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Agree with above. As I see it: Benefits of med-Peds: -More inpatient time (good if you want to be a Hospitalist) -More critical care time (more comfort with sick patients) -Ability to pursue any IM or Peds fellowship, including combined fellowships (good if you want to specialize) -More Peds...

I don’t want it to happen, but it’s better than never having those conversations at all (which would happen if the hospital is flooded and physicians are not otherwise available)

I think there could be a role for med students during a pandemic, just not a traditional role. Med students definitely should not be using up PPE or doing assessments on admitted patients when attendings need to repeat them. Exposure risk is high and benefit is low. That being said, I can think...

I’m a resident graduating in 2020, but for personal/family reasons, I’m delaying at least 1 year before applying to fellowship. At this point, I’m about 95% sold on doing a PICU fellowship, just looking for advice on the best way to spend my gap year(s). I know there are a few programs out...

During training, you get more inpatient procedures with IM than with FM but it pales in comparison to what our EM, IR, or (for some procedures) anesthesia colleagues do. I’m in my last year of residency - as of now, i have done about a dozen central lines, arterial lines, and lumbar punctures...

No less competitive, and in sone cases possibly more competitive (Peds ICU comes to mind here). You come out of residency board eligible in both IM and Peds having fully completed 2 residency programs. Some people even go on to do combined fellowships (adult and Peds rheum, ID, Heme-onc, cards, etc)

Med-Peds doc checking in. The way I considered it when applying was like this: FM vs IM: FM is mostly geared towards outpatient training and also includes OB and surgical rotations that are not included in IM. Overall, my FM colleagues are better at in-office procedures like joint injections...

I’ve posted this on SDN before, but: 1) I was asked about my thoughts on the legalization of marijuana during a medical school interview (this was back when only Colorado had legalized MJ, if I remember correctly). My interviewer and I debated. I was later accepted. No big deal. I don’t think...

If he is your PI, then it is appropriate for him to write your recommendation letter. That being said, if you had more direct contact with his collaborator, is it possible for them to also write you a letter? Or at the very least for your PI to include some comments/quotes from the...

Two major reasons I've seen people fail or get overly stressed in medical school: 1) During the preclinical years - poor time management. In undergrad and high school there were more "check points" to make sure you were keeping up with the work. Many medical schools don't even require class...

As far as the usefulness of a combined fellowship, it totally depends on the person. I'm Med-Peds and while most residents in my program decided on the combined residency for a specific reason, it's pretty rare to see someone enter residency dead-set on a combined fellowship. For most of us, if...

Hours like that shouldn't happen every day, but they do happen occasionally. I'm towards the end of residency and I've only stayed past midnight maybe 4-5 times (this excludes 28 hour calls where you are by default staying past midnight). Similarly, I can count on one hand the times when I have...

Pick the PI AND pick the lab that will teach you the specific tools that you need to do what you want. If you want to learn the mitochondria, go learn the mitochondria. It sounds like that lab will also help you develop your publication record, which is key. Joining that lab will not in any way...

I can't make that choice for you. Talk to your family. Look into undergraduate programs and see which ones would reasonably accept you and how many of your credits they would accept. Apply to them. Once you have real, concrete options (transfer to university X in the US or stay in your program)...

I recommend reading the book Toxic Charity. It's a fast read and it is a very thorough discussion of the types of problems that stem from international volunteering. Even as a resident nearing the end of training, in a program specifically geared towards global health...I still have a very...