Recent US MD Grad Applying Internal Medicine this Fall, Ideas for the year?

[prospectivemd3]

I recently graduated from a USMD program and this past year I applied into ortho and did not match. I decided to pursue IM-->Cards as I had been considering this in the past and will be reapplying this fall into the next match cycle. In the meantime, I have completed a cardiology elective, and home medicine sub-i and have gotten strong letters of recommendation from both rotations.

I am currently working to get involved with some cardiology-specific research and would like to stay involved clinically in some way. Does anyone have any suggestions for me in the upcoming year to strengthen my application and show my continued involvement?

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[pazzer2]

Have you considered doing some analyses of clinical datasets? Especially anything oriented towards cardiology? There are large datasets available for the public to analyze (NHANES, Framingham, etc). But you'll have to form a specific hypothesis and know how to analyze the data. Would help to have some data science or stats background. If you find something interesting, approach some cardiology faculty to see if they would be interested in collaborating. This is something you could do in spare time, and also put on your resume as a research activity. With some luck you might be able to find something worthy of publishing/poster.