Med School: USMD, unranked new public university medical school in last 10 years
Grad School: MPhil from a UK school (before med school; also went to undergrad in UK)
Preclinical grades: Not ranked, all P/F
Clerkship grades: All honors (7/8) except for EM, which is required for us. Currently on IM sub-I at home institution and aiming/expecting honors as well. Will also have MICU grade before submitting ERAS. No aways planned.
Step 1: P
Step 2 CK: 258 - 263
AOA: Yes, recently inducted as junior AOA
GHHS: No, was not selected
Research: 11 pubs (first author on 7, 4 are in high-impact, 3 in higher/medium-impact, 4 in standard impact), 2 manuscripts submitted/under review at this time, 6 published abstracts, 5 podium/oral presentations, 14 posters, co-investigator on an active small interdisciplinary grant at my school. Research is primarily comprised of infectious diseases, mental health, and global health equity - most pubs are from longitudinal research experience w/ PI for the past 5 years
Extracurriculars: Spent my built-in research year in Peru doing community-based mental health and TB research and volunteering work, couple school leadership experiences in global health and IM, involved in a setting up a future clinical exchange program b/w our school and our partner institution in Central America and designed global health enrichment elective, some mentoring w/ underclassmen
LORs (anticipated to be strong):
- Primary care preceptor (also IM faculty and associate PD for IM residency at home program) - clinical LOR
- Senior attending on my IM clerkship - clinical LOR
- Anticipated LOR from sub-I and/or MICU rotation - clinical LOR - TBD
- Research PI (who I worked w/ for past 5 yrs) - letter to comment on my research competencies and suitability for a career in academic medicine
- Chief of Division of Global Health - global health/program-based LOR
- IM Chair Letter - standard requirement
Preliminary Geographic Signaling: New England (previously lived in this region for several years and would like to come back), Pacific West, and likely Middle Atlantic but still tbd
Home region is West South Central but not interested in staying, unless that would be a mistake?
Red flags: None
Career Goals:
- Interested in an academic career in global health and possibly infectious diseases but remain open to other subspecialties
- Ideally aiming for T20 academic IM program
I’m only interested in academic programs either with integrated global health tracks/pathways or at least those with protected time/opportunities for residents to work w/ partner institutions around the world (preference for Latin America but not a dealbreaker). I’m at a relatively new public med school/unranked so I worry about how realistic I can aim/shoot for T20s despite my objective metrics listed above. Would appreciate some input as I try to put together my app list and where I could allocate/distribute my limited signals. Some initial ideas below w/ good global health programs
Hard Reaches: MGH, BWH, UCSF, JHU, Duke, UW, Penn, Columbia, Stanford
Targets: BIDMC, Mt. Sinai, Yale, BCM, UTSW, Colorado, Chicago, Emory, BU
Safeties: Tufts, McGovern, UTMB, still formulating….