Recently a senior medical student requested me to help with the decision making about the specialty to choose for post graduate training (residency). There are some people who are lucky enough to face this dilemma while quite a few are forced to make do with whatever is available after others have left with the meat.
Because there are many people in this predicament, I thought it appropriate to post this email, suitably modified for public reading, without in any way diluting the contents.This is what I had to say:
