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So this is quite a bit away in the timeline for me, but I keep thinking about it, so here's my question:
I worked for 3.5 years in the operating room at teaching hospital A. Based on this experience, which was the ultimate deciding factor in me continuing to try to get into medical school, I would like to continue on in the future in surgery (general, general/plastics, neuro?...will wait til clerkships to narrow it down). Anyway, since I had an extremely good relationship with my coworkers there, would it benefit me to do my general surg rotation at this hospital? Do you get to pick the attending you are under for clerkships, or is it just randomly assigned to whomever the teaching staff at that hospital is? There were 2 general surgeons there that even if the entire rest of my time there was the crappiest experience ever, getting to work under them would keep me going. Nicest people EVER to work with.
The other option I was thinking of was doing an ortho rotation there instead as one of my first to kind of "ease" my way into 3rd year, then use what I learned to do well on a GS clerkship at either the University teaching hospital or the community clinical-based hospital, both of which have GS residency spots (which hospital A does not). Would this be a better idea, even though I did not particularly like any of the orthopods I worked with there?
Any advice on the subject would be GREATLY appreciated.
...and I am one of those people that wants to have as much a 5-yr planned filled out with 2 or 3 back-up versions available, so please don't tell me not to worry about it now, because I still will. I'm a planner. It's how I roll.
AH hehehe so I just read the "read before you post" link now....this should probably go in the Clinical Thread...didn't see that until now. Sorry, mods! Move if you need/want
I worked for 3.5 years in the operating room at teaching hospital A. Based on this experience, which was the ultimate deciding factor in me continuing to try to get into medical school, I would like to continue on in the future in surgery (general, general/plastics, neuro?...will wait til clerkships to narrow it down). Anyway, since I had an extremely good relationship with my coworkers there, would it benefit me to do my general surg rotation at this hospital? Do you get to pick the attending you are under for clerkships, or is it just randomly assigned to whomever the teaching staff at that hospital is? There were 2 general surgeons there that even if the entire rest of my time there was the crappiest experience ever, getting to work under them would keep me going. Nicest people EVER to work with.
The other option I was thinking of was doing an ortho rotation there instead as one of my first to kind of "ease" my way into 3rd year, then use what I learned to do well on a GS clerkship at either the University teaching hospital or the community clinical-based hospital, both of which have GS residency spots (which hospital A does not). Would this be a better idea, even though I did not particularly like any of the orthopods I worked with there?
Any advice on the subject would be GREATLY appreciated.
...and I am one of those people that wants to have as much a 5-yr planned filled out with 2 or 3 back-up versions available, so please don't tell me not to worry about it now, because I still will. I'm a planner. It's how I roll.
AH hehehe so I just read the "read before you post" link now....this should probably go in the Clinical Thread...didn't see that until now. Sorry, mods! Move if you need/want
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