Recent content by Anath

:-) I'm a resident who's about the buy the Welch Allyn Pan-Optic and Macroview otoscope. For my purposes, they are great because I do family medicine but I wouldn't shell the $700 for the set unless you 1) doing primary care or ENT/optho AND 2) love gadgets. The macroview otoscope is...

Carolinas Medical Center?? In Charlotte? I'm shocked you met only one. I chose not to go there, but when we went out to dinner, there were easily at least 8-10 people there from all the levels, but largely the interns. Maybe they changed things for this year. They actually seemed like a fun...

Cooooongrats! :-) Nervous like the dickens -- Did day 1 today, and it was long and miserable. Although I think having gone through at least half of intern year, I was better able to skim the questions and usually finished each block a little early, but I agree ... A lot of the time, I just...

Thanks for the book recommendation! Just read a couple sample chapters they had online -- looks great!

SOOO! My very first rotation as a PGY-1 is in peds at a mostly unopposed hospital. Peds here is home call. I've never taken calls at home -- from what I understand, the parent calls the hospital, and over the phone the nurses will assess the patient and if it is of concern or they don't know...

:) I guess I assumed the original poster had taken all his/her exams/USMLE's back those many years ago, instead of recently. Assumptions, assumptions!

I can obviously be well off as I havent gone through the process, but I could swear I had read somewhere that many programs require board scores to be within the past few years (I wanna say either 5 or 7). But I'm going off a vague memory ... You might want to call a program and ask...

:-) hence the word *completely*. Either way ya look at it, its quite different from getting absolutely no bonus at all. I wish I could pay off these loans in 10 years ... that would be heavenly. Although I guess I could live off of Ramen the whole time, and live extremely frugally, which...

?? link is above. it says you do not lose benefits (and that link is referring to the THE bonus) by deferring or forbearing your loans. And if you defer, you're deferring your actual period where you're repaying, so no, you're not going to have a bonus applied during your deferment period...

I seriously doubt that and have found nothing to say that they completely take away your bonus just because you file for economic hardship. The vast majority of us will *have* to file economic hardship because, well, who in the world can afford the 100K+ that most of us will have during...

as long as you dont need hand-holding, Emigrant direct and ING are both awesome. I have both, and I've done pretty "well" vs the measely 0.5% you may get through your banks. I will agree that my emibrant direct has always been higher in interest than my ING acct. My financial planner said that...

The problem with that is that from what he said, this ~$5000 loan is a private/personal loan and not an educational loan that he took out for school financial aid. The Sallie Mae private loan link you have is only for educational loans, not personal.

Also -- since you're starting med school ... To be quite honest, I would go ahead and just pay the $80/month. When you get all your loans in for med school and such, you get a rebate check in 2 lump sums -- in the fall and spring, which is supposed to be used to cover living expenses...

I dont know much about Wachovia's stafford loans. But as you say, THE is excellent with consolidation. If you go with, ie Wachovia for your staffords, and all your educational (incl undergrad) were through Wachovia, then when it comes down to consolidation in 3-4 years you will not be able to...

It was quite simple actually! I filled out everything online. The thing I had the hardest trouble with was whether to have them honor my grace period on my med school loans (ie, to hold my application and not consolidate until it is near the end of my grace pd). I opted against this option...