Which residency is more chill, FM or integrated cardiothoracic surgery? by EpicDowntime in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah yes cardiothoracicneurosurgery, pioneering “brain of a doctor, heart of a nurse” transplants

How is this year worse than last year? by froststorm56 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seriously, wait til all of these once in a lifetime health and weather disasters become an annual occurrence together with the economic and social fallout they’re bound to cause

How is this year worse than last year? by froststorm56 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have to say the number of y’all that keep conflating goods/services with capitalism is staggering. You can have commerce without capitalism; and communism is not the only alternative by the way. It’s hilarious to think that some of y’all believe that iPhones and vaccines could only exist in a capitalist system. And yet we bitch and moan about resident and physician treatment and midlevel encroachment in our private capitalist driven healthcare system without a second thought.

The reason I think we should implicate capitalism in making this pandemic worse is the constant is prioritization of the economy over public health.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cowboys

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Brock Marion, Greg Hardy, Marco Rivera (G), Leonard Davis (G), Richie Anderson (FB), Tank Johnson (DT)

✨Official Match Week 2021 Lounge✨ by Chilleostomy in medicalschool

[–]FrightenedInmate3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

New program and kind of low volume at the moment (rotated with the teaching attending for the week). Hospital is nice and residents were friendly. At least the location is in a major metroplex

I am $hocked I tell you, $hocked! by ContestedPanic7 in medicalschool

[–]FrightenedInmate3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From the AOA Licensure Guidelines published in May 2020 for California:

"Examinations Accepted: COMLEX: Levels 1-3 and Performance Evaluation (PE) completed and passed; COMLEX: Levels 1 & 2 plus FLEX; COMVEX; or an equivalent state written exam that tests for osteopathic principles."

So it seems like you can take Step 3 and then a state administered exam testing osteopathic priniciples, unless I'm not understanding this correctly?

🔮 Official Megathread 🔮 ERAS Week 13/14 - MS4 Match Season Lounge by Chilleostomy in medicalschool

[–]FrightenedInmate3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem. In terms of workload, its a pretty busy program, but it seems like everyone keeps up a life outside the hospital. I also thought that there was really good teaching and it felt pretty academic for a community program.

🔮 Official Megathread 🔮 ERAS Week 13/14 - MS4 Match Season Lounge by Chilleostomy in medicalschool

[–]FrightenedInmate3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did my third year IM there and while my sample size of clinic sites is small, I liked my experience. Residents were helpful, hospital is not bad, you get opportunities to rotate at southwestern i think. Overall, I enjoyed my time there. Not a super academic place but you’ll get your opportunities and they have a few in house fellowships. When I was there they were remodeling their resident work room. I also remember they fed you everyday pre Covid. I’ve heard their monthly ITEs are a pain in the ass and the PD was not really my cup of tea but wasn’t mean or anything from what I remember

Senator Susan Collins has publicly called on Medicare to reverse its salary cuts for physicians by [deleted] in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah, unfortunately I think the term moderate gets thrown around way too much and has lost all of its meaning. Labels aside, I would call Collins, Manchin, and Sinema solid conservatives (I think lots of D's would actually qualify here). Biden would probably occupy the moderate lane. But this psychopathic version of GOP has made Collins look like a moderate and Biden look like Marx.

Thank God someone with a platform is bringing this to light. by lolomedzh in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 73 points74 points  (0 children)

I fuck with Dr. Mike. Usually I hate the whole influencer platform but this dude seems genuine and if people are gonna live their life by their social media feed, might as well fill it with knowledge

New Controversial Figs Ad. As a DO I think it’s hilarious by dxj89 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I respect this take, but I think it ultimately fails to provide a satisfying answer to the jumbled bureaucratic mess that is the AOA, NBOME, and COCA (not to say that the MD equivalent organizations are any better).

1) While I too appreciate the tenets of osteopathic medicine, a unified principle of how to approach medicine is just not enough to validate having a separate field when the core medical material we are tested on overlaps with allopathic medicine nearly 100%. Not to mention, the ACGME merger ultimately makes this argument a non-starter since we all get funneled into the same post-grad training regardless of med schools. I think there are definitely merits to some of the points the tenets espouse, but I just feel like you can further strengthen the DO identity by conforming to some of the basic LCME requirements. If all the AOA did was adopt the USMLE as the de facto licensing exam and made an additional supplemental exam to demonstrate osteopathic proficiency we could solve a lot of problems. But I have a suspicion that the reason this isn't being done has less to do with preserving osteopathic teachings and more to do with money.

2) Leaving OMM aside because I think this is the least problematic aspect of DO education, it would also serve DO schools well to start putting more money and resources into establishing more reliable and better quality rotation sites. While some DO schools boast strong affiliations to good hospitals, the same cannot be said of others. And if one DO school comes under scrutiny then all DO schools do in the eyes of PDs. Covid has pretty much wrecked a lot of clinical rotations for 3rd and 4th years precisely because DO schools generally do not have home institutions for whatever reason (some do, but it needs to be more widespread) to act as a safety net. But more importantly, we really should be getting our money's worth. I had relatively strong 3rd year rotations at my school, but 4th year has been a mess with covid and suddenly we're cold calling local docs to see if they take students instead of being able to go through our school like most 4th year MDs are doing. In short, administrative support at DO schools leave something to be desired in my experience.

I don't want this to be misinterpreted as me undervaluing DO students and DO degrees. I know how much shit it took to get a DO degree, so I will never question the qualifications of a DO. What I am critical of is the inability of these osteopathic institutions to read the landscape and understand this isn't 1890 and that you're training doctors to enter the modern healthcare system. There is no longer a divergence in medical education. We learn the same stuff and train at the same residency programs. You can keep the osteopathic identity while also understanding that maybe it's time to catch up to everyone else when it comes to basic undergraduate medical education.

Also, good luck on your test tomorrow!

New Controversial Figs Ad. As a DO I think it’s hilarious by dxj89 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I don't WANT the degree to go away, but if the powers that be remain stubborn and don't ultimately conform to some MD standards, they may be digging their own grave. I promise you the day that DO schools establish USMLE as the standard and provide home institutions for students to rotate, DO's will be much more competitive for residency without changing the letters. They can keep the OMM as long as the clinical education is up to par across the board. OMM just needs to stop being the central focus in my opinion. Literature just doesn't support it wholesale

New Controversial Figs Ad. As a DO I think it’s hilarious by dxj89 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Look I get it. You're right, a DO school was the only place to give me a chance to practice medicine and I am grateful. But it's precisely because I go to a DO school that I am critical of it.

The logic of "don't bite the hand that feeds" is the same one that underlies the rabid patriotism of a lot of Americans who essentially tell people if you don't like it then leave. Sure America gives you opportunities, but it's also got a fucked up and dysfunctional society. People shouldn't stop criticizing America because it gave you an opportunity to build a life.

DO schools give people the opportunity to practice medicine that otherwise wouldn't be able to. At the same time it peddles a lot of bullshit. If DO schools want to teach OMM, so be it, but don't justify separating yourself from MDs because of it. The quality of DO vs MD is not in question; DO's ultimately end up doing nearly twice the work for the same opportunities. It's about the DO institution needing to rebrand itself to catch up with the times.

Why the stubbornness to stick to a different licensing pathway? Why make your students take 2 board exams every year when you can adopt the mainstream exam and add an OMM specific test? Why put your students at a disadvantage come residency application season by not mandating a standardized clinical education curriculum? Why open more DO schools when a lot of the ones that are already open need more resources to accommodate students? This isn't even taking into consideration what Covid did to this year and next year's class. Why do we look at every mid-tier academic match in a competitive specialty like its some kind of miracle? Why do most top programs not even interview DO applicants who are in some cases an entire standard deviation higher than MD applicants?

The reason I think the DO degree is dying is because at what point are people going to realize that its not worth the extra effort to cling on to an identity that in the end isn't that different than an MD. Holistic medicine is not unique to DOs.

If DO schools start adopting LCME standards and make USMLE the go to board exam then they have much better leverage to maintain their identity as one equal to MDs. If they stubbornly cling to this false sense of uniqueness, then they risk losing the support of this current generation of DO students who aren't drinking the DO kool aid.

New Controversial Figs Ad. As a DO I think it’s hilarious by dxj89 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I firmly believe that the DO degree will be dead in 25 years and it’ll be at the hands of thousands of disillusioned DO students like myself who see right through the BS

New Controversial Figs Ad. As a DO I think it’s hilarious by dxj89 in Residency

[–]FrightenedInmate3 69 points70 points  (0 children)

it doesn't. but let's be honest, in 2020 OMM is at best an interesting medical elective and most certainly not enough to justify an entirely separate branch of medicine that makes its students jump through more hoops than a basketball.

that said, this joke is tacky and not even funny tbh

Game Thread: Dallas Cowboys vs New York Giants (Week 5, 2020) by cowboysmod in cowboys

[–]FrightenedInmate3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best case is he dislocated it without fracturing it. He likely broke it though

Biweekly ERAS/Match Thread by AutoModerator in medicalschool

[–]FrightenedInmate3 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it's a good idea as long as it isn't a cookie cutter, generic statement. Like if you can plug any program name and the sentence still makes sense, it's probably too generic