What are my chances for ENT residency?

[treebeardette]

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My school actually publishes what percentage of the class gets each grade in clinical clerkships in the MSPE. This is common in my understanding, so it gives a context for how hard it is to honor. Do the best you can with this attending in peds, try to be proactive about it.

For the research, I would personally count facial plastics as ENT related, especially if it's more on the reconstructive side of things (although ENTs do cosmetic as well). It might come off as a little plasticy if it was published in a plastics specific journal/meeting, but if pressed you can just say you are interested in ENT and FPRS, and saw an opportunity. I don't know if some attendings/PDs/whatever get nit-picky about it. Research is research, you're doing well.

 

[medstud268]

This is very encouraging to hear! For surgery, it was a little disappointing that I got near honors (high Pass), but I came to find out, that out of about 120 students, only 10 or so got either near honors or honors so far, the rest were passes. It's not the best but i'm still head of a majority of people in my class, so it felt reassuring. I'm on peds right now, and I don't think I'm going to get Honors in this because my attending has a reputation of giving very low evals to everyone, but oh well, you win some and lose some.

I do want to ask about research. I only have 1 ENT specific first author publication. But I have 2 facial plastics publication/poster, I chose this project because I really liked the PI and I told him I want to do ENT so he gave me something that is both ENT and plastics. I'm assuming that Programs don't really care which field you do research (majority should be in the field you are applying for of course), but will they see this as still ENT related or no?

I agree with treebeard. I will say that many people don't have any pubs or only a couple by the time they're interviewing, so you are ahead of the ball. I don't think any of the applicants from my school had a published paper in ENT by the time we started, and we all got >15/20 interviews so it didn't hurt us, except maybe at the big name research powerhouses on the coasts which we didn't want to go to anyway. If your mentor is well known and will write you a strong letter, that is more impactful than how many ENT pubs you have imo.

 

[Milotic]

Weren't there some open SOAP spots for ENT this year?? I remember seeing places with unfilled spots on the report.

 

[medstud268]

Weren't there some open SOAP spots for ENT this year?? I remember seeing places with unfilled spots on the report.

Yea there were 12? I believe. Last year and this year were the highest in recorded history.

 

[ribbit247]

Yea there were 12? I believe. Last year and this year were the highest in recorded history.

Weren't there some open SOAP spots for ENT this year?? I remember seeing places with unfilled spots on the report.

So what you're saying is that this year is a good time to apply to ENT huh XD

 

[Waldeinsamkeit]

8 pubs/presentations/posters really isn't that much when they all get lumped into the same category. 2-3 solid projects could conceivably get you there because they likely got presented at one or two places, and got you the pub. With 7 pubs, I would bet OP is close to 15 research experiences in this category if they are playing the game right.

Wait, are posters considered publications?

 

[nymedstudent874]

Wait, are posters considered publications?

No. But the way eras categorizes research is weird. You can basically list posters, presentations, journal articles all as “publications”


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