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What are your pet peeves about students rotating on the neurosurgery service? What advice do you have to get the most out of a Sub-I?
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I agree with your take on the regional bias thing. I think spreading out where you go shows you value the quality of the program over a particular region. I would say PNW and California represent basically one region, though I realize California is kind of an entity of I'm in the southeast, and I intend to do 1 away in the West and one in the Southeast that is driving distance to save money and because I am interested in a number of Southeast programs. Now, if were in school in say Florida, and I did aways at Vanderbilt and Duke, then yeah, I would expect a PD to look and say, "wait, I don't think this person wants to leave the SE." But outside of that, it seems like there are such a small number of programs and given it's competitive, I imagine most applicants are willing to go wherever they can get the best education. At the same time, I hear repeatedly that regional bias is real, so I'm doing what I can to mitigate that by trying to do my two aways on opposite ends of the country.
Regarding VSAS, if you're referring to how there aren't more than a couple schools with the 2017-2018 calendar up yet, yeah they just haven't posted the dates yet. You'll notice most programs' 2016-2017 schedules extend into early spring, so most just haven't posted their new dates yet. My school typically gets all M3s together in early/mid-February to discuss VSAS and get everyone to start getting docs and immunization stuff together.
still pretty early to apply for aways