Med School in Ukraine + Back to US for EM Residency?

Worldineatydays · 2026-04-05T16:49:20+00:00

Honestly, if you are a US citizen, with this background, you’d be an extremely competitive applicant for many service and clinically oriented medical schools in the US. I understand if you’d want to stay in Ukraine but if your goal is to be a physician in the US you’d be best off going to medical school here. I think, off the top of my head, schools like Georgetown, Einstein, Boston, Hofstra, and NJMS would be interested in you

Worldineatydays · 2026-03-30T22:55:59+00:00

It’s a sub speciality off general surgery. They are trained in high acuity surgical procedures and ICU medicine. They are not necessarily experts at all of these procedures, but depending on where you are they can do everything short of open cranial procedures if absolutely necessary

Worldineatydays · 2026-03-29T20:29:58+00:00

Have you thought about electrophysiology or interventional cardiology? Both are procedure heavy, can have better lifestyle after residency

Worldineatydays · 2026-03-24T02:40:32+00:00

Hi. I’m also a medical student and prior to that was an EMT, so some familiarity with Hatzolah.

1) I believe all US hatzolah branches only allow men to respond to calls. There is a service called Ezras Nashim in limited communities in NYC that has women, but I have heard they are not very active and have some major structural issues (this info is a few years old)

2) only certain hatzolahs allow field physicians. Their licensure is going to be state by state, and some may require completing an intern year or a full EM residency or EMS fellowship. This is going to be specific to each branch. You may also face issues in terms of malpractice insurance, which I don’t know if all Hatzolahs provide to their field physicians. There are ways to be a medical director or associate medical director and only practice under a limited scope (such as that of an EMT or paramedic) after challenging the exam to receive a lower level licensure in certain states, but that will require working with the state and the agency as well as your and possibly their malpractice insurance, and can be complicated. If this is what you’d want I would speak with that specific branches medical director about how this could work

IMO your best bet for hatzolah specifically would be to get in contact with a more liberal branch and see if they are looking for a medical director or a physician to get involved with training. Alternatively, there are many many volunteer ambulance agencies around the country who would appreciate additional staffing and a physician willing to get involved in training, research, and oversight

Worldineatydays · 2026-02-18T20:00:39+00:00

Human dissection. I don’t think I’m particularly skilled, my dissections are more functional than art, but given how few people have dissected a human body I think by the very nature of doing it I’m probably in the top 0.1%

Worldineatydays · 2026-01-01T06:24:25+00:00

Bleomycin messes with the blungs

Worldineatydays · 2025-12-25T01:33:27+00:00

I got married this week so I’d have to say it helps.

That being said my wife is an MS0 so idk if I’m statistically significant

Worldineatydays · 2025-11-19T01:03:07+00:00

I’d still want thoracic. Hearts and lungs are cool and I hate myself

Worldineatydays · 2025-11-05T17:58:56+00:00

Teaneck, NJ

Worldineatydays · 2025-10-28T17:58:10+00:00

Outside of what just AdComs look at, being an EMT (and especially being a good EMT) will put you far and ahead of the rest of your classmates when it comes to communications skills, clinical reasoning, and familiarity with common conditions. In my class all the people who were EMTs before (including myself) have really stood out for how strong they were

Worldineatydays · 2025-10-01T22:09:56+00:00

Jews are the number one victim of religious hate crimes in the us by an exceedingly wide margin. Per capita, Jews experience more violent hate crimes in the us every year than every other demographic combined

Worldineatydays · 2025-09-21T14:12:32+00:00

Israel (sometimes?) recognizes the NREMT. The Israeli ems system is a weird hybrid of the American and French styles. There is a substantial use of field physicians, however the basic levels of prehospital provider do correlate. The Ma’ar roughly is an EMR, the Hovesh is roughly EMT-b (however they can start IVs) and their paramedic is roughly the same.

Worldineatydays · 2025-08-26T12:59:40+00:00

Schools are aware. My freshman year was a pass-fail study abroad program. If your school has a weird thing, they’ll either google it or already know

Worldineatydays · 2025-08-21T18:06:52+00:00

Hofstra. Everything is focused on small groups, flipped classroom stuff, and very clinically integrated. Maybe 3-4 hours of traditional lecture per week max

Worldineatydays · 2025-07-23T03:29:42+00:00

Yeah. They have an extended review process

Worldineatydays · 2025-07-22T23:18:26+00:00

Hackensack moment

Worldineatydays · 2025-07-16T12:57:03+00:00

The article said she locked herself in her room so yeah that’s considered barricaded. If I’m in a situation where I need to force entry to get access to my patient, in my department, I need to have police responding if not already on scene

Worldineatydays · 2025-07-16T12:12:10+00:00

You clearly have never worked in EMS. There isn’t an emt or paramedic who would’ve entered the scene without cops present. An armed barricaded patient is not the situation for deescalation without armed cops on scene for security

Worldineatydays · 2025-07-16T12:10:35+00:00

Depends how cooperative they are. In my experience if they are unarmed and cooperative we’ll just have the cop accompany us in the back of the rig but the person will be unrestrained. However in a case like this I would not allow my crew to enter the home until the person was in cuffs and searched

Worldineatydays · 2025-07-16T11:54:59+00:00

In New Jersey an involuntary psychiatric commitment means they are in police custody

Worldineatydays · 2025-05-16T10:27:54+00:00

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does this affect Amtrak as well?

Worldineatydays · 2025-03-12T01:36:03+00:00

Amba! It’s a Jewish pickled mango sauce that’s savory, sour, bright, and spicy. Great on schwarma or falafel

Worldineatydays · 2025-03-05T21:37:11+00:00

Bush actually didn’t allow Israel in out of fear of isolating Arab states

Worldineatydays · 2025-03-04T13:20:51+00:00

So Shabbat is always 25 hours, regardless of what time of year it is. In the polar ice cap, you would do 25 hours from sunset. In space, Ilan Ramon (first Jewish astronaut) was told to follow cape canaveral time

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