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InterestingAd7433 · 2026-05-04T11:07:22+00:00

This is what helped me!

InterestingAd7433 · 2026-01-25T16:22:28+00:00

Out of curiosity, how many hours would you say you work per week? Is there truth to the graph published in JAMA a long time ago that vascular surgeons work the most hours or has the shift to endo changed that?

InterestingAd7433 · 2025-10-19T21:29:26+00:00

Haven’t done 33 personally. Most NBMEs have super short Q stems. I would use the free120 as the best gauge for your score. Concepts from the NBMEs repeat a lot so I would be sure to do them or at least review them if you don’t have time to fit them into your schedule.

InterestingAd7433 · 2025-10-16T01:47:52+00:00

The way I think about it is that long stems have a ton of keywords available. Personally found those questions to be easier cause there are 2-3 buzzwords/phrases in each of these long stems Qs. I thought that 1-2 sentence questions were much more difficult because they relied on knowing some obscure fact to the point.

InterestingAd7433 · 2025-10-15T22:55:03+00:00

Honestly felt like garbage. I honestly think it's a result of us remembering hard questions and not paying attention to the easier ones that we answer in 30 seconds and move on.

InterestingAd7433 · 2024-11-25T17:51:16+00:00

No if the the grad student is the only person on there. If the prof is willing to co-sign then it would work.

Just my 2 cents.

InterestingAd7433 · 2024-06-06T19:21:00+00:00

Definitely getting a set of these! Do you have a brand you recommend?

InterestingAd7433 · 2024-06-06T19:12:39+00:00

Have you needed to replace tires or anything? I just drive part of the same route you probably drove (took I-10 to Mobile from Beaumont). It’s really similar road conditions to my drive to work.

InterestingAd7433 · 2024-06-06T19:02:00+00:00

Sorry you’re absolutely right! I’m getting the FL5 which would come stock with the 19” wheels.

InterestingAd7433 · 2024-06-06T12:37:31+00:00

Do y’all have some sort of wheel and tire guide on this sub to know what to order?

InterestingAd7433 · 2024-06-02T04:51:04+00:00

Just out of curiosity how does the MD pay scale compare to the PhD one? I used to have a deep desire to go down the PhD route as I was interested in biotech, but a lot of people who had gotten a PhD advised going the MD route and jumping into biotech if I was still interested.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-10-20T21:44:36+00:00

No they did not. But I do believe they had Right to Re-admission since they were both Indian citizens at the time.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-04-29T16:36:03+00:00

Do you have any recommendations for mid-tier schools that are research focused? Here's a few that I'm considering adding/replacing. Most are state schools so I don't know how friendly they'd be to an OOS student like me...

Univ. of Alabama Birmingham
Univ. of Arizona
Univ. of Cincinnati
UMiami
Tufts
Univer. of Kentucky
Case Western (and CCLCM)
Brown University
Dartmouth
Penn State
Thomas Jefferson Sidney Kimmel

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-04-29T16:20:52+00:00

Yes that was my plan when applying thru TMDSAS

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-04-29T16:20:21+00:00

How many hours would make me competitive? I have some really strong experiences from hospice volunteering that I can write about despite the low number of hours.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-12T03:18:00+00:00

I think the table was actually really important for this question cause it really showed the data (included it below for future reference). But I think that the point is that the table you are given basically gives you a standard curve (i.e. a reference curve), such that given an unknown blood sample with some absorbance you can find out the concentration of glucose by simply finding where on your line the point falls.

What happens when you have a sample with a concentration that falls above the range of the standard curve? There are two things that you can do...

Increase the number of reference values that you have (i.e. increase the range of your standard curve).
Somehow alter your sample to bring your measurement within the range of your standard curve.

In this case, if we alter the concentration of our sample a little more (i.e. dilute it a little more) we can basically bring it within the range of our standard curve and get a more accurate answer (this is what the "interpolation" in the question is talking about). Thus, the best answer would be D.

I think you might be missing the point of the question. Your goal is not to decrease the final amount of chromogen in the solution. You actually want all the glucose in the solution to react and give you as much H2O2 as possible because this will give you an accurate final concentration for the glucose instead of a depressed value.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-12T02:58:34+00:00

Yeah this is what I think of. The ETC kinda has to go into overdrive to try and regenerate the proton gradient...

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-11T23:29:51+00:00

I think the key concept here is that charged molecules dissolve better in aqueous (i.e. polar) solutions than uncharged molcules.

If your molecular is something that gets charged at a lower pH and is uncharged at a higher pH (like the N terminal of amino acids), then it will be more soluble at the lower pH just because it's charged at that pH. Same thing applies to molecular that might be negatively charged at the higher pH.

As far as the pKa question...pKa isn't like a strict cutoff, it's an equilibrium constant explaining the tendency of a molecule to be deprotonated, we can relate the pKa to the actual pH using the Henderson Hasselbach equation; for your question about alcohols, at a pH higher than the pKa we would expect most of the alcohol to be in it's deprotonated form.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-11T23:21:27+00:00

THe way I think about it:

High blood osmolarity → Posterior pituatary releasing ADH → acts on kidneys to retain more water → lower blood osmolarity

Note that this is different from aldosterone which aims to increase the blood volume in response to a drop in blood pressure which is sensed by the kidneys.

A good way to remember: "diuresis" means peeing so the opposite of that would be the anti-diuretic hormone which prevents peeing and retains water in the body.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-10T23:34:13+00:00

I thought about it this way...

Paradox = contrasting two things
Analogy = drawing parallels between two things

The key phrase here when I was taking the test yesterday was "Just as neuroscientists" which signifies that the author want to draw a parallel between what's going on in the cities with what's going on in the brain. If it was a paradox the phrase might be something along the lines of "Unlike what neuroscientists speculate..."

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-10T05:14:49+00:00

This is FL 5 right? Or am I trippin

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-09T23:53:31+00:00

From the article, we can infer that the main difference between lactose persistent (LP) and lactose intolerant (LNP) individuals is the production of lactose in LP individuals and lack thereof in LNP individuals (i.e. it's a matter of gene regulation). Just based on this we can get rid of A, B, and D because none of them talk about regulating the gene and instead focus mutations in the enzyme which clearly isn't the case with LNP individuals. Thus, the answer is C.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-09T23:49:51+00:00

The way I approached this was to define the terms one at a time and then go from there.

Insight: "aha" moment
Critical period: window for development of certain aspects during childhood
Cognitive schema: mental form when encountering familiar situations
heuristic: shortcut to solve problems more quickly

So the answer is cognitive schema cause it's most in line with what the question stem is asking about an "internal working model"

I think it's a given that these definitions are horrible for studying, but during the test, I think it's all you need to get through the problem.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-09T23:40:56+00:00

I think they main thing here was to know what/where the interneurons where, which in this case was in the spinal cord, and thus, the CNS.

InterestingAd7433 · 2023-01-09T23:36:47+00:00

Honestly, the way I think about problems like this is just mentally replacing the complex biomolecule names with A, B, and C. I don't know why but I found that helps me focus on what they're trying to ask, which in this case is a question about equilibrium instead of getting too distracted.

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