MedPeds- Accepted with JUST "P" on all clerkships?

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Hello All,

Thanks for looking at my question. i was just wondering. IF WE GET JUST "PASS" on all our clerkship grades, but have a good step 1, step 2, good LOR's, Good volunteering, Research, Etc.

WHAT ARE MY CHANCES FOR GETTING ACCEPTED INTO A MEDPEDS RESIDENCY?
 
I had all passes except an H on surgery of all things. My one SubI in the PICU was serious about grades and I got an HP. I didnt aim high, but I got my first choice, an academic mid tier with strong research. I only went on 7 interviews to fit geographic requirements. I know I am an n of 1, but you should be ok.
 
andrek82 said:
I had all passes except an H on surgery of all things. My one SubI in the PICU was serious about grades and I got an HP. I didnt aim high, but I got my first choice, an academic mid tier with strong research. I only went on 7 interviews to fit geographic requirements. I know I am an n of 1, but you should be ok.
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I would love to pick your brain and email you! Could I ask you a few questions privately about medpeds residency path and such?
 
Jrg16 said:
I would love to pick your brain and email you! Could I ask you a few questions privately about medpeds residency path and such?
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Sent you a pm. I'd love to help. There are a lot of misconceptions out there.
 
JP2740 said:
Do yourself a favor: don't waste your time with med-peds and save a year of your life. Thank me later. PM me for address you can send money in 3 years when you realize you made the right choice.
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I strongly suspect that most doctors end up making an addition 3-4 million, lifetime, by doing medpeds. Everyone I ever met who did the dual residency went in thinking they would do Peds if not MedPeds. 3 years, a marriage, and a child later they take an IM job that pays twice as much as Pediatrics.
 
Perrotfish said:
I strongly suspect that most doctors end up making an addition 3-4 million, lifetime, by doing medpeds. Everyone I ever met who did the dual residency went in thinking they would do Peds if not MedPeds. 3 years, a marriage, and a child later they take an IM job that pays twice as much as Pediatrics.
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I wasn’t comparing med Pedes to non-medicine jobs. Don’t know how that applies to my post or why you quoted me
 
How the hell did you manage straight passes? Hell I'm a giant uninterested a**hole on most rotations who actively avoids work and even I got a few honors
 
JP2740 said:
About? Why hide?
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At a guess, because they probably have enough issues trying to put everything down without it being all over a message board. Second, you aren't making this a friendly place for their questions. It's clear you don't need or want convincing; why do you care about it?
 
In general these combined programs tend to not overlap much. Med-peds, Peds-anesthesia, etc. The only one that seems somewhat reasonable is Med-ER. And a lot of the problems stems in flip-flopping every X amount of months from one specialty to another and you just have to continuously switch your thinking making you adequate for both but not great at either. The other kicker is that there really aren't jobs out there that often allow you to do both fields at the same time. Sure you can be bored certified or board eligible for both but actually practicing both is quite hard. Like many things in medicine repitition and familiarity makes you a good clinician, splitting your time in either doesn't allow for that especially between 2 vastly different specialties like IM and Peds.
 
JP2740 said:
Really have no idea what you're trying to say. The first sentence made no sense to me. How have I been unfriendly? This guy had something that he felt was helpful enough to tell someone else, but won't put it on the public forum so other viewers can see it. Why not?

No of course I don't want or need convincing. I am in a program that has med-pedes residents, and I see what they go through and how much weaker in general they are in comparison to their colleagues. I don't care about it. I'm contributing to the forum discussion. We can only post if we care about the discussion?
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1) I'm sure you're quite nice in person, but stepping in to a conversation with sarcastic comments about saving money, etc, is at best unhelpful.

2) There are people who don't want to put every aspect of their lives online. I wouldn't think that was either a surprise or difficult to understand.

3) It's unfortunate you've been exposed to weak med peds residents. While like every other specialty they do exist, they are far from the norm. In terms of book knowledge, 2nd years see a dip in relative ITE scores, but 3rd and 4th years are on par with their categorical peer. Board pass rates in the end are similar, and residencies with med peds have higher pass rates in general. And yes, we work harder, particularly intern year, but that's because we want more, and over 90% of our grads continue to see both populations regardless of whether we are outpatient based, hospitalists, or specialists.
 
andrek82 said:
3) It's unfortunate you've been exposed to weak med peds residents. While like every other specialty they do exist, they are far from the norm. In terms of book knowledge, 2nd years see a dip in relative ITE scores, but 3rd and 4th years are on par with their categorical peer. Board pass rates in the end are similar, and residencies with med peds have higher pass rates in general. And yes, we work harder, particularly intern year, but that's because we want more, and over 90% of our grads continue to see both populations regardless of whether we are outpatient based, hospitalists, or specialists.
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Would like to see the data on that one...
 
andrek82 said:
1) I'm sure you're quite nice in person, but stepping in to a conversation with sarcastic comments about saving money, etc, is at best unhelpful.

2) There are people who don't want to put every aspect of their lives online. I wouldn't think that was either a surprise or difficult to understand.

3) It's unfortunate you've been exposed to weak med peds residents. While like every other specialty they do exist, they are far from the norm. In terms of book knowledge, 2nd years see a dip in relative ITE scores, but 3rd and 4th years are on par with their categorical peer. Board pass rates in the end are similar, and residencies with med peds have higher pass rates in general. And yes, we work harder, particularly intern year, but that's because we want more, and over 90% of our grads continue to see both populations regardless of whether we are outpatient based, hospitalists, or specialists.
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Don't really care about ITE scores. I just click through when I take them.
 
JP2740 said:
Don't really care about ITE scores. I just click through when I take them.
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Come on JP2740, stop being the guy who acts like he/she doesn't study. I bet you studied hard on your ITEs, got top in your class, and then got letters from your PD saying your ITEs were best in the class and that's how you got your #1. What I would give to be in your shoes now...

OP I don't think purely matching Med-Peds is that hard. Yes it's harder than just matching IM, but I think you'll find programs, especially if you go to a known school.
 
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edit: wont try to hijack anymore
 
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Syncrohnize said:
Not calling you out, your posts are informative for me.
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Nah you can call me out lol. I studied endlessly in med school and encourage everyone to. I never faked that. ITE's are useless and PD's cannot use it for or against you. So yea click through and get a free day off.
 
JP2740 said:
Nah you can call me out lol. I studied endlessly in med school and encourage everyone to. I never faked that. ITE's are useless and PD's cannot use it for or against you. So yea click through and get a free day off.
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I'm curious if this is only true for IM programs because I know for a fact at least at my Anesthesiology residency they take ITEs very seriously and will not graduate you if you fall below the 30th percentile in your final year taking it. So, I just want to use this to caution those reading that it's not true for all specialties.
 
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