IM away rotation- better to do sub-i or a subspecialty?

[Booze Aldrin]

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Due to scheduling issues I'm probably not going to have my home IM sub-I letter until November so I will need to do an away between July and October to get an IM letter to submit once ERAS opens. Is it better to do such a rotation as an official sub-I, or can I just do a critical care or GI rotation or whatever and get a letter from that? Not sure what the standard practice is on that or whether there even is a standard practice.

 

[sanfran256]

Your school kind of screwed you over.. i would complain if I were you . But I would definitely do a subspecialty at your home institution!

 

[mrbreakfast]

Your school kind of screwed you over.. i would complain if I were you .

Planning advice for incoming M4s: do not assume you can get an early sub-I, because every other student going into your specialty will want the exact same thing. This can lead to headaches with big fields like IM and surgery.


You will need to verify with your program that you may take a sub-I at another institution. Many places will require you to take your "official" sub-I at home regardless of what you do on aways.

To answer your question, probably doesn't matter, but unless you have a particular interest, a general hospitalist rotation is probably sufficient for letters.

 

[ciestar]

Planning advice for incoming M4s: do not assume you can get an early sub-I, because every other student going into your specialty will want the exact same thing. This can lead to headaches with big fields like IM and surgery.


You will need to verify with your program that you may take a sub-I at another institution. Many places will require you to take your "official" sub-I at home regardless of what you do on aways.

To answer your question, probably doesn't matter, but unless you have a particular interest, a general hospitalist rotation is probably sufficient for letters.

It is this way at my school as well. If i was going into IM and had OP’s predicament, I’d have to do two IM sub-i’s, an away wouldn’t count.