Did anyone apply in 2 specialties?

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Did any of you apply to residencies in 2 different specialties, especially if one was competitive? How much of a pain in the a ss was it? Did it come up on the interview trail, especially if you were interviewing at the same hospital in diff programs? Did it work out for you in the end?

I thought I was over this problem, but apparently not...
 
Yes, gen surg and EM. Sort of a pain... had to come up with two different personal statements and LORs for each. It only came up once... at the only program I applied to for both. I scrambled in the end... but only ranked a total of 7 programs... may have been different had I interviewd at and ranked more.
 
hey...yeah..thats one ques i always wonder about too.... i hav yet to apply and will be applying for two diff specialities.....one comp the other semi comp......how hard is it to get interviews scheduled .spec if they r in the same hosp?
 
I applied to two, one of which was an early match at the time, so the hassle and cost practically doubled, above and beyond all the extra interviewing. It's a drag, and it'd be great if you could decide ahead of time which to choose, but if you can't, or if you're using one as a dream and the other as a back-up, suck it up and do it; it's certainly possible to accomplish and you'll kick yourself later if you blow it (e.g., not following your dream or not having a back-up and not matching).

I didn't have any double-interviews-at-the-same-hospital problems, but actually, an applicant I met on an ENT interview spotted me at UCSF during my anesthesiology interview there (she was doing her anesthesiology rotation). I had no idea (apparently she sat right across from me at lunch), but she later matched with a good friend of mine, who relayed the story to me. It's a concern, though, and it's probably best to try to avoid applying to both types of programs at the same hospitals, or at least have a really good story for why you're doing it.
 
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