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The guy from UofC that matched at stanford was an MD/PhD. Also, at least one of the peeps from Rosalind Franklin that matched was an MD/PhD too. He may have matched at Beaumont but I'm not positive. MD Anderson 1. MD, Rosalind Franklin 2. MD/PhD, Baylor William Beaumont 1. MD, Rosalind...

Congrats to all! I'll be getting in on the fun for 2007 hopefully!

Did an early rad-onc elective this year for 2 weeks and had a renal transplant patient with acute rejection whom we were planning to radiate. Apparently it's done as a last ditch effort to save the kidney after the patient fails the usual immunosupressants used in AR including IVIG.

I would have to agree with gumshoe even though he's a major douche bag. :hardy: 3rd year has had it's highs and lows. None of us seems to know what to make of it. From what i understand though, the clinical training we get is highly thought of at other places. If history is any indicator...

So as far as boards go, I'm in the process of finding out since I'm taking them in June. We get anywhere from 5-7weeks to study for the boards give or take a week or two depending on how long you want to study. Most of us are planning to take 5 weeks, many are planning to do it in 4. This time...

I'll try and post something this weekend, after I come out of the drunken stupor/hangover i'll be in following my CPP&T megafinal on friday. I'm a bit pre-occupied at the moment. :D But briefly: 1. My class stress level is 'chill' bordering on 'party animal' with an occassional "oh **** I...

hey all, I'm currently an MSII at Pritzker. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

No mnemonics here but... The term hematochezia cracks me up. I happen to be Greek and "-chezia" literally means "to take a ****." The term chezia is very commonly involved in certain Greek insults which I guess is why I crack up when I hear it. Btw, I got creative and coined the new term...

Going nuts with my PS2. I hardly played at all for like a year but now it's catching up to me. It's like I'm 10 years old again and spending countless hours with my nintendo. My thumbs are sore...haven't had that feeling in years. I still have like 3 more games to buy and play before break...

Didn't take biochem and I did just fine. Yeah I had to work a little harder than others but it's not a big deal. Many students have gone to medical school without taking biochem and have survived. We do biochem in one quarter so for 2/3 of the school year taking biochem wouldn't have made a...

Congrats to those that have gotten in! My man marooned is right. The OME does a wonderful job of picking a good class. I can honestly say that the best thing I've experienced so far have been my classmates. And yes, us Pritzkerites do engage in the above debauchery a lot. There is a real...

Traditional lecture style. Most overlap is unintentional but it does happen. In fact, I say they make it a point to keep stuff from overlapping during the first quarter. This is largely due to the late start that we get and the short quarters. We get a lot of material in a short period of time...

*Explosivo reads of DWs travails in med school and trembles in fear of being ripped out of his pre-med womb in a week. *

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I've bolded the relevant info. If you think about it, it's not that bad. Rates are permanently locked at 6.8% which isn't bad considering it provides protection from volatility in interest rates. Granted it's not as good of a deal as it is now but when the economy picks up again, I'm sure we'll...