Any thoughts on specialties?

neoanderz
Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:08:56 +0000

I wasn’t meaning to say that it is THE easiest but my point is that it is not hard to get into gen. surgery relatively speaking. If the game has changed up this year then I could be wrong, but I don’t think it has changed that much. My roommate right now is an M.D. searching for residency and I have heard all about the let downs he has had in this whole process. Basically he tells me that he will probably wind up doing IM, but that he is pretty sure he could match for gen. surgery if he wanted even though his scores aren’t that great. As for proof, I would love to see a ranking of all the residencies in order of competitiveness but I have no clue if there is such a thing. A quick google search yields "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USMLE_Step_1" which has “general surgery” listed under “Relatively easy to obtain” which is the lowest category.