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Since I'm currently in the process of picking the next two years of my life, where I'll be and what I want to do, I've been thinking a bunch on how to set up my 4th year schedule. I know that I probably want July/August to late November as electives so that I can go on audition rotations (Is that correct?)
I have two questions. First, I have a handful of EM/peds and categorical EM residencies that I want to look at. Possibly some EM/FM and maybe EM/IM. I'm only going to have 4 months worth of elective rotations in the fall to check out those places. If I'm looking at 10-12 places, how in the world do I manage getting to all of the hospitals? I'm planning on trying to go to 2-3 places during my vacation month if that works out for a 2 or 3 day set of shifts as a kind of mini audition, but that still leaves a good handful of places that have never seen my face, and they are going off of just my application and board scores.
My top schedules at this point all have:
vaca in June (plan is to take step II and PE here)
4th year EM rotation in July
elective months from August-mid November
2 month 4th year community hospital rotation, mid Nov-early Jan (will that eat in to interview time?)
Is that too late to "audition"? Are June and July too early to Audition?
My second question is more for after the audition months, how do you take time off or find time to go to the interviews? We aren't allowed to miss more than 4 clinic days per rotation. Do they interview on weekends or just during the week? It just seems pretty difficult to get all of that stuff scheduled, how do you guys find a way around it?
I've also recently begun the debate with myself about COMLEX only vs. COMLEX + USMLE, but thats another topic altogether. Any tips on how I should get my schedule lined up and ways that have worked in the past would be awesome.
Thanks!
I have two questions. First, I have a handful of EM/peds and categorical EM residencies that I want to look at. Possibly some EM/FM and maybe EM/IM. I'm only going to have 4 months worth of elective rotations in the fall to check out those places. If I'm looking at 10-12 places, how in the world do I manage getting to all of the hospitals? I'm planning on trying to go to 2-3 places during my vacation month if that works out for a 2 or 3 day set of shifts as a kind of mini audition, but that still leaves a good handful of places that have never seen my face, and they are going off of just my application and board scores.
My top schedules at this point all have:
vaca in June (plan is to take step II and PE here)
4th year EM rotation in July
elective months from August-mid November
2 month 4th year community hospital rotation, mid Nov-early Jan (will that eat in to interview time?)
Is that too late to "audition"? Are June and July too early to Audition?
My second question is more for after the audition months, how do you take time off or find time to go to the interviews? We aren't allowed to miss more than 4 clinic days per rotation. Do they interview on weekends or just during the week? It just seems pretty difficult to get all of that stuff scheduled, how do you guys find a way around it?
I've also recently begun the debate with myself about COMLEX only vs. COMLEX + USMLE, but thats another topic altogether. Any tips on how I should get my schedule lined up and ways that have worked in the past would be awesome.
Thanks!