Recent content by bulldogmed

I took the exam during my first month of intern year. I studied for about a month before the exam. I only used UW. Did all of the questions and all of the practice cases. UW average: 64% UWSA: 215 Step 1: 220 Step 2: 264 Step 3: 230 If you're a fresh US MD graduate, all you need is UW. I...

Here's a review on surgical attire as written by MD's. You'll note that it cites actual studies that don't support the AORN guidelines. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25187588

Use the search feature for scope of practice of general surgeons. 80% of general surgery graduates go on to complete a fellowship. Most people specialize so that they are limited to one area or body system. Thoracic surgeons don't do general surgery. Trauma fellowship usually means...

I rotated at WRNMMC this fall for general surgery. There are 6 or 7 general surgery teams: blue, red, white, gold, TACS, pink, green. Each has a set of attendings that stays with that team and thus flavors the surgeries for that team. TACS or trauma and acute care surgery was the busiest service...

Thanks! Yeah, they were similar.

I didn't think the stems were that much longer. UW was very good prep for the real deal. The best thing you can do is UW+NBME practice tests. I used SUTM during IM clerkship. MTB2 for review. My step 1: 220, step2ck: 264. I improved a lot which i attribute to doing well during 3rd year...

Thank you for the advice. I always appreciate some good gouge.

Would you expand on this, please? I'm an M4, looking at a GMO tour in 1.5 years. Specifically, what do you mean by tripped up? Thanks.

I can't speak to the experience as a physician, but I visited Camp Bondsteel a few years ago, and it was pretty barren. There's not a lot of permanent buildings. There's a lot of "temporary" "containers." Kosovo, I've heard, loves Americans, and so you would probably be pretty welcome, but it is...

Focus on getting into college and completing your undergrad degree first. You don't sign for the HPSP scholarship until after you have applied to and been accepted into medical school after undergrad. You might also want to drop the word "wanna" from your vocabulary.

I've finished my rotation at NMCP on general surgery. There are 3 teams, blue, gold, green. Each team has 4-6 attendings in various subspecialities or just as as a general surgeon. Each team has a chief resident, junior resident, and 2-3 interns. I got there at 0500 each day, pre-rounded on my...

Took the exam June 9th. Some background, First two years I passed all classes, no honors. Step 1: 220. Third year, a couple honors, shelf exams in the 80s and 90s except for OBGYN which I did terrible on. Long story short, I skated by the first two years and I probably didn't study enough for...

the best resources are the ones that you will actually read. Seriously, just committing to read a single resource for one hour/night + questions from some qbank will get you pretty far.

In thinking about my future after med school (1 year away), I'm interested in getting a masters degree (bioethics or public health). Since I'm interested in a specialty where most do a GMO tour after their intern year, would that two year hiatus from residency be a good time to get a masters...

There's over 1100 something questions on medicine on UWorld. It's enough for the medicine shelf. I did 25 questions a night plus some outside reading that was assigned. Worked out pretty good for me.