What IM residencies am I competitive for?

[i_o]

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Hey all,

I was looking at doximity this weekend instead of studying for my shelf and wanted to get an idea of what tier programs I should be looking into. I want to go into internal medicine and envision myself doing hospital work at an academic program with some primary care on the side.

Top 20 school
Step 1 249
Probably won't take Step 2 until Oct
All HP + 2 honors, I am in medicine clerkship now (give me honors pls), definitely not AOA
4 publications: 2 2nd author, 2 nth author, 1-2 more on the way
5 leadership positions in clubs
Like 5 total hours of volunteering lol

I am a decent student but not standout in any particular way. I am definitely not the kind of person who gets told "you are the best medical student ever blah blah." What tier of IM programs am I looking at? Top 20-30?

 

[Treebeard]

Cool (not particularly humble) humblebrag

 

[Redpancreas]

Hey all,

I was looking at doximity this weekend instead of studying for my shelf and wanted to get an idea of what tier programs I should be looking into. I want to go into internal medicine and envision myself doing hospital work at an academic program with some primary care on the side.

Top 20 school
Step 1 249
Probably won't take Step 2 until Oct
All HP + 2 honors, I am in medicine clerkship now (give me honors pls), definitely not AOA
4 publications: 2 2nd author, 2 nth author, 1-2 more on the way
5 leadership positions in clubs
Like 5 total hours of volunteering lol

I am a decent student but not standout in any particular way. I am definitely not the kind of person who gets told "you are the best medical student ever blah blah." What tier of IM programs am I looking at? Top 20-30?

Given your school, board scores, clinical grades, and research most likely somewhere between top 10-30 (Stanford, Emory, UCLA, BIDMC, UPMC, UNC, Alabama Case, UVa, NYU, Baylor, etc.) range. I wouldn't be surprised if you got some Big 4 interviews, and I could see you landing in the top 10 as well depending on regional preferences and letters. Definitely apply to all the Doximity top 30 that you're interested in as well as some safeties. Your big ticket items remaining are that IM shelf and CK. I hope this motivates you more than it intimidates you, but many programs will screen you out without that IM honor (I suspect, not know) . Also CK in October is still good, but no later than early November. No one will tell you this directly (not even PDs, Program websites, etc.) but some places will hold you to that CK score and invite many who you may feel are weaker candidates over you until they get that. Also, the period between November-early January is a dead-productivity period because you can't study during interviews...you don't retain anything. You've done very well on Step 1, but you didn't hit it out of the park as ridiculous as that sounds. If it's any reassurance, however, if nothing goes according to plan (you don't honor IM, don't do amazing on CK) you're still probably a top 30 candidate. You'd do well to start browsing the IM forums as opposed the MD-Allo now.

 

[i_o]

Thanks, appreciate the advice. I'll think about taking Step 2 earlier & will def. bust my ass in this rotation.

 

[Redpancreas]

Thanks, appreciate the advice. I'll think about taking Step 2 earlier & will def. bust my ass in this rotation.

Don't go too hard, people either like you or they don't. Also get plenty of sleep the week before the shelf and do all the NBMEs/all IM UWorld, etc. I wish you all the best!

 

[Redpancreas]

Thanks, appreciate the advice. I'll think about taking Step 2 earlier & will def. bust my ass in this rotation.

There’s also a IM WAMC thread for this.