Moving On

David recently got his OB/GYN grade back...

HIGH PASS with the following comments:

"Mr. K is a conscientious, serious, responsible, and bright medical student. He participated fully in all clerkship activities, and gave patient care discussions careful and reasoned attention. He is professional in demeanor. His knowledge base is above average. He gave an excellent student presentation on third trimester bleeding, which was comprehensive and detailed. Although his overall evaluations are only a strong pass, several of his evaluators recommended him for a high pass. His strong sense of personal responsibility and good work ethic, his attention to detail, and his fund of knowledge already evident at this stage in his training make him an excellent candidate for residency."

I'd like to talk to the evaluators who only gave him a strong pass...

Also, I asked D for a list of the residency programs that he was applying to. I told him that I wanted to post them on my blog and he gave me this horrified look. That, to my surprise, is supposedly just not done. So you will just have to be happy with this:

He is applying to 13 residency programs in all. Seven in Connecticut, one in Rhode Island, three in Massachusetts, and two in New York...at this point. He may apply to some Boston ones, but is not sure at the moment. They're all roughly within two hours of our parents, which is certainly better than the 4+ we are at now. Obviously we'd love to be in CT, but any of these locations would be fine, too. It gets more complicated because he has to do a transitional/preliminary year (also called a throw-away year...by me) right out of med school, so he is also applying to those programs. They aren't hard to get into, you just have to coordinate which programs you want to do depending on which residency program you get into. A fractal tree of sorts. Oh and transitional programs are easier than preliminary year programs, but, for that reason, are harder to get into. Get all that? Many of the ways of the medical field still remain a mystery to me. Like, I just found out recently, that after the one throw-away year plus the four radiology residency years, it's highly recommended that you do another year, called a fellowship. Let's add: 4 college + 4 med school + 5 residency + 1 fellowship = 14 years. By that time, if you don't know what you're doing, then you really shouldn't be in the medical field. Nothing to worry about with our David, though, "his strong sense of personal responsibility and good work ethic, his attention to detail, and his fund of knowledge already evident at this stage in his training make him an excellent candidate..." :)