Chances of Matching w/ LOA

[projectzero]

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Hey guys,

Would like to know if I have a realistic chance of matching Anesthesia with a 1 year leave of absence. Grades were fine. Step 1 229. Was pretty burned out at the end of M2 year and took a LOA to get back on my feet. Used this time to reconnect with family and friends, travel, and restart important hobbies that I had neglected. If I do well M3 year and score well on Step 2, do I have a shot?

Thanks!

 

[nimbus]

229 or 249?

 

[projectzero]

269

 

[Consigliere]

So you took a year off "to reconnect with family and friends, travel, and restart important hobbies that I had neglected" and your first thought upon returning was "I want to be an anesthesiologist!?" Dude. Dude. Take another year off. Your head ain't right yet.

 

[projectzero]

Hey you know I'd love to, but gotta pay the bills eventually man!

 

[Shimmy8]

You can match, but be prepared to come up with a helluva lot better excuse than felt like traveling the world with my friends.

 

[vector2]

Unless you were working some other job part-time during m1 and m2 to pay the bills, it doesnt bode well that you got burnt out during a time where the average month involves reading a bit, taking some tests, getting hammered drunk, then repeating the cycle. To make matters worse, it's not like you got a 260 or something on step 1 which would at least lend credence to the argument that you got burnt out because you were going full-steam gunner for 2 years straight.

 

[projectzero]

You can match, but be prepared to come up with a helluva lot better excuse than felt like traveling the world with my friends.

Appreciate the response, how would you recommend going about that though? To me, it was simple: I felt alone, was losing myself, burning out, and sinking into borderline depression. I don't know why/how I would further embellish that and I don't want to make up an excuse.

Unless you were working some other job part-time during m1 and m2 to pay the bills, it doesnt bode well that you got burnt out during a time where the average month involves reading a bit, taking some tests, getting hammered drunk, then repeating the cycle. To make matters worse, it's not like you got a 260 or something on step 1 which would at least lend credence to the argument that you got burnt out because you were going full-steam gunner for 2 years straight.

I understand that for many people med school truly is the way you described. But for others like me who maybe aren't as gifted, M1 and M2 year took much more than "reading a bit and getting hammered, rinse/repeat". That aside, do you honestly think there's still a chance for me to match?

 

[skankhunt42]

You can match, apply broadly and be ready to address that year off very thoroughly. DO mock interviews at your school. It is going to come up....

Do yourself a favor, do well in Med3 and bump up your step 2 a bit

Good luck

 

[abolt18]

Hey guys,

Would like to know if I have a realistic chance of matching Anesthesia with a 1 year leave of absence. Grades were fine. Step 1 229. Was pretty burned out at the end of M2 year and took a LOA to get back on my feet. Used this time to reconnect with family and friends, travel, and restart important hobbies that I had neglected. If I do well M3 year and score well on Step 2, do I have a shot?

Thanks!

What would you do if you came on here and a bunch of strangers on the world wide webz answered your "do I have a shot?" question with a resounding "NO!" ?

Would you walk away from med school?

Or would you hunker down that much harder to do well in 3rd year and on step 2? Cause IMO you should just do the latter no matter what anyone tells you about your chances.

The point being only that what we say here doesn't matter and that if you want to have a chance you need to just keep on keepin on with your best efforts.

 

[Kevin Durant]

What would you do if you came on here and a bunch of strangers on the world wide webz answered your "do I have a shot?" question with a resounding "NO!" ?

Would you walk away from med school?

Or would you hunker down that much harder to do well in 3rd year and on step 2? Cause IMO you should just do the latter no matter what anyone tells you about your chances.

The point being only that what we say here doesn't matter and that if you want to have a chance you need to just keep on keepin on with your best efforts.

Well he could apply to lower tier programs or prepare a backup specialty, even switching to another specialty altogether if it doesn't seem like his chances are very high. There's a lot he could do.

I wish I knew more to answer your question OP, but I'm just an M4 that's waiting for Match Day. I don't think there's any shame in taking a LOA. Nobody knows what someone could be dealing with behind closed doors.

 

[dchz]

Or would you hunker down that much harder to do well in 3rd year and on step 2? Cause IMO you should just do the latter no matter what anyone tells you about your chances.

The point being only that what we say here doesn't matter and that if you want to have a chance you need to just keep on keepin on with your best efforts.

Pre-op clinic comes with a side of motivation speaking?

all jokes aside this is probably the only attitude that could redeem OP

 

[abolt18]

Pre-op clinic comes with a side of motivation speaking?

all jokes aside this is probably the only attitude that could redeem OP

Lol yes, pre-op = death

So I can't help but seek out ways to escape my current sad reality.

 

[vector2]

I understand that for many people med school truly is the way you described. But for others like me who maybe aren't as gifted, M1 and M2 year took much more than "reading a bit and getting hammered, rinse/repeat". That aside, do you honestly think there's still a chance for me to match?

¡Mentiroso!

 

[nimbus]

This is getting out of hand.

OP had a 249 and “mostly high pass on rotations with few honors” in May 2017. Should be an intern by now.


Chances of Matching US MD

Chances for Anesthesia with Failure First Year

 

[UnoMas]

This is getting out of hand.

OP had a 249 and “mostly high pass on rotations with few honors” in May 2017. Should be an intern by now.


Chances of Matching US MD

Chances for Anesthesia with Failure First Year

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[pgg]

Two things:

1) We have a WAMC ("What Are My Chances") superthread tacked to the top of the forum for a reason.

2) Misrepresenting yourself with this kind of question might accidentally generate some entertaining or useful discussion, but it's not OK.

Closing.