Recent content by Junior22

Oral Boards grading scheme; does anyone understand how it works, besides that one needs to pass 2 out of 3 examiners? There are two examiners per room, do they give a score on each scenario in the room? Only the scenarios that they give? Is it a pass vs fail? or a fail, marginal fail, marginal...

With ~3 months left until the Written boards this coming December, what did everyone who passed this exam use? Have heard that this exam is an absolute monster for the better part of a decade now. Trying to find a good outline [textbook] of topics and one or two main resources that people used...

Thought I'd start a thread with interview dates for abdominal transplant programs given the lack of information available with the new common application this cycle. Feel free to add. Cheers. Duke -- 3/7 Henry Ford -- 4/24, 4/30 Ochsner -- 3/11, 3/12, 3/13, 3/28, 3/29 (April dates forthcoming)...

Recently I was informed by one of our hospital system's surgical program directors that when maintaining your CV, most presentations / posters/ conferences etc. have a 'time stamp,' and should only stay on your CV for ~3 years. I know the driving force, is to make sure manuscripts are completed...

Outside of Congenital, Transplant / Mechanical Assist device / Heart failure, I've noticed that there are a lot of senior fellows/residents taking 6 months to a year for further super fellowship training following graduation. Was interested to see what everyone's opinions were on the different...

Thanks guys, much appreciated. I usually prefer a good book or two, rather than a bunch of haphazardly put-together modules of someone talking at me. Cheers.

Just wondering what everyone found most useful. Are the lectures that the JCTSE sets up adequate, or is it better to grab a good thoracic book (medical management of thoracic sx...) and cardiac book (no f***in idea) and just go from there. Cheers.

From what I've heard from current residents, most of them ended up ranking roughly 14 places, give or take. Most of which stated that they ranked a few gen surg spots above some of the I-6 spots e.g I-6 ranked 1-5, Gen surg 6-9, I-6 10-15... That seems to be the status quo, but then again it is...

Haha no worries my man, no worries. I made the B standard for my track and field event and was absolutely thrilled. Even though I had dreamed of representing our country for a very long time, I was realistic with myself that I was not going to make the A standard and be one of the two who had...

That's definitely an interesting point of view, one that isn't expressed enough on these sites, at least from what I've read. From all my reading on here, it seems that most attendings/residents love EM in their late 20s and 30s, but then start becoming more disenchanted as they get older and...

I've spent quite some time scouring the forum over the last few years and extremely heavily over the last handful of months. I'm a bit of a non-trad in a way: I was your typical Biochem major all throughout undergrad, but took a few years off post-graduation to train for Olympic Quals. That...

Lake George is a definite, it's my second favorite lake in the world next to Lake Cuomo, just something about it. Saratoga is definitely a summer town, as is most of the whole Adirondack area. The winters in the northeast in general are fairly brutal, but Lake Place/White Face has some pretty...

Don't forget Saratoga or Lake George ;)

Temple? I'm getting the feeling that your salty attitude is more towards the post-bacc administration and not the school itself. I too would be pissed if I were in that situation, but you have to ask yourself if you would be happy there, sans the administrators. If yes, then go. You don't...

It's amazing how many supervillains have advanced degrees. Graduate school should do a better job of weeding those out.