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Hi everyone, I'm an M3 finishing clinical year at a T20 med school with decent grades (honors in IM, surg, psych, OB, HP in the rest) and have not taken step1/2 yet. I'm planning on applying to a surgical sub and will most likely take a research year. The match for the surgical sub is very competitive and in order to be sure I match into something I am strongly considering dual applying. For a while, I thought about dual applying with gen surg, gas or rads but after a lot of thought I think I would be happier in the procedural IM fellowships ( IC and EP in Cards or maybe even GI) than I would be in those other fields. As a result, I'm considering dual applying a surgical sub and IM. I wanted to see what the sdn communities opinion was on this plan and in particular what effect doing a research year in a surgical sub would have on my ability to match into a top IM program. I'm fairly confident that I would be able to match a top IM if I was only applying IM, but when I dual apply I think having to explain the research year and pubs (right now have about 10) in an unrelated field may hurt my app a lot. This question is particularly important to me because I would like to match cards from IM and going to at least a pretty good IM program would probably be important for that. Thanks for reading this message and hope you all are enjoying the holidays!
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