Recent content by flasheroonie

I agree. Sounds like you still need to figure out what you want to do with your life. No forum will ever be able to answer that question for you.

If you get selected to interview at a program through ERAS, they'll tell you how much they'll pay you per year of your residency when you go to tour and interview.

I hope that's all it is.

Hmm... look for that patient contact.

As long as the school is completely accredited, then why not?

If it was on a federal document, it can be a federal offense.

The question is why did he make his birth date 3 years earlier? On what ID? What was the situation? That's falsifying your birth date, yes, but for what reason?

Agreed. You should send a letter after an interview. The interest needs to be mutual (school in you, you in school).

You already sound like you have a great background of generalized experience, but I second Goodbee's notion that you should have more experience shadowing physicians.

If you've ever been caught lying about who you are and/or your credentials, that's a big red flag on any application. Need details to provide feedback on judged severity.

If you're going for an MD/PhD, then having research experience will be helpful, but the more gap years you have, the far worse it will be for you when you apply for med school. They will want to know why you had gap years at all. A clinical research associate is good experience in specifically...

It also depends on the type of study. If the paper is showing the results of a case-control study, cross-sectional study, or a cohort study, then the results will be an odds ratio. If the study is showing the results of a randomized controlled trial, then the results would usually be...

Professionalism is the basis to everything we do in medicine.

It's always great to hear about the wonders of modern medicine. Hats off to my surgeon colleagues (of any subspeciality) for being able to rearrange one's anatomical origami to relieve pain and directly cure so many diseases.

Sorry this thread hit a personal nerve with me. TL/DR: NYC programs are truly militaristic, try looking elsewhere unless you really have to go to NYC IMHO. Training programs in NYC are absolutely more militaristic than elsewhere in the nation. I can tell you from first-hand experience. I didn't...