MarsRover Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 I am applying to anesthesia, and decided a bit late. So my initial electives are community based. As it stands now I have one ER elective, a Pain Medicine elective, and then 7 anesthesia. Two of which are after references are due, and 4 weeks a community rotation. I am just wondering if I should move to be a bit more diverse say 5 anesthesia electives, 1 pain med, 1 icu, and 2 emerg ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted June 6, 2019 Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 5 hours ago, MarsRover said: I am applying to anesthesia, and decided a bit late. So my initial electives are community based. As it stands now I have one ER elective, a Pain Medicine elective, and then 7 anesthesia. Two of which are after references are due, and 4 weeks a community rotation. I am just wondering if I should move to be a bit more diverse say 5 anesthesia electives, 1 pain med, 1 icu, and 2 emerg ? May help to clarify how many weeks in each, since schools have anywhere from 1,2,3,4 or even 5 week lengths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gangliocytoma Posted June 6, 2019 Report Share Posted June 6, 2019 On the CaRMs website, some anesthesia programs mention that they do not take into account the number of anesthesia electives you do and want someone with a diverse spread of electives. I'm sure things differ from program to program, but probably best to do electives in the places you'd most hope to end up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsRover Posted June 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 On 6/6/2019 at 12:40 AM, JohnGrisham said: May help to clarify how many weeks in each, since schools have anywhere from 1,2,3,4 or even 5 week lengths Sorry those were 2 week electives. Plan now was for; I was thinking 10 weeks anesthesia - 8 before applications are due - 2 after. Then 4 weeks emerg, 4 week surgery, 2 weeks ICU, 2 weeks pain med Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 2 hours ago, MarsRover said: Sorry those were 2 week electives. Plan now was for; I was thinking 10 weeks anesthesia - 8 before applications are due - 2 after. Then 4 weeks emerg, 4 week surgery, 2 weeks ICU, 2 weeks pain med Seems reasonable. Thats alot of anesthesia, not sure if you really need that much but whatever works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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