Mei_Mei_girl Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Hello, I'm starting med school in a few weeks. I've always wanted to do an overseas medical trip, and the opportunities are there for summer after first year med. However, some people have told me "no its a bad idea, you want to really start preparing for CaRMs through research, etc.". The trip is only1 month from what I gather, so I don't see how that would look terrible. Has anyone done one of these trips and then spent the rest of the summer in research or anything? Any thoughts? Anyone think I should completely avoid it (I don't see why I should)? Am I missing some info or something? Thank you -- I really need some help here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wut? Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Quite a few people in my class did the CFMS organized research / clinical exchanges, and loved it. Quite a few also spent their summers purely travelling. I really don't think its something you should kill yourself over (for the lack of a better colloqual statement). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Hello,I'm starting med school in a few weeks. I've always wanted to do an overseas medical trip, and the opportunities are there for summer after first year med. However, some people have told me "no its a bad idea, you want to really start preparing for CaRMs through research, etc.". The trip is only1 month from what I gather, so I don't see how that would look terrible. Has anyone done one of these trips and then spent the rest of the summer in research or anything? Any thoughts? Anyone think I should completely avoid it (I don't see why I should)? Am I missing some info or something? Thank you -- I really need some help here! Any reason why you can't prepare for CaRMS *by* going overseas and doing something clinical? It will give you experience and exposure to rule potential careers in/out, and give you stuff to talk about during your electives/CaRMS interviews. Probably 1/3rd of my class participated in some sort of overseas clinical experience after 1st and/or 2nd year. The IFMSA/CFMS program is really good (full disclosure: I did a rads elective in Germany during the World Cup through that program ) and if your school is anything like mine was, there's probably 3-4 student-arranged overseas medical trips plus/minus anything you set up yourself. I also know a tonne of people who did overseas electives as 3rd/4th year students, and they all matched well. Random unsolicited general advice - don't get too fixated on CaRMS just yet. Go into first year with an open mind. G'luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Probably 1/3rd of my class participated in some sort of overseas clinical experience after 1st and/or 2nd year. The IFMSA/CFMS program is really good (full disclosure: I did a rads elective in Germany during the World Cup through that program ) and if your school is anything like mine was, there's probably 3-4 student-arranged overseas medical trips plus/minus anything you set up yourself. How did they do that, because when I checked out the IFMSA page, a lot of the locations (practically every one of them) said you had to be in your clinical years to do an elective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mei_Mei_girl Posted August 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Any reason why you can't prepare for CaRMS *by* going overseas and doing something clinical? It will give you experience and exposure to rule potential careers in/out, and give you stuff to talk about during your electives/CaRMS interviews. Probably 1/3rd of my class participated in some sort of overseas clinical experience after 1st and/or 2nd year. The IFMSA/CFMS program is really good (full disclosure: I did a rads elective in Germany during the World Cup through that program ) and if your school is anything like mine was, there's probably 3-4 student-arranged overseas medical trips plus/minus anything you set up yourself. I also know a tonne of people who did overseas electives as 3rd/4th year students, and they all matched well. Random unsolicited general advice - don't get too fixated on CaRMS just yet. Go into first year with an open mind. G'luck Great thanks -- I'm super excited to do something like this! Its great to know its not looked upon as a bad choice...somehow I had the impression doing research and all was what everyone should be doing.. thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ploughboy Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 How did they do that, because when I checked out the IFMSA page, a lot of the locations (practically every one of them) said you had to be in your clinical years to do an elective. http://www.cfms.org/global_exchanges.asp#what_does_clinical_student_mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 wow, from what i quickly read this look pretty amazing! I am going to have to look into this next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 http://www.cfms.org/global_exchanges.asp#what_does_clinical_student_mean Ahhhh, thanks. If that's the case, I'd definitely like to do an elective or 2 next summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apache Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 instead of becoming a doctor you should run a consult business that consults on everything having to do with med admissions, trips etc etc et al. lol How did they do that, because when I checked out the IFMSA page, a lot of the locations (practically every one of them) said you had to be in your clinical years to do an elective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 instead of becoming a doctor you should run a consult business that consults on everything having to do with med admissions, trips etc etc et al. lol I'm not even gonna say what you should be doing instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apache Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 the full body shaves done, the videos are ready to be produced! I'm not even gonna say what you should be doing instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 the full body shaves done, the videos are ready to be produced! Actually, I was going somewhere else with this, but I like the way you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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