Does internship go under any field in MyERAS

[google_singh]

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Well many foreign schools give MBBS degrees unlike US med schools and a 1 year compulsory rotatory internship has to be done b4 one is awarded his/her degree , now this 1 year includes major clinical departments like Internal Medicine, Surgery,ENT,obs/Gyn, Peds etc and a few electives as well. And one is paid a stipend as well for it.

So my question is does it go under the column or training or experience in MyEras? If yes do we list all of them individually with the month we did it?

I thought it was part of the curriculum and if a PD knows that the applicant is an MBBS, then he/she would have done internship already. But somebody raised this query on an another forum?

 

[Law2Doc]

Well many foreign schools give MBBS degrees unlike US med schools and a 1 year compulsory rotatory internship has to be done b4 one is awarded his/her degree , now this 1 year includes major clinical departments like Internal Medicine, Surgery,ENT,obs/Gyn, Peds etc and a few electives as well. And one is paid a stipend as well for it.

So my question is does it go under the column or training or experience in MyEras? If yes do we list all of them individually with the month we did it?

I thought it was part of the curriculum and if a PD knows that the applicant is an MBBS, then he/she would have done internship already. But somebody raised this query on an another forum?

It sounds awfully similar to US med school clinical year rotations, which everyone does, nobody gets to list. I would probably go with whatever others from your country who matched have done.

 

[google_singh]

Well we go through clinical rotations right from 2nd year and almost whole of the time in 3rd and final year. But after 4 and a half years, we do internship, which is 100% work in various clinical departments and no classes/teaching etc and we get paid for it as well.

 

[Law2Doc]

Well we go through clinical rotations right from 2nd year and almost whole of the time in 3rd and final year. But after 4 and a half years, we do internship, which is 100% work in various clinical departments and no classes/teaching etc and we get paid for it as well.

Other than the getting paid part, it still sounds awfully similar to rotations/electives -- you just spread them over more years. And if that's what it sounds like to Program Directors, then it's going to be a bad idea to list them. Your academic requirements generally don't get into the experience section.
Seriously, find out what folks from your country who have been successful in the match have done with this. That will be highest yield for you. Good luck.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Many list it in the "current/prior training" section. It's not clear whether all MBBS require this. If you want to go into details, it needs to be in your PS.

 

[google_singh]

So if it goes under training, do we select "residency" from the options????coz osteopathic internship and fellowship are perhaps not right.

 

[NotAProgDirector]

So if it goes under training, do we select "residency" from the options????coz osteopathic internship and fellowship are perhaps not right.

Yes, you list it as a residency (if internship is not an option)

 

[google_singh]

Yep, thanks for the advice.I too feel that residency is the closest option

 

[google_singh]

Well I think we cant put it up under residency bcoz then we need to select a specialty. And then It would mean loads of entries for each speciality.

 

[Law2Doc]

Well I think we cant put it up under residency bcoz then we need to select a specialty. And then It would mean loads of entries for each speciality.

Again, there surely must be someone from your country/program/internship who has gone down this road before and matched. Find out who they are and email them. It's a small professional community and you'd be surprised how happy people are to help (when they are not competing against you in the same year.) It's rare to be the first person facing a particular question, someone prior probably has the answer.

 

[google_singh]

yeah thats the best solution. But i asked one of my palS who matched last year, he said he did put it in but where to put in doesnt matter, he said ,its all upto u,.....

 

[NotAProgDirector]

The ERAS instructions/worksheet doesn't list the options. If there isn't a "various" option for specialty, or an "other" option, then you could list is as a Transitional Year, which is probably the closest.

It's hard to advise you, since I don't get to see that end of ERAS.

 

[google_singh]

Thanks aprogDirector and Law2Doc for your help. I asked many of my seniors , and I think there's no better to place it other than experience section.
So if anybody has a similar query, my opinion now is to put it under experience>Work column