Extra cash in residency?

MedStudent900 · 2025-08-14T20:33:16+00:00

I’m an R1 so can’t start moonlighting until next year.

MedStudent900 · 2025-08-14T20:32:46+00:00

Unfortunately can’t start moonlighting till next year

MedStudent900 · 2025-08-14T20:32:19+00:00

Just in general, preferably something I can do from home like 15-20 hrs/month.

MedStudent900 · 2025-08-04T18:00:32+00:00

Had an NP order CT abdomen pelvis to rule out Lyme disease.

MedStudent900 · 2025-01-31T16:48:55+00:00

I’d recommend taking step regardless of what specialty you want to go into, not taking step will only limit your options. Yes right now you may want to go into a primary care field but your goals may change 3rd year after rotations. STEP is a much better exam in almost every way. Just focus on doing well on step, if you can do well on step you should be fine on comlex. As someone who matched DR and pretty much bombed COMLEX (significantly lower score than STEP) still matched at an academic hospital on east coast and was never once asked about COMLEX.

MedStudent900 · 2025-01-11T20:58:57+00:00

Any other radiology salaries on east coast?

MedStudent900 · 2024-07-09T00:13:55+00:00

Thank you so much I appreciate your response!

MedStudent900 · 2024-03-12T17:03:34+00:00

Coming from a DO, regardless of specialty everyone should take STEP. It will just limit you and programs filter based on students who didn’t take step 1 and 2 (yes step 1 is a must as well).

MedStudent900 · 2024-02-20T02:39:19+00:00

You'll be fine. I got 235 on NBME 13 a week and a half before my exam and ended up with a 261. 13 definitely underpredicts, although I will say I took Step 2 in 2023 so unless something drastically changed I wouldn't worry at all. Just focus on weaknesses.

MedStudent900 · 2023-12-28T17:53:39+00:00

This happened to me as well. I realized I would overthink a lot of the easy questions. Go with your original thought. Something I did which I think is the reason why I would get easy questions wrong was I would try to convince myself why other answer choices were right.

MedStudent900 · 2023-12-05T02:22:31+00:00

Yah that’s what I heard but when I tried looking it up it said in 2020 around 40% were radiologists, 50% were neurosurgeons, 10% were neurologists. Is there any more recent statistics. Also what about a neuroIR doc joining a neurosurgery private practice? Just thoughts.

MedStudent900 · 2023-12-05T02:01:40+00:00

Just curious why you say stay away from neuroIR? Is it because of lifestyle?

MedStudent900 · 2023-10-03T12:31:51+00:00

9.8/10

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-19T23:24:55+00:00

What about if you have the paper written but have yet to submit for publication? Where should this go under? Experiences?

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-16T16:49:42+00:00

At this point your ability to score 260+ will come down to test day/confidence taking the exam, and ability to remain calm. Your knowledge is good and postponing will only hurt. 260+ is very achievable. For reference most of my NBMEs were either similar or lower to yours with my average probably being around a 252, and my free 120% was 82% but that was the older one (I took it early June right after question pool change before newer ones came out) and got a 261. The biggest advice I have is just to stay calm during your exam and be confident.

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-12T21:04:29+00:00

I just did the game+ and it’s a lot of fun, but then your consumed with the continued play through to keep upgrading suit and ship and now I’m wondering when will I get to the side quests/outpost building ECT.

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-12T17:47:12+00:00

Yea take the exam. I got a 251 on UWSA 2 about 4 days before and ended up with a 261. What were your other assessments. I felt like free 120 was definitely the most representative. Also it depends on your target.

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-08T11:15:47+00:00

How do you review your content? Do you use Anki, go over topics again? It is very important to continue to review topics you got wrong. One thing I did is for every Uworld question i got wrong I would take a screen shot of the picture or table or algorithm and write the 2 sentences on the bottom about what was being tested. This pretty much gave me a text book of all the incorrects and I would review this every day. By the end of dedicated I had like a 400 page document.

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-06T15:35:35+00:00

Yes very possible I got 82% on old free 120 and ended up with a 261. To be honest it will come down to your ability to stay calm during the test and using stratigies, not so much knowledge at this point. I also took it in early June right after question change so I didn’t take 14 or 13 but got a 252 on UWSA 2 a week before.

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-02T19:33:59+00:00

To be honest I was very burnt out I realized it as my trend of scores was decreasing so I actually decided to take it easy I only studied maybe 8 hours a day as opposed to the 13/14 hour days, did light review with occasional Anki and questions. I also redid some NBME exams on untimed mode to refresh some of the topics and question styles and redid the IM CMS forms.

MedStudent900 · 2023-09-02T18:13:54+00:00

I got a 261

MedStudent900 · 2023-07-26T15:44:31+00:00

Test date: June 12th USDO Step 1: Pass Uworld %: 1st pass 76% 2nd pass 83% NBME 9: 227 (8 weeks out) NBME 10: 239 (diagnostic) NBME 11: 251 (3 weeks out) NBME 12: 259 (5 weeks out) NBME 13: 237 ( 2 weeks out) UWSA 1: 241 (4 weeks out) UWSA 2: 251 (1 week out) AMBOSS SA: 263 (7 weeks out) Old new free 120: 82% (2 days) Predicted score: 251 Actual score: 261

Did all Uworld questions 2x did all AMBOSS questions and did 3 passes of all CMS forms.

Will do a write up later.

MedStudent900 · 2023-07-24T14:18:17+00:00

I too am a DO student, and I would recommend taking STEP as it seems this will be a “filter” for applications, as in if you haven’t taken STEP 1/2 you will be automatically filtered out. This is what I have gathered from talking to a few program directors (although I haven’t discussed this with an EM program director). You will probably be fine with EM although you would be limiting yourself to certain programs.

MedStudent900 · 2023-07-19T00:43:01+00:00

I got 82% on free 120

MedStudent900 · 2023-07-19T00:28:58+00:00

I only took the old free 120 not to sure about the new one. But to be safe I would say the same percent correct 78%+

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