How I got usce and how 1 led to almost 9-12 months of usce

all started with one email. I cold emailed an interventional cardiologist asking for a rotation with zero idea if he’d even write back, and he said yes. I treated that rotation like the audition it actually was, showed up early every day, stayed late even when nobody told me to, and made sure he remembered my name for the right reasons. That one connection led to a GI doctor, which led to internal medicine, which eventually put me in front of a program director at a place that historically didn’t even take IMGs, and from there another PD at a program that actually was IMG friendly. None of it happened because I was the smartest guy in the room. It happened because I kept showing up and didn’t let one closed door convince me there wasn’t another one somewhere. I made sure I wasn’t disheartened or put off by the number of nos I got because you only need one yes And if you’re trying to do this yourself, get your emails right, don’t write Dear Dr so and so, use their full name and please please please don’t write Dr in front of your name and MD after , chose one ideally your full name and MD if you are one or your full name and Ms4/3/2 whatever it is , small thing but it matters.