Recent content by thumbz

I almost exclusively work stretches of 10, I hate handing off and picking up the service. End of June I'm helping out a colleague and doing 16 in a row - I've done 18 one time, that was my longest stretch and that was soul-sucking. My cash compensation will be $450k, with benefits (401k...

I have the exact same thoughts as Splenda ... I need 5-6 more years of this amazing gig I found and then I'll be ready to go and teach full time at a med school somewhere warm (back in Arizona I hope). It's interesting as my gig can't seem to keep hospitalists happy but I think it's amazing, so...

LizzyM I read this as you had a kettle in your office as well that got yanked :rofl: OP - don't worry this will get a chuckle out of a lot of us and a sigh that it was even considered an action. I recently got scolded for having a mini fridge in my office (which is still there, I have the...

Normally I don't take any holidays off because I love working them, so this will be my first year getting December off specifically. Last year I took all of February off and went somewhere warm. This year was that April-May stretch, and then December. 2025 I'm looking at February again. Unless...

That I do - for example this year I was set to be off from April 15 thru May 27. However I filled this glorious amount of time off with a bunch of extra shifts. We had a couple docs leave on the non-teaching side and it was a great opportunity to get some stuff paid off. Next fall I'm going to...

The last thread died in 2020, and there have been 1 or 2 changes since then. So let's get a new thread going. How I envision this - if you're HM post your gig in the format below (modify it however you want). We can talk about offers and jobs and help answer questions that students, residents or...

Thankfully the $260k is the "this is what lands in my bank account and gets spent on shiny ****" - The 401k/HSA is lumped into that 44% that also includes taxes, FICA, Medicare, health insurance, employer disability, etc.

I couldn't fathom doing a fellowship after working as a hospitalist. To go back into the grind to become a nephrologist sounds like the absolute worst life to me. I told Splenda I would try to post more in these threads to people know there are baller HM docs out there, that the sky isn't...

Ok so this isn't the question you're asking at all but I'm here to shower you with unsolicited advice. As a Canadian who went to a US DO school, it was the single best decision of my life. Use this as a chance to get yourself into the US - get the F1 visa, don't worry about the J1/H1b thing...

Ok so I saw the 27 on the MCAT and my dinosaur self thought you either had pirated practice tests from a thousand years ago and were totally clueless or that someone necrobumped an ancient thread... I'm pleasantly surprised it was the latter due to the reasoning for the necrobump. Incredibly...

I've had multiple residents who are older than me, one of whom was my senior by nearly 20 years. I don't even notice anymore, and they don't either (or at least they don't let on that it bothers them). You'll do great, don't worry. In our program average age is 30 with a bimodal distribution -...

If you truly never worked with this evaluator then I would question if they have you confused with another student - so as above I would reach out to your school with a request to have this comment reviewed. If you truly never worked with this person then it should be an easy decision. And if...

I interview and rank for a community IM program. What many others above have said is how we do it. Essentially everything gets a score, and your interview is somewhere around 30% of the overall composite. Board(s) scores, med school, class rank, LOR's and eval comments all play into the other...

It's a big problem, as soon as you have non-clinical FTE it's easy to take advantage of you. I am 0.1 non clinical, but the expectation is I be available for all sorts of meetings, committees, etc - and that an hour meeting only counts as an hour. So in admin's mind, they get me almost 100 days...

Oh boy Goro, 5 year ago thumbz would have said you're crazy and that it's not worth the opportunity cost of a year of physician salary as there's a 90%+ chance you'll still get a residency. Today thumbz agrees with you fully though. The chance of getting the residency YOU WANT is so much...