Recent content by KyGrlDr2B

You should try to schedule 2 easy rotations, in my opinion. That way you aren't pressured to put every interview into a 4 week time frame. Definitely do any extramurals early in the year, this may help at application time. And do your sub-I's either early or late. Then schedule electives--a...

I heard from a few schools in IM. Most of those schools were ones that pay for your hotel the night before, so I think it's just a program-dependent thing. The 2 I liked the best, I haven't heard anything, but I'm not taking it personal b/c these are popular and busy programs.

You can tell them anything you want. You can tell every program you're ranking them #1, if you want. The truth comes out at match day. It is illegal for them to make a deal with you and tell them they'll rank you 1, etc. I don't put much stock into programs telling me they really want me...

I think there is definitely a broad spectrum of nurses out there. Private and community hospitals tend to have great ones. A lot of university/academic institutions have crappy ones. The ICU nurses are not included in this generalization--they are usually awesome and are WAY smarter than you...

Don't shine them. Having scuffed Dansko's is like a badge of honor. It's like how you start with a super white coat that eventually gets dingy with all of your hard work. ;)

I don't know about calling other hospitals, but I have been told numerous times that specialties at the same program will talk and it can help.

Closing.

Ok, for the record, pre-allo students are welcome to post in this forum. This is not just for current allopathic students, but for TOPICS that pertain to allopathic school. Anyone is free to post here as long as the thread applies to med school. I'm pretty lenient in what I let slide in this...

I would think vet school is harder than med school, but I wonder if it has the same politics and hierarchy that med school has. If it doesn't that makes it a much more pleasant atmosphere. I wouldn't worry about which one is harder like some of the other posters are saying. If you don't like...

The clinical rotations forum may help you out.

Agree with the above posts. We americans butcher every pronounciation to make it our own. But en-kef sounds so ridiculous. I want to punch people when they say it--just like the ones who say SONtimeter instead of centimeter.

I did IM first and having just come off on boards, I did really well on PIMP questions that asked that type of stuff. I didn't know any management, but they don't expect you to. Now, if I had done it last, they would have expected way more of that. They definitely take into account how far...

Moving to usmle forum.

This gets explored a lot in the financial aid forum. I'll move this over there.