Need some advice regarding Anesthesia residency/MPH degree

[DigitalDCMD]

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Hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice regarding my pursuit of a career in Anesthesia. I'm an MS3 at a middle of the road NYC school getting ready to plan my 4th year schedule. I have done pretty well in school. Got a 230 on step 1, honors in 3/4 clerkships which I have grades for, probable high pass on Surgery this semester, a conditional grade in Ob/Gyn (along with a scathing eval that my MSPE writer says she doesn't have to include pending new eval), and I've been busy with a health literacy fellowship through the NYC mayor's office, and helping to run and serving as a chair on our student run free clinic council. Definitely have a thing for public health.
I have always been interested in the field. Physio/pharm are two of my favorite aspects of medical education. Research is also something I'm interested in. This might not be the case in other fields but for Anesthesia, I would like to be involved in academics to keep it exciting. I would also like to stay in the NYC/Northeast area. Academic center, NYC/NE.
These are my questions:
1)How serious is my conditional grade in Ob? Will this interfere with my goals?
2)Since research is something I will likely pursuit with an MPH, would I stand to benefit greatly from taking a year between 3rd and 4th year to get my MPH and do some Anesthesia research (i have no experience since college)?
3)Am I competitive as is for some of the NYC academic programs? Would an MPH/research year, aside from giving me some perspective, help me attain some better programs which may be out of my reach at the moment?
Thanks for any help. Sorry for the run-ons.

 

[cfdavid]

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice regarding my pursuit of a career in Anesthesia. I'm an MS3 at a middle of the road NYC school getting ready to plan my 4th year schedule. I have done pretty well in school. Got a 230 on step 1, honors in 3/4 clerkships which I have grades for, probable high pass on Surgery this semester, a conditional grade in Ob/Gyn (along with a scathing eval that my MSPE writer says she doesn't have to include pending new eval), and I've been busy with a health literacy fellowship through the NYC mayor's office, and helping to run and serving as a chair on our student run free clinic council. Definitely have a thing for public health.
I have always been interested in the field. Physio/pharm are two of my favorite aspects of medical education. Research is also something I'm interested in. This might not be the case in other fields but for Anesthesia, I would like to be involved in academics to keep it exciting. I would also like to stay in the NYC/Northeast area. Academic center, NYC/NE.
These are my questions:
1)How serious is my conditional grade in Ob? Will this interfere with my goals?
2)Since research is something I will likely pursuit with an MPH, would I stand to benefit greatly from taking a year between 3rd and 4th year to get my MPH and do some Anesthesia research (i have no experience since college)?
3)Am I competitive as is for some of the NYC academic programs? Would an MPH/research year, aside from giving me some perspective, help me attain some better programs which may be out of my reach at the moment?
Thanks for any help. Sorry for the run-ons.

Why the MPH, exactly? Some perspective?

I'm not dogging the MPH, but I would look long and hard on what exactly you will benefit from it. And, don't forget to consider opportunity cost.

 

[G-Man82]

Agree with the above, but to add, a couple of people from my med school's anesthesia department, including the former chair had MPHs. So it is done and apparently quite commonly, but I honestly don't know what you would do with it. Perhaps QA/QI work with the APSF?

 

[RemyMcswain]

My school has an MD/MPH option, and I know a lot of classmates did the joint degree. I dont think it helped them get into residency.

There are other Masters degrees out there too. Masters of Health Administration, MBA, Masters of Health systems management.

 

[PMPMD]

You should look up Peter Pronovost at Hopkins He came up with the central line insertion checklist to reduce central line infections. He is anesthesia critical care trained. Also Daniel Sessler at CCF does outcomes research. Those would be the 2 best examples of anesthesia impacting public health. You dont need a research year to get a residency spot with your stats though.