Hi! Does anyone if there is a nice neat list of all of the prelim programs anywhere? Or, do I just have to search from hospital to hospital and see if they have prelim programs in locations I'd want to be. Thanks for any insight!
amnesic said:Anyone who applied to prelim. programs in California last year have thoughts on the competetiveness of grabbing a spot?
Grew up and went to undergrad there, which may help, now in allopathic non-top 50 midwest school, average grades with an A in third year medicine, great letters, couple of pubs, and a 226 Step1. I'm thinking about appying to only Cali prelim . spots in Bay Area and LA, don't need a top position but don't want to be shut out either...what does the field look like? How did it go last year?
Word. Hobee's is the bomb.amnesic said:Thanks for the response, Skrubz...and enjoy Stanfoo, you'll have a blast. Try the Hobbee's Restaurant for breakfast sometime, across El Camino from campus at the Town and Country Village. Best coffee cake ever.
Now all I have to do is land a Gas spot in California with those same numbers...
Skrubz said:i think you're in pretty good standing. there's a good number of prelim programs in the bay area (st. mary's, CPMC, kaiser SF and UCSF in the city) and in the south bay (stanford, valley, kaiser santa clara). i know less about the east bay programs, but there are at least alameda county and kaiser oakland.
there are even more programs around LA, so i think that you should have a pretty good shot at landing a spot somewhere in california for prelim.
amnesic said:Also, I think a lot of the more competitve applicants from Rads and Derm at least will be looking more towards transitional year programs.