Recent content by deowolf04

Hello everyone. This will be my final post on this forum. Today marks the last day of my last rotation as a med student. It's time to retire the short white coat; I have yet to decide if "retire" consists of keeping it in the back of a closet or just burning it. God only knows what is...

Despite it being the easiest year of med school, you will be plenty busy 4th year so you won't even be thinking about a Match Day countdown this early. In addition to your rotations, you have to apply, go on all those interviews, do you rank list, and THEN you can think about Match Day. I...

Forget "after medical school," you'll be regretting not being able to stream this summer when you realize that you cannot stream patient rounds and that you will have to get up very early for many of your rotations. (Do you remember at Lampoon when Tony was doing his parody of Kid Rock and...

As I've told a few current students that will have to deal with this, resist it at every opportunity. Part of what gives Wayne its good reputation for clinical training is the option to train at multiple sites, so you get a very good idea of what working at different hospitals is like and you...

I'm matched and about to leave the site. Do you honestly think that I did not reveal myself intentionally? I've considered suggesting all the 4th years on this site set a get-together spot during one of the graduation festivities and reveal our identities to each other.

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No, and I don't think we are ever going to find out. However, a full dozen decided to "defer residency training." Whether that was intentional and they are just taking a year off or they did not match and are trying again next year, I don't know. And in case anyone else is curious, 12...

How about this for a few match day statistics. 33 of us are going into EM (including myself and at least 2 others on this thread). We're the #1 class specialty! And only 3 shy of the record. 21 went into anesthesiology (more than the last 2 years combined) 10 matched into neuro (almost as...

Trust me on this: go to Florida and Oscoda with your fiancee. This is your very last summer off, and you should take it as such. It is extremely unlikely that anything you do this summer is going to be the "make you or break you" part of your ERAS application when everything else is taken...

Hmm...that makes a lot of sense:rolleyes:. DMC: "We're going to take away $12 million from you per year, but we'll give you 2.7 mil so we are allowed to take away your money." Let's just hope the University Physicians Group realizes what a horrible offer that is and refuses to let Duggan get...

For the Y1 and Y2 students on this board, I highly recommend going to the career lunch tomorrow with Dr. Ledgerwood even if you don't plan on going into surgery. Trust me; just meeting her and listening to her is worth the price of admission (your lunch hour). You will most likely be meeting...

I said nothing about not being tactful. All I was saying is that there was nothing wrong with being honest in your evals, and if you feel strongly about a teacher, you should be able to express it. After all, the evals are the "proper channels" for expressing your thoughts about teachers...

Well now. They've finally moved passed the denial stage into the anger stage. A couple years ago, I overheard Dr. Montgomery talking with several other immuno/micro teachers and believing that we were getting the scale confused on the evaluations. So the teachers getting the bad evals weren't...

From what I heard from someone who had to remediate, there were more people there that had to remediate than you might think, especially compared to how little they think of the osce. I too got flagged not once, but twice, about "appropriately draping" the patient. I say screw that; in a real...

I would not recommend selling it just yet because you still have to log cases for ER. That also may be the case for the sub-I, but I haven't done that yet. The osce is kind of like CS, except you have less time at each station, the evaluator is sitting right next to you, there are more total...