Emergency Med Residency...class rank? board scores?

[r-doc]

Hi, I'm a second year med student, and I'm very interested in emergency medicine. I'm not sure how competitive it is to get into. I was wondering if anyone has a good idea of how high someones class rank and board scores should be....
i know it's all relative, but if anyone knows someone doing emergency med, or if you yourself are an ER resident, i would appreciate all the help i can get!

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[djnels01]

Hi, I'm a second year med student, and I'm very interested in emergency medicine. I'm not sure how competitive it is to get into. I was wondering if anyone has a good idea of how high someones class rank and board scores should be....
i know it's all relative, but if anyone knows someone doing emergency med, or if you yourself are an ER resident, i would appreciate all the help i can get!

Try the residency forums, I'm sure you'd get plenty of answers there...

 

[DrMom]

Try the residency forums, I'm sure you'd get plenty of answers there...

Actually, start by reading the EM forum FAQs.

 

[It'sElectric]

Actually, start by reading the EM forum FAQs.

Precisely. Just so everyone knows, so often there are stickied threads and FAQs at the top of most of the forums that will answer nearly every question (especially general ones such as the OP's) you might have.

Please utilize some investigative skills and show that you are intelligent enough to look things up on your own.

 

[r-doc]

Thanks to those for the help

 

[r-doc]

Precisely. Just so everyone knows, so often there are stickied threads and FAQs at the top of most of the forums that will answer nearly every question (especially general ones such as the OP's) you might have.

Please utilize some investigative skills and show that you are intelligent enough to look things up on your own.

Sorry for being new to posting on SDN and not knowing the precise location of where to post. An "intelligent" person might have figured that out.

 

[It'sElectric]

Sorry for being new to posting on SDN and not knowing the precise location of where to post. An "intelligent" person might have figured that out.

Apology accepted.

Sorry to bust you out, but you're not exactly "new" to SDN. You first posted on here back in 2004, and I'd be willing to bet you've searched around and read other posts on here inbetween the minimal posts you have. 2 years of SDN does not equal "new" to SDN.

Even more importantly, being new to something doesn't mean you have to be clueless as to how it works. When you do rotations at various hospitals and are thus essentially "new" to the place, are you going to ask everyone how to do everything (essentially having them hold your hand)?? Or are you going to try and figure at least the major things out on your own??

That's all I'm trying to point out. It's not in-depth research, it's simply looking around at your surroundings.

 

[innominata]

Apology accepted.

Sorry to bust you out, but you're not exactly "new" to SDN. You first posted on here back in 2004, and I'd be willing to bet you've searched around and read other posts on here inbetween the minimal posts you have. 2 years of SDN does not equal "new" to SDN.

Even more importantly, being new to something doesn't mean you have to be clueless as to how it works. When you do rotations at various hospitals and are thus essentially "new" to the place, are you going to ask everyone how to do everything (essentially having them hold your hand)?? Or are you going to try and figure at least the major things out on your own??

That's all I'm trying to point out. It's not in-depth research, it's simply looking around at your surroundings.

The OP made a pretty innocent and fairly benign mistake - certainly nothing that would warrant the above tirade. We're all adults here, let's try to be a bit more respectful.

 

[the1doc]

Precisely. Just so everyone knows, so often there are stickied threads and FAQs at the top of most of the forums that will answer nearly every question (especially general ones such as the OP's) you might have.

Please utilize some investigative skills and show that you are intelligent enough to look things up on your own.

is it that time of the month, Electric?
"please utilize some investigative skills and blah blah blah blah blah" (as your head slowly twists backward on your shoulders and you begin projectile vomiting green matter all over the place)

 

[r-doc]

Electric obviously has issues so I won't take anything personal. It scares me that people like that become doctors.

Oh, and about the posting two years ago...completely forgot about that...it was TWO years ago! some people have lives (like dealing with medical school, for instance)...

maybe if you got a life of your own, you wouldn't jump on my case so bad when all i did was ask a simple question...

I understand that some doctors have serious superiority complexes, but at the end of the day it's just a reflection of their own insecurity and it doesn't fool anybody.

ok, i'm done with SDN posting...or maybe i'll just wait another two years to post again 🙂

 

[DrQuinn]

Apology accepted.

Sorry to bust you out, but you're not exactly "new" to SDN. You first posted on here back in 2004, and I'd be willing to bet you've searched around and read other posts on here inbetween the minimal posts you have. 2 years of SDN does not equal "new" to SDN.

Even more importantly, being new to something doesn't mean you have to be clueless as to how it works. When you do rotations at various hospitals and are thus essentially "new" to the place, are you going to ask everyone how to do everything (essentially having them hold your hand)?? Or are you going to try and figure at least the major things out on your own??

That's all I'm trying to point out. It's not in-depth research, it's simply looking around at your surroundings.

Damn, bro. Who are you to talk to ANYONE like that, especially someone you've never met?

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[DrQuinn]

Hi, I'm a second year med student, and I'm very interested in emergency medicine. I'm not sure how competitive it is to get into. I was wondering if anyone has a good idea of how high someones class rank and board scores should be....
i know it's all relative, but if anyone knows someone doing emergency med, or if you yourself are an ER resident, i would appreciate all the help i can get!

As the above posters mentioned, definately hit up the "Emergency Medicine" forums further down the list, by the Grad Med Forums. There are lots of med students, interns, residents, and attendings that post there. The FAQs at the top of the page will be very helpful for you.

If after reading that, you have any other specific questions, feel free to PM me or any of the other "frequenters" on the EM forums, we're a generally helpful bunch (just try to get used to our extreme sarcasm and cynicysm).

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[snrub]

In general when it comes to EM residency programs, is it easier for a US DO to secure an allopathic EM residency spot over a US FMG, or there is no real difference between the two?

 

[Taus]

In general when it comes to EM residency programs, is it easier for a US DO to secure an allopathic EM residency spot over a US FMG, or there is no real difference between the two?

its probably somewhat regional and program specific...but for the majority DO's match very well in EM

 

[It'sElectric]

Damn, bro. Who are you to talk to ANYONE like that, especially someone you've never met?

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I apologize. My post came off harsher than I intended. I probably was in a bad mood to begin with (I don't recall) and just got annoyed more easily than is typically the case.

I guess I'm just more familiar with the website and have been able to utilize it quite a bit, and I forget that not everyone else is as familiar with the website.

That being said, I do honestly hope that people at least do a quick (maybe 2-3 minutes) bit of checking around on their own. But anyways.....

Once again, I apologize for upsetting everyone.

 

[DrQuinn]

In general when it comes to EM residency programs, is it easier for a US DO to secure an allopathic EM residency spot over a US FMG, or there is no real difference between the two?

although i think that DOs have a slight edge, it is still not easy to match into MD EM programs, but definately possible. 8% of all allopathic EM residents are DOs....

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[Taus]

although i think that DOs have a slight edge, it is still not easy to match into MD EM programs, but definately possible. 8% of all allopathic EM residents are DOs....

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considering that we're only 5% of docs....8% there is a relative over-representation (ie good match success) in that specialty

 

[DrQuinn]

considering that we're only 5% of docs....8% there is a relative over-representation (ie good match success) in that specialty

yeah, its not bad. there is still some prejudice amongst some progrmas against DOs... but basically if you are a DO and a good applicant, you will match into EM... somewhere... maybe not your #1 but somewhere in the country you will likely match. Which is good considering in the US there are no "bad" programs. Not even one.

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