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oh wow, I havent logged on to this website in like 4 years. Well, I'm a first year med student now, and it seems my last post was when I was in my senior year in high school...things went by rather fasssssssst! So I'm not interested in plastic anymore. I suck in anatomy but I'm really good at other things. It turns out I don't like touching people...hmm...and yet im in medicine. Unfortunately guys, plastic surgery is super super super super competitive and medical school is really really hard. You have to become like super smart and be very talented with your hands; dissecting a human being is not as easy as dissecting a cat in college or high school. Basically, you need to go to medical school regardless of where it is. Medical school is all the same. It doesnt matter where you go, you just need to get awesome USMLE Step II scores, then you're set. You also have to have mad anatomy skills and this will be shown by the letter of recommendation you get either from your surgery attending or anatomy professor. Get A's in medical school and that's very hard to get 'cause different medical schools have different testing/grading policies. You need to get your professors to like you a lot...'cause they'll be the ones writing your letter of recommendation and that's one of the most important things and from what i've heard from residency selection committees, the most important. Letter of recommendation can't just be from someone though...if you want to get to a competitive residency programs like plastics, you have to do other extra things to even get a shot and this includes: doing a side rotation in the hospital/clinic offering the program, publish some scientific papers, and get a letter from a reknown person in the field, in this case, a known plastic surgeon. So how long and how hard is the journey? Let's see:
1st: Get to medical school (200 applicants out of 5000 applicants are accepted, which is deceiving because people, of course, apply to multiple school, but either way, that's competitive)
2nd: Do really good in your classes and be in the top 5% (how hard is this? well, now you're not competing in a high school/college setting where 90% are total morons...med school competition is against people that have been the "cream of the crop" for most of their lives.
3rd: Do good in USMLE
4th: Do good in clerkships
5th: survive internship
6th: apply to plastics residency
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