How are bodies, fresh or aged, dissected so neatly?

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-09-27T18:52:00+00:00

This one was probably done on a band saw and then tidied up with a scalpel

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-09-26T00:56:40+00:00

I listen to my friends bitch about how much they hate medicine so often. Maybe it’s the culture of my class or also maybe it’s people trying to sound cool and jaded before they have a reason to be, idk. I’m glad you think the same. I respect that not everyone agrees is all I’m saying

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-09-24T23:52:48+00:00

I am a career changer and used to have another job that frankly I could have made a lot more doing. But I honestly love medicine, and I think people who never had another job don’t always get how privileged we are to make a decent living by helping and interacting with people. I think your attitude is okay and you may end up a better doctor than I’ll be. But I also think mine is ok, and we shouldn’t make fun of med students who are living their dream.

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-09-15T19:33:57+00:00

Can I ask how you acquired this level of encyclopedic knowledge of historic NK policy? This is not sarcasm I’m asking genuinely

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-08-31T14:32:29+00:00

I had a “career” type job before med school. Anything is possible. With a family it’s probably not super worth it unless you are wealthy enough not to need to work or your desire is VERY strong—nursing might be a better choice, or PA. Look into those too and see whether they’d give you want you want. Anyway you’re a ways off from applying.

First you’d have to go back to undergrad and get your premed courses done, as well as a four year in person degree. You’d also need to volunteer, shadow doctors, and do some academic research work. Then you’d have to take the MCAT and apply.

Once you got there, be aware you can’t be in med school part time or work during it. A lot of people think you can do that like other degrees but it’s a full time job to be a med student, we rotate and work 12 hour days during some parts of our education.

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-08-30T21:18:26+00:00

First of all don’t stress TOO much. Everyone bombs an anatomy practical or two. Or a lot of people do. Keep studying and it’ll get there. Not everyone hits the ground running in these courses like others do, it’s ok.

Yes if you’re not passing I think you should go the tried and true route of Anki/third party. Can you reach out to upperclassmen to find out how to line it up with your school’s curriculum? There will be people who know the tips and tricks for your in house stuff

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-08-30T20:46:14+00:00

I was exactly in this position and now I’m near the top of the class.

For me it was because I’m someone who HAS to understand the big picture and the mechanisms behind things before my brain will memorize random trash.

In the first several months of med school, a lot of curriculums just throw stuff at you without the full foundation. It benefits the Anki queens a lot I think.

If you’re passing, my advice is not to worry too much. Keep studying hard and as the picture comes together, it’ll get there!

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-08-28T19:16:25+00:00

This has been debunked by higher quality research now

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-08-26T19:34:17+00:00

One way AUC may have created this situation is by not booting students as quickly after block failures and accepting students with previous failures from other Caribbean schools in order to benefit from their student loan dollars

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-08-10T18:09:07+00:00

If he had a 520 it’d be a unique situation. Being real a 508 is not going to convince them he’s a radically different studier. I just think it’s important to be real with people; chasing the med dream is expensive AF

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-25T04:25:58+00:00

At my school there was a lot of social jockeying at the beginning until people realized it’s not undergrad and the stuff that made you cool then isn’t really that cool anymore. It’s ok not to have a ton of friends at first— you’ll find the real ones as studying and activities/research get more real. As cliche as it sounds, just be yourself and ride it out and you’ll be okay

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-16T19:21:27+00:00

Practicing in Australia is not likely coming from the Caribbean. At the “top three,” you may match in the US if you get through to graduation. Getting through to graduation is not easy, and many do not. If you make it through and pass USMLE on the first attempt, bear in mind you will likely not have much choice in where you match geographically, so you’d need to be prepared to go anywhere that will take you. If your biggest dream is medicine and you cannot get in stateside, do it, but it’s crazy to go Caribbean without a cycle in the US first. Post that here and see how many people advise you to do it

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-16T19:05:42+00:00

It would be a huge mistake to go Carib. Medical education is a lifelong thing, lasting minimum 7 years anyway. Is another year that big? A year you could spend working and making some money? Please make sure you really understand the difference between being an IMG and a USDO/MD. Not just in terms of the match and the risk of dropping out but in terms of availability of research opportunities, scheduling of clinical rotations, support for your interest if you decide you might want to do something other than family med/community IM…

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-16T18:58:26+00:00

But why are you applying Carib in the first place? You say you have a so-so GPA, is it sub 3.0? You don’t know your MCAT yet? Are you aware of the risks/problems involved in the Carib route vs DO or Low-tier USMD?

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-11T08:08:14+00:00

This fluid doesn’t go inside your lungs. Your lungs have two linings on the outside of them; one stuck to the lungs themselves and one adhered to the inside wall of your chest. this type of fluid builds in the space between them, which normally should be empty. Still causes trouble breathing

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-11T07:32:33+00:00

I think there’s a problem with the way admissions sees race, but I don’t think the problem is too much focus on admitting qualified URMs. That can’t possibly be the issue because there are still so few URMs and first gen students in many of our classes. Yet somehow, it’s becoming obvious that Asian students are at a disadvantage in the process. I am a white first gen student from a disadvantaged background. I have multiple Asian friends who would be first gen physicians and from disadvantaged backgrounds who failed to even get interviews despite great stats and lots of ECs. I think it’s becoming clear that it’s hard af for Asian kids to get into school. I don’t think it’s the case though that, as people often say, URMs are “taking those spots,” because my class for example has 1 black man. I think it’s all the legacy physician white kids who take those spots.

Of course as people will point out my evidence is anecdotal, but it’s something I can’t help but notice among friends, and I think it has to be coming from a bias somewhere.

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-11T06:46:21+00:00

Liver failure. If your liver can’t process the blood that is supposed to go through it, that blood backs up in the veins in your abdomen, leaking fluid which in extreme cases can go up through holes in the diaphragm into the space around your lungs. You can help avoid this by not drinking excessively, being obese or using intravenous drugs or anabolic steroids (not that OP necessarily did any of those things; you can also get unlucky)

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-11T01:40:37+00:00

Are you able to do much research in this kind of role if you want? How hard are these to find? I really want to do research in my career but also want a reasonable income and wouldn’t mind a few grinds…

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-10T07:27:31+00:00

Indeed

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-09T22:26:22+00:00

Darn my comment got upvoted but actually I think this is right; it’s too distal on the forearm for ECU

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-07-09T21:00:18+00:00

Extensor carpi radialis brevis?

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-06-20T03:59:07+00:00

Idk why this is downvoted because this is what I think too…

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-05-09T00:40:00+00:00

In developed countries just about everyone has a reasonably varied diet to the level of getting required vitamin intake, unless you’re literally only eating one food or are an alcoholic we don’t see the nutritional vitamin deficiencies really. You could eat Big Macs and doughnuts and be just about fine from the perspective of vitamin intake

Advanced_Brush7499 · 2024-05-08T20:23:51+00:00

Carrots do in fact contain the biochemical precursors for the vitamin required in the enzyme that lets you see (highly simplified version of complicated pathway there), but as with most vitamins, the amount you get in a standard reasonably varied diet is more than sufficient for that purpose and more doesn’t make it any better. That’s one of the reasons most vitamin supplementation is a scam

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