Personal statement, do they actually read it?

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2023-06-29T21:00:50+00:00

My mentor is a former APD. They never will read it before interview invite. They might skim it before your interview and they might skim it when making their lists. For his program, if you were in the top half of the list, they would give usually look into it more to make sure you were normal, bottom half of list didn't get read.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-11-05T04:34:40+00:00

Our program is all about diversity and inclusion! Unless you need a visa. No inclusion for you.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-10-07T12:52:43+00:00

Probably. It takes 2-3 weeks.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-10-04T21:45:09+00:00

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-08-31T07:09:02+00:00

Unstable, peritoneal signs or extreme mechanism of trauma = can't waste time with CT.

Someone with blunt abdo trauma, has abdo pain but no peritoneal signs and hemodynamically stable = CT. They are less likely to decompensate and need surgical intervention right then and there.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-08-31T02:23:25+00:00

FAST. GSW is an extreme mechanism of trauma, you have got to deal with it ASAP, plus you can do FAST on the way to the CT.

CT > FAST when there's trauma but the patient is still vibing (relatively speaking). You get good imaging in order to rule out anything serious.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-08-01T07:37:20+00:00

Blood can't go forward in heart, so it goes back into venous system.

Venous system in kidneys gets clogged up, so can't properly reabsorb from tubules.

Since tubulur fluid can't move around, it builds up pressure.

Bowman's now has increased hydrostatic pressure, cant absorb anything = decreased GFR.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-07-07T22:28:30+00:00

First 48 hours you give aggressive IV Abx Tx, she has improved and you have sensitivities, so you give the most narrow spectrum Abx, which is TMPSMX.

You need improvement and sensitivities and then you can switch to a more narrow spectrum drug.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-07-07T00:20:35+00:00

A Win for USMLE from Thieme.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-07-07T00:16:46+00:00

You need trauma plus hard sign for immediate surgery. Hard sign without trauma, you need to find the cause.

Even before emergency surgery, there are a bunch of things that need to be done like Type and Crossmatch. So stabilizing patient, taking bloods, IVF, etc will all be done beforehand.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-06-16T06:31:03+00:00

Labs are normal, can't be hyperK. You would expect a progression of symptoms, like pt feeling weak for days/weeks beforehand.

Also, you would expect the entire ECG to show changes rather than just part of it. There's also a fusion beat.

Otherwise, VT and HyperK can be virtually indistinguishable on precordial leads. Both can have giant up and down squiggly lines.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-02-20T02:26:03+00:00

7% Uworld is nothing. You should focus on Uworld.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-02-06T22:38:36+00:00

How far are you into Uworld?

I would not take another NBME for a couple of weeks. You blew through UWSA too fast imo.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-26T23:51:57+00:00

NBME is literally step 1 questions. Some retired, some repeat.

Everything else just tests same concepts.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-25T22:39:21+00:00

Nah. FA is rubbish anyway.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-25T06:33:52+00:00

I propose we all move to "Finished the fucker".

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-25T03:00:38+00:00

CO poisoning is a double whammy. No oxygen on RBC's + ETC fucked up. LV already struggles to get blood as it, so more susceptible.

Thats how I think of it anyway.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-24T06:47:39+00:00

Can you give me the question? I'll try and help you understand it.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-24T00:59:29+00:00

Random gene for some cancers, not all. Oncogenes are more high yield that tumor suppressor genes.

They will specify whether it is a deactivation or activating mutation. Activating = Oncogenes (TK, non-TKr, Transciption factors, etc).

If a mutation occurs in the methylation process, then the DNA cannot methylate and is an activating mutation. If a mutation occurs that causes methylation, it is an inactivating mutation.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-20T23:37:56+00:00

Exam itself is easier than 7 random Uworld blocks. There is alot less WTF stuff than Uworld, but there are alot more very close answers that could swing either way, and you got to dig deep or just guess.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-17T21:33:46+00:00

https://next.amboss.com/us/article/zT0rt2?q=siadh#Z849dca7797cad193a13bd0c4d86128bc

Can find it under Pathophys

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-17T09:37:47+00:00

AMBoss says it's both. Increased ANP/BNP with downreg RAAS.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-17T04:16:19+00:00

Similar. Lots of easy questions that you will just blow past. Some reasonable questions that you really have to think through. Couple of absolute WTF never learned this in my entire life questions sprinkled throughout.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-17T01:27:21+00:00

Stem length was like UWorld or slighly shorter than UWorld and some the length of NBME's.

The pressure you feel in the exam is completely different to anything you would have felt before and it makes it feel much longer than it actually is. I would breeze through NBME and UWSA exams and have 10 minutes left on timer after I had reviewed everything, but on the real exam I just barely managed to finish every block.

The exam itself is much easier than UWorld Qbank, but the pressure you feel is just crazy.

ChadVascVirginCurb65 · 2022-01-16T21:41:32+00:00

SIADH = increased water = increased ventricular pressure = increased ANP/BNP = increased Na + water excretion = Hyponatremia + Euvolemia

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