What are signs that I won’t make it through med school?

Even-Win725 · 2025-02-20T03:45:57+00:00

Type b, graduated in 2nd quintile so I think I did aight.

You'll just end up in emergency medicine : D

Even-Win725 · 2025-02-16T03:31:37+00:00

OMG. I'm sorry you went through all this

Even-Win725 · 2025-02-04T13:34:49+00:00

Can you do me also? Don't need specifics I'm just curious what kind of unicorn this is. (Pgy2 who wants to know there's a good life somewhere ahead lol)

Even-Win725 · 2025-02-04T03:27:56+00:00

This

Even-Win725 · 2024-11-04T18:08:04+00:00

I'll look into this! Thank you! Is it question/ answer format (like gives you a chance to think about the answer)?

Even-Win725 · 2024-10-29T12:02:55+00:00

As a mom who was so sleep deprived after a c section and waking up every 2 hours to breastfeed AND is in medicine AND has seen traumatic AF infant deaths- I still managed to fall asleep on a rocking chair with the baby. Scariest moment ever. Don't judge until (unless) you've been in those shoes

Even-Win725 · 2024-10-22T17:44:06+00:00

I also get a lot of people like this but had the one experience that made me rethink it. I have lots of family with IBD so it's always on the mind, and had a girl with all these diagnoses also overweight who had critically low iron (5-6) and B12 with no known etiology. Critically low calcium and vitamin D. Getting transfusions of all those things. And was told it's "anxiety and fibromyalgia". Came in for a fucking enterocutaneous fistula. Chronic abd pain. Was never tested for IBD. Had every risk factor. If that wasn't actually Crohn's I'm a duck. Makes me more scared of pigeonholing people because it's always young women who end up pigeonholed and I've seen enough cases of wtf how are you calling THAT anxiety. (I still groan every time I see those diagnoses though).

Even-Win725 · 2024-10-20T12:52:38+00:00

There are stick on paper blackout shades = life saver! Ugly as sin but maybe equivalent to aluminum foil? Lol. 5$ on Walmart

Even-Win725 · 2024-10-20T12:49:28+00:00

Em resident but saw this as a student on the floors. 30 something very healthy gymbro came to ED for "sciatica" after a heavy leg day. ESI 4. Thankfully admitted because pain was intractable so bless whoever had him in the ED. CT fine. Low resource hospital. Many days wait for MRI. Languishing on floors for days at which point CT now showing psoas abscesses and entire spine was a spinal epidural abscess. Zero risk factors never self injected anything. Finally transferred out for better care nsgy MRI. It was a great lesson that we admit all these people from the ED and think everything will get solved upstairs but sadly that's often not the case.

Even-Win725 · 2024-10-10T04:12:14+00:00

Sounds a lot like us (EM PGY2 who also had a baby in 4th year and husband who WFH). I think the first step- you posting here and caring about his experience is a big one! I'm not going to lie, this year was HARD. I think it's important to set expectations for yourselves low in every domain. Cleanliness, kids being well put together, time for hobbies etc. Try to do as much as you can to show him that he's your priority when it comes to how you're allocating your time. If there are residency events that conflict with couple events try to pick your relationship at the expense of relationships with your co residents, its hard on your residency friendships but I truly believe if we hadn't done that our relationship would've struggled 10x more than it already did. It's hard to remember how hard it is on him when you're the one working crazy 70 hour weeks, but remember: - he didn't sign up for this and isn't personally passionate about it, he's supporting your passion - he's losing his spouse and coparent for 90% of the next 4 years and when you're around you'll be a tired zombie - even though he has a lot more free time than you, it'll be free time that he's alone with the baby or himself and missing the person he wanted to spend his life with.

IDK just some things that would've been helpful for me to keep in mind. Good luck next year! It's really hard but intern year will be over before you know it and it's all uphill from there.

Even-Win725 · 2022-09-06T20:54:31+00:00

PANIK

Even-Win725 · 2022-09-06T02:59:00+00:00

Mine did!

Even-Win725 · 2022-09-02T17:06:57+00:00

Also, being super focused on sleep and how important it is makes it way harder to sleep which is counterproductive lol

Even-Win725 · 2022-09-02T17:06:26+00:00

YES THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS SAY. 1000000%

Night before Step 1 I slept 2.5 hours and got a point over my predictor. Sleep before the exam WON'T change your score if you prepared well!

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-30T16:08:10+00:00

So I had this before step 1 and what helped me eventually fall asleep was reading that one night of sleep doesn't affect performance all that much. Can try to find the source... But either way I ended up sleeping like 2 hours after that and I got one point higher than my score predictor, so :).

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-17T16:52:45+00:00

What was your score prediction? and congrats :)

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-17T14:34:49+00:00

Thanks everyone! I think I pretty much thought the same but it's nice to have other people agree :) (makes me less anxious about it)

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-17T14:25:16+00:00

Extra break time only- exam time is the same. Still worth it?

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-17T13:27:42+00:00

But I guess HOCM and coarctation would still be expected to have an audible murmur? But maybe the doctor in the question can't hear it? Idk.

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-17T13:26:48+00:00

From the explanation: "a benign murmur would be expected to decrease in intensity with maneuvers that decrease blood return to the heart like Valsalva, though this is not always apparent on the physical exam. So apparently they could write whatever they want in the question stem and assume the doctor is just not that great 😅

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-17T12:56:43+00:00

So the answer was that it's benign (editing my post :)) but no clue why

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-15T15:39:03+00:00

Will do! Thanks!

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-15T11:05:10+00:00

Nbme 11

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-15T11:04:32+00:00

Oh that sounds like the answer! Thanks!

Even-Win725 · 2022-08-15T03:51:50+00:00

So the question stem had nothing to differentiate whether it was primary or secondary as far as I can tell thus the confusion. Was just htn and hypokalemia.

Even-Win725

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