Is honoring anatomy important matching into surgical residencies?

[whatitis2]

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Honoring classes is better than not honoring them but is it especially true for anatomy?

 

[NickNaylor]

Two caveats to this: we're a P/F school and this is only one anecdote. There's a girl TAing our anatomy course who said that she didn't do well at all in anatomy (i.e., working pretty hard to barely pass) and is going into general surgery.

I doubt it matters any more than any of the other preclinical courses.

 

[Brachyury]

Honoring classes is better than not honoring them but is it especially true for anatomy?

Let me put it this way, by the time you get to your surgery clerkship, you will have forgotten most of the anatomy you learned. Do as best as you can during your first two years, but understand that your Step I score and clerkship grades (probably also Step II, but that's a different discussion) are the most important aspects of your residency application.

http://www.nrmp.org/data/programresultsbyspecialty2010v3.pdf If you go to the general surgery section, you'll see that program directors tend to give less weight to pre-clinical grades than to just about everything else

 

[plauto]

Honoring classes is better than not honoring them but is it especially true for anatomy?

No it is not

 

[Picchu127]

Im applying in gen surg now--no one really cares much about your preclinical courses--esp since so many schools are now P/F. Do well if you can but there are a ton of other factors that matter more--
1) Surgery grade third year
2) Step I
3) Other clinic grades

So learn the anatomy and do well, but really blow step I out of the water.