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clinical grades ARE very important and correct english is even more so

2 residents got into a fist fight at hopkins and one broke his wrist and the other is on probabition, hopkins was known as the "gentleman's program"....no more And all the women keep bailing at OHSU, I know it isn't the programs fault it is the womens' fault BWH went through a period where...

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by your post I am going to assume you are either a first or second yr medical student. If you are bragging that you are making an "impact" on the literature in the ns field (a paper a month???--deep insight from those preclinical years) and jefferson's chairman is awesome but the faculty is...

HA HA HA this makes me crack up....if you told me these reasons while I was interviewing you, I would laugh in your face 1. i find it a personal challenge -there are a lot of things that are personally challenging 2. variety of operations -look at the answer to #4 and you realize how...

I think you need to grow up, if you want to do neurosurgery at the end of the day you need to get the job done. I am suprised you would ask such a niave question with such high board scores. The excpetion of UVA (which even now has changed) there are a couple of individuals who are anti-women...

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Are you able to do research while in residency or no? (I want to do a joint MD/Ph.D.) -doing an md/phd program is radically different than the question of is it possible to do research during residency. Most programs require a minimum of 1 yr (clinical or basic science), some require 2, some...

I think with those scores it might be very hard to match but maybe not impossible. You may want to consider one of the pre-residency fellowships. Many have been successful in securing a spot after them.

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some advice: -never take anything for sure...study your butt off for those boards, not to mean this as an insult but if your school doesn't have a ns program I am assuming it is probably not a extremely strong program overall, so your board scores will count enormously -no ns program=very bad...

I wouldn't forget UCSF, I was surprised to find out that they actually have as many clinical cases as the barrow

I am 32 applying this year and my home program as well as the other places I have done sub-Is have only been supportive. I should say I look really young (like 24-25 even sometimes confused for 18) so I am not sure people realize how old I am until they see when I graduated from undergrad.

If you are going to a bar in Manhattan then don't even think about wearing a polo shirt and khakis you will look like a dork. Honestly, I can't even imagine where, if anywhere, this is still in, prep school died 8 years ago.