Ophthalmolgy
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1. Do well in high school.
2. Do well on SAT. This, in combination with good grades should get you into a good college.
3. Major in whatever suits you in college. If that major doesn't fulfill the entry requirements for medical school, you WILL have to go out of your way to take those classes.
4. Get a >30 on your MCAT, and >3.6 GPA. Volunteer, do research, get good letters of recommendation.
5. Apply to medical school. Get in. Go.
This is where things start getting a little hazy, since I'm not a medical school student. I'll try my best though.
6. Pass all of your preclinical courses.
7. Get a good Step I score (>230 or so is considered good, right?)
8. Get pass/high pass/honors in your clinical rotations, esp. in surgery.
9. Do away rotations in ophthalmology programs you'd like to be accepted to.
10. Apply to ophtho residencies using the San Francisco match. Get matched to a program.
11. Use the regular match to match into a preliminary medical program.
12. Finish your 1 year of prelim and 3 years of ophtho residency.
13. Apply to a fellowship if you're so inclined.
14. Enjoy ophthalmology!
Did I miss anything, guys?
2. Do well on SAT. This, in combination with good grades should get you into a good college.
3. Major in whatever suits you in college. If that major doesn't fulfill the entry requirements for medical school, you WILL have to go out of your way to take those classes.
4. Get a >30 on your MCAT, and >3.6 GPA. Volunteer, do research, get good letters of recommendation.
5. Apply to medical school. Get in. Go.
This is where things start getting a little hazy, since I'm not a medical school student. I'll try my best though.
6. Pass all of your preclinical courses.
7. Get a good Step I score (>230 or so is considered good, right?)
8. Get pass/high pass/honors in your clinical rotations, esp. in surgery.
9. Do away rotations in ophthalmology programs you'd like to be accepted to.
10. Apply to ophtho residencies using the San Francisco match. Get matched to a program.
11. Use the regular match to match into a preliminary medical program.
12. Finish your 1 year of prelim and 3 years of ophtho residency.
13. Apply to a fellowship if you're so inclined.
14. Enjoy ophthalmology!
Did I miss anything, guys?
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Citing the competiveness of the specialty now isn't very useful. There can be huge swings in specialty competiveness in around a decade.
Baby steps little OP. Just go to a solid university, work harder than the others. Get into a medical school and work harder than the others. Remain open to learning everything you can in every field. Reflect on the long road and how things change when interviewing for internal medicine or some other specialty.
Baby steps little OP. Just go to a solid university, work harder than the others. Get into a medical school and work harder than the others. Remain open to learning everything you can in every field. Reflect on the long road and how things change when interviewing for internal medicine or some other specialty.
What is great about the Anesthesiology board is that there are relatively 'unknown' gems that contain some very solid advice, like this: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=6020284&postcount=2
Read it well, and replace anything that has to do with Anesthesiology with Opthalmology. 🙂
Read it well, and replace anything that has to do with Anesthesiology with Opthalmology. 🙂
