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I'm starting med school in august. A requirement of my scholarship is a summer program. For this summer program I have to choose a field that I'm interested in and then they assign me a preceptor in that field to shadow for three weeks. I'm fairly certain that I want to go into surgery, but I am very open because I need much more experience before deciding. I was looking at some residency programs that I may potentially wish to pursue some day via the AMA website. I noticed that many of the surgical residencies offered several more positions for the first (and sometimes second year) than they did for the remainder of the required years. Why is this? Do some people get kicked out? Do you just start over in another residency? 😕 I would sure hate to go through four years of med school, finally choose which field I want to pursue, get into a residency, complete one or two years only to have to start over with residency again.
