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Congratulations to all matched candidates and their families. DD matched IM at Umich, it was her top choice, and now she is coming back home after 7 years at BU
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How your DD enjoys residency? Our DD plans to apply for cardiology residency this year. Trying to learn more about it
Working towards your 2nd career 
Thanksgiving week is always special for my DD. She decided to take up Primary care career (IM) and the first and only company applied itself hired her within a week in Nov 2025 (Just 2 miles from her current apartment). It is going to be a temporary until her husband completes his Ph.D (non medical) in a year and then they will move to where he gets a job for long term settling. June Residency completion event we plan to attend. She is taking a 6 weeks break to finish her board exam & spend time with parents / grandma before starting the work in Aug. 10 years flew by since she graduated from HS and I joined CC. Time flies. Thank you all.
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Congratulations!!!
Congratulations!!! it is alway snice to have kids close by.
She is doing fine and liking it.
All the best for Cardiology fellowship.
Congratulations! Time flies fast.
DS graduated with an MD/MBA on Sunday. I created this thread in 2017 to periodically update his progress and see if he had made the right decision to take the traditional path over the BSMD path. In his case, it worked out very well, with a full-tuition scholarship for UG, a half-tuition scholarship for his MD, a small scholarship for his MBA, and a match for orthopedics without any gap years along the way. He also had a very good social life and traveled around the globe.
I also kept track of a few students who took the BSMD path, and they also did very well. My conclusion is that it all comes down to work ethic and proper planning from day one of college life. I still believe strongly advocating for BSMD by only sharing failure stories of the traditional path is a disservice to the community.
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I agree…and especially since the vast majority of doctors go the traditional path.
Congratulations to your son!
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I wanted to provide an update for my DS. I was actively browsing the CC in 2021 for my DS. He got in BSMD but did not choose to go and went on tradational route and now Matriculated to MSTP program at a T10 medical school. He was not really inclined to go to BSMD and we were skeptical to let go that as there no doctors in the family and complete unkonwn terian. We eventually figured out DS is very much interested in research. CC has helped a lot navigating the admissions process.
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Congratulations and thanks for the update.
Update here:
DD completed Year 1 of residency and has been overall happy with the experience and learning. I am also seeing that her diagnoses from our ailments have aligned with our family doctor’s. She is considering Hematology-Oncology for fellowship. Her only challenge is finding more research opportunities.
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