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Just started MS3....what now?

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11 years 6 days ago #32911 by orthobunk
We just started 3rd year rotations today at my school.
Last week I was relieved to find out my Step 1 score was >250. I have a few ENT pubs and presentations but nothing ortho related yet, though one project is in the works.

So other than doing well in clinical rotations what else should I be doing?

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10 years 11 months ago #32959 by Wild20
If you are really wanting to try for ortho and not ENT, I would recommend trying to get on a research project in ortho to at least be able to say that you've been participating in some research relating to ortho.

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10 years 9 months ago #33188 by chiefmd
Get to know people, get into the OR with the residents, go to morning conferences. Find an ortho faculty mentor. Do ortho research. Now its about getting to know people and letting them know you want to do ortho. Yea we like smart people, but what we value more is people we can work with. I would rather have a hard worker instead of someone with a 250+ step score or someone that I knew would want to come to work early and stay late.
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10 years 8 months ago #33670 by recentgrad
Totally agree with chiefmd on all fronts. Perfect advice.

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