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The IM board pass rate (averaged over three years) is 97% at Kentucky but only 85% at Louisville. http://www.abim.org/resources/states/st_ky.shtm

I got an invite from Brown today.

This suprised me. I've never heard people say that MFM's make that much.

Hi I'm doing a sub-I in internal medicine. I'm following a pt with cardiac telemetry. I've never been sure what I should be looking for with telemetry patients. I usually review any alarms overnight. My intuition is that a few random pvc's are no big deal. I guess I would be worried...

I was looking at First Aid for the Wards and a couple other books about 3rd year. They all said that you should write all orders for your patients and have them checked and signed by the intern or resident or whatever. Well, today I was talking to some 4th years, and they said that this...

My best friend's dad went to U of L years ago, and he told me they only had prosections back then. Personally, I think a lot of the anatomy is overkill and there's a lot of wasted time in the lab. I don't see how moving to prosections and computer based education would really hurt. (I think...

I'm actually not so sure that this would be an appropriate role for a pharmacists. Ideally, a doctor has ongoing follow-ups with a patient not only to adjust medication, but to maintain a patient-physician relationship. This may sould touchy feely, but it actually is essential since the...

I actually have both editions. The new edition seems to have more pictures. Also, about 1 out of 10 of the old questions is changed or replaced by a new question. The new book also has more total questions. For example, the heart chapter has 53 questions compared to 48 for the old edition...

My school (University of Kentucky) sends some people every year to a medical Spanish program in Oaxaca, Mexico. I went last year and it was great. The city is really nice and the program was excellent. We go through a language school called the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca. (Google the name...

My advice would be to just be honest about it. (Tell the truth if asked on an application or something but don't volunteer that information if not asked.) If it was far in the past, you haven't been in any other trouble, and you have an otherwise strong application, I think there are probably...

Has anyone been able to get the new 2nd edition of Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology yet? I think it was supposed to be available Nov 1, but Amazon still hasn't shipped my order and my school's medical bookstore doesn't have it either. I'm trying to decide if I should just get the older...

Hey SDN I haven't been on here much since I applied to med school, but lately I've been thinking a lot about Step 1 and I know that this is the best place for advice, motivation, and support. I'm not doing a lot of prep work right now. Mainly, I'm focusing on learning micro as well as I...

It seems to me that there are at least two benefits to going to a top school: 1) A degree from a top school makes it easier to get a "top" residency, i.e. a residency that produces mostly academic physicians. This is not the same as saying that you must go to a top school to get into a...

TheTerri Shiavo Info Page is a great resource for understanding the legal issues and history of the case. Some things I was not aware of: Michael Schiavo, as Terri's husband, had the complete legal right to dictate her care, but he chose in May 1998 to excercise a special portion of the...

I'm a first year at the University of Kentucky. Anatomy MWF lecture 8-10, lab10-12 Histology TR lecture 8-10, lab 10-12 "Healthy Human" M lecture 1-3 W small group 2-4