Hello! Wife of a doctor here so apologies if my question is naively worded. My husband is a 4th year student at a top 50 med school (not sure if this is helpful context) and interested in applying for internal medicine residency so that he can do a GI fellowship. He recently found out that he got what is equivalent to a "B" in his medicine sub internship and is devastated, having done really well (honors?) in the medicine rotation during his 3rd year. What can he do to soften the impact on his residency application?
He is worried that this is career-ruining, that he won't be able to get into the programs that he'd like to get into (I believe UCLA or similar caliber school would have been his top choice as he'd like to move back to CA where our families are) and then his residency program won't be good enough for applying for GI, etc. His grade was not accompanied by any explanation / feedback, and he had asked the attending for a letter of rec prior to receiving the grade and she said yes. Should he still ask for the letter? Can he try to boost the application with letters from other internal medicine folks?
Help! I am not in medicine (obviously) - this topic has probably been covered before but I am not searching with the right key words, so even links to other threads would be very helpful. Thank you!
He is worried that this is career-ruining, that he won't be able to get into the programs that he'd like to get into (I believe UCLA or similar caliber school would have been his top choice as he'd like to move back to CA where our families are) and then his residency program won't be good enough for applying for GI, etc. His grade was not accompanied by any explanation / feedback, and he had asked the attending for a letter of rec prior to receiving the grade and she said yes. Should he still ask for the letter? Can he try to boost the application with letters from other internal medicine folks?
Help! I am not in medicine (obviously) - this topic has probably been covered before but I am not searching with the right key words, so even links to other threads would be very helpful. Thank you!