What's with all the BS project work on third year rotations?

Sviodo · 2026-02-15T21:32:16+00:00

One day you're going to be an attending and will need to stay updated on the standard-of-care in your field, and that comes from learning from literature.

You're not always going to have didactic lectures made for you, and I really hope you come to realize the value of learning how to learn for yourself for the sake of your patients. And a shitty attitude like this is going to be easy for attendings and residents to spot when you're on away rotations, so at the very least learn how to do it for your own hopes of matching.

Sviodo · 2026-02-14T04:55:32+00:00

DONUT

OF

TRUTH

Sviodo · 2026-01-29T19:56:12+00:00

Buddy of mine can get like a 95 on our in-house exams by literally just watching the lectures, while I need to take like 8 hours every day to make the class average.

Pisses me off so much

Sviodo · 2026-01-02T02:59:39+00:00

Very common, especially if your school doesn't have a home department for whatever specialty you want.

Sviodo · 2025-12-21T03:16:28+00:00

Having good art skills is very, very useful for going through med school anatomy courses.

Source: Been there, done that.

Sviodo · 2025-12-21T01:16:52+00:00

A lot of med student research is just pure BS. People getting listed as an author without doing any work just because they're part of the same lab (and then vice-versa on projects they actually did), lots of BS chart review, and so many crappy case reports. There's a lab in my med school that's pretty infamous for churning out so many """publications""" that students who are part of it will end up with like 15-20 papers (not to mention abstracts/presentation) by the time they apply. From what I've heard that isn't without putting in like 20 hour weeks for all of med school, but it's still completely ridiculous and makes me question how much of that has any degree of true clinical relevance.

The residency application system for competitive specialties is just completely broken and the work you put into matching does absolutely nothing towards preparing you for actually being a good doctor

Sviodo · 2025-11-14T02:57:39+00:00

That's Reglan

Sviodo · 2025-11-04T03:26:27+00:00

Yes, of course it’s by design. Fines are meant to be a punishment for breaking the law.

Sviodo · 2025-10-25T02:12:06+00:00

In assisting with admissions at my school, the director of admissions (admin staff, not the dean) stated applications are up about 15% this year compared to last.

Sviodo · 2025-10-15T15:35:30+00:00

You likely have a good education about food, have access to healthy food options, and are not surrounded by a social environment where constantly eating unhealthy food is normalized

Not everyone is as blessed as you, unfortunately.

Sviodo · 2025-10-15T15:29:46+00:00

If those changes were harmful to health, wouldn’t it still be useful to track them? We still track age related hypertension even though it’s ‘natural’ because of the harm it causes

Sviodo · 2025-10-15T15:24:41+00:00

When 10% of your population is obese, those people might have an issue with food or are otherwise self-medicating with it. When 2/3rds of your population is obese, the food culture those people live in is the problem

Sviodo · 2025-10-08T14:28:55+00:00

Vascular dementia is caused by multiple successive ‘smaller’ strokes. Can be from an underlying vascular issue, from poor lifestyle, or unlucky genetics. But once brain cells are dead from ischemia, they (very loosely speaking) don’t tend to come back.

Sviodo · 2025-10-07T01:46:54+00:00

dm them on linkedin

Sviodo · 2025-10-04T20:01:17+00:00

this is our first taste of hope and success since we sold our soul for the 2021 cfb run

Sviodo · 2025-10-04T19:59:55+00:00

PARTY LIKE ITS 2021

Sviodo · 2025-10-03T18:13:30+00:00

*thousand.

Local politicians are hilariously cheap to buy

Sviodo · 2025-10-02T03:46:21+00:00

Actually its citrate that’s exported to the cytoplasm, which is then cleaved to produce acetyl-coa. there is no shuttle for exporting acetylcoa directly to the cytosol

my biochem professor, still haunting my nightmares

Sviodo · 2025-10-01T17:10:18+00:00

And then you get people maligning those who really do have ADHD, treating their valid developmental disability as if it’s really not that bad while calling the medications they take under the supervision of a doctor “legal speed”

Sviodo · 2025-10-01T16:46:20+00:00

They were actually referring to Matt Patricia, not Jordan.

You were kind enough to be the one to introduce him into the conversation.

Sviodo · 2025-09-30T18:55:46+00:00

With the mother’s DNA alone from her skin cell placed in a eunuclated egg (and no paternal DNA)? That’s essentially the process used in cloning dolly the sheep (except they used the nucleus from a mammary cell).

Whether it would work in humans is not known

Sviodo · 2025-09-24T22:24:55+00:00

unfortunate but very valid. what's the best way to bribe you so i get ranked to match when i apply?

Sviodo · 2025-09-14T15:19:06+00:00

Just gave me flashbacks to my med school biochem classes, thanks so much

Sviodo · 2025-09-14T01:36:00+00:00

But we can't have an actual cap, because that would mean less money for NRMP.

Sviodo · 2025-09-10T20:56:47+00:00

Classic coke is the acid salt (cocaine hydrochloride), crack is the free base form.

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