. Hopefully now that the MSPEs are out more invites will come in.

I just returned from an interview at a program that had bad reviews on scutwork.com, personally I thought the program was solid, residents were happy, attendings were real resident advocates, and board pass rates were excellent as well. the residents that went on to pursue fellowships are in places such as hopkins, Univ of Pittsburgh.

So apply widely if you want to get a decent number of invites. Sadly we IMGs are at a disadvantage so its in our best interest to "phish" and hopefully programs will bite. If you have your heart set on anesthesia you will do your residency anywhere that takes you, well at least thats the reality I've accepted.

 

[RussianJoo]

thanks for the reply. good luck to you on your interivews. I hope you don't mind if I private message you later on in the year to find out where you matched and if I have anyother questions.

 

[buntatog]

sure. best of luck to you.