personal statement for prelim year.

[neuro kid]

HI,
As my name clarifies, I am applying for neurology this year. I have sent in my neurology application and am now looking to apply to medicine prelim years.

I am a little confused about the PS to be sent for IM Prelim years. Should it be exactly the same as the neuro one, should it be completely geared towards Internal medicine, or should it include mostly neuro and a touch of IM.

Can someone refer me to an example floating around on the web?

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[rdomingo]

Hi there,

I'm in the same boat as you... I spoke with the Dean of Clinical Studies at my medical school and he said it was ok to use the Neuro letter as programs will know you're only applying for prelim Medicine. I might add a line at the end to mention my interest in Medicine, but I'm not going to do anything more than that. Anyone else have any advice?

 

[banner]

When I applied to radiology residency, I sent all the prelim programs my personal statement that I used for rads. I got all of my prelim interviews and matched at my number one place. I think that they got a pretty good idea of what kind of a person I am from that personal statement.

The prelim programs know why you're doing a prelim year - only because you have to. They're not gullible enough to believe that you are "interested" in internal medicine or surgery or transitional year. If you were, you wouldn't be applying to another field.

 

[drgirl]

hi--my brother applied for rads last year and just used the same PS with a sentence added on about doing a prelim year etc etc....thats my plan too.

 

[neuro kid]

thank you guys.

Thanks for the advice. i am sure i am lazy enough to not write another one anyways.


But its always nice to know i am not in the bad side of things.

 

[kenfused]

You can probably recycle most of your PS for your subspecialty for your prelim PS.

YOu probably want to add a bit about what you are looking for in a prelim program : variety of cases, build a foundation for your future specialty, etc... That will help tailor your essay a bit for the right audience. If you add in just a few lines, that should work out just fine.