MD Admissions Have Any Bearing on Future Residency Applications At Same School?

[DrSolus]

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Fast forwarding a bit here: If you're thinking about applying for residency at a med school you previously applied to as a pre-med, does admissions ever check/refer back to your existing admissions file from 4 years prior?

Say you left a positive impression on them and got accepted (maybe even with merit scholarships?), but withdrew. Does any of that hard work you put in have a chance of benefiting your candidacy for a residency position there in the future? I know that residency apps are different in that it's based almost entirely on your clinical ability, rotation LORs, and on your personality on interview - but I know you still apply through the same admissions office so I thought...maybe even a bit?(albeit your app is probably primarily handled through the specific department you're vying for residency at).

I've read elsewhere here that if you don't leave a good impression that it rarely, if ever, hurts your chances later (with the exeption of an extreme case, as law2doc posted, you cuss out the dean of admissions and proceeded to defecate on a desk...or if you're Jalby and you really do cuss out the dean of admissions )

Thanks!

 

[mmmcdowe]

No, completely different administrations. I've never heard of a medical school admissions office sharing space with residency admissions. Each specialty has their own group of individuals (attendings, residents) who are involved. The only possible way I could see it helping is if you encountered a member of the specialty that you eventually apply to and you impressed them so tremendously that they remembered you four years later and still had a tremendously positive impression of you. In other words, not likely.

 

[Nymphicus]

I've read elsewhere here that if you don't leave a good impression that it rarely, if ever, hurts your chances later

Thanks!

Correct.