what to do with my life?

[calicali]

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orry to make this another one of those , “could I get in....” posts, but i would really appreciate brutal honesty either from residents or attendings. So I am taking a year off to do neurology research, which I intended to do because I was interested in a career in academic neurology. But I as the months go by, I find myself missing the or. I spent some time with the ns team during my surgical rotation, and i loved it. The academic life is not as appealing as I thought it woudl be. So now I’m stuck and I don’t know what to do with my life.
It would help to know if I even had a chance to match. If matching is complete absurdity, then it would be easier to walk away from it. I just don’t want to live my life doing EEG’s and thinking what if. It would also be important for me to stay around my homestate (Cali)

Here are my stats and stuff. Brutal honesty is again much apprecaited.

Step 1 236
Clinical grades: Pysch- Pass, Medicine-High Pass, Ob/gyn-Pass (but great written eval, I blew the shelf), Peds- high pass, Surg- Pass (great written eval by director, resident hated me)

so, my clinical grades obviously blow chunks. But I’ll have a year of neuro research (may/may not publish).
So please put me out of my misery, tell me it’s pointless to try to match. Is it too late to switch gears and pursue the ns track?
Thanks for the help

 

[TIMMY]

tell me it’s pointless to try to match.

"Its pointless to try to match"



Your not gonna get much sympathy on this website BUT I can tell you to give it a shot....and have a back up.

 

[hans19]

I don't discourage anyone from applying for rads, even if their grades aren't the greatest. I don't know much about the NS match process but you have to do what you love. If you absolutely love neurosurgery (make your you aren't bipolar first...) go for it! Your chances of matching if you don't apply are- ZERO. How do you know for sure you won't match, unless you try. Do lots of away rotations and bust your hump on them.

Worst case scenario: you can to a pre-residency fellowship to prove yourself.

Good luck.

 

[PoetMD]

whats a pre-residency fellowship?
thanks

 

[mpp]

Some neurosurgery programs offer to have a doctor spend a year or so working on their service without actually being in the residency program.. Often these are FMG's trying to get their foot in the door and it has proved successful in some cases.