I'm in my second to last year of medical school. I'm not settled on what specialty I'd like to do. I have two elective months approaching and need to figure out what to do with them (one of which is VERY quickly approaching). After theses two electives it will be time to apply to residency. I'm interested in competitive specialties and I'm not sure what will benefit me the most.
I'm interested in Radiation Oncology - I did a rotation very early on (about a year ago) just to see if I had any interest in the field. I liked it okay but the learning curve is pretty large and I didn't have too much clinical experience at the time. I did it at WashU and was not graded especially well. My dilemma is that I have the opportunity to do another rotation at Northwestern University soon and it may be better overall- I may enjoy it more and I will already have had some experience so I should be graded better. My question is, will it be worth my time to do another rotation in a field I've already tried - Pro: I may be graded well and get a letter of rec, con: using a month that I could have used for a different elective (since I'm not decided on a specialty).
The other specialties I'm considering are ophthalmology, radiology, and maybe GI. I've not had a chance to try any of these yet. I'm not sure if I should pursue the Rad Onc elective in the chance that I ultimately choose that as my specialty or if I should pursue one of the others to be able to decide what I want to do.
I'm really not sure which of these I want to do and am really nervous that I'm going to figure it out too late to build a good CV.
Please help me figure out what to do! Thanks
I'm interested in Radiation Oncology - I did a rotation very early on (about a year ago) just to see if I had any interest in the field. I liked it okay but the learning curve is pretty large and I didn't have too much clinical experience at the time. I did it at WashU and was not graded especially well. My dilemma is that I have the opportunity to do another rotation at Northwestern University soon and it may be better overall- I may enjoy it more and I will already have had some experience so I should be graded better. My question is, will it be worth my time to do another rotation in a field I've already tried - Pro: I may be graded well and get a letter of rec, con: using a month that I could have used for a different elective (since I'm not decided on a specialty).
The other specialties I'm considering are ophthalmology, radiology, and maybe GI. I've not had a chance to try any of these yet. I'm not sure if I should pursue the Rad Onc elective in the chance that I ultimately choose that as my specialty or if I should pursue one of the others to be able to decide what I want to do.
I'm really not sure which of these I want to do and am really nervous that I'm going to figure it out too late to build a good CV.
Please help me figure out what to do! Thanks