Changing specialty?

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Hi. How possible is it to change one's specialty in the middle of a residency, specifically when moving to a very different field (i.e. from medicine to surgery)? Without being in med school, rotations, sub-I's, how do you become competetive, or semi-competetive?

Thanks.