Recent content by JJMrK

I can’t comment on anesthesiology. In orthopaedics, the away rotation is an important part of your “application” to the programs where you complete them. So commonly, students complete away rotations at places they are interested in going for residency. If I were picking rotations, I’d do them...

I would go and do it, because it sounds like a good opportunity that is right for you. You can be respectfully distant of your painful-sounding classmate. Faculty were once in the same position as you (not all that long ago), and can see through this kind of stuff. Edit: In response to the...

A pediatric orthopaedic fellowship after orthopaedic residency is not competitive with the exception probably of the top fellowships. It is less competitive than other fellowships. It tends to be more clinic and less operating than many other orthopaedic sub specialtys. Some people enjoy seeing...

There is a push to more formally recognize limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery as a sub specialty within orthopaedics. Typically the folks doing this kind of thing are traumatologists, pediatric orthopedists, or tumor surgeons with training in the ilizarov method, frames, bone transport...

Learn the material from you classes in order to do well on step 1 in the future. Get started doing research as early as possible, and don't flake if you commit to a project. That's really all you need to do early on. If you don't do well on step 1 it's an uphill battle even if your application...

IMO, best strategy is to schedule interviews to maximize the number you go on, and to ensure you get to the ones you are most interested in. If it came to choosing, I think it would be a mistake to trade interview volume for specific dates.

It's basically recognition for hard work. Take it or leave it. I paid the first year to get my certificate and likely never will again.

IMO, much of the third year curriculum should cut down, and really at least half should be elective rotations. A month on medicine, general surgery, and pediatrics makes sense. Personally I don't see any reason that every medical student needs an OB or a psych rotation. The vast majority of...

Netter's concise orthopaedic anatomy is basically what every medical student uses on orthopaedic rotations. Going through that cover to cover is a good place to start.

In general you have numbers probably roughly equivalent to the average for EM and IM, maybe a bit below average for anesthesia. You also are interested in moving to a traditionally "less desirable" region of the country. To be honest, as long as you play the fourth year game correctly and have...

ETFs are also nice as you can buy them in shares, and there is typically no minimum investment. Allows you to diversify quickly if you're limited in terms of the initial amount you can contribute.

Fully funding a Roth should be your first move. As you know, it's a post-tax contribution, and money is not taxed when you withdraw money 40 years from now. This means your money is taxed once at your current income tax rate; the advantage is you'll likely never be in as low a bracket again...

You're overthinking this. If you're somewhere around average, you're average. If you're outside the bars, you're well above or below average. Don't waste time trying to calculate a percentile that in the end honestly won't really even help you understand anything.

Not getting into another surgical subspecialty.

You've got it. IV is faster and you can give it to patients that are NPO. 10 meqs should raise the K by about 0.1. You need a central line to run KCl quickly- running it through a peripheral takes an hour or more per 10 meqs and can cause infusion pain. I typically give everyone PO unless there...