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RESOLVED: Intern hoping to switch specialties
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You would certainly be in a good position to match in IM if you had the time to do the full process. The SOAP is difficult for everyone so just be prepared for that.
I would recommend going ahead and just getting your ERAS app in and apply to 10 programs since it costs the same for 1 or 10. You never know if you might get lucky on a couple of them offering late season interviews.
I would also recommend that you sit down with the IM PD at your current hospital and talk to them about your plan. While they can’t hold a spot for you, if you are a good enough candidate for that program, and they like you, they might be willing to rank you to match, or at least highly, which would be way better than trying to SOAP or potentially take a year off.
And if you’re worried about working in the same hospital as your current residency classmates and things potentially being awkward, I can count on one finger the number of times I ran into an OB resident during my IM residency, and it was when my daughter was born in the same hospital. I literally never saw them otherwise on the floor, ICU or in the ED.
I would recommend going ahead and just getting your ERAS app in and apply to 10 programs since it costs the same for 1 or 10. You never know if you might get lucky on a couple of them offering late season interviews.
I would also recommend that you sit down with the IM PD at your current hospital and talk to them about your plan. While they can’t hold a spot for you, if you are a good enough candidate for that program, and they like you, they might be willing to rank you to match, or at least highly, which would be way better than trying to SOAP or potentially take a year off.
And if you’re worried about working in the same hospital as your current residency classmates and things potentially being awkward, I can count on one finger the number of times I ran into an OB resident during my IM residency, and it was when my daughter was born in the same hospital. I literally never saw them otherwise on the floor, ICU or in the ED.
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