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So they're opening up a hospital in my hometown next year and I really want to do my residency there... do I have any advantage at all as a lifelong resident of this little ****ter?
So they're opening up a hospital in my hometown next year and I really want to do my residency there... do I have any advantage at all as a lifelong resident of this little ****ter?
Based on your other post:So they're opening up a hospital in my hometown next year and I really want to do my residency there... do I have any advantage at all as a lifelong resident of this little ****ter?
I have a feeling that you are thinking about going to med school and are under the misperception that you can do residency at any hospital. Some hospitals, no where near the majority, have residency programs. You can only do residency at a hospital with a residency program. Even then not every hospital with a program has every field available.I had my choices narrowed down to two areas (musculoskeletal and acute care) before I entered med school, and still have no interest in anthing else.
Based on your other post:
"Musculoskeletal" and "acute care" are not specialties in the US. Do you mean orthopedic surgery and emergency medicine?
I'm aware that "musculoskeletal" and "acute" medicine are not specialities. I name them as broad categories of interest. I could go into physiatry, sports medicine, orthopedics, emergency, trauma surgery, orthopedic trauma, musculoskeletal radiology, etc. Any of those.
Based on your other post:
I have a feeling that you are thinking about going to med school and are under the misperception that you can do residency at any hospital. Some hospitals, no where near the majority, have residency programs. You can only do residency at a hospital with a residency program. Even then not every hospital with a program has every field available.
"Musculoskeletal" and "acute care" are not specialties in the US. Do you mean orthopedic surgery and emergency medicine?
If Florida is America's wang, what does that make Texas?
And I'm telling you, physiatry is super boring. No surgericalizations at all. I've never met a surgerion who liked physiatry.
It's not boring if that's what you're into.
Easy. Texas is America's pancreas: don't [mess] with it.If Florida is America's wang, what does that make Texas?
How do you know that? The OP has never come back and said if his hometown is New York, NY or Weed, CA.It may be easier to get in to those programs just because they will be brand new and not tested. Lots of people go on reputation and a new program is an unknown, some people won't want to take that chance. This may give you an opportunity to say "I am from this town, I will definitely rank you number one" and it may help.
How do you know that? The OP has never come back and said if his hometown is New York, NY or Weed, CA.
So they're opening up a hospital in my hometown next year and I really want to do my residency there... do I have any advantage at all as a lifelong resident of this little ****ter?
Easy. Texas is America's pancreas: don't [mess] with it.