Hi, my partner had to take a leave of absence for one month during term 4 after I got diagnosed with post partum depression 3 months after giving birth. Also within those 3 months he got an F during one of the shorter term (term3). He goes to an IM medical school. Has he reduced his Chances to go into an anesthesiology residency program? What does have to do to even the balance and increase his chances?
-
CycleTrack and SDN are teaming up to make medical school admissions more transparent and accessible! Read the announcement to learn how we’re supporting the future of CycleTrack’s free application-tracking tools .
LOA
Started by Iciclebarca
Get help with your application
Use all the free resources available to you from SDN: articles, guides, expert advising, forums discussions, and school research.
What is an IM medical school?
Most of us go to an AM and PM school. Sometimes very early AM...
If it means international then chances for anesthesia are very slim
Is there anything he can do, to increase his chances?
Besides the obvious things (ie step, research etc), probably not. He likely will only be able to match family medicine, pediatrics, or community internal medicine and that’s if everything is perfect. Does he have a visa
Anesthesia has become very competitive recently and the outlook for international students wanting that specialty is poor with a recent match rate of only 39%. If he applies anesthesia he needs to have a very competitive application and apply to back up programs as well (family med, internal med). At this point it looks like emergency med is willing to take anyone with a pulse so he can consider that.
