Unfortunately (?) gone are the days of people laterally switching specialities given mor regulation from ACGME/RRC and the overall competitiveness of the match across most specialities, not just neurosurgery.
There are quite a few notable surgeons who have switched into neurosurgery such as Lam, Cohen, Spinner, Sekhar, Kendall Lee, etc but it would be hard given the current environment.
Dude consider yourself lucky and never look back. Radiology is the promised land. If you still have these feelings in a couple years do neurointervention.
So basically if you don't match, you are done? How is this system even remotely fair?
Also, how come I have read of re-applying on other threads?
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You can do anything your hospital will give your privileges to do/malpractice coverage. I could apply to do appendectomies, but that would not be very wise for them to approve.
If you really regret it then don’t go through with starting internship, delay graduation to do a research year and reapply when you have SubIs and papers under your belt.
Why does the neurosurgery community tolerate it? It is obviously not good having some autistic loner (radiologist) with one year needle training doing spine fusions--not good for the patients, most importantly, but not good for the field in general. So why is the NS community so lackadaisical about the debasement of the field?
