Any thoughts on specialties?

neoanderz
Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:43:32 +0000

Sorry but you are just plain wrong. General surgery is one of the easiest residencies to obtain and requires much lower USMLE scores than these other specialities such as derm. Not to say it is an easy residency to do. It is of course one of the most stressful and rather long also.

Yes, you do need general surgery first before the surgical specialties. And these specialites are much harder to get into than general surgery. Kind of like how IM is easy to get into but the cardiology fellowship is not.