Recent content by mvalento

the decision to pursue a fellowship ultimately is a personal one based on your projected career satisfaction. i'm a tox fellow and am extremely happy that i made this decision. yeah, most of my residency colleagues are making more money than i am (although, with moonlighting, the difference...

we do almost all 12's at my program during intern year, 20-22 per month. you do get used to it. and man...when i had a few 8 hour shifts thrown into my community ED month...they seemed so easy! it will make for a nice transition next year when we have a mixture of 8's and 12's

here's NYU's 2005 match list: INTERNAL MEDICINE (33) Brigham/Women's (3) Columbia (3) Cornell (3) Duke Emory Hopkins Mass General Mt. Sinai (2) North Shore NYU (6) Scripps Stanford (2) Stony Brook U Chicago U Colorado UCSD UCSF UMDNJ U Penn Yale PSYCHIATRY (5)...

i matched at a program that i didn't rotate at; in fact, the program that i rotated at (hennepin) ended up right in the middle of my list. it wasn't that i disliked the program (in fact, i loved it)- i just discovered during interviews that there were things i was looking for in a program that...

koko, kind of tough questions there. certainly, if you perform extremely well during an away elective it will really help your chances of matching at that program. however, it also should improve your chances elsewhere, since a good performance should generate a solid LOR which is what...

koko, well, i guess everyone is going to be looking for slightly different things in a program though you have already hit upon two of the most important: location (seems you have that one figured already) and 3 vs 4 year. other things that were important to me when i was interviewing...

-NYU School of Medicine -don't know my class rank (P/F 1st 2 years) -Honors in Med/OB, High Pass everything else -honestly don't know what i got in EM rotations (at NYU and HCMC)- all our electives are P/F but there are rumors that you can get honors, i don't know -Step I 249 -LORs from EM...

U of Cincinnati- top choice! bud

my two cents here...i am a 3rd year student at NYU and i have been very happy with the school. i was not miserable during the first 2 years and my classmates have been and continue to be excellent. my social life was great during the preclinical years as well. plus now we get to work at...

i can't quite remember the lecture schedule, but a typical day would probably be with lectures/conferences/labs from 8-3/4, with an hour for lunch. perhaps a little more initially because of anatomy lab. of course, this is assuming that you attend all the lectures- some are really good, and...

hi nighttrain, i am a 3rd year student at NYU, and i agree with everything that the previous poster wrote. the students at NYU are outstanding, and you definitely have time for an active social life. you are still a few years away from the clinical years, but working at bellevue is a definite...

that is very good advice...use review books to study for 2nd year classes (the same books that you will use for boards studying). they will give you a good initial overview of the material- probably not enough detail for med school classes but it will definitely help you out in may / june when...

i think you will do just fine. both my roommate and i averaged in the low-mid 70s on q-bank; he ended up getting a 257 and i got a 249. i don't know if there is a strong correlation between kaplan scores and the real test but the word around our school when i was studying was that if you could...

so i've been reading about this degree (the masters of public health and tropical medicine), especially the one offered at tulane medical school. i'm interested in this field and wondered what this degree offered; the program website says that graduates : "Work overseas in disease control...

hello, i'm a 3rd year student interested in infectious disease and tropical medicine, and i am curious to know if any internal medicine residency programs either offer opportunities for residents to practice in foreign (esp. third world) countries, or allow residents some time to pursue...