Hi. I failed my gross anatomy lab at the very end of the year and am now in the first week of my repeat year. I’m ready to ace this year especially considering I passed all my other courses; it was just cadaver lab that got me . I’m handling it well so far, but it still feels like a punch in the gut when I see my old cohort on campus, or when I hear people talking about board prep since that’s where I would’ve been had I not failed. Any advice please or success stories? I also don’t see myself counting to any particularly competitive specialties, (peds, IM, maybe neuro, is that competitive?) but I do want to do residency back home in the northeast (NY NJ PA). Am I done for?
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You’re fine for those specialties. But like any DO with a red flag, you need to be geographically flexible. I don’t mean nowhere North Dakota. But a big academic program in a desirable locale gets harder now.
Ok thanks. I don’t mean like NYU or anything, I just want to be close to family so somewhere around there hopefully even if it’s not a huge academic program
