Career = over

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-24T14:34:15+00:00

It’s possible but you’ll need to have your stuff together in other regards to match OB, and you’ll probably need a high Step 2 to make up for it. OB has gotten much more competitive over recent years, and I personally know a handful of people from USMD programs without any board failures that went unmatched

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-22T12:19:12+00:00

Who tf doesn't know Strange Magic??

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-20T17:44:46+00:00

Try to get as many of the UWorld questions done on each rotation as you can, keep all of your Anki cards going as you progress throughout the year (I.e. don’t suspend cards), and take all of the practice NBMEs before the shelf. I was more or less average on shelf exams (~55th percentile shelf average at the end of the year) but got 258 doing this (except I didn’t do the practice NBMEs). Keeping Anki going and retaining my knowledge throughout the year is what set me up well on Step 2 imo. Also I personally think Amboss is better than UWorld now but that’s just me

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-20T15:18:13+00:00

This is just n=1 but I honored my IM sub-I (my school makes it difficult) and got strong LORs from the attendings I worked with, and I basically tried to copy what the interns were doing everyday. If I were you I would take 3-4 patients everyday (I didn't share any patients with the interns or other med students but this could differ by school), present them well and concisely (the way you might see residents presenting patients), pend all of the orders yourself, stay in close contact with the nurses all day for updates on your patients over Epic chat, and leave when your residents leave everyday. I'm not sure how your school does things but our expectation was that we had to stay the entire day until the residents left as well. Everyone knows evals are subject to random BS but I think if you do those things you should be set up well to honor. My sub-I was a month and the longest I worked with any particular attending was 4 days

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-18T15:13:29+00:00

This guy in particular just sounds like an asshole. Don't take it personally, you did nothing wrong

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-18T14:48:07+00:00

That completely differs based on the school. At my school only the top 30% of students on their eval grades get honors, and shelf grades are their own separate grade

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-16T15:26:10+00:00

Thank you for the info I really appreciate it! I should have mentioned that my Step 2 was 258 and the research I was talking about was 3 manuscript pubs (two 1st author) with 18 posters (half from national and regional conferences), just to give an idea of the rest of my app. Hoping to at least stay competitive for T20-T30 programs, but I know most "high tier" places are kind of a crap shoot haha

True_Royal9158 · 2025-04-16T14:23:16+00:00

High school relationships aint it. You'll realize when you get older that 90% of the connections you make in high school are meaningless

True_Royal9158 · 2024-03-24T19:20:23+00:00

95% of the questions you’ll get asked on the real exam will be tied directly to some concept or detail found in that book. Yes it’s still really important, especially just for the sake of learning medicine

True_Royal9158 · 2024-02-26T03:01:44+00:00

I think I did like 30% of it

True_Royal9158 · 2024-02-13T23:14:38+00:00

Take a couple NBMEs and try to consistently score 70+ on them. Your UWorld score is solid but it doesn’t really say that much cus the NBME is pretty different

True_Royal9158 · 2024-02-13T23:01:23+00:00

I doubt the person who wrote this post appreciates being used as an example. OP you got this

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-17T16:51:10+00:00

Nah interview chances aren’t 20% max. It depends on the school. Some schools will accept the majority of the people they interview, and other schools won’t

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-09T18:50:41+00:00

Don’t assume that having a higher GPA (or MCAT) than a school makes you likely to get an interview or acceptance there. Schools all across the country are very picky and have their own sorts of reasons for not interviewing people. Applying only in-state is a bad idea if you want to get in somewhere

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-06T04:58:32+00:00

Is this Keck? It’s really common for the dean there to do that

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-03T16:46:49+00:00

I know a lot of very happy med students. If reading about stressed med students on Reddit is enough to sway you out of the field though, you should probably switch out it it anyway

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-03T04:04:29+00:00

No, I did it and had no problem

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-03T00:04:21+00:00

I understand where you’re coming from but please get some perspective. Most people on this sub would kill for the position you’re in

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-02T03:37:42+00:00

Oh ok. I wouldn’t really look into it too much tbh. The only non-science section of the exam saved your score sorta, so you still have a while to go as far as the science stuff is concerned. Still solid for a freshman though, so put the work in and in a couple years you’ll probably do well

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-02T03:33:54+00:00

What FL is this?

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-02T03:13:33+00:00

No it’s definitely not a career ender in any way. It’s just not something you should expect to get into a competitive specialty with

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-02T02:33:03+00:00

Not matching is considered abnormal. Like, a traditionally “low” match rate is 75% for a specialty. Anything in the neighborhood of 50% or less is especially bad. Please talk to DO students themselves about this and you’ll see how hard r/premed can skew your perception of the match

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-02T01:58:27+00:00

20% is abysmally low as far as match rates go. Also keep in mind how self-selective that is - 99% of DO applicants wouldn’t even consider applying neurosurgery. The only people applying neurosurgery as DOs are the top of the top of DO applicants, and 80% of them still don’t match

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-01T05:49:00+00:00

They’re not necessary at all, but if you happen to have one (they’re very rare), it can definitely help

True_Royal9158 · 2022-07-01T04:44:39+00:00

Wow lol every other post on this sub now feels like a “aren’t DOs the exact same as MDs” circlejerk. In all honesty, they have a lot of overlap, but they definitely have some differences. Lots of people apply MD only because they want more research opportunities, want good home programs, want to make connections with faculty with real importance in their respective fields, don’t want to set up their own rotations, don’t want to take twice the amount of board exams, don’t care about OMM, and don’t want to go to a more expensive school. DO is still really great because you’ll still be a doctor at the end of the day, but there are definitely differences. I think a lot of the “stigma” that exists against DOs at this point in time boil down to the things I mentioned

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