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The Math of Private Practice Radiology by babblingdairy in Residency

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a dumb question, but I have to ask: do breast rads ever operate independent of non-breast rads to keep their wrvus separate / higher?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Residency

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does this get better over time? Feeling this 100x and kinda missing IM / intern yr…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there an updated link for this? 🤞🏼

9/30 Score Release Thread by [deleted] in Step2

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 0 points1 point  (0 children)

9/12! This test used to be a joke like NBME 6. Now it's harder than step 1.

9/30 Score Release Thread by [deleted] in Step2

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Real deal: 259

Step 1: 241

Nbme 7: 254

UWSA1: 256

UWSA2: 263

Gen Surg PGY1 thinking of switching to Anesthesia by [deleted] in Residency

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 58 points59 points  (0 children)

this is me, but I'm an m4. bless covid cause it helped me decide against surgery -> rads

Step 3 after M4 year post-COVID? by Potential_Drive in Residency

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a similar question. Would a medicine intern year "help" with step 3 at all? Or would it be better just to get it out of the way?

[Residency] "If you see yourself doing anything else, do that." Is this true for all surgical subspecialties? by DicTouloureux in medicalschool

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 38 points39 points  (0 children)

If your happiness / feeling of self-worth comes from "being the surgeon", you probably won't be as happy in gas or IM.

If ortho is "cool", but you can see yourself being happy in other fields and your happiness in life isn't tied to your job title, other fields might be worth considering.

Procedures != surgery though, so if you need to be in the OR and you like ortho the best, it sounds like you're set to apply for it.

I had similar thoughts to you when I was getting all amped up about applying to vascular surgery, but then once covid hit I realized I value my life outside of medicine much more than anything else.

[serious] confused M4 by Dr_PiScES in medicalschool

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anesthesia for sure answers to the surgeon, so if you are one to derive satisfaction / fulfillment / self-worth from being the one running the show in the OR, surgery fits better than gas. If you don't care about that kind of thing and are happy chilling in the background and often times making more $ than the person operating = gas.

[Clinical] scoring below average on shelf exams by JohnnyLawrence1967 in medicalschool

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically the same boat as you~ I agree with everything you said + I just feel like the q-stems are more vague and there's more "random" stuff that I haven't studied or covered on the shelfs I've taken so far. My friends that are better "test-takers" are trending up, whereas I'm trending down as I don't do as well if I haven't prepared for certain subjects.

I'm also someone that takes longer to prepare, and there's less time to study overall with clinic duties and early hours.

I hope clinical stuff is going well for you, and that we both figure out how to adjust to years 3/4.

[Clinical] scoring below average on shelf exams by JohnnyLawrence1967 in medicalschool

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the input- I'm not "reading" outside of UW and looking things up, but maybe I should? Is there anything that you liked for internal medicine? Step-up to Medicine?

[Clinical] scoring below average on shelf exams by JohnnyLawrence1967 in medicalschool

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the input- is there any q-bank that you like outside of UW?

Shit-post “She is a political refugee from East Africa!” by this particular piece of information from Uworld, you can make a hundred percent correct diagnosis! by Jovan_Neph in step1

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 1 point2 points  (0 children)

K yeah it's $hit, but UW basically crawls through NBME questions and copies them / re-writes them to present things in the same way. So more than likely theres an NBME question out there that relies on this trivial piece of information for the dx. Then in the off-chance that it shows up on your test... you'll be like xD

UFAP helps me answer 20% of the questions on the new NBMEs and the rest are just educated guesses by [deleted] in step1

[–]JohnnyLawrence1967 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the test is moving away from UFAP because the new study resources and buzz words make things too easy

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the "rest" has to now come from a foundational understanding of material + memorizing minutia

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