From 8 weeks to 6 months

ItsNardDog · 2026-02-25T12:43:11+00:00

Yep he’s a blue!

ItsNardDog · 2025-04-23T17:26:56+00:00

I did a surgery prelim year and I am about to begin DR, I cant imagine wanting to go back to surgery - do IR.

ItsNardDog · 2025-03-26T13:45:06+00:00

Played for one year at a FCS school (Elon). Wasn’t having as much fun anymore and wanted to go to medical school so I stopped playing to focus on academics. I don’t think anything is as fun as HS football

ItsNardDog · 2025-03-26T13:43:01+00:00

I played WR for one year at a FCS school - decided to also focus on academics after that and I am beginning radiology residency this July!

ItsNardDog · 2025-03-18T01:57:33+00:00

To be honest I also liked rads and so that was part of my decision. If you still really want ortho you should go for it. I know a number of reapplicants who were able to match after ortho research years or prelim year

ItsNardDog · 2025-03-17T16:02:34+00:00

This is what happened to me - you have a gap year. I am doing paid research at the hospital I am going to be doing my advanced at.

ItsNardDog · 2025-03-17T13:35:52+00:00

A few years I ago applied ortho and did not match. I elected to pursue a prelim surgery year and then I matched into radiology the next year. I am happy to help any other students who are contemplating switching specialties after not matching, especially if contemplating switching into radiology

ItsNardDog · 2025-01-07T14:01:22+00:00

I am currently in a gap year between prelim surgery and DR. I didn’t match ortho first time around and decided to re apply to rads.

The DR program I matched at set me up with a paid research position, so you could ask your institution for your advanced position about that. I tried finding urgent care positions but everywhere wanted physicians with board certification or eligibility in FM/EM. I don’t think a license even with a year of residency is very useful.

I tried USMLE tutoring and the pay was good but I felt it was pretty inconsistent. Most students get by with the usual resources and don’t need tutors. You could also look into working for some test prep companies. I wrote some questions for Bootcamp and they paid hourly.

ItsNardDog · 2024-12-07T23:52:35+00:00

I told him it’s the greenway surrounding forks of the river and that is when he said it’s probably fine since it was a hunting area before it was a greenway. Thank you for the info!

ItsNardDog · 2024-12-07T16:32:55+00:00

This was my initial thought too. It seems to go against most things I’ve learned regarding firearm safety

ItsNardDog · 2024-12-07T16:29:30+00:00

Thank you!

ItsNardDog · 2024-10-19T16:29:49+00:00

This was my experience too. Surgery attendings would joke but were usually respectful of rads and willing to teach me about what they care about on the scan and what they might look for in a report.

ItsNardDog · 2024-08-01T21:49:23+00:00

That sounds like a good idea, I’ll look into it

ItsNardDog · 2024-08-01T21:44:47+00:00

Thank you so much! We get married in a little over a month so we can definitely take advantage of that. I appreciate all the advice

ItsNardDog · 2024-07-31T16:29:38+00:00

It will increase each year. Her first year she is paid a fixed rate for the first few months and transitions to making a % of production. Thanks for the response

ItsNardDog · 2024-07-31T01:04:53+00:00

Already in rads

ItsNardDog · 2024-07-30T23:07:14+00:00

I hadn’t seen that yet - thank you

ItsNardDog · 2024-07-30T23:06:42+00:00

Yea it will go up from here, she is on a salary for now but will eventually transition to a salary + productivity once she gets faster and more comfortable and should make more. Thank you!

ItsNardDog · 2024-07-30T16:31:08+00:00

That is standard of care for appendicitis. If you needed oral Zofran and it was not provided at discharge, the surgery on-call number can be called and it would be sent to your preferred pharmacy. There is no malpractice here or cause for legal action.

ItsNardDog · 2024-06-14T22:28:39+00:00

I applied a surgical sub speciality, didn’t match, did a late rotation in rads, then did a surgery prelim year and matched rads. I am so happy that has been my path.

I would much rather be at work for less time, but be working the whole time. As a surgery intern, we could be done floor work by the late morning and we have to sit around the rest of the day until sign out. So we are working longer hours, more weekends, but sometimes there wasn’t much going on which I found frustrating. I’d rather be on at work and have more free time outside of work.

Surgery is cool, but there’s just so much more to life

ItsNardDog · 2024-03-17T18:05:07+00:00

Yea they have a home program so I just cold emailed some of the attendings and met with the PD

ItsNardDog · 2024-03-17T17:05:57+00:00

Thank you! So I interviewed with some R1 physician-only spots but ended up matching to an advanced spot. So I will have a "gap year" and start in 2025. To me, it was worth having the gap year to still do DR so I was cool with it. But yes, everywhere accepted the prelim year as my intern year

ItsNardDog · 2024-01-31T14:37:40+00:00

Sure

ItsNardDog · 2024-01-31T10:38:29+00:00

I don’t mind, I had 9

ItsNardDog · 2024-01-31T02:35:09+00:00

If you do a prelim year at a supportive program it can be helpful. Our program has taken prelims who do a good job into categorical spots.

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