decreasing number of independent tracks

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I'm currently an M3 interested in plastic surgery. I have no plastic surgery research so I'm thinking of doing the general surgery track. With programs moving towards integrated, how many positions will be left by the time I graduate from gen surg?

 

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I'm currently an M3 interested in plastic surgery. I have no plastic surgery research so I'm thinking of doing the general surgery track. With programs moving towards integrated, how many positions will be left by the time I graduate from gen surg?

If you have really good Step I/II scores, have honors at least in surgery, know plastic surgery faculty well enough so that they'll write you good letters, have extra curricular activity, why aren't you considering applying straight to plastic surgery? While research certainly is one of the "hoops," people do match without it. And you don't need research in plastic surgery. Get you name on a paper with anyone (clinical or basic) and be able to discuss the paper at your interviews.

As for the number if independent spots, I can't tell you what the number will be but I will venture forth that I don't think they will become extinct.

--M

 

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Also, just as an observation, there appears to be less interest in plastic surgery following a full general surgery tenure after the training increased to three years. So while some of the spots my decrease, the interest level in those spots may begin to dampen.