Good Residency Checklist?

[trophywife]

---

Members do not see this ad.

All right, so everyone knows how to get into medical school.

MCAT
GPA
Research (publications not necessary)
Shadowing
Unique extracurriculars

Is it basically the same for getting into a competitive residency program?

Step 1
3rd year grades
Evaluation letters
Research (publications needed for good residencies)

How important are each of these?

Also, how much do things like class president help?

 

[Law2Doc]

All right, so everyone knows how to get into medical school.

MCAT
GPA
Research (publications not necessary)
Shadowing
Unique extracurriculars

Is it basically the same for getting into a competitive residency program?

Step 1
3rd year grades
Evaluation letters
Research (publications needed for good residencies)

How important are each of these?

Also, how much do things like class president help?

There's a survey of program directors that comes out periodically where they rank what is important, no need to debate this and make lists. It is largely what you described, although the evals are more important than grades since there is no universal grading system (letter grades vs pass/high pass, etc), and for the most part grades are lumped into the concept of "class rank" which most places keep track of. If you had to guestimate and rate them as important, I'd say in my experience the breakdown is something like:
Step 1 35%,
networking (connections/away rotations/the interview) 30%,
3rd year evals 20%,
research, up to 10%, depending on how research focused a path you are on,
Class rank, clinical year grades, 4%
Everything else, 1%.

 

[da8s0859q]

There's a survey of program directors that comes out periodically where they rank what is important, no need to debate this and make lists. It is largely what you described, although the evals are more important than grades since there is no universal grading system (letter grades vs pass/high pass, etc), and for the most part grades are lumped into the concept of "class rank" which most places keep track of. If you had to guestimate and rate them as important, I'd say in my experience the breakdown is something like:
Step 1 35%,
networking (connections/away rotations/the interview) 30%,
3rd year evals 20%,
research, up to 10%, depending on how research focused a path you are on,
Class rank, clinical year grades, 4%
Everything else, 1%.

The PD survey to which L2D refers can be found here for anyone who hasn't seen that. Some very useful stuff on that page.