Reputation vs. quality of an away rotation for SLOEs

[Lbjisyuki]

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hey all. Curious your opinion on this. Does the reputation of where you’re doing an away matter or does the SLOE just have to be good, regardless of the institution?

Medicore sloe from ex. Hennepin vs. excellent sloe from a random community program.

Thanks for your help.

 

[drfoxxy824]

I can only comment from my personal experience, but I think quality matters more than name.

I did three aways at programs that were good/solid programs, but are certainly not extremely reputable or considered top programs by SDN. I received excellent SLOEs from these programs and ended up matching at a very well known program that was not even in the same region of my medical school or even in the region where I received my SLOEs.

Not sure what other's experiences are, however.

 

[deleted436726]

hey all. Curious your opinion on this. Does the reputation of where you’re doing an away matter or does the SLOE just have to be good, regardless of the institution?

Medicore sloe from ex. Hennepin vs. excellent sloe from a random community program.

Thanks for your help.

As someone who learned the hard way by going unmatched in EM this year: quality >>> name

 

[Jabbed]

Rotate at programs that you are interested in matching to.

 

[gamerEMdoc]

I agree that the quality of the SLOE probably matters more than the name on the SLOE. Just because a place has a good name, doesn't even mean they write good SLOEs with an appropriate grading distribution. If I had the choice of interviewing a candidate with a top 1/3 SLOE from a lesser known community program vs a candidate with a low 1/3 SLOE from a big name program, I'd take the candidate with the top 1/3 SLOE, unless the grading distribution at the place that gave it was way over-inflated. I'm sure I'm not the only one that looks at SLOEs that way.

But all in all, I agree with what @Jabbed said above... rotate where you are interested in matching. Don't overthink the process. Rotate at places you think you may be competitive for, and where you want to end up.

 

[cyanide12345678]

hey all. Curious your opinion on this. Does the reputation of where you’re doing an away matter or does the SLOE just have to be good, regardless of the institution?

Medicore sloe from ex. Hennepin vs. excellent sloe from a random community program.

Thanks for your help.

Quality 100 percent. My SLOE at Cincinnati had me around average. I'm pretty sure that's why I slipped down my rank list a few spots 🙂

Quality >>>> reputation.

I wish I had picked an average place and shined. Instead I was rotating with gunner medical students, some of the best from the country

 

[Donald Kimball]

Quality over name. Bunch of gunners are going to be rotating at LAC, Stanford, Harbor, Denver, etc. Makes it so much harder to shine and get that top 10% SLOE.