Any thoughts on specialties?

bigndude
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:54:36 +0000

Yea there are more spots. There is a difference between spots though. There are two types of Gen. Surg residencies out of med school. In basic terms a “normal” one, and one thats “temporary”. The “normal” one is 5 years. The “temporary” is basically you do 1 year then they consider you for a normal one. Sometimes they let you count the year towards the normal one, other times you start from sratch and in essence end up doing 6 years. Guess which ones aren’t usually filled up, but still kinda filled up?
The truth is most websites include both “normal” and “temporary” not just “normal.” They make it look easy that way if you just count the “normal” spots they many many people who want to do not get in and sometimes they gamble with the “temp” spot. Others change what they want to do.