EM applicant advise

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Futuredoc1997199

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Hello,

I am a third year at a Boston MD program looking to apply EM next year. I’m from Florida. My app is less than stellar (all high pass and one pass) so far. I think I’ll do decent on step 2. Any recs for aways and programs I should look into?
 
1) Where do you want to end up? Make a list of programs that you're interested in, states where you could see yourself living, and go from there.
2) CONNECTIONS: Reach out to your attendings and mentors to see if anyone can help guide you through this.
3) What was your Step 1 score?
4) What is your study plan for Step 2? How are you scoring on practice tests? i.e. Don't just speculate; go into this with a solid plan if you don't have one already.
5) One pass shouldn't kill your app, unless it's in EM 😉. Don't worry. You got this! 🙂
 
EM is not a competitive specialty. An MD should be able to match anywhere in the country with ease. Just go to a place that doesn’t use 22 yo mid levels to “train you” like my EM program does lmao
 
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You will almost with certainty match so long as you dont bomb step2ck. Do aways at the programs/locations you are interested in and do a great job when you are there to secure SLOE and faculty support.
 
Try to interview at places with fellowships for non-ER specialties (i.e. sports med, palliative, hyperbaric). That way you can slide right into a fellowship after. It’s great burnout insurance. Just matching EM is laughably easy nowadays, you’ll be fine.
 
EthylMethylMan said:
Try to interview at places with fellowships for non-ER specialties (i.e. sports med, palliative, hyperbaric). That way you can slide right into a fellowship after. It’s great burnout insurance. Just matching EM is laughably easy nowadays, you’ll be fine.
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Will confirm this. Somebody from my school who applied a surgical sub and didn’t get many interviews sent EM apps in November and still got 15 interviews at academic programs nonetheless lmao.

Of course this is a blessing and a curse. An EM intern at my school doesn’t even know how to put in orders on EPIC and just copy and pastes notes from third year med students. Widely viewed as very incompetent. This wouldn’t have flied in EM 10 years ago
 
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