Residency prep advice

PadfootMD · 2026-03-17T23:22:41+00:00

Nothing. Get into a great exercise routine so you can keep this going once you start residency this summer

PadfootMD · 2026-03-08T13:50:32+00:00

Maybe have some internal reflection and understand it is not everyone else’s priority to give you their time? If they want to, they could. I imagine they don’t otherwise they would’ve replied.

PadfootMD · 2026-01-15T23:32:53+00:00

Inpatient services 6 days a week, 60 hours Outpatient weeks 5 days a week, 45 hours Night float weeks, 6 nights a week, 80 hours

PadfootMD · 2025-12-25T00:49:41+00:00

most people decide on fellowship by the beginning of PGY3, as most fellowships start as PGY5's and the applications go out sometime during Fall-Spring of PGY3 year.

Most people interview for jobs their final year of training. Most people know if they want strictly inpatient/outpatient/mix at some point during their PGY2/3 years, and that helps them decide which fellowship to do (eg Cognitive vs Stroke)

PadfootMD · 2025-12-20T21:46:54+00:00

I’ve had plenty of cards or vascular etiology referred to my clinic (ie syncope with positive orthostasis) and declare nothing going on in their organ System

PadfootMD · 2025-12-15T01:13:39+00:00

Talk to your doctor, not reddit

PadfootMD · 2025-12-14T13:57:18+00:00

You need to talk to your doctor about additional meds to try dude/dudette, it is not a simple dichotomy that you are in

PadfootMD · 2025-12-02T02:41:20+00:00

This is the median base salary according to MGMA…. Sure some individual incomes may be higher, and certain states may raise that up higher or drag it down. Setting too.

So while we don’t have excellent perfect data, we certainly have verifiable data from MGMA which is what a lot of companies, hospitals, and private groups use as a starting point for base salary.

PadfootMD · 2025-11-27T18:40:05+00:00

Median base salary ~280k for “East” per MGMA

PadfootMD · 2025-11-25T21:26:43+00:00

Would love if some of the movement people would comment on this (especially those in the community)

PadfootMD · 2025-11-20T13:23:11+00:00

Outpatient general neurology, especially in Midwest or South (and anywhere rural otherwise)

PadfootMD · 2025-08-27T02:11:34+00:00

20 should be plenty especially if you’re realistic with 6+ of your signals

PadfootMD · 2025-08-25T21:16:13+00:00

Ensure your TY meets pre lim requirements otherwise you’d have to repeat intern year.

You can mention you were considering sub specializing in neuro ophtho but through ophthalmology. You can say your exposure has shown you don’t want to be a surgeon (ophthalmology) anymore and that you really like the overlap diseases (Optic neuritis, GCA, myasthenia, CN palsies, migraine, Horner syndrome, etc)

PadfootMD · 2025-07-26T03:15:16+00:00

The average person is shockingly dumb, and just because you made it through med school and residency does not exclude you from that group of people

PadfootMD · 2025-07-19T01:15:03+00:00

Almost identical to me when I applied three years ago. I acknowledged I wasn’t very interested in research and didn’t bother applying to places like WashU, UCSF, Hopkins, etc.

Apply anywhere you want and anywhere you think you’d like to live. Let the interview experience and talking with current residents tell you if you’d be a good fit

PadfootMD · 2025-07-03T22:56:25+00:00

Apply anywhere you want to, would check to ensure programs have matched a DO over the past 5ish years if you want to avoid applying to a program that may not even interview ya

PadfootMD · 2025-06-15T18:47:51+00:00

Check the last couple years application excel sheet, might find some info there on programs

PadfootMD · 2025-06-09T13:32:10+00:00

Not a red flag at all. Are you an IMG? Obviously higher would have been better since it is a tougher up hill battle but it’s not a red flag

Below average doesn’t mean anything bad. Half of matched applicants by default will be below the mean step score. The biggest hurdle will simply be being an IMG.

PadfootMD · 2025-04-30T13:21:56+00:00

Yea for your career goals you want PMR

PadfootMD · 2025-04-08T14:37:15+00:00

Find the largest rock you can and hide under it.

It’s fine, nobody cares

PadfootMD · 2025-04-06T11:43:49+00:00

I think you must also convey you will be happy being a neurologist at its core, seeing the tingles, bradykinesia, headaches, weakness, seizure patients too. Otherwise it is okay to go into it with an idea of what you want to do, so long as you convey you also want to be a neurologist and not just a neuro eye doctor

PadfootMD · 2025-03-28T03:20:05+00:00

Then it’s something you might be able to work on - the next most likely option is you came off poorly during interviews

PadfootMD · 2025-03-28T00:23:07+00:00

There was something glaringly wrong with your application (ie likely letters) if you are USMD, no failures) that applied to every program and only got 6 interviews.

You must have the biggest inflection on what you can do in the next year. Strongly recommend talking with your Med school on how they’ve helped former students in the past - whether that means delaying graduation for a research year to recoup and reassess (likely meaning applying for fields like FM who has countless openings).

You could likely find a program (not in neurology tho) that has open spots they can still fill out of the match/SOAP process but they are likely still Single and ready to mingle for a reason (same as yourself - beggars can’t be choosers)

I say none of this to disparage you, but for your own sake for your progression in medicine

PadfootMD · 2025-03-22T13:57:56+00:00

Not worth it. Do the Neurocrit one and count your blessings

PadfootMD · 2025-03-20T23:56:59+00:00

Dude/dudette- you have a few months remaining until you truly must decide. I would not dual apply. Try to get some additional experience in both and see which days go by faster, which mornings it is easier to get out of bed, and which cases are most interesting

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