categorical & preliminary residency

[KnightRider]

i was wondering whether ppl apply for both categorical and preliminary positions (for Surgery) in the same hospital, during matching????..... is it a good idea????....

i have done a lot of research and usually anyone who is in interested in surgery and wants to apply - both categorical and preliminary spot should rank all the categorical spots on the top of the ranking list whereas, the preliminary spots towards the bottom....

seems like a lot of ppl from SGU (match 2006) got preliminary spots... do u guys think that these candidates got a preliminary spot from the matching or they had to scramble for these spots???....

any input would be really appreciated...

[rokshana]

i was wondering whether ppl apply for both categorical and preliminary positions (for Surgery) in the same hospital, during matching????..... is it a good idea????....

i have done a lot of research and usually anyone who is in interested in surgery and wants to apply - both categorical and preliminary spot should rank all the categorical spots on the top of the ranking list whereas, the preliminary spots towards the bottom....

seems like a lot of ppl from SGU (match 2006) got preliminary spots... do u guys think that these candidates got a preliminary spot from the matching or they had to scramble for these spots???....

any input would be really appreciated...

many people do a prelim for surgical subs, so they may haved taken the prelim for that and not because they are looking for gen surg.

[KnightRider]

that seems possible...

so for someone interested in surgery... do u think its a good idea to apply for both the Categorical & Preliminary spots in the same hospital????

or... how about applying for Categorical Surgery and also Categorical IM (as a backup) in the same hospital??? how does this sound.....

[drnick07]

I'm bouncing this to the top again because i know its a question many people have. I have a friend of mine who is applying for surgery this year and is going all-categorical with IM as a back up. Not applying to any prelim spots at all. I don't know how i feel about that, but its not me. One must ask how the IM program will interpret someone whose focus is really surgery and not IM.

[rokshana]

I'm bouncing this to the top again because i know its a question many people have. I have a friend of mine who is applying for surgery this year and is going all-categorical with IM as a back up. Not applying to any prelim spots at all. I don't know how i feel about that, but its not me. One must ask how the IM program will interpret someone whose focus is really surgery and not IM.

11 countries?!!! How did you go to 11 countries...GND, SVD, US, UK... and the rest?

plus what are you doing up so late?
oh and look I have more posts than you!!!(i'm on pysch now, so....)