school controls electives

[Micah6:8]

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We have a total of six electives at our school. The problem is the rule states you cannot have more than two electives in a sub-specialty.

Here is the issue. If someone is interested in Internal Medicine, then it is perfectly fine to do electives in all of the sub-specialties ( heme/onc, gi, cardio, etc.) with no limit. However, if one is interested in peds, he can only do two total peds focused rotations.
This should not differ, Heme, etc should be able to have a peds vs. adult focus.
(Cannot do peds heme, peds ID, peds cardio etc.)

Many students have said when they interviewed for Peds residencies, they were asked why they did not do more peds electives.
Is this a problem for anyone else and how did you work it out?
It seems like an unfair bias towards adult medicine (IM).

Thanks for your input.

 

[Micah6:8]

anyone?

 

[funshi baba]

haven't heard about this issue before. But if they ask you on interview, you simply states that ur sch didn't allow it. I think u could do hemonc and still case a considerable load of peds cases. just my thoughts.

 

[ubcredfox]

That's not so bad. We are only allowed 8 weeks in any specialty block (i.e. Medicine, Peds, Psychiatry etc.); MUST do 4 weeks of a surgical specialty (Surg, Optho, Anesth, Obs/Gyn, Ortho, Uro); MUST do 4 weeks of primary care (essentially only FP); and MUST do 4 weeks of a Medicine related elective (everything else).

To top it all off, we only have 24 weeks of elective time; of which only 12 weeks are before the match i.e. time worth getting reference letters from. Furthermore, if you screw up anything in 3rd year, your remediation happens out of those 12 weeks - so you can pretty much kiss any career above and beyond FP goodbye.

So ya, what do we say when we go on interview? Nothing. And to show for it we have the 7th worst 1st choice match rate in the country. But I mean, does it matter? It's not like this is your career or anything right...

Cheers.