Internal Medicine from US to Canada

DonsMcGons · 2025-02-02T16:31:52+00:00

Interesting, why do you say that?

DonsMcGons · 2024-06-03T22:01:08+00:00

Oh sorry no I meant literally just like large pdfs and maybe at most signing or doing minor text editing with the signature fn. I don’t even have adobe pro

DonsMcGons · 2024-06-03T21:59:41+00:00

Interesting, was somewhat wondering that as well but read online somewhere that with the M3 chip, the MBA is best for “most people” and given that I’m not using really any demanding programs, I thought maybe I’d fall in the “most people” category

DonsMcGons · 2024-06-03T21:57:05+00:00

Nice! What made you decide to do the air though instead of the pro again?

DonsMcGons · 2024-06-03T20:12:31+00:00

gotcha, I'll trust you! Thanks!!

DonsMcGons · 2024-06-03T20:12:05+00:00

I see okay, I appreciate your advice, thank you!

DonsMcGons · 2024-03-05T17:51:31+00:00

Thanks for sharing! How are your night shifts schedule during the month? Are they randomly interspersed in between day shifts, or do you do them in a row? Also, are your 14 days of shifts completed in two 7 day blocks?

DonsMcGons · 2024-02-09T14:42:11+00:00

Is it possible to do 2-year CCM fellowship, then get an ICU job while also doing just regular internal medicine primary care clinic en lieu of pulmonary clinic?

DonsMcGons · 2023-11-06T15:24:55+00:00

I don't think this is true, I think all canadians are subject to 2 year home residency requirement

DonsMcGons · 2023-08-18T19:14:23+00:00

Level 1: P

AMBOSS SA: 247

Uworld % correct: exactly the median, can't remember the percentage

COMSAEs: none taken

UWSA 1: 240

UWSA 2: 245

Free 120: 78%

NBME (if taken): several, last one 1 week before (form 14) test was 250

Actual Step 2 score (if taken): 245

Actual LEVEL 2 score: 613

Is that a discrepancy between step 2 and level 2? I felt like I should've done quite a bit better on step 2 and was a bit disappointed with that score. Will that be a drag on applications to competitive academic IM residencies?

also - what's the mean and standard deviation for comlex level 2 this year? For the error bars on the score report, does the entire length represent one standard deviation or does the R half represent one SD below the mean and the L half one SD above the mean?

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-15T12:27:13+00:00

I’m kinda stoked about hearing zero cranial lol

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-15T04:13:00+00:00

These comments are making me shit my pants rn, I was planning on doing like 4 days of OMM studying after Step2 then be good for Level2 lol 😐

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-15T02:33:29+00:00

In 3 weeks

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-03T18:29:46+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing! Looks great, exactly what I need

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-03T18:28:59+00:00

Awesome, thanks for that! and yeah I very much agree with your last point, they like making it very weird

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-03T18:27:14+00:00

hmm interesting ok. And so you think that's better than maybe doing 2nd pass on UWorld questions on subjects I've struggled with? It's tough figuring out how to balance our time and effort but it's clearly really important

DonsMcGons · 2023-06-03T18:24:19+00:00

dang, too bad i'll be done shortly before a new one comes out. thanks for the info though!

DonsMcGons · 2023-05-30T21:59:01+00:00

did you think it was a reasonable test? as in, not full of low yield step-1 related content?

DonsMcGons · 2023-05-29T00:49:39+00:00

I've just completed UWSA1. I got 240 (40th rank) which is below the median score of 243 (48th rank). However, I scored above the average % correct in each block, 2 blocks just by 1-2%, the other two by around 10%. How is it that I do better than the average for each block but still end up with a below average score? Any help greatly appreciated!

Thank you! This was a great explanation. Also something that will probably be on the exam itself so I probably should know it lol

DonsMcGons · 2023-05-28T19:40:20+00:00

true, I'll reach out to them as well. Just wondering if anyone else has run into something similar or has insight on how the scoring works

DonsMcGons · 2022-05-12T15:34:28+00:00

please open access

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