research elective or digestive diseases?

[mudbug]

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Hi,

My husband is applying for path this year and he's gotten some conflicting advice, so I told him I'd check with you guys.

Right now he's doing heme-onc, next is surg path. Then he's taking Step II and II-CS in November, and interviewing in December (does this sound all right so far?). The question is: In December he has a choice between doing research or doing an elective in digestive diseases. If he does the research he thinks he could get up to two publications to add to the six he already has. He would prefer to do the research, but would it be "frowned upon" if taken in lieu of the other class?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[LADoc00]

Hi,

My husband is applying for path this year and he's gotten some conflicting advice, so I told him I'd check with you guys.

Right now he's doing heme-onc, next is surg path. Then he's taking Step II and II-CS in November, and interviewing in December (does this sound all right so far?). The question is: In December he has a choice between doing research or doing an elective in digestive diseases. If he does the research he thinks he could get up to two publications to add to the six he already has. He would prefer to do the research, but would it be "frowned upon" if taken in lieu of the other class?

Thanks for any advice.

A month elective=2 publications??? What alternate universe does that occur in? And what is digestive disease? Gastroenterology? That sounds cheesy too. Regardless, december is sooo late it shouldnt impact his residency app even he if spent it high as a kite on a beach in Costa Rica. Do an externship at big name path program if anything.

PS: Your hubby is a lucky SOB if he has you doing his web surfing recon. You have a hot sister by any chance?

 

[mudbug]

A month elective=2 publications??? What alternate universe does that occur in?

It's work he started back in his PhD days before med school, that's been mostly languishing since then. He talked to his PI, who thinks that if someone came in and devoted the time, one or both could be finished up.

Regardless, december is sooo late it shouldnt impact his residency app even he if spent it high as a kite on a beach in Costa Rica. Do an externship at big name path program if anything.

That's a typo in my original post--this is all for January, not December, sorry.

So, you're voting for the research, then.

PS: Your hubby is a lucky SOB if he has you doing his web surfing recon. You have a hot sister by any chance?

Oh I definitely have a vested interest in seeing my spouse do well in the match. My future is largely in his hands--if he only matches in Bumble****, I, too, have to spend the next four years of my life living there. So don't worry, I'm here for purely selfish reasons. Ha.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Hi,

My husband is applying for path this year and he's gotten some conflicting advice, so I told him I'd check with you guys.

Right now he's doing heme-onc, next is surg path. Then he's taking Step II and II-CS in November, and interviewing in December (does this sound all right so far?). The question is: In December he has a choice between doing research or doing an elective in digestive diseases. If he does the research he thinks he could get up to two publications to add to the six he already has. He would prefer to do the research, but would it be "frowned upon" if taken in lieu of the other class?

Thanks for any advice.

I don't think either option would be frowned upon. Plus, it's fourth year of med school...nobody gives a flying f*ck what you do during that year.

 

[deschutes]

You're posting in the Path forum, so responses are going to be heavily skewed towards anything that even smells like path.

Now, if you went and posted in the Internal Med forum.... 😉

 

[yaah]

I think he should do whatever he wants to do, and not worry about which one is going to slightly alter his application status. Neither one is going to hurt him at all, unless they somehow wreck his med school transcript or cause him to miss a certain requirement or something.