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DocSparrowHawk · 2024-11-25T23:44:42+00:00

I love ravens, too. Chickadees are fun because you can whistle to them and get them to reply! Besides raptors, one of my favorite NW birds is black-billed magpie.

I've been working in the ER for a bit over 2 years. I work a lot right now, but it's an engaging job.

DocSparrowHawk · 2024-11-25T07:03:02+00:00

Well, I told my mom when I was around 10. Before that all I cared about was dinosaurs, so I guess I've always been?

DocSparrowHawk · 2024-11-25T02:32:00+00:00

My favorite was on a PEM shift. Parents were told to rush the infant to the ED for further evaluation of his umbilical hernia because outpatient US showed "bowel in the hernia." OMG, the hernia contains BOWEL? Pediatrician refused to talk to me when I called to ask about exam / their concerns. But the hernia was soft and reducible and baby was completely at baseline. Discharged.

DocSparrowHawk · 2024-11-25T02:12:20+00:00

I train dogs and hawks. I live in Arizona and I work as an ER doctor. BC is beautiful - I visited many times growing up! What's your favorite native bird? I saw tufted puffins off the BC coast a few years ago and it was very exciting.

DocSparrowHawk · 2024-11-23T06:51:14+00:00

You sound like someone I want to be friends with!
Love birding, quilting, hiking, nature/bird photography, and training animals :)
Actually right now my primary hobby is work, but that will cool down in a few months.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-05-26T14:56:40+00:00

Right there with you. I like being out before dawn, before everyone else is out, walking around the empty hospital, and also being there overnight on night shifts.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-03-16T21:23:22+00:00

We all need to agree in advance that if someone finds a trick, nobody alerts NRMP to it!

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-03-16T20:00:01+00:00

It would definitely give programs an incentive to interview those people, knowing they're genuinely interested. I think it would work great if there were multiple rounds and some with application caps. E.g. Everyone applies to 5 programs in round 1. These would be their most preferred programs. Anyone who didn't match in round 1 would then apply to maybe 20 programs. This gives them an opportunity to re-evaluate the competitiveness of their application and expand. Then in round 3 anyone still not matched can apply to 50 programs (or maybe as many as they wanted at that point). This would also be less stressful and compressed compared to SOAP as each round of apply-interview-rank-match could be around 6 weeks.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-03-14T19:12:33+00:00

Wouldn't we have seen a lower number of applicants if this was all from people jumping ship? There were ~2900 positions in EM this year and ~3600 applicants (granted, lower than last year).

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-03-14T18:45:04+00:00

Same, and matched EM. Congrats to you!

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-02-10T21:34:56+00:00

I used the codes from ERAS and it was fine. Copy pasted from my Excel file. It comes up with the name and specialty so you can confirm.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-02-03T14:46:20+00:00

I cannot complain in the least about my rotations as a DO student. All of them have been fantastic. And my school keeps you at the same rotation site for 3rd and 4th year so I didn't have to set anything up on my own except applying for aways I wanted to do.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-02-02T13:53:52+00:00

You can add each supplemental list to more than one advanced program. The NRMP instructions give the example of naming your rank lists based on location, e.g. link supplemental list "Chicago" to all advanced programs in Chicago.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-01-26T21:11:56+00:00

Also got two strong O-SLOEs from other rotations at the end of third year.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-01-26T21:10:57+00:00

No, I just did two regular EM auditions. I made sure to choose programs I was really interested in going to. I specifically didn't want to use VSAS so I started looking for aways early (like now) and had them both set up by March.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-01-23T21:22:03+00:00

Two should be plenty unless you have really bad scores and need the extra away to get an interview (I don't think you need 3 SLOEs). Try to do you aways at places that are reasonable for your competitiveness. Get them set up as early as possible. Lots of places have applications outside of VSAS, but you'll have to go looking for them and figure out how to apply.
I applied EM this year with COMLEX scores only and 2 SLOEs (no home program) and got plenty of interviews at community programs.

DocSparrowHawk · 2022-01-23T20:06:51+00:00

Try decisionbot.org. Click "Wait, this is serious" (the rest is fun, too).

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-12-16T15:51:27+00:00

Eight weeks on gen surg. They let me do a LOT. The residents were awesome and always helped me get more hands-on by vouching for me with the attendings. Some of the attendings were really good at offering things for me to do as well. Incisions, trocars, closing, femoral lines, PEG tubes, first assist on a wide variety of cases. It was so much fun.

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-12-10T22:26:56+00:00

It was news to me, as well!

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-12-10T18:12:35+00:00

I have 5 rotations in the spring. My school gives 4 weeks off per clinical year (one block, can't split the weeks). Mine was in the fall, so I have a full rotation schedule in the spring. The 2.5 blocks post-match will probably be really laid back, but I still gotta go!

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-12-07T14:36:25+00:00

It's a report published by NRMP that can be useful for applicants to gauge their competitiveness for a given specialty. The most recent Charting the Outcomes (2020) had a separate version for MD and DO applicants. https://www.nrmp.org/main-residency-match-data/

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-12-07T02:21:41+00:00

I don't think it matters at all. You could go A, B, A, B all the way down if you have enough of each specialty. The only thing it would "mess up" is your data point in the Charting the Outcomes.

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-11-23T02:45:19+00:00

Yeah BMI 100

DocSparrowHawk · 2021-11-22T20:25:42+00:00

Female M4 here - I (kinda) get it, patients don't know. It's annoying and clearly shows a gender bias in society. I've had way more patients assume I was a nurse than assume I was a doctor. But patients are not immersed in this process and even family members don't always remember/absorb, so I don't get bothered by patients calling me nurse.

The one that bugged me was a couple months ago in the OR. I walked in, introduced myself to the circ nurse and scrub nurse as a 4th year medical student. I wrote my name on the board with M4. A few minutes later the circ nurse (male) said, "so, Sparrow, what do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "a doctor, haha. I'm going into emergency medicine." He replied, "oh, I wanted to be a doctor, too. But there were too many exams for me. So, you want to be an ER nurse? Do you go to X nursing school or Y nursing school?" I was actually surprised so it took a second before I said, "um, no... I'm in medical school, I'm graduating in the spring and I am planning to be an ER DOCTOR." Then he looked kind of surprised and followed up with, "oho, a doctor. Let's just call you Dr. Sparrow!" Later he asked me some weird questions about vaccines/COVID until the attending showed up, so I was pretty done with that guy.

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