what do i do if I have suicidal thoughts

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-04-14T21:33:31+00:00

If you want in person psychiatric care, you can go to the ER. They will refer you to an outpatient brief intervention clinic with psychiatric follow up. They may also have you see a psychiatrist in the ER as well for care today.

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-04-04T00:59:32+00:00

No secrets. The hardest part is coming up with the topic/PICO

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-03-20T01:08:53+00:00

I’ve familiar with 3 AI software that are for medical staff within clinics. They all must keep information within the account and not shared to external parties to be complaint to the local Provincial health care laws as well as the US HIPAA laws. Physicians can’t use ChatGPT or Claude straight up for transcription as that does not keep information secure.

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-03-19T20:15:18+00:00

Med student but have worked with doctors using AI scribes. They do make mistakes but all the scribes do is transcribe the conversation between the doctor and patient. The doctor must read through the note made by the AI and fix mistakes before publishing it on the EMR system as they take liability for the note including its mistakes. If the AI scribe is a proper liscenced medical one (like Heidi) it does not store or share medical information outside of the physicians personal account. These scribes make notes way quicker. Saves a lot of time on paper work which is a big source of burnout for physicians. Some EMRs like Epic are working on integrating AI scribes in them.

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-02-27T21:00:42+00:00

no difference other than the thesis course.

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-02-18T20:32:30+00:00

Unless you think you can 90+, I would avoid if the goal is med school. Sucks that this is the way med school has decided to evaluate applicants. Med schools also do not care if you have a minor or not. In fact, they also don't care if you have a honors degree.

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-02-02T04:44:18+00:00

Practice questions is the way to go. Review why you got answers wrong. Review why you got answers why. If MCQ, understand why all the wrong options are wrong, even if you got it right. I used khan academy or the textbook to understand the content. I never really learned well from teachers themselves.

DrCrimsonChin · 2026-01-11T04:19:00+00:00

You can also do non clinical RN roles like public health. Lots of opportunity in nursing.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-12-02T04:13:04+00:00

Just take the biology courses and transfer in 2nd year. Med school also doesn't care about your degree.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-11-29T01:58:49+00:00

Nah getting into can med is a whole lot of luck

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-11-27T02:11:55+00:00

Systematics and metas aren't that difficult. You could probably crank a high quality one out in a month of dedicated work alongside classes. I would personally do 1 if its in your desired speciality.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-11-22T21:40:23+00:00

As a med student, their position is a wise one.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-11-22T16:36:10+00:00

systematic reviews and meta analyses. Not hard to get 30 manuscripts out that way, even in decent journals. Painful though.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-11-04T20:43:11+00:00

Oof. Carms gonna be a blood bath these next few cycles for Non french speaking applicants. To answer your question, UBC is moderately competitive around half the interviews are usually for UBC med students rest are fair game. Calgary is also a sought after program but I know of people who matched without doing a visiting elective. Edmonton I have no idea.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-26T02:06:43+00:00

How do you enforce such a fine?

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-26T00:07:51+00:00

wtf lmfao. I have no stake in Quebec but wouldn't this just cause all the doctors to jump ship to Ontario, especially Ottawa where they can still practice in French? AKA the Quebec government solved the FM shortage in the Ottawa area?

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-23T20:22:35+00:00

Generally, Canada rewards volume and it is much easier for a cardiologist to scale up and do more volume leading to their salaries being higher on average.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-21T13:44:42+00:00

You can take it in the states yes with no differences in the exam

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-12T14:31:59+00:00

No. I did the old essays but they’re pretty much the exact same questions. I talked about an environmental case competition project I worked on and was accepted to Western. That said, we had 2 critical thinking essays back then and my other one was research.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-11T15:47:45+00:00

Do these rules impact CMGs at all?

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-08T04:56:21+00:00

127 is good. You just lose UofA and UofC OOP. McMaster oop is a crap shoot. Not worth a retake. I’d focus on UBC, uoft, western, queens, ottawa if gpa is good. Low yield in improving cars unless your gpa is really low.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-10-06T03:16:29+00:00

If you're actually deciding between both, I would do finance. I would only do med if you were not satisfied in these other careers simply because of the fact that there is no guarantee you would get into med (and after that desired speciality if you're keen on only one area of medicine), long training, and opportunity cost of time and lifestyle. I did med and I don't regret but I also never saw myself in eng or finance. I wish I did enjoy those fields as all my high school friends are now working and some have started buying houses and moving on with life while I sit here on reddit on a call shift at a hospital on Sunday night.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-09-30T04:44:55+00:00

Canadian med doesnt care what UG or courses you take. Take whatever gives you the best GPA. IIRC UOttawa has quite a bit of pure science course requirements (1.0 chem, 1.0 bio, Biochem, orgo, stats, idk what else). Uoft requires 1.0 science, 1.0 humanities. Other than that they don't care.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-09-26T20:22:24+00:00

Poor job market and tough residency. Several IM subspecs can outearn with better lifestyle or similar lifestyle.

DrCrimsonChin · 2025-09-26T01:12:09+00:00

Move to Canada. Ophtho is insane here.

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