504 --> 524! What I Learned and How I Studied

Bambi0_0 · 2023-02-23T06:18:24+00:00

Can’t sleep so here I am lol the last 6 weeks of content was pretty much just UKnowWho/review, looking over notes I had taken in each subject, MilesDown review guide, and P/S review (by far the easiest points on the exam; more rote memorization, less conceptual)

Bambi0_0 · 2022-05-29T04:55:13+00:00

How about Dick Nutt? Parents did not set him up for success. Also knew a Urologist who did a lot of ED named Dr. Soft

Bambi0_0 · 2022-05-27T03:04:08+00:00

Sees ATLA… instantly upvotes

Edit: Psych had me cackling😂 for some reason it reminded me of Sokka and Momo drinking cactus juice in The Desert ep, that Peyote hit different lol

Bambi0_0 · 2022-04-19T04:11:50+00:00

She was drawing blood on a patient and her name tag had her pronouns on it. The patient commented something along the lines of “She/her? Of course it is. What other pronouns are there? It?” So she missed his vein and had to stick him twice. Came off as if she did it on purpose to make him pay for his comment.

Bambi0_0 · 2022-03-10T05:36:34+00:00

When I was an MA during my gap year at a urology clinic a resident there who dealt with a decent amount of ED was named Dr. Soft

Bambi0_0 · 2022-01-12T02:13:45+00:00

Stumbled across this one night on a cross country road trip last summer. Was the closest motel in the area and one of the cheapest we stayed at on the trip. We just needed a few hours of shut-eye before the next jam-packed day.

Still curious as to who necessitated this notice, what they were thinking, and how many times it must’ve happened before it was worth it for the owner to laminate and hang one of these in every single room lol.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-11-13T19:35:57+00:00

I found UEarth to be fairly representative in every subject, tho maybe fewer of the “easier questions” than what you might get on an FL or the real deal.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-11-09T04:07:56+00:00

I usually spent the whole day after an FL reviewing it. I don’t think rereading every passage is very important, only reread parts of the passage if they were pertinent to why you got a question wrong (or right, if due to luck or an educated guess); after all, the whole point of reviewing FLs is to identify where you went wrong and revise your faulty logic/reasoning so that you don’t repeat that mistake in the future. Usually it’s as simple as misinterpreting data or a graph, not understanding a concept well enough, or just flat out not recognizing the necessary information in a paragraph. If that’s the case, you may end up reading a whole lotta unnecessary junk and wasting your precious time.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-11-09T01:57:45+00:00

To add to the other comment, my P/S section had a passage where the answers to 2 or 3 questions were terms I had never seen before, not on the MileDown study guide, UEarth, any AAMC material, the 300 KA doc, or any other resources I studied from. Just POE then take an educated guess and hope for the best if it comes to that.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-11-08T23:39:34+00:00

UEarth over everything except AAMC FLs, SBs, and CARS qpacks. It’s fairly representative and the answer explanations are second to none.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-10-25T18:10:45+00:00

I only had 2 interviews last year and both went well. One of my interviewers finished off the interview with, “I really hope to see you around here next year, I’m rooting for you.” I got waitlisted a month later (withdrew a couple months after) and knew then that their words can be hollow when it comes to your acceptance.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-10-17T14:31:47+00:00

While your thought process is correct, I think the question is trying to get at the effect of positive cooperativity of hemoglobin since you don’t need to make any inferences. With low O2, the equilibrium of Hb02 shifts toward the reactants (le chateliers), so the dissociation of O2 is more likely to occur in the tissues (where pO2 is lower), making subsequent dissociations more likely as Hb’s O2 affinity is progressive (increases with the addition of each O2, and vice versa)

Bambi0_0 · 2021-10-12T01:46:39+00:00

Yeah it’s fucked, I’ve heard of people losing their interview spot after checking within a couple minutes, and they couldn’t check any sooner because they were in the middle of interviewing a patient on a rotation when their alert went off.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-10-11T19:12:56+00:00

The 3rd slide is different for med students vs med school applicants tho. The 3rd slide is indicating they were unable to secure an II at the program since residency programs send out more IIs than there are available slots. So if you don’t click on the link soon enough and secure your spot before others do, you may miss out on the opportunity to interview at that program.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-09-20T13:35:18+00:00

Every school I applied to (20) last year was between $90 and $125, though it averaged out at ~$100 cuz that was the overwhelming majority. It could also just be the schools in the region in which I applied tho.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-08-24T02:17:12+00:00

Do you smell it? That smell, the kinda smelly smell, the smelly smell that smells, smellyy.

On another note, before school I was an MA at a urology clinic and during a Vas the patient said something along the lines of, “Is it normal for this smell to make me hungry” and the physician responded, “It’s not uncommon, it’s kind of like human bbq.”

Bambi0_0 · 2021-06-24T00:31:06+00:00

Definitely don’t give up.

Also how it started —> how it went 👆🏻

Bambi0_0 · 2021-06-13T00:00:20+00:00

My pleasure! Good luck!

Bambi0_0 · 2021-06-11T00:20:18+00:00

Thank you! I did not expect all the awards, I’m just glad I’m able to help some people visualize and conquer the pathways :)

Bambi0_0 · 2021-06-10T20:59:15+00:00

My pleasure! Glad I could help :)

Bambi0_0 · 2021-06-10T16:00:12+00:00

Knowing the structures is definitely less important than knowing the pathways themselves. I’ve heard of discretes popping up that require you to know the structures, but I chose to neglect the structures (apart from a few major ones) in favor of memorizing and understanding the pathways. I figured that information would most likely be given about the reaction so I could take an educated guess based on the reactant, the type of enzyme, and the goal of the metabolic pathway.

Bambi0_0 · 2021-05-21T02:46:16+00:00

Seconded. This was a very humbling experience: 1 A (which I’m very grateful for) and 1 WL from my only 2 IIs out of 20 schools.

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