what would be the best??

[eye dude]

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Hi guys and congrats for the ppl who matched 👍 ,,I didnt match 🙁 and I was wondering what should I do to increase my chances for the next year match 😕 ,,,,, which of these options is the best thing to do and why ??

1) prelim year
2) 1 year master of public health
3) 1 year masters in vision science
4) 1 year masters in bioimaging
5) 1 year of research

also let me know if you have any other suggestions ,, if you were a PD what you would prefer????

 

[4424]

Hi guys and congrats for the ppl who matched 👍 ,,I didnt match 🙁 and I was wondering what should I do to increase my chances for the next year match 😕 ,,,,, which of these options is the best thing to do and why ??

1) prelim year
2) 1 year master of public health
3) 1 year masters in vision science
4) 1 year masters in bioimaging
5) 1 year of research

also let me know if you have any other suggestions ,, if you were a PD what you would prefer????

i'm not a PD but i think the first step is to identify what you think are your deficiencies in your application. if you can't identify them, perhaps talk to your ophtho dept or dean to help identify what might be lacking. i think you need to know that first before figuring out what to do next (in my opinion). good luck and i hope you get some good advice!

 

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Hi guys and congrats for the ppl who matched 👍 ,,I didnt match 🙁 and I was wondering what should I do to increase my chances for the next year match 😕 ,,,,, which of these options is the best thing to do and why ??

1) prelim year
2) 1 year master of public health
3) 1 year masters in vision science
4) 1 year masters in bioimaging
5) 1 year of research

also let me know if you have any other suggestions ,, if you were a PD what you would prefer????

I agree with the previous poster who stated that it depends on your application's definciencies. Although, for most people I think research would be the best option if it is with a well known name.

In regard to your options, I would be careful about choice #1. If you do not do anything extra, and just apply a second time with the same application during internship, you might end up not matching again. Once you have failed to match twice, it's a lot tougher to get interviews. Also, although prelim years offer plenty of flexibility for surgical rotations and interviewing, they aren't respected by many older ophthalmologists. If you want to impress people, do a well known tough surgical or medicine internship. The problem then is that it will be really hard to interview.

 

[eye dude]

aha I see, well why there are no comments on doing masters ?? does that mean "DONT DO IT " ??

 

[MR1]

As a resident in my opinion I think you have to do something that bulks up your CV. The 2 best things I think are ophtho research or a pre-residency fellowship. As a second time applicant you unfortuantely are going to have a harder time matching no matter what. The pre-residency fellowships are often at big name programs so you can get experience and a good letter hopefully. If you do research do it somewhere big again but make sure you can get something presented and probably even published in that time to make it worthwhile. The other things you suggested just don't add much in my opinion.

Lastly though I agree you need someone that will honestly tell you your problems areas in your application that need work or at least better addressing.

 

[JMK2005]

aha I see, well why there are no comments on doing masters ?? does that mean "DONT DO IT " ??

Your status lists you as "MD/PhD". Have you completed your PhD yet?

 

[eye dude]

no I am just MD ,, maybe that was a mistake or something

 

[dantt]

if i remember correctly, you applied as an img; probably not helpful

 

[CastroViejo]

you need something that will improve your CV not only because it wasn't quite good enough this year, but it needs to be even better than what you needed this year to make up for the fact that you didn't match this year. The only way I see that happening is if you do some really great published research and work really hard to impress your big-shot preceptor to get a very strong and personalized letter. The masters programs probably won't really do much of anything to help your chances. Doing prelim year is probably a waste of time.

 

[eye dude]

Thanks guys , so I guess I'll try to do more research and hope for the best next year 🙂