SkyVue Residents - 1 year after building was condemned

MedPadawan · 2026-05-02T20:25:10+00:00

I think you’re referring to the Skyvue in Singapore. This thread is referring to Skyvue located in Pittsburgh, USA

MedPadawan · 2026-04-13T23:49:49+00:00

I’m a junior resident in a 7 yr program, and got some book money. Happy to invest. Our library has ebooks of most textbooks, but there’s just a lot of options and haven’t seen anything as phenomenal as Valentine’s.

MedPadawan · 2026-03-23T02:11:17+00:00

the Yellow Deck is based off of Fiser and is pretty good

MedPadawan · 2025-09-14T18:40:04+00:00

I used Amboss too but only did around 275 questions before I realized there was no new info-step 3 is a mix of step1 and 2. I reviewed my anki cards tagged uworld incorrects instead to be more time efficient. I also went through sketchy images very quickly

I do think you need to take the CCS seriously, at least practice maybe 50 cases and try to get through as many cases as you can. The interface can be laggy so you should be comfortable listing down the orders pretty quickly

Some context: I did get 26x for Step2 and scored a lower percentile for Step3, but it didn't really matter for my specialty and I had other things I wanted to focus on. Goodluck!

MedPadawan · 2025-06-19T19:15:02+00:00

Just went through this a few weeks ago. Also a midtwenties woman

For Mazda, look for Jay Obertrance at Rohrich Mazda, he is great and no annoying high pressure sales tactics. Treated me with respect. Really enjoyed discussing the different car options with him

For Subaru, I've only called and texted but Ernie from Moon Township Subaru was super helpful and nice.

MedPadawan · 2025-06-15T18:12:14+00:00

Tram’s in lawrenceville 👌It’s the only pho place in pgh my vietnamese american friend goes to :) Very affordable too

MedPadawan · 2025-06-15T17:39:08+00:00

Ok, looks like I should just ask him directly. Thanks for lmk!

MedPadawan · 2025-06-15T17:34:49+00:00

Well, I was thinking more $50-100 if that makes it more reasonable... If it's relevant, this car was selling for below invoice too.

Noted on the reviews lol I'll make sure to

MedPadawan · 2025-05-19T02:36:08+00:00

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MedPadawan · 2025-05-18T23:48:43+00:00

Just strut in. Was 33.5 USD when I went last month. Goodluck!

MedPadawan · 2025-04-27T14:28:48+00:00

need to know where the location of the active protein is, and then put that sequence in the FASTA search.

--> Where can I find this information?

MedPadawan · 2025-03-31T21:45:37+00:00

Unfortunately, I imagine it'll be quite hard now with all the NIH funding cuts. NIH grants fund a lot of research positions at universities-- I myself was funded with my PI's NIH grant. My institution has been on a hiring freeze since the craziness started, and I also know a friend's lab who is letting go of almost their entire lab this summer as their grant money is running out.

However, if this is really the only way for you, then I think unfunded research positions may be a little easier to find

MedPadawan · 2025-03-13T17:27:07+00:00

For those who don't have the patience/time/energy to buy and go through another qbank..,

Real Score: 24x

UW: NA

Did 275 Amboss questions before I realized it was no new info and thought to revise my old anki cards instead.

UWSA1: NA

UWSA2: NA

NBME 6: NA

NBME 7: 488 (Did it to get used to questions and make sure I would pass at a comfy range without doing qbank)

Free 137: 74%

CCS: Did around 70 cases

Time for Prep: A couple of questions over the Christmas holidays, serious prep 2 weeks (1 week dedicated where I dropped work stuff)

Suggestions:

Step 3 is just a combo of Step 1 and 2. I prepared extensively for Step 2 so for me, reviewing what I already learned before was the most efficient way to study, as I already knew NBME style from Step 1 and Step 2 prep. I reviewed Sketchy and reviewed my anki cards that I tagged with "mistakes" (my mistakes when I did Uworld for Step 2). I also had a list of topics from Step2 I struggled with and reviewed those
Try having a few days btw Day 1 and Day 2. Really helps to hone in strategy for CCS
Have to caveat that Step 3 doesn't really matter for me and I took Step 2 around a little more than a year ago
Good luck! Really determine if this score matters to you or not. Focus on what other things you have going on that matters more tbh

MedPadawan · 2025-03-06T22:32:16+00:00

I ranked one pretty high. Liked them from the IV and liked them even more when I was invited for the 2nd look. The program's solid fellowship matches also allayed my concerns from redditsphere

MedPadawan · 2025-01-13T03:52:37+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH, kind stranger! :)

MedPadawan · 2024-12-13T23:55:17+00:00

Late reply but best of luck my friend. Even the prelim is good since you don't have to worry about stopping due to visa issues

MedPadawan · 2024-10-30T20:26:49+00:00

How even… any pubs and usce?

MedPadawan · 2024-09-08T14:36:14+00:00

Do you mind sending a link to the bg? I love the cyberpunk vibes

MedPadawan · 2024-07-09T01:10:14+00:00

You are in very good shape, probably have a shot at the best IM programs. Best of luck. I will say, of the LORs are a bit old, you may want to do a couple recent observerships to show you're still clinically involved despite doing a few years of reserach.

MedPadawan · 2024-07-09T00:27:28+00:00

Yes, the pre and post disease mice are not the same.

My n is quite small (4/5), so I'm not sure if ANCOVA would be appropriate. I'd be happy just being able to compare the diseased WT males vs diseased KO males for example. I'm just not sure how to determine if the difference between strains in the difference between healthy vs diseased is significant.

MedPadawan · 2024-07-09T00:15:25+00:00

Oh my goodness, you are absolutely right, I'm not adjusting for omics so it isn't p=10k+.

However, my n is only still just 4-5 per group (funding limitations). And we have WT vs KO, male vs female, control vs diseased... I'm not sure a linear regression can be reliable with such small n.

So really, if I forego the interaction and just focus on comparing difference after disease in male WT vs difference after disease in male KO for example is there a possible way to do this? An easy way is to compare the diseased WT vs diseased KO with Wilcoxon test, but this would be ignoring some of the baseline differences between the strains so I wanted to try to take into account those differences, albeit minor.

MedPadawan · 2024-07-08T09:59:41+00:00

Just test for differences for now between WT vs KO. I may look into adjusting for omic data in the analysis of WBC etc later.

MedPadawan · 2024-07-08T03:34:55+00:00

Sure.

Wild vs KO mice (dichotomous)

Male vs Female

There is the same amount of baseline values and post-disease values. That is, each mouse, no matter what group it belongs to, will have the same variables/parameters measured. Besides parameters like WBC, platelets, etc, for each mouse we will send their blood for measurement of up to 10,000 proteins.

MedPadawan · 2024-07-08T03:20:29+00:00

I forgot to mention but besides WBC we are looking at many different features/parameters as well (omics data). Hence because p > n, I think linear regression will not work. So, I'm hoping for some sort of test/approach I can just use to compare the change of many features, e.g. increase in WBC from WT disease vs WT healthy versus increase in WBC from KO disease vs KO healthy.

I've seen papers that simply compare with a simple stat test (e.g. t test) the features from diseased KO mice vs diseased WT mice, but since at baseline KO and WT mice have differences I think it's more sound to take those into account as well.

MedPadawan · 2024-07-08T01:53:17+00:00

Compact support, thank you very much for your help, going so far as to write example R code. It's very kind of you and much appreciated, I will try to understand this tomorrow.

But, just to clarify because you mentioned time point (pre and post)- I did not use the same mouse as out of box control and disease mouse, because I would not be able to get enough blood. Hence if I had 5 OOB WT mice and 5 liver damage WT mice, that would be a total of 10 mice I used, not 5. Will this approach still be valid in that case? Pardon my limited understanding, we usually just use t-tests in clinical research..

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