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I think you're much more likely to graduate in 4 years and end up practicing medicine if you go to UCSF. As a side effect of Stanford encouraging other interests, a lot of people seem to be ending up doing other things, taking longer to graduate, etc. Someone told me that in the last round...

Anyone know what the mechanism is for the frontal bossing in achrondroplasia? Having done some searching around, I just see it listed as a feature of the condition, not any real mechanism listed. I could imagine that is a response to hematopoetic demands from smaller than normal long bones...

Stanford University Medical School, AKA Future Neurosurgeons of America Club 7/74 people

These were on the monitors in the main educational building, so I am assuming it is considered public information at this point.

Here you go.

You can buy everything on Amazon, e.g.: http://www.amazon.com/Castroviejo-Needle-Holder-Stainless-Straight/dp/B00DXZK8D8 http://www.amazon.com/Castroviejo-Needle-Holder-Straight-lock/dp/B00F65H24Q You will probably get some people telling you that practicing with low quality instruments will...

http://surgery.uthscsa.edu/pediatric/training/woundclosuremanual.pdf It's pretty good.

I was just talking to some ENT's about this, and out of the surgical specialities this is one of the better fits for having a decent amount of protected research time. Some ENT faculty I've met seem to have one clinic afternoon and one OR day and concentrate on a few procedures, but they have...

At this level, things often get a bit more flexible than necessarily applying for a particular program. Especially beyond residency and into fellowship, if you really want a PhD, it's often more a matter of finding an advisor who wants to take you on and fund you and getting the okay of your...

This is a good example for other people reading this about how bad personality conflicts often resolve in some ways. Usually an experienced PI is not a horrible person and can help these conflicts of they become aware of them (it is hard to be successful in research if you are a totally...

You can do a lot of things on your Gap Year:

Take the W. It shows up on your transcripts, but it doesn't go into your AMCAS GPA. It's not like you're taking a W in one of your reqs. Part of the W is so the school can still charge you for the units.

Yeah, you can just use Yelp, same as for any other place: http://www.yelp.com/biz/harvard-medical-school-boston-3 You can give five stars, just like your spec. $$$$, Reservation required

In case anyone is curious, someone has actually done this calculation, "You Need to Earn $29.83 an Hour to Afford a 1-Bedroom in San Francisco": http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/03/27/how-much-to-afford-a-1-bedroom-apartment-in-san-francisco/ Now, of course, people often have roommates which...

At my school, I would guess that maybe 30+% of admitted students had some sort of gap between graduation and matriculation, as I try to go through people in my mind. Many have prior graduate training, with I think 3+ people with PhD, multiple with some sort of master's level training. Many...