Recent content by Golding

I noticed recently that the APDS website remodeled such that the open positions page has been updated. It looks like it's no longer open access, and you need to have a login to view the job board. However when I took a look at the new job board, all I can find under the "opportunities" link is...

Along with the answer that people are less inclined to compromise their anonymity, I can personally say I can't name any faculty I worked with that I'd consider a "mentor". Unfortunately, a lot of people I worked with in training were very flawed people, and I don't necessarily see myself...

I've seen people go through pretty much this exact scenario, and I've seen it go both ways. The hard part about giving you any advice is that there are a lot of variables involved, in particular just how reasonable your staff is when it comes to acknowledging any change in deficiencies that...

Wish I could talk about my residency experience without exposing myself, but boy was it a harrowing experience...

My understanding is that it is a historical naming that distinguishes it from the Kraske Procedure, which is a posterior resection.

Sounds about right to me. I've told medical students with this sort of behavior to just leave and not come back. I'm not too busy to teach, but I am too busy to keep my cool with self-righteous know-it-alls who seem to think their only purpose is to talk back at you.

I took the junior, and I agree that this was more unsettling than the year before. I recognized a lot of classic questions, but just looking back at some of them I know there are a lot that I missed. It's very frustrating.

I agree with Prowler's response, though I probably wouldn't have been able to put it as succinctly. I also agree that ACS should stay out of this particular political debate, since they naturally imply representation of surgeons homogeneously. I question how many GSW's I've seen have come...

I'm not looking to ban motorcycles...

Likewise, why take your interaction with certain surgeons personally? In a way, that's my original point. Surgery is often labelled as the field that has a lot of a-holes, when the reality is that you can make such (or the same) broad generalizations about anyone in the hospital - med students...

I do often hear people talk about how they're not going into surgery anyway, but I still have a hard time accepting that as a good reason for students to do some of the things they do. Medicine doctors still should know the basics of working up a patient. Everyone has their stories of terrible...

Having rotated at a site that was definitely abusive and had those exaggerations of what people tend to characterize as the "surgical personality", I've tried to become more involved with med students and their education while they rotate through the service. Through our rotation, the medical...

To answer your question, preliminary surgery spots are easy to pick up. Hundreds of spots go unfilled each year. That doesn't guarantee that you will be able to second-match into one, but the odds are more favorable than second-matching into a more long-term residency.

I roomed with a guy who went to the Caribbean after failing out of a US allo med school. He had failed a significant class in the Caribbean and managed to convince their review committee to not kick him out of school there too. If you are able to genuinely fix the reasons you failed, the...

Landed a categorical spot in what I consider my home institution after a prelim year.