How competitive is the anesthesiology program?
Dean’s letters often provide valuable information about your performance throughout medical school. Significant weight is placed on your consistently high performance throughout medical school, as reflected on your Dean’s letter, as well as election to AOA. During your clinical clerkship years, in addition to earning good evaluations you should carefully consider every specialty you rotate through (including anesthesiology). This way, you will make a more “informed” decision to enter into anesthesiology (which will be reflected in your personal statement and reference letters). If your medical school permits away rotations, a visiting fourth-year clerkship at Mayo is an excellent way to learn about the program and for us to get to know you.
