[Serious] NP looking into med school

I absolutely love my job.

I'm going to be honest, you're trading in a job you absolutely love for a job you may or may not get and you don't honestly know that you'd love as much. There's a good chance that may not be the case. As you say here:

I would hope to match into surgery.

If you honestly fully believe you would deeply regret not becoming a surgeon then go for it. Realize that it's entirely possible you don't match into surgery. Residency matching is the most unfair, corrupt, professional hiring process.

Wanting to "do more" isn't the most convincing, but I do not know you personally. You're definitely have to give a better answer then that to interviewers. They're certainly not going to want to hear you didn't consider being a surgeon until your husband asked.

I can see one asking now "I thought you absolutely loved your job, but you became a surgeon because you want to do more? So did you not love your job when you realized that?"

If I started a program next year or so, I’d be about 45 after it’s all said and done, with a five year residency.

Plus ~200k-300k debt give or take. Remember interest, and who knows if the residencies near where your husband is would take you.

Also if you become a surgeon don't expect to have the breadth of cases you do now. Even if you go general.

Think about this really really hard. If you had come here saying "I really like my job, but I've always wanted to perform the surgeries after assisting the first few years." It'd be a different story. You said love. That's something many surgeons don't say themselves. Keep that in mind.

Do I have a chance of matching into surgery considering my connections?

Talk to the department heads I'm sure you know them more then well enough.

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