noretractorsplease
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Dear SDN Community,
I need an advice on how to navigate dual applying to surgical sub-specialty and IM. So, I think I’m in somewhat less common situation where I really don’t want to go into gen surg and would be very happy as IM doc or potentially sub specialist, but I know you shouldn’t go into IM if you can’t be happy as internist.
My question is how would you recommend dancing around the fact that my application very much screams “dual applying” considering my research experiences, extracurricular, and away rotations. I do have some IM research as a co-author but definitely not anything impressive.
And I wanted to mention that it’s not about just matching anywhere, which I know most of students do, but matching into a decent academic IM program where I can have better resources if I do end up wanting to sub specialize.
Thank you so much in advance! And thank you for years of continued support of this community.
I need an advice on how to navigate dual applying to surgical sub-specialty and IM. So, I think I’m in somewhat less common situation where I really don’t want to go into gen surg and would be very happy as IM doc or potentially sub specialist, but I know you shouldn’t go into IM if you can’t be happy as internist.
My question is how would you recommend dancing around the fact that my application very much screams “dual applying” considering my research experiences, extracurricular, and away rotations. I do have some IM research as a co-author but definitely not anything impressive.
And I wanted to mention that it’s not about just matching anywhere, which I know most of students do, but matching into a decent academic IM program where I can have better resources if I do end up wanting to sub specialize.
Thank you so much in advance! And thank you for years of continued support of this community.
