Nsg applicant town hall

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Contacted school to set general surgery rotation and was told straight up from June-September, are reserved for general surgery people. Is general surgery letter 100% confirmed mandatory? SNS won't change?

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(05-05-2020, 02:27 PM)Guest Wrote: Contacted school to set general surgery rotation and was told straight up from June-September, are reserved for general surgery people. Is general surgery letter 100% confirmed mandatory? SNS won't change?

I believe their logic for the Gen Surg letter is that everyone has gen surg on 3rd year and can get the letter from that experience

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(05-05-2020, 02:40 PM)Guest Wrote:

(05-05-2020, 02:27 PM)Guest Wrote: Contacted school to set general surgery rotation and was told straight up from June-September, are reserved for general surgery people. Is general surgery letter 100% confirmed mandatory? SNS won't change?

I believe their logic for the Gen Surg letter is that everyone has gen surg on 3rd year and can get the letter from that experience

Right, I don't think the requirement is meant as a 4th year gen surg sub-I

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(05-05-2020, 02:43 PM)Guest Wrote:

(05-05-2020, 02:40 PM)Guest Wrote:

(05-05-2020, 02:27 PM)Guest Wrote: Contacted school to set general surgery rotation and was told straight up from June-September, are reserved for general surgery people. Is general surgery letter 100% confirmed mandatory? SNS won't change?

I believe their logic for the Gen Surg letter is that everyone has gen surg on 3rd year and can get the letter from that experience

Right, I don't think the requirement is meant as a 4th year gen surg sub-I

But is there any chance SNS will walk back the requirement for a gen surg letter?

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(05-05-2020, 02:43 PM)Guest Wrote:

(05-05-2020, 02:40 PM)Guest Wrote:

(05-05-2020, 02:27 PM)Guest Wrote: Contacted school to set general surgery rotation and was told straight up from June-September, are reserved for general surgery people. Is general surgery letter 100% confirmed mandatory? SNS won't change?

I believe their logic for the Gen Surg letter is that everyone has gen surg on 3rd year and can get the letter from that experience

Right, I don't think the requirement is meant as a 4th year gen surg sub-I

It has been awhile since I had general surgery rotation...so it is better and pretty much required for me to do a rotation to get a good letter. This is such an odd requirement. The general surgeon said it himself.

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I don’t understand, almost all successful applicants have earned Honors on their Surgery rotation. Why would you be worried about your letter from that clerkship?

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(05-05-2020, 03:14 PM)Guest Wrote: I don’t understand, almost all successful applicants have earned Honors on their Surgery rotation. Why would you be worried about your letter from that clerkship?

I don't know where you got your data "almost all successful applicants have earned Honors on their Surgery rotation". I am worried because 1. it has been a while 2. a good letter needs more than "honor"

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Senior resident at top 10 program - red flag if someone did not earn honors on surgery clerkship

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Senior resident at another top 10 program here, that's not always the case

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(05-05-2020, 05:11 PM)Guest Wrote: Senior resident at another top 10 program here, that's not always the case

+1 Another senior resident at a top 10, our program doesn't weigh grades heavily due to medical schools having different curricular designs

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How much do residents/attendings look at our written evaluations from our third year rotations?