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Do you have access to old test questions? We had question banks from prior years to study from. One way I used to study for the tests was to make a whole new set of notes based on the notes/lectures I already had. By summarizing the material over again it helps to formulate the concepts in my...

there's very little taught about the finances that comes with any specialty until it is way too late.

these are very different personalities for specialties. psychiatry is more of a long term committment with a patient if you do outpatient work. anesthesia is generally more inpatient work where the patient is most likely to not remember who you are. when you go home at the end of the day, i...

It would setup for a future in colon & rectal surgery.

masks around all areas with patients, in meetings I see people taking off masks, but if I'm near anyone I keep my mask on. I have terrible man colds, can't imagine anything worse than that.

The scribe position didn't exist when I was looking for jobs as an undergrad. It has some interesting benefits that I could see. The big one is you'll be working directly with physicians or other providers so a chance to get a letter of recommendation. Also you'll get to see firsthand what...

While medicine is definitely a more conservative field, I certainly see a lot more ink on people than I used to including on physicians. I personally prefer needles to point away from me towards patients, so not planning on getting anything on me.

There are plenty of medical specialties that don’t require you to be the best people person. Another option that would give you lots of chance to think about physiology is being an ICU Intensivist. They often have challenging basic science questions to deal with. Fixing lung mechanics. Balancing...

During the 1st two years I went to class and straight to a quiet room on campus to study after class, went to the gym about 10pm to work out for an hour went to bed and back to class. On the night before an exam I skipped the gym. On the weekends I woke up and went to a quiet room on campus to...

applying when you have the best possible application is independent of the age. Only thing I wish I could do now is just slowly become younger with that energy I used to have. getting calls in the middle of the night aren't as easy as they used to be.

At my undergrad the volunteer office on campus had a van we could borrow to go off campus. We were only responsible for putting in some gas to replace what we used. We were not charged any rental fees. I purposely scheduled volunteer activities for my organization (at that time I was the...

In medicine the most important thing is finding something that brings you happiness. If money does that great. If not I would choose FM. To help with Paying off loans I’d work at a nonprofit like part of a university system or a county hospital. You can get your loans forgiven and likely help an...

In the working world it's definitely most important what you can do versus where you came from. I care little for someone who may have come from somewhere famous, but can't be bothered to come in the middle of night to take care of a patient. I want someone who is committed to providing the...

PM & R is generally an easier residency to match for, so at the very least it would be easier to get the training slot you want. I have friends who work in that field and are quite happy doing it. One is in private solo practice and he seems to have a lot of flexibility with his time and able...

As a medical student I got research time in using the summer breaks that were available and during clinical years finding time at night. Admittedly for the clinical rotation time I was doing chart review research projects where I could gather data after hours. This was also during the age of...