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Everybody makes mistakes . its ok to say I dont know if its your first time seeing things. That's why you are in training. Learn from other peoples mistakes and your mistakes to constantly try and improve. Good attitude is important. I dont know many people who want to help or train people...

There was this concern years ago when I was in residency, along with outsourcing night reads and eventually all work to Teleradiology companies. Concerns haven't materialized to a significant or career changing degree in 10+ years. IF anything I agree AI would be nice as an adjunct to...

Probably depends on the residency. My residency the volume was high, and when cases required urgent reads so that decisions and treatments can be made, there isn't a lot of time to perseverate on what you see. Should the patient go to surgery or not? It can be a different feeling when you...

Wait until medschool starts and ask other upperclassman at your school whats good for your classes

barnes jewish is main hospital where you will do the majority of your rotations. lots of people are underserved, african american and caucasian. there's also a fair number of vietnamese people and also a lot of people from bosnia/russia/eastern europe. Some spanish speaking pple as well...

I heard they are gonna get rid of the thing completely soon. anybody know any news about that?

i agree that you should apply to lots of schools so that you have the best change of getting in. There's no way you can predict which schools will like you based on a high MCAT but medium GPA.

Agree with above. you only need to take 1 radiology rotation during your 4th year, at most 2. any more than that and you'll loook like a slacker. take stuff you're interested in learning 4th year and you'll be that much more well rounded after you graduate

average graduating medical student debt is around 115K according to 2004 figures. Slighty higher for private schools and lower for public schools. The majority of people (> 50%) have loans to pay off in the 6 figures. Going to a state school is still not cheap. If you have that much debt to...

I haven't seen any other good ones. I would like to know as well.

diet coke with lime!

I dont see a difference b/n the two if you're only using them for medical apps. I like palm better b/c of the amt of freeware available for it.

You'll be fine studying for "only" 3 weeks . Anymore than that, and you'll start losing information as fast as you learn it. After 4 weeks of intensive studying, you won't remember what you were reading on the 1st day you started studying. There's only so much you can cram for the test.

People posting can only help you so much in your decision. In the end, you should not just listen to a person posting that you should go to school X because of Y and Z if you know in your heart that you're not going to be the happiest there. You should go to the school that fits you the best...

Even if you don't get an acceptance right away and are waitlisted, there's still hope. Many people get off the waitlist later on in the middle of the year. There will be a lot of moment in the next few months when people who are holding on to many acceptances start dropping them.