Honoring in 4th year

[medstu1234]

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Everyone says that it's so easy to honor 4th year electives but I have yet to honor any. I'm intelligent and work hard but my school notoriously doesn't honor many students. I've taken "harder" electives such as ICU electives so far. Do the residency programs take that into consideration or do they just look at the amount of rotations you've honored?

 

[atsai3]

Everyone says that it's so easy to honor 4th year electives but I have yet to honor any. I'm intelligent and work hard but my school notoriously doesn't honor many students. I've taken "harder" electives such as ICU electives so far. Do the residency programs take that into consideration or do they just look at the amount of rotations you've honored?

If your residency application reviewer understands grading trends at your school, then she will 'take that into consideration'. If not, then she will not.

-AT.

 

[IHeartNerds]

I think this is somewhat specialty-dependent also. I've been told flat out that nobody cares what grades you get for electives outside my chosen surgical subspecialty electives.

Certainly, not getting H's in your chosen future field will cause most people to look at your application twice. I have no idea if that applies to medical specialties when applying to IM, though. I would assume yes.