RGK Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Hi everyone I am an IMG and a Canadian PR. I would like to do IM residency in Canada so I am planning to take 3 months of clinical electives in IM in Canada. My question is: Can I take all 3 months in one subspeciality e.g cardiology ? Or is it better to spread the 3 months across 3 subspecialities ? I really like cardiology so I think I would perform better if I took all 3 months in Cardio ? But would the IM program directors prefer to see my performance across the different subspecialities ? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 You want breadth in electives, and I wouldn't suggest even doing 100% IM electives let alone focusing on a single subspecialty. Do one or two cardio rotations at most; the rest should general medicine (consults or CTU) and stuff like ICU and high yield subspecialties like resp, nephro, or heme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGK Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 You want breadth in electives, and I wouldn't suggest even doing 100% IM electives let alone focusing on a single subspecialty. Do one or two cardio rotations at most; the rest should general medicine (consults or CTU) and stuff like ICU and high yield subspecialties like resp, nephro, or heme. A breadth in electives ? Honestly I am surprised to read this........... everything I read on this forum suggested otherwise.... I thought that if one wanted to get into a particular specialty like IM then one should focus all of his elective time on that specialty ? Is the situation different for IMG's ? I understand that you are an IM resident A-stark so could you please clarify your point of view ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 As an IMG, I would recommend you do at least one family medicine elective. Otherwise IM is broad enough that you should cover a variety of general medicine and subspecialty rotations. An emerg rotation would be worthwhile too. I would still do mostly IM rotations if that's your goal, but I don't know that doing IM electives exclusively is a good idea. Doing exclusively (or even mostly) cardiology is a bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGK Posted February 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 My goal is IM. Are you saying that I should do a FM elective as a backup in case I don't get accepted into IM (as an IMG I know my chances are limited) or because a FM elective would actually improve my chances of getting accepted in an IM residency ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_015 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Be happy with whatever you can get. From my experience with IMGs, electives in Canada are hard to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 I absolutely would not do solely cardiology. At the worst, do a variety of subspecialty IM electives AND at least one MTU/CTU elective. I don't agree with needing to do emerg or family, unless you want to back up with family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGK Posted February 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 At the worst ? Then what would be the best ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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