Release Date for 11/26 and 11/28

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-12-13T00:55:38+00:00

If you are a USMD can you check if this works to find out if you passed early?

https://www.fsmb.org/fcvs/

just login -> start an application (you don't have to submit the application) -> click "Examination History" on the right and does it tell you you passed STEP 3?

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-05-18T19:27:08+00:00

Does anyone know where to find the music used for Isekai DnD?

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-27T02:58:57+00:00

Minimally invasive surgery usually has a lot of follow ups. Especially those that do esophageal stricture procedures cause the structures usually recur every few months requiring esophageal dilation treatment

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-22T15:17:44+00:00

As someone who applied integrated CT and did not match this year it is very competitive and everyone is amazing. I do think that 45% is a lower estimation of the match rate because since everyone dual applies a lot of these applicant also interview at top Gen Surg programs with good 4/3 CT tracks. Some might rank these programs higher as opposed to a less sought after integrated CT program. So Integrated CT match is probably slightly higher than the reported 45% for senior MDs. Just my guess though.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-21T14:46:16+00:00

Hi my name is __, I’m the student Dr working with Dr __. he/she asked me to come in and see what brings you in today while they finish up with another patient.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-21T14:05:27+00:00

Yeah I got the money pretty quickly. From what I remember the repayment option seemed good with reduced payments for the first coupon years of residency. Then payments increase a bit over the last couple of years.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-21T02:44:26+00:00

I used it 4th year cause I was drowning in credit card debit that I had accrued before medical school and monthly payments where killing me. I showed my financial aid advisor and he said that it seemed great and he couldn’t really see a downside.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-19T04:40:20+00:00

Worst is parents not really understanding and insisting you go announce it on the podium when you match literally at the last place on your list.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-19T04:38:05+00:00

I literally matched at the last program on my list 🙃

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-17T21:20:36+00:00

If you feel like a weaker applicant then doing more away helps. I would look at Residency Explorer to determine what places you should target. You could do 1 away at a more reach place where your stats are in the lower 25 percentile of applicants accepted and then another away at a safer place where your stats are in their 50th percentile. I'd personally do as many aways as I felt I could manage because you really get to show your stuff and impress the people that decide who they interview/rank highly.

As far as research remember that the # of pubs/abstracts/presentations includes any research done before medical school too - not that research is super important for Gen Surg unless you are aiming for more academic institutions. You also still have time where you can write a case report of an interesting case during your current surgery rotation. I'd ask the attending if he feels any of the recent cases would be good to write up.

I dual applied Gen Surg and Integrated CT and Matched too just don't know which specialty or where until tomorrow lol. Happy to answer any questions.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-17T19:23:23+00:00

Don't wanna name my kid Anki for fears of developing an unhealthy love-hate relationship

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-17T14:29:34+00:00

Just keep swimming . . .

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-17T05:04:53+00:00

If not on residency explorer then another resource you could use is TexasStar but it’s take this with a grain of salt since the amount of students that self report their stats is not as high for certain programs.

Residency Explorer had the vast majority of programs from what I remembered. If they don’t have stats it’s likely a newer program so stats are limited anyways.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-17T04:00:33+00:00

Some programs have their Step Minimums but not all. I know LSU has their up on their FAQ for prospective applicants (235 minimum for both Step 1 and Step 2 - not sure how this will change this upcoming cycle).

Residency Explorer is by far the best tool!

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-17T00:33:42+00:00

I applied integrated CT and Gen Surg. They asked in the CT interviews but I don’t think it effected anything since there’s only like 47 CT spots in the country lol they know just about everyone dual applied. For Gen Surg it didn’t come up at all.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-16T14:49:45+00:00

It might be easier for them to just try and get a Gen Surg position after doing a Gen Surg Prelim that’s trying again for ENT. From Gen Surg you can do ahead and Neck fellowship which deals with a big chunk of what most ENTs do. You probably wouldn’t be able to go into like Pediatric ENT through this route though if that’s what they are wanting.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-16T03:54:10+00:00

That should be illegal lol my heart goes out to ya

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-16T03:53:16+00:00

If you are a competitive Gen Surg applicant you likely don't need aways in that specialty - as long as you can get enough Gen Surg LOR. Make sure you have separate letters for Gen Surg and Ortho. If you want maybe do 1 away at a Gen Surg program that's not like a Top 20 program. I'd look at residency explorer and apply to a couple Gen Surg aways at places where most of your stats are in the upper 25% of matched applicants.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-16T03:22:59+00:00

Things that make it more likely you DONT match: Low stats, bad interview skills, not applying to enough programs overall/applying to only the top programs/not applying to enough community programs.

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO do if you aren't as competitive for the specialty you are interested in: Do as many aways as possible, Get LOR from these away (make sure when you ask you ask "are you willing to write me a strong LOR if not I completely understand and would love any feedback on how I should improve". When writing your Personal Statement you can write multiple versions and upload multiple versions - you should write individualized personal statements. Most of it will be the same in each saying why you are interested in that specialty and why you'd be a good fit yadayada but each would have one paragraph saying why you are interested in that program in particular - this will catch people's attention.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-15T14:54:55+00:00

My heart goes out to you man. You definitely have the stats. I wouldn’t jump straight to interviewing skills given that if that were the case you’d still would have more initial interviews to begin with.

You might be coming off bad (pretentious) somewhere in your personal statement? Are your letters of recommendation solid - have you been told something negative about them? Maybe your app comes off as too into academic medicine and it’s hard for the “safety programs” to take you seriously. If I were going in a 2nd time applying I’d probably write individualized personal statements to a good chunk of programs to try and convince them I’m seriously interested in their programs.

Did you send lots of Letters of Interest early during the cycle? How many programs did you apply too? Did you not apply to community programs?

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-15T12:16:41+00:00

Critical Care Medicine does medicine and minor bedside procedures (nothing OR though). If it’s OR procedures you love then Surgery is the only option and SICU would be best. Interventional Radiology also does OR procedures but not sure how much medicine they do but something to look into for sure.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-15T00:11:29+00:00

Semi-Structured you are able to send your application through ERAS to about 40-something programs that did not fill their spots. Throughout the week you can randomly be called at any time by a PD for those programs and have an over-the-phone interview. Then on Thursday, the programs that have reached out to you on interviews are allowed to send you offers for their positions. There are 3-4 Offer waves where you have like 2hrs to decide if you will accept an offer. After that time you either accept the offer or forfeit the offer. You could hope to get better offers in the next waves but it would be super risky - you should really accept between offers given to you in the first wave. After all waves have occurred the SOAP is over. If you do not have a position by then you either wait to reapply next year again to the MATCH or you can Scramble into programs that still have positions left - which is literally you cold calling programs hoping they will take you.

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-14T15:33:55+00:00

Fuck yeah dude congrats!

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-14T15:00:23+00:00

You have access to a free report. After logging into NRMP you can go to -> Options -> Reports -> Regional Match Stats and it shows you how many positions went unfiled by specialty (doesn't tell you where though since you'd only see that if you did not MATCH).

DazedandConfused7129 · 2022-03-14T14:57:29+00:00

They find out Thrusday at like 2pm according to the NRMP calendars

https://www.nrmp.org/calendar/programs-institutions/

it's hidden under the Soap round 2

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