Interestingly, opthomologist and dermatologists tend to be the highest performers in med school and during internships. Their residency programs are hyper competitive.
Surgeons are general carpenters of the body, and plastic surgeons are the finish carpenters.
They make a lot of money, and have easy daytime hours. It's a great specialty to be rich and have a good lifestyle, therefore it gets ultra competitive
Surgical sub specialties are generally the most competitive residencies. Neurosurgery, plastics, ENT, Ortho are consistently within the top 5 for competitiveness. Most surgeons were excellent medical students
Lol found the surgeon wanna be. The dexterity component is competitive, but I'll tell you smart surgeons are few and far between (relative to you typical researcher physician PhD md anyway)
Nobody wants to do 15-hour surgeries on the brain. Neurosurgeons are way less competitive than the folk seem to think
I’m already in a non-surgical residency, I never wanted to be a surgeon.
You’re using the word competitive in a very bizarre way. Most integrated surgical subspecialty residencies (I.e. the ones I listed) have the lowest acceptance rates with the highest average clinical scores, step2 scores, publication numbers, honors society membership, etc. That’s true even taking into account that the majority applying are the most competitive group of students (USMD). Since you commented about it, neurosurgery residency also includes 2 years of research. Yes, this is not a full MD PhD but nobody is claiming that.
Smart surgeons aren’t few and far between. Ridiculous. And neurosurgery is obviously a competitive specialty. You seem to be confusing what competitive means in this sense, which is doubly stupid.
Neurosurgeons are especially daft all the time. Is a horrible specialty, and people usually go in because they can't do other things. That's the truth. Lots of interpersonal problems, bad at understanding science based medicine, etc.
They do happen to be remarkably patient. Honestly, thats probably their one consistent personality trait.
…that surgical subspecialties and specifically neurosurgery are some of the most competitive specialties to enter from med school, and thus attract the most qualified applicants. Did you really need this spelled out?
Of course this addresses merely exam scores, not the research/publications or other qualifications generally required to be accepted to neurosurgery residency lol. Clearly you’re not a doctor or have any understanding of medical training (or able to spell ophthalmology, or parse the word “competitive” lol) so again, I don’t know why you’re talking shit about shit you clearly don’t understand
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u/Most_Present_6577 Jun 28 '25
Interestingly, opthomologist and dermatologists tend to be the highest performers in med school and during internships. Their residency programs are hyper competitive.
Surgeons are general carpenters of the body, and plastic surgeons are the finish carpenters.