Recent content by xffan624

The GI bill gets paid based on your school schedule. When you're in school, you get paid, when you're not, you don't. Even during christmas break I only got a partial BAH because the semester ended in December and restarted mid-January. You can't opt to "pay out of pocket" unless you want to...

This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Why would they do this? Seems like they got off easy. Exit signs are kind of important items if there's a fire or other emergency. Smh. Disclaimer: I'm not an adcom, and you're not the thief, but I wouldn't take this too lightly.

It's sometimes a questions on school's secondaries. Is it not a question on AMCAS or is that just attending medical schools? I can't remember.

I remember I accidentally damaged my cheapo dorm wall at some point from some completely innocuous activity (maybe putting a poster up with some wall glue...). I freaked out and then did some googling and learned about the magic of dry wall repair. It was a good lesson for the next 10+ years of...

Concentra is an urgent care chain that specializes mostly in Occ Med from my understanding, but does take other non-Occ Med patients. I don't think they require Occ Med fellowship for hire. Some Occ Med jobs might.

This sounds like a very positive outcome. Not complete exoneration, but probably the best you could expect from this process I would think. IMO. Good luck to you OP and it pretty much goes without saying but your record needs to be squeaky clean from here.

I don't have too much to say but if you're writing style in this post is similar to your writing style in your application I can see why you had issues. Please seek out an objective editor whose opinion you value for your next application. Is there a question buried in the wall of text? I didn't...

Pro-tip if you apply. It's preventive medicine. Calling it preventative medicine is a quick way to annoy folks in the field. As stated it's a niche residency and the pay will never likely be that high unless you do some concierge type practice and pull out your inner entrepreneur, but most jobs...

I was an Army officer and then went to medical school after. Part of the reason was a weak application out of undergrad and some indecisiveness on a career path. I did environmental health in the Army so there was some thought I might just do that for a career either in or out of the military...

While I think overarching reasons for this guy to do this are interesting, a more significant element of this that I thought was interesting was how easy it was for Tassig to forge his residency documents and then subsequently get licensed in multiple states after getting licensed in one. It's...

Congrats! Not mentioned in the original thread, but still relevant is that many medical boards also have limits for number of times you can attempt the Step exams. Although if you haven't passed Step 1 yet, you may be ok on the sequence part. Some states require all of them to be taken within a...

Lots of foreign docs have come over here and done it successfully. It's the price for practicing over here. I understand it's a challenge but there's such variability in standards and medical practice internationally that I also understand the requirement. There's probably an easier way that...

Imagine you are an adcom swamped with 100s of applications and attempting to fairly judge each applicant based on objective criteria and a specific process that you established in advance and then sort through each applicant. Every time an applicant sends an update, it's additional work to...

Full story in Alabama board of medicine documents. Good read if you like court documents. TLDR; Basically got in trouble with ENT residency in GA for professionalism issues. Got recommended for dismissal and then got second chance after appeal that he screwed up by running a red light and...

Not sure what they called it as it was several years ago. I was removed from work for a week while they did all this. Sorry that sounds awful. Is there any neutral entity that can advise you of your rights?