Transitional year

[Harbster]

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Hey all,

Quick question.........If you plan on applying for radiology, you also apply for a transitional year as well. Do you use the same personal statement that you used for radiology for the transitional year? Or do you just send in the same stuff that you sent to the radiology programs to the transitional year programs? I'm confused. Please enlighten me!

 

[UnderDoc]

Personally, I think it's advantageous to write separate personal statements for your radiology and transitional/intern year applications. The daily practice of clinical medicine versus radiology, and the respective skill sets that will allow for success in each, are relatively divergent.

Hey all,

Quick question.........If you plan on applying for radiology, you also apply for a transitional year as well. Do you use the same personal statement that you used for radiology for the transitional year? Or do you just send in the same stuff that you sent to the radiology programs to the transitional year programs? I'm confused. Please enlighten me!

 

[Harbster]

Anyone else care to fill me in?

 

[snaggletooth]

I kept the same personal statement for both, but I just happened to include aspects of medicine in it when discussing the research I did.

If my personal statement hadn't come out the way it did, I may have changed/added a few sentences about why I chose to do a medicine prelim instead of surgery/transitional, but I definitely wouldn't write a whole new letter. They know you're just doing your time.

 

[banner]

I never really saw the point in writing a seperate personal statement for the intern year. I didn't and I got my first choice for TY.

The prelim or TY programs all know that you're not interested in their respective fields - it's no secret that you are going into a different career. And, it's no secret that they are only using you for cheap labor. They could care less about your "motivations".

To write a personal statement about how great your clinical skills are or how you love IM or "healing" people only contradicts your choice to go into radiology. To write a statement about how the intern year will help you with becoming a better radiologist will only state the obvious.

Send them your radiology statement. It will give them a true picture of you.

 

[Harbster]

I never really saw the point in writing a seperate personal statement for the intern year. I didn't and I got my first choice for TY.

The prelim or TY programs all know that you're not interested in their respective fields - it's no secret that you are going into a different career. And, it's no secret that they are only using you for cheap labor. They could care less about your "motivations".

To write a personal statement about how great your clinical skills are or how you love IM or "healing" people only contradicts your choice to go into radiology. To write a statement about how the intern year will help you with becoming a better radiologist will only state the obvious.

Send them your radiology statement. It will give them a true picture of you.

I like that answer, Thanks dude!

 

[pacslover]

I used my rads essay for all my prelims/TY apps too, and got my first choice.

 

[account90]

There is no need to write a separate personal statement for your prelim year. Use your radiology statement. I'd say >95% of applicants I knew had 1 statement. It will not affect your getting an interview.