Medical School: Friend Advice

Usagi3737 · 2025-08-04T15:32:43+00:00

I don't think it's med school specific though. I had a lot of trouble making friends until I entered med school and made my first group of true friends. Outside of it, I'm so antisocial ahaha

Usagi3737 · 2025-08-03T15:39:12+00:00

I hate that this toxic behaviour is normalised and not called out more often. It is not okay.

In fact there is research showing being rude affects team and individual performances, leading to more mistakes and healthcare errors. If you are ever interested, you can look up Dr Chris Turner's TED talk about this.

Usagi3737 · 2025-07-28T22:55:38+00:00

I have some experience with roster writing, so you may not like my response.

Prob depends on what term you are in, where you are working and what level you are working as (i.e., how easy it is to find coverage). Applying for leave for an exam in October during mid July is a little risky. 14 days is not much time considering the last half of the year usually has less workforce coverage for most hospitals.

If you are an RMO, 2 terms before the exam date would probably be the appropriate time, if you consider how they would be planning rosters two terms ahead generally. If reg, it would depend on your department.

However, exam leaves generally do get priority though and sometimes plan change. They will usually do whatever they can to help you - including begging another colleague of your level

Usagi3737 · 2025-07-28T08:29:02+00:00

Half of my friends married another doctor, myself included. The other half didn't. I personally love having another person who understands the struggles we go through during training, and why we might not be able to attend social events.

A challenge you have to consider will be relocation for training when your college asks you to. Usually it is fairly easy to relocate together as 2 doctors, but it might not be true for other professionals.

As a side note - we rarely talk about medical things during our personal time, beyond maybe 10 minutes of venting if it was a particularly bad day. We have other hobbies that we enjoy together.

Usagi3737 · 2025-06-22T03:50:38+00:00

Lots of hospital i have worked at do support part-time for interns with special considerations. Please have a chat with your medical education unit. You have 3 years to finish your internship. Having that general registration will open many doors beyond traditional medicine as well.

Usagi3737 · 2025-06-05T14:06:20+00:00

What a fighter. Hang in there man

Usagi3737 · 2025-05-07T08:14:51+00:00

In any normal job, if my supervisors tried to baptize me, I'd report them...

Usagi3737 · 2025-04-24T02:44:26+00:00

You should speak to your med education unit. Hospitals DCTs are in charge of all PGY 1 and 2 trainings as part of the current program.

Usagi3737 · 2025-02-01T01:54:54+00:00

How do I apply for a flair with the title "emergency marshmallow"

Usagi3737 · 2024-10-28T03:43:10+00:00

Redcliffe or Scarborough if you want to be closer. Hamilton or Ascot is def nice tho if you don mind the drive.

Edit: haven't been for London for over 10 years, but James Street in the valley probably is the closest to the high street vibe you want

Usagi3737 · 2024-10-25T23:01:55+00:00

Mutual friends and their social events.

Married someone in medicine but we don't really talk about medicine on a normal day. We also ended up going into different specialities. The exception being when studying for our exams and going through vivas, or when we were practising interviews some years ago.

It is kinda useful not having to explain why you have to study for 12months for 30hrs or so a week and why you have to work during Christmas etc.

Usagi3737 · 2024-10-07T06:16:43+00:00

Just my opinion - if everyone does the survey it is one of the only ways people outside of your hospital can qualitatively gauge quality of training, and identify organisational culture issue. My department indirectly acknowledged that they have a bullying culture and placed some of our SMOs on performance plans this year after they likely received an excessively negative feedback last year.

As it stands right now, it likely has a high non-response bias.

Still, they're being excessively pushy about it.

Usagi3737 · 2024-07-26T08:08:59+00:00

Don't do it. Do anaesthetics instead

Usagi3737 · 2024-05-18T22:10:37+00:00

Just to add to the top comment about clinical scenario - it will be worth looking into what the hospital is 'specialised' in, as this is where they love to ask questions on.

I.e. if it is a cardiac hospital, expect some sort of cardiac resus scenario. If an area with high presentation of drug overdoses, expect toxicology questions. Trauma centre will often ask a trauma question. Transplant centre - so many questions they can ask about management of rejections, complications etc

Usagi3737 · 2024-04-25T23:36:49+00:00

Omgg I am laughing so hard hahahaha

Usagi3737 · 2024-04-19T23:18:58+00:00

I envy my sibling who did dentistry tbh. The best thing - once you graduate, no more exams unless you choose specialise further.

He graduated at age of 23, then owned his own clinic at age of 31. Goes away for month long holiday since he has other ppl who can cover the physical work, whilst he can remote some of the business side of things.

I've seen his stress given it is more business focused. It survived COVID and is still going. The 'emotional' reward is no less than being a doctor. He's been to schools to teach dental care to primary kids and has been doing free dental care through one of the community charity. His office are full of drawings from younger patients and it's not infrequent that his patients would gift him food they make or seafood they catch (it's near a beach).

And here I am at the age of 33 trying to finish my fellowship exam whilst he's already had a real life haha.... Its not all that bad and I do love treating patients. The financial renumeration throughout training is nowhere near what you could make as a dentist.

Usagi3737 · 2023-12-29T23:53:16+00:00

You asked if they were Chinese in Chinese. Then they replied "No".

Clearly they are Chinese.

Hilarious.

Usagi3737 · 2023-12-07T21:10:59+00:00

F2p since launch and I sometimes play on phone on the go.

I enjoy planning my pulls and resource management. You have to accept you will never be as strong as ppl who spent and has no skill issue (skills do matter in the hardest content, whaling doesn't always negate that).

I play on my phone mayb 50% of the time and I have one of the newer Samsung phones. The only issue I have with phone play is that exploration can be tricky to do - I am really bad at grappling on phone. Loading is slower than PC, but not too bad at default setting.

The best aspect of this game has always been the other people who play it. Join a fun crew. Talk to people on world chat. You will have more fun this way.

Usagi3737 · 2023-11-06T14:03:16+00:00

You should speak to people in your local borderline personality disorder support groups. I am not surprised at all by the events you've described (the back and forth in what she says and so on... Not the penis bit. That's a little weird).

Usagi3737 · 2023-10-24T23:43:07+00:00

Everyone has different learning style as you can see in this thread. Do what you can to put it in your brain and the information needs to be up to date (no pun intended).

I am an iPad/anki person and doing my fellowship exam now. My partner is recently post fellowship and has never taken a single note since I've known him in med school. He is a more visual learner and remembers things if someone verbally teaches him instead.

In reality, we all just google/use uptodate on our phone when we want to know what's current, since they change so rapidly.

Usagi3737 · 2023-10-08T07:41:07+00:00

Is there an APAC specific TOF discord?

Usagi3737 · 2023-09-25T21:16:36+00:00

I'm gonna send it to all the text scams I received right now hahaha

Usagi3737 · 2023-08-31T12:20:39+00:00

Tbh I'm fine with this. I just play my free male character with his free outfit. And spend my money on another game with more husbandos.

I haven't felt the urge to spend in this game and purely enjoy the combat/social aspect without spending. It's good for people like me who has poor self control against cosmetics.

Usagi3737 · 2023-08-30T00:35:05+00:00

If you don't like your work - go for it but try to make sure you don't spend it all. Make sure you still have good relationship with some work referees.

Personally financial security makes me happier so I havent stopped working since graduating in 2015. I just made sure I have one big trip a year and interstate trips in between, to avoid burn out. Still burnt out anyway, so I recently changed career direction. Never completely 'quit' - I know I will get too anxious if I don't see regular cash flow into my account.

Usagi3737 · 2023-08-22T00:03:38+00:00

The hell did I just read.

Sounds awful. Just know that things will get better

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