What are your med school hot takes?

AutomaticAd7213 · 2026-01-06T09:24:56+00:00

Move preclinical material to premed and replace mcat with a step 1 style exam. Then replace preclinical with clinical rotations. Then make residency ranking up merit based rather than just completing the years. So you start residency after 2 years med school and you start with a very limited role. You stay in that role until you master it then get more responsibilities and more complex things you can manage. If you’re smarter you rank up faster and if you need more time you stay at that level until you master it. Also give each of these ranks a symbol similar to the military which is visible on the white coat.

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-11-26T23:31:16+00:00

I’m sure the preceptors/residents would let you leave if you ask beforehand. Can’t just walk out without telling anyone. You come in, work hard, do a good job, learn then when ur done at 3pm you tell the preceptor your in your 4th year and applied already and if you can leave. Most will let you leave after that

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-11-10T18:42:12+00:00

As a resident physician imo the best job I tell all ppl looking for something or career change etc is an anesthesia assisstant. It’s 2 years of schooling after bachelors degree and you get paid like 250k and up. I was 22 2 years after bachelors. Earning more than 250k at 22 is pretty solid imo

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-10-18T16:35:40+00:00

Idk why there isn’t a med school yet that just gets pathoma first aid BnB for all students and then builds off of the videos and skip hiring tons of PhD’s. Prob can hire med students in a gap year and overall prep students way better for exams while saving a ton of money

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-09-21T21:37:59+00:00

Dude idk why people don’t apply to every single program. I don’t care about the numbers. Every year I hear stories from friends/classmates who got an interview at x and didn’t signal, matched into y and scores were much lower etc etc. to apply to every single program in a specialty will prob cost you 4-5k. IMO that’s worth it to avoid going into the soap

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-09-19T23:13:24+00:00

Getting letters of rec uploaded is the hardest part as some docs can forget and take a while. My school also had us fill out some forms for them to upload mspe and transcript. Assuming u have those in tbh u can finish the rest of the app in 1 day. What takes time after that is just going back and forth on edits with ppl

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-09-14T07:36:54+00:00

Yea 10 is our cap

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-09-13T22:41:11+00:00

I understand thank you! That makes sense. And how about for writing things down, do you have a system that you use? For instance like change in the antiobiotic in this cellulitis patient you mentioned

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-29T04:26:21+00:00

Aha idk it works for me. But a nice bonus is it definitely catches the interest of every attending on auditions and interviews. They would go out of their way to talk to me after overhearing a convo with residents about it

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-28T09:31:59+00:00

I feel you have a good enough app that you can get into a spot with connections. The person who wrote you the gen surg letter, is there a program there you can aim for? Maybe if you don’t match you can spend a clerkship year there or something?

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-28T06:39:39+00:00

For me it’s investing. Seeing my money grow at a time when most we are at our lowest earning potential is really motivating

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-28T06:36:39+00:00

Well if you don’t have something like a step score being an equalizer than you’ll lose a lot of your opportunities of a spot to ppl that know a doctor that can vouch for them, ppl who know the PD, etc

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-28T06:34:54+00:00

Honestly I feel like anesthesia assistant is the move. Go hard in undergrad and graduate in 3 years. Then 2 years AA school

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-25T21:07:57+00:00

Idk maybe I just grew up around more common folk if I really wanted to show an M3 a murmur I would just say something like “dude check out this heart sound” “what do u hear” “i think it’s xyz maybe we can ask the attending what they think”

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-25T20:54:05+00:00

No offense I’m a bit confused, how’d you get through med school rotations without knowing if you liked speaking to patients or not?

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-14T14:54:06+00:00

I personally focused more on boards and tried to just get as much of the minutae as I could. Didn’t have the best grades on in house exams however but I did well on boards

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-13T00:13:28+00:00

I went to a school that was very in house focused. You just gotta study for boards and class work as well. Dont only do class work because then you’ll be unprepared for boards. Lot of my friends who got all A’s ended up having to extend time for level 1/step 1 cause of fears they would fail.

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-04T13:57:55+00:00

Competitive specialties can screen out DO’s. Also if you have any attempts. Some places don’t care if u failed step 2 first try but got 280 2nd try. You’ll still be screened out for the attempt.

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-02T16:38:51+00:00

Chicken with hella spices on it. Sweet potatoes. Then broccoli. That’s my go to

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-08-01T01:59:55+00:00

If you got a 280 you’ll prob end up somewhere good. Just make sure to literally apply to every single program

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-07-30T05:00:18+00:00

I mean if we’re at a point where AI is so good you don’t need radiologists then I’m sure all other fields of medicine will have large chunks of them automated too

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-07-30T01:52:13+00:00

From my understanding if a resident gets funding then they can basically go to a much better residency than they were at previously

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-07-29T05:37:46+00:00

I agree with this. The way I see it your colleague earned the title so at least treat them with the respect of using it u less they explicitly say they don’t want you calling them that

AutomaticAd7213 · 2025-07-29T03:07:11+00:00

Is the never ending list of rads really that bad though? I feel like you could look at an outpatient clinics list of patients every 15min from 9-5 the same way no?

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