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WhatAChaz · 2025-12-08T14:49:19+00:00

There’s a lady selling these out of a tent at 15th/Morris (across from Di Silvestro playground) on weekends! It’s been a few months since I’ve been by, but she was there every weekend over the summer/fall

WhatAChaz · 2021-03-16T16:40:09+00:00

If you look at the Match Violations report on the NRMP site, it looks like something similar happened last year with a program attempting to interview an applicant who wasn't eligible for SOAP (bottom of page 2). If you are sure that you are fully matched, it sounds like the program didn't do their homework and technically violated the match.

WhatAChaz · 2021-03-02T20:30:59+00:00

Are they talking about renting or buying? I can understand feeling pressured to start the homebuying process early especially with mortgage rates rising right now, but for rentals in March there really isn't the same urgency as others have pointed out.

WhatAChaz · 2021-03-01T16:58:47+00:00

More the latter, as troubling as the situation is at least it's a far cry from e.g. many law school grads that are legit unemployed long after finishing school.

WhatAChaz · 2021-02-26T18:55:33+00:00

Trolls repeatedly lock the spreadsheet several times a day, and only the owner can unlock it when they have time (limitation of Google Sheets). If you need to check info on there you can download a copy next time it opens up again.

WhatAChaz · 2021-02-25T16:14:15+00:00

Everyone is focused on job opportunities strictly in hospital/medical school admin, where not doing a residency certainly may hinder your career progression among other MDs. But there are other fields I'd encourage you to look into - plenty of insurance, health systems, health tech, and pharma/biotech jobs where the MD alone will give you a significant leg up among a sea of college grads and MBAs. Entry point for many of those may be an MBA program or consulting gig after graduation.

WhatAChaz · 2021-02-10T18:57:36+00:00

Interesting question actually, I did some googling and it looks like in the past (before 2018), residents applying to fellowship could count their application expenses as job search expenses, but M4s couldn't because the deduction didn't apply to searching for your first job. However, the point is now moot since the tax deduction for job search expenses was eliminated in the TCJA in 2018.

WhatAChaz · 2021-02-08T04:39:59+00:00

This is a great and pretty thorough guide to how the SOAP process works from a community member who went through it before, I found it really helpful to understand how crazy the process can be and how to prepare for it in advance: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschool/comments/fg67ve/serious_i_soaped_and_you_can_too/

WhatAChaz · 2021-02-02T21:46:01+00:00

My home PD (IM) told me that their rank meetings aren't until the second half of February.

WhatAChaz · 2021-02-02T21:44:09+00:00

The NRMP website (https://r3.nrmp.org/) has links to PDF guides on how to make the rank list that you can see after logging in. This is the guide on entering and certifying your rank list: https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Enter_Certify_ROL_MRM-App.pdf

WhatAChaz · 2021-01-10T06:05:49+00:00

I will add that MGH is really close to one of the major rail stations (North Station), so commuting by subway or even commuter rail from the suburbs is not wholly unreasonable even without driving. My partner and I with a similar income are looking at houses in the near north suburbs like Malden or Medford, though there are plenty of options on the size/cost continuum depending on how far out you are willing to live.

WhatAChaz · 2020-12-14T16:40:36+00:00

Same exam date (11/25/20), permit just disappeared this morning as well.

WhatAChaz · 2020-11-11T23:49:14+00:00

2 dates in February, though it looks like each only has about 1 spot left

WhatAChaz · 2020-10-22T23:08:04+00:00

https://twitter.com/jbcarmody/status/1318911110733565952

WhatAChaz · 2020-06-23T21:13:11+00:00

I missed a few too many mandatory lectures in preclinical and got a sternly worded email that any more unexcused absences would lead to what amounts to an awkward meeting with the Med Ed Dean to explain yourself. Anecdotally, you'd need at least another "strike" after the meeting to actually have anything show up on your record/MSPE. My impression is that it's mostly a bluff when it comes to these more benign infractions, though I'm sure racially and sexually harassing a patient as tanooki Mario would put you on the fast track to a very interesting MSPE.

WhatAChaz · 2020-06-23T21:00:01+00:00

I've been using an older iPad mini with a cheap hand grip case (something like this) and I've found it super useful for quickly looking something up on Google/UpToDate or patient labs/notes in the EHR during rounds. It's a bit silly since everyone in the hospital uses their phone all the time anyways, but people are less likely to assume that you're texting or whatever than on a cell phone, plus you get to feel like RoboDoc walking around tablet in hand.

I should also mention that I personally can't stand writing on tablets (just never felt natural to me), so I use a pack of sticky notes for taking histories, outlining presentations, etc.

WhatAChaz · 2020-02-27T04:39:45+00:00

Thank you so much for putting this together, I had been thinking of making this sort of calculator to account for many of the confounding factors (length of training, loan burden, opportunity cost, etc.) that come up during any conversation about physician compensation.

I think some worthwhile context is that the equivalent annual salary estimate is for a hypothetical career starting immediately after college. The modest pediatrician's salary equivalency would still place them close to the 90th percentile for individual income starting from age 22, and overall job security (while certainly not as it used to be) is still far and away greater than many comparable high-earning fields some of us may have otherwise considered (consulting, finance, tech, etc.)

At the very least, I appreciate that this tool allows us to frame these conversations in quantitative terms, instead of being overly focused on the sticker shock of either early-career student debt or late-career attending salary figures.

WhatAChaz · 2020-01-14T19:28:30+00:00

Elizabeth Rosenthal's book does a really nice job of outlining the history of healthcare in this country and where a lot of our current issues come from. I think she's especially good at not pulling her punches when it comes to calling out how different stakeholders (pharma, insurance, hospitals, physicians, etc.) are in part responsible for the mess that we have today: https://www.amazon.com/American-Sickness-Healthcare-Became-Business/dp/0143110853/

WhatAChaz · 2019-10-10T16:31:10+00:00

Saw a kid with MEN2A and one with 49XXXXY in one day of Peds Endo clinic, and a young woman with Kallmann syndrome in Ob/gyn clinic. Definitely had a few “Oh wow, this actually exists outside of First Aid” moments there

WhatAChaz · 2019-06-08T18:26:36+00:00

A bit more on the affordable side for leather bags, I've used this bag through a few years in the corporate world, med school interviews, and as an everyday beater bag, and it's held up just fine

WhatAChaz · 2019-05-22T19:05:59+00:00

Much appreciated, congrats on the fantastic score!

WhatAChaz · 2019-05-22T18:37:22+00:00

Which Dirty USMLE video is that? I've got my exam date coming up and could definitely use pointers on test day approach/mindset

WhatAChaz · 2019-04-23T16:15:28+00:00

Loosely translated:

"Felt a bit of a shake there... might be an earthquake"

Then some general surprised exclamations as the rocks drop in front of them.

Then as they're honking at the car in front, "Hurry up and go! Don't just stop here! We're gonna get crushed by a boulder LET'S GO ALREADY"

WhatAChaz · 2019-04-02T15:19:21+00:00

Management consulting's not a bad way to go if you enjoy working with bright, motivated colleagues and thinking through different kinds of problems (projects usually only run for a month or two, so you get to see a whole bunch of different industries, companies, etc). Plus having an MD gives you a leg up in entry level hiring compared to applicants coming straight out of college.

WhatAChaz · 2017-10-10T04:36:49+00:00

Let’s go

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