I’ll keep it simple, Ophthalmologist is the job for me. It’s just my dream.. I will do whatever it takes to be one. I just…. I keep researching how hard it is to become one, and many cases show that when a Medical student applies for an Ophthalmology residency that they are only one of HUNDREDS, all applying for a total of like 3 positions. That really sickens me to think about, because no matter what there will always be someone better than me. All I know is, is that I belong in the medical field. Not for the money (though it is a huge plus), but I just can’t picture myself anywhere else, doing anything else. If I don’t get accepted for an Ophthalmology residency, I’ll need a backup plan, maybe a field much less competitive. Anyone with insight please.. anything helps, any suggestions maybe. Thanks
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If Ophthalmology is what you really desire to do, go for it!
What you do is, on your first day of school, go to their Ophthalmology Department, talk to their Chair or Residency Director, and tell them of your desire. They’ll help guide you through experiences and research that will nearly guarantee you a residency position.
Also, on a more general note, although many students apply for a program’s residency positions, they are applying at 15 or 20 programs. So the odds are nowhere as scary as they seem to be. Also, note that Ophthalmology is NOT the most difficulty specialty to enter.
Check out the references below for more information.
Best wishes on a great career!
Source(s): • Iserson’s Getting Into A Residency: A Guide For Medical Students, 8th edition. Galen Press, Ltd., Tucson, AZ. ISBN_13: 978-1-883620-36-3; (http://bit.ly/17iIQAd)
• http://on.fb.me/13zdnYl (Facebook)
• Get Into Medical School! A Guide for the Perplexed, 2nd edition. Galen Press, Ltd., Tucson, AZ, (http://bit.ly/XXjsNJ)
This is a long road ahead of you.
The “match” day is when they give you the residency program that you are hoping for. In the military, they call that a “dream sheet”.
I am a nurse at a large university that has a medical school – and I ran into a few medical students in the fourth year that got matched exactly to what they were hoping for. The rest of them were happy at nevertheless whatever they were given. One was given the residency in emergency medicine, and another one was accepted to orthopedic residency. Both of them did not dream of being what they were given, and were content with what they were assigned to. You may want to be an ophthalmologist right now, but you will have so many years of going through different type of training, and it may change your mind.
There is nothing wrong with being a family practice, or an internist either.
Best wishes