Hi Everyone,
I'm a first year resident doing a transitional year and then going into radiology, but for an elective rotation I'm doing ortho and am really enjoying it and have started considering switching over to ortho. I'm a little nervous about my prospects for getting in though. I have a good application I think except for a HUGE glaring hole:
Step1: 268
Step 2CK: 281
AOA
Some research, not ortho, no publications
Honors in all preclinical classes, mostly honors in clinical rotations (honored surgery, but did NOT honor a 2 week mandatory ortho rotation we had)
So basically I only have that 2 weeks of ortho that I had late in my 4th year (at which point I was sort of in interview land and not caring about rotations, hence just a passing grade). I don't know any of the faculty at my home school, and maybe I can get one or two LORs from ortho docs that I'm working with right now, but they are private practice docs and will probably only know me moderately well.
Any ideas on my chances of matching somewhere? I was thinking if I decided to go through with it I would apply to mainly "middle tier" programs as I think I would have a real hard time getting in somewhere that's a really competitive program. Let me know if you think this would be a good strategy or not.
Thanks fora any help.
