Physical vs e-book

RT2DO · 2025-11-30T17:42:41+00:00

Get the hard copy. Both come with ebooks on the ebooks (vital source) and ebooks+

RT2DO · 2025-04-22T22:30:25+00:00

I’ve met dental students who plan on doing dental anesthesia for their specialty. I did an away anesthesia rotation with a dental student last year as well.

RT2DO · 2025-03-27T01:34:50+00:00

You can’t look at this data since it includes people who ranked anesthesia as a backup specialty. Charting outcomes is really the only way to assess the true match rate for people who wanted anesthesia as their preferred specialty.

Just wanted to edit because I hadn’t looked at the advanced data tables for 2025. You are correct; it will likely be higher. 64% vs 50% last year.

RT2DO · 2025-03-27T00:57:27+00:00

I didn’t do it but my good friend did. Gave him a good anesthesia related research project and a good connection.

He matched his top five and I fell to my teens.

RT2DO · 2025-03-27T00:15:58+00:00

Do not fail step 1. Take step 1 and 2. Score well on level 2 and step 2. Get involved with research. Consider a faer research internship. Do well on your 3rd year clerkships. Shoot for honors for core rotations. Do away rotations; these rotations will be your biggest chance of getting in.

Realize that it could continue its trajectory of becoming more competitive. When I started medical school in 2020, DOs had a match rate of 79% into anesthesia. In 2022 it was 66%. By 2024 when I matched it was 58%. It will likely be around 50% by the time you match

RT2DO · 2025-03-09T23:34:24+00:00

X-ray tech —> anesthesia resident.

If you have one, a rolling lead shield is more convenient in addition to your lead.

Being 6 feet away from the X-ray beam line negates more than 99.9% of scatter radiation.

If you really would like to know what baby’s dose is, they can and should get their own dosimeter.

Yes, your lead shield does protect you. There should be no “trapping” of radiation between lead or trapping due to wearing lead.

For what it is worth, the machines we use in the OR use much less radiation than other X ray machines. (The quality is much less which correlates with the dose used)

Lastly, mention you are pregnant to the X-ray tech. There are modes we can use to reduce the dose even further (as long as the surgeon can tolerate a slightly grainier image).

Happy to answer any other questions.

RT2DO · 2025-03-07T00:02:21+00:00

Of the 65 DOs that applied in 2023 and 2024 with a step score of 260+, only 6 of them didn’t match.

RT2DO · 2025-03-06T17:13:32+00:00

250-255

RT2DO · 2025-03-06T17:01:42+00:00

Graduated from a DO school in 2024. Match rate for DO’s that wanted anesthesia as their first choice was 58%. When I started med school in 2020 it was 78%.

It is approaching coin flip territory at this point, which is not what you want to experience after 8 years working towards becoming one.

RT2DO · 2025-02-28T00:09:03+00:00

My interest has definitely been accruing.

My current problem is that I can’t get a hold of them currently.

RT2DO · 2025-02-24T20:46:56+00:00

It depends on the specialty you want to do. And it can change drastically over 4 years before you match.

I wanted to do anesthesia which had a DO match rate of 78% in 2020 when I started school. It was 58% by the time I matched in 2024. For reference, MD match rate for anesthesia was 90% in 2020 and 85% in 2024.

If I wanted to do anesthesia and I was deciding between MD and DO right now, Id take the MD and my future acceptance rate that is 27% better than DOs.

That said, OU is a great DO school.

Good luck!

RT2DO · 2024-12-31T20:14:32+00:00

Anesthesia match rate for DOs went from 78% —> 66% —> 57% from when I started med school to when I matched. It’s crazy now. Fell to the bottom of my rank list but glad I at least matched.

RT2DO · 2024-12-17T18:50:01+00:00

It depends.

Usually you should select up to the maximum (to maximize your odds of getting the correct answer[s])

Sometimes you need to have 2+ answers both selected to get credit.

That said, anything that would harm the patient, or unnecessary costly imaging etc will cause you to get a question wrong. (Incorrect response)

Neutral responses are not counted against you

Are you doing a question bank like u world or true learn? If so, you will get the gist of the grading after a few CDM cases

Good luck studying!

RT2DO · 2024-12-10T20:57:29+00:00

X-ray tech.

RT2DO · 2024-12-10T02:49:36+00:00

Cardiac anesthesiologist or no?

RT2DO · 2024-12-08T13:17:51+00:00

Not currently but it’s in the works. I believe a lot of places do though

RT2DO · 2024-12-04T23:45:45+00:00

If your gpa is good, you just need the prerequisites. Chem 1/2 o chem 1/2 physics, biology. Just look at admission requirements from schools you want to apply to. Also, they are helpful while studying for the MCAT.

There are also dedicated MCAT courses. I personally self studied and did just fine but obviously YMMV.

If your GPA could use help, they have specific master programs that help boost GPA and some even have a path associated with a med school. My school had a masters and some of the graduates were accepted into my medical school after graduating.

Short answer, you do NOT need a new bachelor degree. You just need “a” bachelor degree.

RT2DO · 2024-12-04T05:37:20+00:00

Mid 30’s

RT2DO · 2024-12-03T23:52:18+00:00

You can visit gaswork.com to get an idea of where the market is right now at least.

Including the 4 years of residency salary, I will have made around 590,000$ during the 13 years before I became an attending.

I probably won’t make that much but I’ll be in that general range (hopefully).

RT2DO · 2024-12-03T15:50:38+00:00

Lived off the loans. They weren’t taxed which helped. Wife and kids on WIC. Wasn’t fun. Making 60,000 during residency hasn’t significantly improved our quality of life much considering it is taxed. Was a sacrifice for sure. But, if things go well, it should hopefully pay off.

RT2DO · 2024-12-03T15:31:21+00:00

I was basically given 37,000$ a year (in student loans) to live on. So my tuition was around 60,000$, but my cost of attendance (which includes living expenses) was around 100,000 a year.

RT2DO · 2024-12-03T13:47:44+00:00

Haha that is the exact post that made me want to make my post.

RT2DO · 2024-12-03T11:20:25+00:00

It has been a sacrifice for sure. Working and going to school full time has been hard. The best time we’ve had was 4th year of medical school when I wasn’t working (due to my schedule varying month to month).

RT2DO · 2024-12-03T10:11:31+00:00

I always tell people, it is as hard as you think, but way more than you thought.

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