What are some good things for a new 3rd year student to do if I am thinking I may want to try to match in ophtho?
I'm in my 2nd week of an ophthalmology elective that I did just to fill some time and fulfill my school's surgery elective requirement. But I'm finding that I like it more and more. I don't want to say 100% that I want to be an ophthalmologist, but it's definitely something I could imagine myself happy doing. I guess it'll depend on how the rest of my clerkships go.
In terms of competitiveness: The only clerkship I've done so far is surgery, and though all the evals from the residents/attendings were very positive, I don't have the shelf grade or the final clerkship grade yet. Step 1 was 241, but no honors grades in the 1st 2 years, and my school does not participate in AOA. I have 2 non-ophtho journal pubs - "Neuroscience" and "Journal of the National Cancer Institute", but I am 6th and 3rd author.
What are some things I should start doing to beef up my application, aside from trying hard in my upcoming core clerkships (which I was going to do anyway)?
Also, what things, aside from doing more ophtho rotations, would you recommend to determine if this is really what I want?
I'm in my 2nd week of an ophthalmology elective that I did just to fill some time and fulfill my school's surgery elective requirement. But I'm finding that I like it more and more. I don't want to say 100% that I want to be an ophthalmologist, but it's definitely something I could imagine myself happy doing. I guess it'll depend on how the rest of my clerkships go.
In terms of competitiveness: The only clerkship I've done so far is surgery, and though all the evals from the residents/attendings were very positive, I don't have the shelf grade or the final clerkship grade yet. Step 1 was 241, but no honors grades in the 1st 2 years, and my school does not participate in AOA. I have 2 non-ophtho journal pubs - "Neuroscience" and "Journal of the National Cancer Institute", but I am 6th and 3rd author.
What are some things I should start doing to beef up my application, aside from trying hard in my upcoming core clerkships (which I was going to do anyway)?
Also, what things, aside from doing more ophtho rotations, would you recommend to determine if this is really what I want?
