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Hey. I am a Canadian citizen currently starting my 4th year at an American allopathic medical school (unranked I believe) and I have been very interested in ENT for a long time now. My only concern at this point is matching anywhere because it is my dream. I would consider myself an average applicant, at best. I have decent grades (honors in IM, surgery, and most other rotations), Step 1 is 237, research experience throughout my first 2 years (1 abstract and 1 publication to show for it), and hopefully some good letters from the ENT chairman at my home school, my ENT research supervisor, and from various clerkships. Now to the point of this post...
I have presently set up two away 'rotations' involved with ENT. One is a 4 week rotation at a Canadian medical school and the other is an 8 week research apprenticeship at an American school.
1. Since I am a Canadian citizen at a US school, I am eligible to participate in the first round of the Canadian residency match. This past year in the Canadian match, there were 35 applicants for the 29 spots. I figure a good away rotation and a letter from a big name in Canada will give me a decent shot at matching there (I don't really care which country I do my residency in). So my concern is how will my away rotation at a Canadian institution look on my residency applications to American programs?
2. Being a non-US citizen, I would need to be sponsored for an H-1B visa by the American programs. Will this be problematic at all for me? Given the sheer competitiveness of ENT, will most programs be reluctant to rank me higher given that they need to sponsor me for this visa, whereas there is less paperwork for many other qualified applicants?
Sorry for the long post here. I would just like some further insight on my application. Thank you!
I have presently set up two away 'rotations' involved with ENT. One is a 4 week rotation at a Canadian medical school and the other is an 8 week research apprenticeship at an American school.
1. Since I am a Canadian citizen at a US school, I am eligible to participate in the first round of the Canadian residency match. This past year in the Canadian match, there were 35 applicants for the 29 spots. I figure a good away rotation and a letter from a big name in Canada will give me a decent shot at matching there (I don't really care which country I do my residency in). So my concern is how will my away rotation at a Canadian institution look on my residency applications to American programs?
2. Being a non-US citizen, I would need to be sponsored for an H-1B visa by the American programs. Will this be problematic at all for me? Given the sheer competitiveness of ENT, will most programs be reluctant to rank me higher given that they need to sponsor me for this visa, whereas there is less paperwork for many other qualified applicants?
Sorry for the long post here. I would just like some further insight on my application. Thank you!
