<p>Bookiemom</p>
<p>Curious about the Feb match date and pardon my ignorance since I haven’t been on CC in quite a while. Is she in a DO school?</p>
<p>Where would I find the Step 1 scores of various SOMs? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>I don’t think that info is publicly available. You might find it buried on the websites of various med schools.</p>
<p>[United</a> States Medical Licensing Examination | Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)](<a href=“http://www.usmle.org/frequently-asked-questions/#scores]United”>http://www.usmle.org/frequently-asked-questions/#scores)</p>
<p>From the FAQs</p>
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<p>Eadad. Yes.</p>
<p>Yes, eadad, DO match is a month earlier than MD match. Quite a few DO students enter the MD match and not DO, so this timing requires DO students to make a choice, as I understand it.</p>
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<p>Pediatrics is less.</p>
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<p>Why family practice?</p>
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Besides financial difference, the personality types of surgeons and family practice physicians are like night and day. Has she experienced the bullying that frequently occurs during her surgical rotations? If not, she will certainly experience it during a surgical residency.
Good luck to her and your family.</p>
<p>bookiemom - Wishing all the best for your D.</p>
<p>cbreeze: my D has done four 4-week rotations in surgery, 3 in general surgery and 1 in plastic surgery. So far not too much bullying. She really wants surgery and is good at it so far. Many drs. told her she fit into surgery well, in fact the residents and attendings kind of pulled her into it and encouraged her to apply. The hospital where she did all but one of her surgery rotations is very well run and has a good atmosphere. No prima donna surgeons there. That is where she hopes to match.</p>
<p>Family practice is her “default specialty” because she knows there will be openings if she doesn’t get surgery. It isn’t really what she wants; maybe she will do a transitional year and reapply to surgery. In the “scramble” for those who don’t match (not called that any more), you can potentially match into any specialty with an opening, so some wild card may emerge. </p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement.</p>
<p>Good luck to your D! I hope she matches.</p>
<p>Best Wishes!</p>
<p>Good luck to your daughter Bookiemom!!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>On my residency thread bdm said he knew a girl with a great app who applied to 92 total derm and transitional/Preliminary programs. Shoot me now. No. Really. Shoot me.</p>
<p>Is that a common requirement or does the girl have obsessive compulsive disorder?</p>
<p>For the “surgical” types, some thoughts about specialties:</p>
<p>1) General surgery has less and less to do as other surgical specialties “carve” into their haunts. The other surgical specialties include, among others: thoracic, cardiothoracic, plastics, ortho, colo-rectal, ENT Head and Neck, neurosurgery, urology, pediatric surgery, OB-GYN, vascular surgery and GI surgery. General surgeons are left with a lot of breast, lousy call hours, and whatever else they can wedge away from the surgical subspecialties. General surgical “categorical” residencies are not particularly competitive at most hospitals and are frequently filled by foreign medical graduates or unfilled at this point. For many of the surgical subspecialties, the training route is NOT through general surgery. For example, in ENT only one year of general surgery is required, often arranged through the ENT residency and called a “preliminary” year, with no separate match.</p>
<p>2) Interventional: radiology, neurology, cardiology, dermatology and GI are taking over many of the procedures that used to be done by surgery, and doing them less invasively and with better outcomes. No general surgery training is required, and this impact has been tremendous, especially on cardiothoracic surgery and GI. Interventional cardiology is a HOT field and residency/fellowship spots are extremely competitive. In contrast, cardiothoracic surgery is struggling to survive in many places.</p>
<p>Dermatology is the most competitive residency. Moh’s surgery is part of dermatology (resecting skin cancers using on the spot pathology to decide when tumor is out). The other highly competitive residency is ENT/Head and Neck. Ortho is always popular. Urology is a great field (they do many of the kidney transpants).</p>
<p>So, if you are interested in procedures and surgery, suggest looking well beyond general surgery into the suspecialties, and also into the interventional medical programs, radiology and dermatology…</p>
<p>texaspg, many people applying to derm apply to that many programs. When each program interviews only about 40 people for 3-5 slots, you have to apply to that many.</p>
<p>Lovely. Just lovely. Couldn’t be better.</p>
<p>Chin up, curm. Your D is a high achiever who shoots high. She seems to have stellar capacity to me. </p>
<p>It’s all part of the @!%&>! process. One step at a time.</p>
<p>Oh. The chin is not down . I just get parentally ticked off. As I told one of our cc kids in the trenches back channel, " I just don’t understand why y’all knowingly put yourselves through this". </p>
<p>The very idea that any of our cc kids don’t end up being the kind of doc they want to be after all this just torques me mightily. Grrrrr. </p>
<p>Yeah. Mine has been blessed with many advantages in the process but…she is not immune to the numbers. And the numbers suck.</p>
<p>Changing the subject a bit…</p>
<p>I think this CC forum has a very high success rate of helping students get into med school if they’ve followed for most/all of their college years. </p>
<p>I began following this premed fourm when Mudgette was still in the fields with the goats. :)</p>
<p>You need any help filing those apps Curm? 
We clearly need a support network for you.</p>
<p>m2ck - Is that some kind of saying? Have not heard that before. :D</p>