" I firmly believe that there are programs out there in any specialty available if you are willing to go to them."
- not in any specialty any more (based on D’s experience, I do not have any other experience). She mentioned that even in cases of not matching, her specialty does not have a “quick” scramble process, there may be some 3 spots not filled in the whole country and if you did not match, you cannot do anything between Mon. and Fri. of the matching week like it is done in other specialties.
- "away rotations" help in obtaining more interviews. It is a normal practice to at least invite to "curtasy" interview all who rotated at the certain place. Actually, there are some places that would count your rotation as an interview. Depending on specialty there is a certain goal for the number of interviews. D's goal was 10 and it seems to be reasonable based on the results.
Looking back, D. think that one of the heaviest in her interview process was a great letter from nationaly known in her field person who was also known for writing “hard” letters. D. was told that at several interviews as the most of D’s interview places knew this person very well.