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Let me be the 1st of many to tell you it's too early to consider it.

Let me be kind enough to also tell you that you'll want to enter the best possible, yet still affordable, medical school if interested in plastics.
 
y thanx for the reply..... i am currently torn between plastics and neuro surgery so im just trying to gather as much info on both and see if what schools actually offer both so i can make my ultimate decision wen i get to med school...
 
acMD said:
y thanx for the reply..... i am currently torn between plastics and neuro surgery so im just trying to gather as much info on both and see if what schools actually offer both so i can make my ultimate decision wen i get to med school...
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Med school isn't like a community college. "Well, do they offer Advanced Italian? No, but they DO offer Advanced Portuguese!"

All med schools will give you the chance to rotate through whatever you feel like - plastic surgery, neurosurgery, colorectal surgery, dermatology, radiology....etc. It honestly doesn't matter.
 
smq123 said:
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Med school isn't like a community college. "Well, do they offer Advanced Italian? No, but they DO offer Advanced Portuguese!"

All med schools will give you the chance to rotate through whatever you feel like - plastic surgery, neurosurgery, colorectal surgery, dermatology, radiology....etc. It honestly doesn't matter.
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Who in their right mind would select colorectal from that list? :meanie:
 
discontinuebed said:
Who in their right mind would select colorectal from that list? :meanie:
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Oooohhh...I'm telling tussy on you! 😛

In all honesty, though, and just as a matter of personal preference, I'd rather rotate through colorectal than through derm or rads. The chance to scrub in on an a case >>>> 8 hours of looking at rashes in the clinic.
 
Actually, there is a problem with a lack of exposure for medical students when it comes to Plastics. There is a large number of medical schools that simply don't have an academic Plastics Department, meaning that there are no residents to help students figure out the match and no known academic faculty to help students match.
 
I agree with maxheadroom. If you are at all interested in plastics, I would recommend balancing strength of school with presence of plastics residency, especially considering how few programs there are. Having a home program has countless advantages.
 
Lucky Strike said:
I agree with maxheadroom. If you are at all interested in plastics, I would recommend balancing strength of school with presence of plastics residency, especially considering how few programs there are. Having a home program has countless advantages.
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Wow, thats some really good advice for what, on the face of it, seems an absolutely inane question.

How, pray tell, is a premed torn between neurosurgery and plastic surgery?

Is it the similar reimbursement, or prestige? Or is it the totally dissimilar pathophysiology and operative technique?

Ok.. im done being mean.

sorry.
 
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