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  Sunday, 08 September 2002
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I don't know WHAT to do???!? I Really Really enjoyed the Ortho portion of my Surgery rotation during third year but now don't know what to do. I am already scheduled to take away electives at several schools for General Surgery and asked for LORs from several at my own medical school. I still enjoy G Surg, but REALLY felt happiest during Ortho. Anyway, I don't have any LORs from Ortho, haven't set up any away electives, and had... up to about 2 weeks ago totally sold myself and everyone else on my future in a G Surg residency. Is it too late to try to secure LORs or away electives? My grades and scores are simply mean average. What should I do? Help, please.
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First of all, I don't really think it's too late until you've sent in your ERAS and it's past the application deadlines. Most of the programs have deadlines in mid/late october and some are Nov 1st. I would first carefully evaluate whether you enjoy g-surg or ortho more. Maybe talk to your ortho chairman/program director. Secondly, judge how competitive you are for ortho. Most people recommend having Step 1 of >220s at least and excellent grades esp. in surgery and medicine. Many people match w/o doing aways so I don't think that's going to hurt you. maybe you can call some of your g-surg aways and try to change them to ortho even though it'll be after apps are due just so you can see the program. Good luck making up the decision.
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