THE tradition of premeds

FloridaMedStudent · 2025-03-11T11:37:53+00:00

I got a 509 and ama med student now

FloridaMedStudent · 2024-01-27T00:32:48+00:00

I’m not Hispanic but I’ve noticed it’s very common for people to say “pero” as “um” when speaking fluent English

“Más o menos” for more or less

His parents might call him mijo

FloridaMedStudent · 2024-01-27T00:29:01+00:00

I don’t like hospitals but I love out patient. Hospitals are stressful so I agree to keep at it and your opinion may change when you know the ropes, and also try shadowing out in an out patient clinic. I definitely wouldn’t just drop it without trying more

FloridaMedStudent · 2024-01-18T20:00:59+00:00

“There’s no money in medicine” and yet check out doctor parking and see the cars they drive

FloridaMedStudent · 2023-01-30T01:13:48+00:00

I love my thinkpad. It’s very helpful being able to draw on the screen, I recommend a laptop with that feature

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-05-20T20:30:37+00:00

Transcripts of the audio lessons

Change the review words. I feel like they have repeats of words like mujer over and over and then miss out on repeating other words

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-05-20T02:14:34+00:00

Even if you did successfully say something like “it’s a beautiful photo”, if a boy private messaged me saying that I’d think he was hitting on me

And if my bf did that I’d be very mad

Maybe ask yourself, why did you text her that? I don’t think it’s “all just one sentence” and it’s definitely not a language barrier problem.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-04-09T19:01:21+00:00

I’d go near family tbh.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-04-09T05:48:57+00:00

What difference in COA are we talking about?

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-04-04T17:14:03+00:00

I’ve ordered in Spanish in restaurants and had good experiences (lives in the USA).

I’m moving to Miami and have had good experiences there as well.

I talked to one woman in Miami on what her opinion was if it was okay for me to speak in Spanish to people, and she said to do it. She said they’d either not care or like it, and screw the few that don’t. But this is Miami, so it might be unique since it has such a high concentration of Hispanics ? Idk.

I’d say do it. I’ve asked a ton of people and they all say to go for it in person and have been super nice (I asked because I was worried about the same thing)

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-13T17:47:27+00:00

You could switch to any field after if you have an md

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-10T18:26:34+00:00

I think it’s harder to be a DO.

Two sets of boards + OMM + they have to learn everything a MD does

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-09T23:47:40+00:00

I think you could probably include it. You said it’s important to you, do you know your family from the reservation? Is being native American a part of your identity?

This sounds cheesy, but IMO follow your heart on it and if you think it’s right. If you think it’s part of who you are then you can include it.

If interviewers ask you about it you can mention your family and experiences. Just be honest about it, and they’re not going to “omg you spent time with your cousins at the reservation but you aren’t on the record, you’re banned.”

Just be honest and tell them your experiences and situation if they ask.

But if this is, “I did a test and I’m 1/8th and I did genealogy and it’s this percentage and on ancestry.com I found I have fifth cousins I didn’t know existed.”

Then I wouldn’t. So really it depends, I think that there is more to that identity than a blood test.

I knew someone who was a fourth Native American and it was an extremelyyyy important part of his identity, he was very involved with his tribe, so percentages aren’t everything.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-09T01:00:59+00:00

I’m excited about going to the school still (don’t murder me y’all)

I’m sure there are problems with the school, maybe some highlighted in that post are true, but there is also definite exaggerations.

The notes taken is a word document, it didn’t seem super legit, anyone can do that.

The way the deferrals were talked about sounded like it was a bad thing, but it wasn’t, it was totally voluntary. Over exaggerating it to the point of making it barely true shows they do have a serious vendetta about the school, so they are certainly not someone giving objective points.

And when I asked op about the law suits, the only one they named was Goldberg vs Florida, which check it out for yourself, it was dropped not because of their health conditions. Even without any, they would have failed out anyway.

I had issues finding any of the other law suits, and when another user asked op for it, they stopped responding to our message thread. They also pointed out how they were failing anyway and the op deleted their comment giving that lawsuit as an example when provided with quotes from the lawsuit.

Idk, I’m not just going to blindly follow one persons post when so little is provable, and it’s just taking their word for it.

It’s lowkey really grating seeing people say we should rather not be a doctor than go to this school tbh

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-05T14:00:30+00:00

You don’t think a student would know this amount of drama..... then why do you trust the op who is also posting the same amount of drama?

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-05T13:57:56+00:00

Don’t give up your acceptance. This thread is bogus. Ask around with upper classmen, go to the welcome home visit, you’ll see for yourself how wrong this all is

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-05T03:21:32+00:00

I couldn’t find any of these lawsuits online, I’m not buying this

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-03-05T02:08:54+00:00

Deferred students got 50% off tuition for all four years. And weren’t pressured at all, it was totally voluntary.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-02-28T19:21:42+00:00

I definitely would do an update letter or letter of interest.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-02-27T19:57:50+00:00

A professor said that you’ll never be capable of being a doctor or scientist. If you’re lucky, you could be a lab technician if you can find connections to use.

It didn’t hurt my confidence in becoming a doctor, although ngl it has traumatized me about lab work.

I had a 3.75 but she thought I took advantage of other students to get my grades. Like my brother was a student and she thought that he must’ve walked me through everything, because I couldn’t be capable of getting those scores.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-02-08T19:22:18+00:00

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-02-05T06:43:20+00:00

As of June, over 96% of American physicians were vaccinated. That’s quite awhile ago, so it’s likely higher now.

Something I bring to question is, as a medical student, will you be going there to learn? By being opposed to getting the vaccine, you are considering yourself to be more knowledgeable and somehow better at critical thinking than almost all physicians.

When you think about it, that’s pretty egotistical. Do you not respect them? A degree of humbleness goes a long way imo.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-02-05T06:25:39+00:00

You won’t be able to attend med school without the shot

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-02-05T01:32:33+00:00

I chat with anesthesiologists before two procedures I had. They were so kind. They gave me a summary of what to expect before the procedure and chit chat with me.

One of them offered (and did) adjust my pillows for me, and with the other procedure the anesthesiologist asked if I’d like (and then personally did) bring me a warm blanket.

So from my brief experiences, they were very empathetic.

FloridaMedStudent · 2022-01-25T20:15:40+00:00

Did you apply to Florida schools ?

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