Prelim Medicine

Tuesday, May 05, 2009 - 12 Posts by 7 People

What is the difference in work hours per week between prelim medicine and prelim surgery? I heard that prelim medicine is around 80 hours per week, anywhere from 60-100 hours per week...whereas It totally depends on where you are training. At my program (I did prelim medicine), for 5 mths

Friday, August 14, 2009 - 10 Posts by 9 People

Is it really necessary to get a IM Chair's letter to apply to prelim years? I have really strong letter from the Chair of the IM program for prelim year? with ONE IM attending (non PD, non Chair) letter. ***however (rarely)*** some Prelim Medicine

Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 22 Posts by 12 People

Are produced by doing a lot of medicine hands on, which doesn't mean you necessarily have to kill yourself ? Not to mention, I'm a woman and want to have kids during a possibly non-difficult residency year. Medicine To all of those who have had the pleasure of rotating at such places... can you please share some of this information. This...

Friday, May 22, 2009 - 4 Posts by 4 People

Hey guys, whats your opinion on this? I am undecided. I thought about the surgery prelim as a good I worked extensively with a radiology resident when he was a prelim surgery resident. Acknowledged hey guys, whats your opinion on this? I am undecided. I thought about the surgery prelim as a good background that can help...

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 4 Posts by 3 People

To bother with TY...I'll apply just to prelim med. My dilemma is this: all my LORs are geared towards , which should be a positive applying for IM prelims. I'm not trying to go anywhere special , I thought that medicine prelim years require a letter from an internist? I'm not 100% sure on this one

Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 11 Posts by 6 People

Candidate and i'm pondering if it's wise applying to both categorical and prelim tracks for the SAME specialty at the SAME program(ie categorical surgery + prelim surgery, or categorical IM + prelim IM not look committed to the categorical medicine program since maybe you're using the prelim spot

Monday, October 05, 2009 - 26 Posts by 11 People

That say do not rank prelim and take any categorical before prelim etc ( like this one ) but have categorical then prelims (i.e. MGH, UTSW, UCLA (1. cat, 2. cat., 3. cat) then 4.MGH prelim, 5. UTSW prelim... Medicine residency in Boston. It's a long response, but I think there is a lot contained in my answer

Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 13 Posts by 8 People

Who is good clinically. I was thinking they might prefer medicine-type letters. Are you guys sending the exact same LoRs to prelim and TY programs as to Derm programs? I'm letters. I ended up using a couple of medicine letters as I wanted to stay close to home for my prelim

Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 8 Posts by 8 People

So, I matched into a great rads program but matched into a prelim medicine program I really way I can get out of my prelim program and scramble into a surgical prelim. The prelim med program I thought once you matched, it was a binding contract. Is it more lenient for prelim year programs

Monday, November 02, 2009 - 3 Posts by 3 People

I've only had 3/10 interviews for the prelim internal medicine programs I've applied to. And I know that one of the 3 places is rather competitive. Was just curious about how many prelim programs you medicine spots ) and still waiting from the rest....Still early yet. Prelims can sometimes be very late