With clinical electives done, my entire class is back in the school and catching up after a long period more or less off on our own. We're also all now finalized into our specialty choices. Some people are applying to multiple specialties with some degree of uncertainty, some are backing up, but there's no longer any room for being coy about specialty preferences - everyone's had to make a commitment one way or another.
So, we're finding out a lot about each other's final choices. After over 3 years with my classmates, it is interesting to see what people are ending up with. Most weren't huge surprises, with people either applying to what they had already expressed interest in or committing to one of the two or three options they were considering. There were a few last-minute surprises though, where a classmate did a hard switch to a completely unrelated specialty either near the end of 3rd year or even after doing some/all of their electives.
So, this post is mostly just a reminder for those still early on in medical school that while it's worth exploring specialties early as well as having a game plan for your clerkship and elective rotations, last-minute changes do happen, regularly.
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