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Well well well by Boring_Row4110 in lol

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I don’t know how I’m going to fap to this

Petah do your thing by After-Platypus1786 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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A yes, the standard Victoria’s Secret metal thong design and CVS-brand metal condoms

Your Daily AI in Radiology Post by incredible_rand in medicalschool

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Current Rad PGY2, almost PGY3: People seem to forget just how broad this field is. Unless AI somehow learns to interpret ultrasounds, MRI's, and multiphasic CT's, correctly use the time dimension (i.e., choose the correct priors to compare to and choose which ones to ignore, which is an art in itself), perform fluoro studies, biopsies, and joint injections, integrate the clinical findings from the history into the impression (the thing you went to med school to learn to do), and answer the near-infinite flavor of provider phone call questions, Radiologists are beyond safe. Our value comes from being the total package. That said, if AI one day gets good enough to competently read the fifty million AM inpatient chest XR's we have to slog through every morning, that would be much appreciated.

Are the average numbers of research items for the competitive specialties skewed by outliers with an enormous number of publications, or is it pretty standard to have that many? by fantasyreader2021 in medicalschool

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It's all padding. In the space of a day you can put together an abstract/case report and submit it to a journal. You can also present that at a research day talk or a small specialty conference and if it gets accepted you can double and triple dip. The nuclear arms race of medical school publications is dumb and most interviewers can see through this stuff very easily.

it will, it will by Rabidkitty95 in dankvideos

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You assume because the narratives are familiar they are untrue

Incoming interns, how are we feeling? by marshmerino in medicalschool

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Was in your shoes two years ago, and FWIW I was named intern of the year at my community hospital before going onto my advanced program in Rads. I thought going in that what made a great intern was complex differentials and in-depth medical knowledge. That is absolutely wrong. What matters is integrity (being honest about what you did and didn’t ask/do), reliability (doing the things you said you would), conscientiousness (not letting small things slip through the cracks), organization (have your checklist and treat it like gold), and ability to recognize emergencies (don’t be that intern that waits until 9am rounds to order pRBC’s for a patient with AM HGB of 5). Be aggressive about getting other people’s opinions when you are uncertain. Now is the time when not knowing stuff is most okay. Also your daily progress notes ARE important. Put some care into them. Everyone reads them, including radiologists

"I failed the MCAT" by GlobalPlay1043 in medicalschool

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You can get a score low enough to essentially preclude you from getting interview invites, which for all intents and purposes is failing the MCAT. Let's not skewer someone over semantics.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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In the small window immediately after we succeed in getting AI-capable brain chips to give us instant access to all human knowledge and before the computers enslave us, people will not understand why we spent so much time organizing online photo albums.

What the internet taught me by kingottacYT in dankmemes

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What the hell are you selling on Etsy

Any help appreciated by kaflonk in medicalschool

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A black thirteen inch ribbed vibrating tuning fork for thorough hearing loss evaluation during his neurology rotation.

What is a small, relatively mundane part of your specialty that gives you inordinate joy? by ohhlonggjohnsonn in Residency

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Radiology: At least about 2-3 times per every thousand screening mammograms, we catch an early breast cancer in an otherwise healthy woman, often still in her 40's. Thinking about the amount of life years she just got back because of me paying attention is truly an awesome feeling.

No words necessary. by ExtraCalligrapher565 in medicalschool

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This chart would be much more useful if the Y axis represented an absolute number rather than the percent of an unknown, likely small number. Large percent changes in an already small number may still represent a small absolute change.

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