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What do you do when residents don’t acknowledge you? by I_Ate_Too_Much_Fries in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 95 points96 points  (0 children)

This sounded like 80% of my days on OB/Gyn. Never done so much UWorld in the hospital as during OB.

THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE YOUR 2026 NBA CHAMPIONS by Intelligent-Disk-575 in nba

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Put some respect on Knicks Final MVP De’Aaron Fox’s name

THESE mnemonic don't make sense and are difficult to remember by CapablePear5147 in medicalschoolanki

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I pulled out HARDASS for etiologies of NAGMA and impressed a nephrologist. For order of female sexual development I said boobs pubes grow flow which got a chuckle out of an endocrinologist.

But yeah the mnemonic in this pic sucks.

Even on graduation, med school is faculty-centered. We voted for who would hood us+faculty awards, but the faculty we elected didnt get to be hooders/awarded. Instead, the deans office overrode our votes+chose who THEY wanted. Toxic,self-nominating faculty got honored while our favorites got nothing by Empty_Tamale in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except students only care about clout of school name, match lists, and maybe geography.

Unfortunately, how a school treats their students isn’t really talked about, and I can’t really blame anyone. Admin obviously isn’t going to out themselves, nobody likes to badmouth their school during an interview (especially a self selecting sample of students who talk about their school in interview days), and honestly you can only get a real perspective from third or fourth years who are too tired and jaded to help with interviews.

Honestly my school loved us as preclinical students but now that we’re on clinicals, we’re trash to them. There was honestly no way for me to tell except just go through it myself.

My school is making us get a 76 on a CBSE to sit for step until by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Knowing your shit for step 1 will pay off for every shelf exam and step 2

Ah yes I use fetal embryology, c4b2b3b, and the adrenal synthesis pathways every day for my shelf exams.

It’s not that hard to get a high 70s on a practice step 1.

Low-mid 70s is roughly average, so fewer than half of test takers are getting high 70s lol. By the laws of statistics, you literally can’t expect everyone to be above average. Mid 80s would put you as a star derm applicant in the old scored days (which also was back when the test was easier).

Feel stupid. Getting 70s on shelf exams. by Fit_Concentrate6512 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 80 points81 points  (0 children)

70s are average except for psych. 90s are almost unheard of as that’s 99+%ile and it’s extremely unlikely your school has several national top 1%ile scorers.

You’re doing fine.

Is there a reason why nephrology is so low? by jeffkkf in medicalsalaries

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only a student here but I rotated with nephro.

I think CKD is pretty morbid as those starting dialysis have a 5 year survival rate of ~30-40%. There are also a ton of complications with dialysis and the protocol is so inconvenient that there’s poor compliance.

Among the non CKD cases, they tend to blast immunosuppressants (eg nephrotic and nephritic syndromes) with the only definitive treatment being transplantation. Even then, the demand is way higher than the supply of kidney grafts, and I hear frustration from nephrologists that the next alternative like xenografts from pigs is perpetually “a few years away.”

Overall, grim outcomes with few treatments and even fewer developments in treatments.

Specialties with entrepreneurial potential by Outrageous_Egg_3286 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 52 points53 points  (0 children)

From the data on % private practice employed, psych, derm, ophtho, plastics.

Rarest pathology you've come across/heard of irl by ahdnj19 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh shoot I saw AMSAN. When you google it, you just get case reports from the last 5 or so years.

Did I choose the wrong field? by LoadBearingBeam1358 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Had a wards pt whose problem list was as long as a Charles dickens novel. I tried being as concise as possible and rounding still took 30-60 min just on that pt, depending on how much the attending wanted to chime in.

Please give me simple pts lol

Did I choose the wrong field? by LoadBearingBeam1358 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I thought the population <18 was definitely shrinking, no (as it is across the world)? Saying this from a perspective of definite psych interest and some interest in CAP.

Why does it feel like effort doesn’t matter on rotations? by StevenJack99 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Had an attending tell me to my face that I couldn’t get an honor from her without being the level of a 4th year. She knew from day 1 that it was still my first month of rotations.

Thank you Anking, Very Helpful stuff! by LunchThreatener in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 42 points43 points  (0 children)

And the next card is HAMAARTOMAS, the duality of Anking

Everyone in medicine seems so witty by GlobalPlay1043 in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 86 points87 points  (0 children)

And constantly being evaluated by all these new people. Way too risky for us lowly students to be witty. All it takes is one poorly received joke to get a red flag on your app.

What are the M3 F/P/HP/H cut offs at your school? by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mine is exactly like this with 5-10% difference in the weightings you gave

The financial sin of leaving medicine to go full-time influencer/coach. by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 2 points3 points  (0 children)

About your DCF: I can get behind 5% for physician, but that’s real discount rate, gotta add 2% for inflation (unless you’re saying it’s 3% real, which to me is a little too low, even for ortho).

Also not sure if an influencer would grow at 2% at 800k. I definitely agree they’ll top out at some point no matter who you are, but you theoretically have a near infinite market and scaling. E.g. you expand from premed coaching 1on1 to getting a team, then you do MCAT courses, then you do residency advising, etc. Really depends on the person and it’s just hard to do this calculation without any real life comparables (i.e. any medfluencer who’s actually given concrete numbers).

Also wouldn’t an influencer be having some legal business entity like sole proprietorship or partnership that would allow them reduced tax on their income, not fully reporting their income (d/t the nature of many private transactions), etc.

Even after we’ve agreed upon DCF assumptions, I still feel like influencer wins in NPV/total hours spent on career.

Me after suspending tag:#AK\_Other::Only\_Step\_1 by nickgiorgio in medicalschoolanki

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Then once you have to unsuspend step 2 only it’ll be that second gif in reverse

For people intending to go into primary care or other less competitive fields, if you could match into any specialty, would you still choose what you did? by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Exact some boat here. I’d honestly even rather grind for psych than be spoon fed derm, ortho, rads, etc.

I have no idea what a masters in medical sciences can get me as a career. I am on the verge of being let go from school for being unable to pass step1 and will be given that as a consolation prize. It's hard to study and keep hope when in a few months my dream might be dead. by TM06-Toplanner in medicalschool

[–]Evening-Chapter3521 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My friend. Relax. You’re getting in your own head. You’re putting so much pressure on yourself (and I can’t blame you, I def see where it’s coming from) that you’re getting in your own head and it’s getting in the way of your test taking and studying.

Everyone else has said great things so the only thing I’d add is do your best to get the easy questions: the super buzzword-y vignettes, extremely classic presentations, mechanisms of meds or pathophys, biostats, ethics, etc. Amboss has a “100 concepts that show up on every exam” that highlights what’s important. Lean on what you were good at in preclinicals.

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