I am a caribbean student doing my 3rd year cores in NJ at the moment. I have two weeks off around Christmas and wanted in that time to fulfill an elective. My hospital has electives available in that time frame for surgery and SICU but my concern is that they are both in D.O. programs. My hospital doesn't have a M.D. surgery program. There is a policy that I have to have completed a specific core to be allowed to do a corresponding elective (I did my surgery at an ACGME program at another hospital) and I will have completed Peds, Surgery, Psych, Family Medicine. Any advice? Should I go for it? Will it hurt my application? Is it worthwhile?
MD student doing DO elective?
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I couldn't see why it would. I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, also. I think the more relevant question is whether or not you'd be wasting your time rotating somewhere that you won't have the ability to match. Keep in mind that is not my opinion, but some people certainly view it that way. I don't imagine you getting chased out of any ACGME interviews because you rotated through a DO program. In fact, I think there's only a small chance they look carefully at where you did your rotation (unless that's the specialty you're applying for) and there's a much, much smaller chance that they even know it's a DO program, or if that there's even a residency there at all.
