MansionMD Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 If you are applying to 2 equally competitive specialties for CaRMS this cycle, how did you end up you splitting your elective time? 50:50? or something different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 I don't know how feasible this is, depending on what the specialties are involved. It all depends on how closely related those two specialties are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gb35 Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 I don't know how feasible this is, depending on what the specialties are involved. It all depends on how closely related those two specialties are. Let's say emerg and anesthesia 50:50... I know they're both competitive, but I bet you could spin that pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MansionMD Posted November 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 What if location is more important than specialty? Wouldn't it be better to split electives and apply to multiple specialties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLengr Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 That only works if one specialty is competitive and the other is not (surg/family or derm/psych or whatever). It won't work for rads/gas or derm/plastics etc. If location is the most important thing, have an easy backup into that location (maybe do one elective there to show face). I agree. If location is the most important, pick stuff like psych, family etc. as a back up. Even better is if you pick them as a first choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med0123 Posted November 16, 2013 Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 choose CO2 fields as backups as would say BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MansionMD Posted November 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2013 Let's say emerg and anesthesia 50:50... I know they're both competitive, but I bet you could spin that pretty well. Are there other combinations like this that are feasible with surgery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ttoronto Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 other surgical specialties I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerroger Posted November 17, 2013 Report Share Posted November 17, 2013 When it comes to competitive specialties I'm of the school of thought that you should NEVER split. You gotta commit to a specialty. You can do a few "adjuvant" electives in something related to your main interest. But splitting equally will just make you look like you are not committed. When your file is reviewed all those applicants who committed to only emerg or anesthesia will probably get interviews before you. Those who commit appear "safer" to file reviewers than someone who has not decided on one specialty. People may say otherwise, but I can say with confidence that there is a lot of rubbish out there on this topic. If you split then the only thing you are increasing is the probability of matching into neither of your choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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