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I’m gonna be honest. Those PIs are **** but it’s somewhat your fault for picking them. There are a multitude of incompetent people in academia (probably 4 in 5 as a ballpark), and frankly, it’s somewhat on the trainee to do their own due diligence to find out who sucks and who doesn’t. You can’t...

Hell, most patients families don’t care where you went to school or what your training is… just as long as you give them what they perceive they are paying for/want.

It is possible. That’s how retired people publish. Hard to believe it would be taken seriously though.

Sure, but the people who typically apply for it are assistant professors and are considered early-stage, irrespective of the amount of work one has to do to obtain it. Also, slightly unrelated, but they need to get rid of instructorship positions. Those are just rubbing salt in the wound.

It’s all way too long. For most other careers, that’s well into a mid-career. Not “early”.

lol… wut.

Hmm. Well, you have to pay the full membership indefinitely to the AAP. Maybe it was the subspecialty boards that require nomination. Either way… it’s a meaningless designation and says you’ve forked over bucks to pay to the organization. In fact, if it requires no nomination, it’s even more...

FAAP requires a nomination and appointment. It has nothing to do with board certification.

No. Do exactly that... ignore them. Send them to the trash and don't respond. They are a dime a dozen. The only time they are useful is if someone you personally know and trust sends you their CV... AND you are desperate for help. Then... maybe... possibly. Otherwise... junk folder.

Ha. Anyone with two brain cells sees through all this these days... Fortunately... most physicians don't have that many.

If you can't stumble home drunk from your first exam... you messed up in picking your housing.

Do you want to go on vacation or not?!

My wife, who is a hospitalist administrator, thought Pathology M&M was the most detail oriented... that solved nothing.

I mean, you realize most of your classmates will grow up to be nobodies right? Follow your interests and you'll never be disappointed.

https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/178214 I'm not sure I entirely agree with the conclusion, but I get where they are coming from. Being a MD-only K08, I definitely needed extra time post-graduate to bring myself up to speed. That being said, because I was MD-only, there was no fast track...