Late?
By Guest on Tuesday, 17 February 2009
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I'm an M3 who was, until recently, planning on applying for neurosurgery. That was until my trauma surgery rotation where I got to know the ortho residents at my school and scrub on some cases. I like how in ortho most patients actually get better quickly and it's pretty awesome being able to be instantly gratified by results in the OR (sometimes, IMO, in NS it's harder to know you've done the right thing for the patient). In short, I'm hooked!

I'm still doing some soul-searching, but I was wondering how much it would hurt me for being so late in the game? I think I have a solid application (247 / 4.0 / pending junior AOA election / 2 clinical research projects (1 spine, 1 NS) / 1 basic science NS research project) for neurosurgery. How will all these NS "stamps" on my app and my lack of ortho specific research affect my chances?

Thanks for any advice you might have.

RTB
I'm an M3 who was, until recently, planning on applying for neurosurgery. That was until my trauma surgery rotation where I got to know the ortho residents at my school and scrub on some cases. I like how in ortho most patients actually get better quickly and it's pretty awesome being able to be instantly gratified by results in the OR (sometimes, IMO, in NS it's harder to know you've done the right thing for the patient). In short, I'm hooked!

I'm still doing some soul-searching, but I was wondering how much it would hurt me for being so late in the game? I think I have a solid application (247 / 4.0 / pending junior AOA election / 2 clinical research projects (1 spine, 1 NS) / 1 basic science NS research project) for neurosurgery. How will all these NS "stamps" on my app and my lack of ortho specific research affect my chances?

Thanks for any advice you might have.

RTB


Just go for it.. You don't need significant ortho research to apply to ortho. I have friends in my class who did no ortho research (or better yet no research at all) and have gotten interviews at respected ortho programs with similar stats as you. I would say that it's definitely not too late - at this point you should be considering where to do your aways, and choose those place wisely because you very well may end up matching at one of those places.
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