surgical sub internships: plastics or ob/gyn onc?

[crystalgreen]

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hey guys, i was wondering which subI will be better? plastics or obgyn onc? plastics seems really interesting and there's only 10% inpatient and optional weekends so im thinking of taking that. but then it doesn't seem to be popular at my school because usually all the easy subIs are taken already.....so am I missing something?

another unrelated question: for step 2cs, do we have to worry about grammar/capitalization? im a super slow typer and im taking it on the 24th and im super nervous!

thanks guys!

 

[sirenomelia]

You should do SubI's in the field you plan to match in to learn and get experience in your field, to audition where you may want to match and to experience some degree of responsibility so you are remotely useful next July 1. Plastics and gyn/onc are highly technical and specialized and you will be relegated to a spectator. These would be interesting electives but your subI's should be more hands-on. Usually medicine, gen surgery or peds are better suited for subI's. I dont know about step 2; i took it before (thank goodness) they split it into cs/ck

 

[PSurg530]

Serious question: Why do you want to do a Sub-I?

They are not supposed to be easy, as mentioned above, they are supposed to be in the field you're interested in. If you are interested in a surgical subspecialty, then a rotation in that would be best. If it's Gen Surg, then you can do one in anything related to that.

And for CS, does it really take that much longer to capitalize words? I don't think a few grammar issues will hurt you, but most of the purpose of CS is showing that you can effectively communicate with patients and then with other physicians via notes. However, besides the HPI, most of the note can be written with numbered lists, so that should help. Do you have access to First Aid for CS? It might have some helpful hints for formatting the note so you can move through it quicker.

 

[LossForWords]

I did a gyn/onc rotation during ob/gyn and it was hit or miss. Find out if your hospital has a da Vinci or other robotics device for doing the surgeries. The robotics cases are a waste of time for a student because you just sit down and watch a TV monitor while the surgeon operates the machine over in the corner. So if they do a bunch of those, your sub-I could suck. The open laps they do in gyn/onc are great though. Big surgical field so you can get in and really see stuff.

 

[VenusinFurs]

At my school up until my class, all the fourth years had to do a surgical AI. If you aren't interested in surgery, why would you chose a difficult surgical AI?

 

[crystalgreen]

thank you for all your answers! im not interested in general surgery, im actually going into ophthalmology, which is not hard core surgery....i honestly just want to know which one is easier since it will be my last rotation during fourth year...at my school surg subI is required.
so what you u guys think now?

thanks!

 

[PSurg530]

Sorry, didn't realize that it was a required Sub-I. It's hard to say without knowing the program, but I would think in general, gyn onc is going to be a lot harder than the plastics rotation you described. You can ask others in your class how the plastics rotation went and if they liked it.

 

[DoctwoB]

thank you for all your answers! im not interested in general surgery, im actually going into ophthalmology, which is not hard core surgery....i honestly just want to know which one is easier since it will be my last rotation during fourth year...at my school surg subI is required.
so what you u guys think now?

thanks!

Can you do a retinal or facial plasics Subi?

 

[crystalgreen]

unfortunately no...but that would be awesome! I guess i will go with plastics 🙂

 

[VenusinFurs]

Yeah, gyn onc and plastics are impossible to get involved with. Especially if your school's gyn onc does everything by robot.