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I enjoy answering questions because it shows me that the resident or student is interested and wants to learn. In addition, it opens the door for me to show them how to use medical literature to look at the data and answer the question for themselves, and also forces me to stay up to date.

If you plan on getting board-certified by the AOA there are some questions, though no specific Chapmans points or procedural questions unless you want to be certified in OMM, which is now optional for family, practice and internal medicine that requires an additional 75 question exam and three...

I respectfully disagree with this statement. I am at a community program, and we have plenty of fellowship placements ranging from critical care medicine to HemeOnc to cardiology to Endo and rheumatology. It is very dependent on the resident.

What are your study habits. It seems as though that you are doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.

Welfare is something you may qualify for. You will pay it back in spades and decrease the amount of loans needed

May be taken into account with cost of attendance.

Future doctors, I keep reading about people wanting to do rotations at large academic centers but what you are failing to see are the diamonds in the rough. These are community programs. If you are in a large academic center, especially if you are doing IM, you will not be managing the...

Do a critical care rotation.

Not much different than someone who did not.

Any LOR that does not provide substance is useless. It does not matter if it is a chair letter. When I am looking at LORs, if the letter states that you were on time, showed up every day, knew your patients, blah, blah, blah it is a useless letter. However, if it tells me something memorable...

Live like a doctor when you are a student and you will live like a student when you are a doctor.

As a graduated DO, with a subspecialty, I love being a DO. In addition, I have not had a single patient or family ask where I went to medical school, residency, or fellowship. If you are a good doctor, you are a good doctor. You could go to Harvard for medical school, MGH for residency, and Yale...

you should also take into consideration that you will need to do a prelim or transitional year. That way you can prove that your medical knowledge has improved and you are teachable as a resident.

Unless you drastically changed something from the time you were dismissed from medical school and then were accepted at the new medical school, you have a higher chance of failure in either situation. Pharmacy school is not easy. And if you had academic issues already, it seems too soon that...