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[palmtreemd2b]

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...just curious if GAS is still a back-up for people applying to RADS and other specialties?

 

[Pinky]

when i graduated in 2002, anesthesia was a common back-up for radiology which i found a little odd. they don't seem to have much in common other than no long-term patient care. i understood anesthesia as a back-up to the surgical subspecialties but not radiology.

 

[Molly Maquire]

Here's what they have in common: limited patient contact, good lifestyle, relatively high pay.

 

[juddson]

How can ANYTHING be a backup to ANYTHING? As I understand it, you cannot apply to two residency areas in the same city or the programs would find out and you would likely place in neither.

I asked this of a 4th year at one of my interviews and he said he had wanted to do it in order to stay in a particular town (IM and Psych) and his advisor said NO WAY. Every town is small and your specialty has some sort of code, and blah blah.

So how does one do this?

Judd

 

[Molly Maquire]

I really don't think that is true. As I understand it, there is nothing precluding you from applying to as many specialties as you want, even if they are in the same hospital.

Obviously, this can make for some uncomfortable situations, but I don't think there is any way they can find out.

 

[Pinky]

It's common to apply to two residencies especially if one of them is ultra-competitive and not a guarantee. My roomate when he applied to residencies wasn't sure about what he wanted to do. He applied to both ortho and radiology in California and only in
California. When it was time to rank, he ranked radiology programs 1,3,5,7... He ranked ortho programs 2,4,6,8..... In the end he matched at his #1. Another friend ranked both psych and radiology. She ranked rads 1-5 and psych 6-11. In the end, none of the radiology programs took her so she ended up in psych.

 

[powermd]

Originally posted by Pinky
It's common to apply to two residencies especially if one of them is ultra-competitive and not a guarantee. My roomate when he applied to residencies wasn't sure about what he wanted to do. He applied to both ortho and radiology in California and only in
California. When it was time to rank, he ranked radiology programs 1,3,5,7... He ranked ortho programs 2,4,6,8..... In the end he matched at his #1. Another friend ranked both psych and radiology. She ranked rads 1-5 and psych 6-11. In the end, none of the radiology programs took her so she ended up in psych.

Why would someone rank radiology 1,3,5,7 and orth 2,4,6,8? What factor took priority over specialty choice?

 

[Pinky]

he didn't want/couldn't make the decision between ortho and radiology. he thought that he would be happy in either one and so he ranked them this way so that "fate" could decide his specialty for him.

Why would someone rank radiology 1,3,5,7 and orth 2,4,6,8? What factor took priority over specialty choice?