Humans of CaRMS – Internal Medicine 6

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Internal Med – UBC

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[acc-trig title=”At what point in medical school did you know what specialty you wanted to match into?”]
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Med 3 Internal Med core rotation

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[acc-trig title=”Do you feel that your choice of electives had any impact on your CaRMS match?”]
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Absolutely… I would not have been competitive for this program without an elective here.

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[acc-trig title=”What did you do with your Med 1 and Med 2 summers?”]
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Bsc Med Program

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[acc-trig title=”What was the most valuable lesson or experience you had while going through the match process?”]
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Start personal letters early (they can be challenging to do well, and likely carry a lot of weight on file review), prep for interviews, and work hard on electives.

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[acc-trig title=”If you could go back and change anything during pre-clerkship or clerkship, what would you change?”]
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I wish I had done an international elective or scope

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[acc-trig title=”What did you do in your four years of medical school that you found to be the most helpful during the CaRMS process?”]
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Work hard and being easy to get along with. This is FAR more important than being well read.

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[acc-trig title=”Do you have any final words of wisdom or advice?”]
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CaRMS is a tough process but also a unique, interesting and memorable experience. Try to enjoy it

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Kristen Braun

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