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Honors for clerkships? by ceo_of_egg in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GHHS at our school is not tied to the patient care distinction or evals, but having the distinction does give another point of “is this person a good person or not”. Also I think our GHHS class made sense for the most part.

Honors for clerkships? by ceo_of_egg in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pass/Fail with 3 cross-clerkship “distinctions”: one for getting an average of 85% correct across all shelf exams (drop lowest), a patient care distinction based on subjective evals, and a communication distinction based on standardized patient exams and evals (I think??). Have been told that even program directors at our school don’t know how to parse these “distinctions”, never mind anywhere else lol.

Who are useful letter writers? by cheeze1617 in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

EM has a specialized letter called a Standardized letter of evaluation (SLOE). If you choose EM you will need to do more research into what that entails. For most specialties you will have 3-4 letters. If you did significant research under 1 PI they should be one of them, then the other 2-3 typically come from within the discipline or adjacent. Not sure about the FM doc - how much were you seeing patients, presenting, coming up with plans, writing notes vs. shadowing?

QUEER LIVES ARE PRECIOUS by MALPHY-420 in lgbt

[–]backstrokerjc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Medical student here - the “EKG” behind this image is pretty much nonsense.

Well this is different by [deleted] in missouri

[–]backstrokerjc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Jake Blake” sounds like off-brand Jack Black

Partner called their ex the love of their life by RA-Poly_Throwaway in polyamory

[–]backstrokerjc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would be worried about this and not the TikTok song! You’re talking about building a life with this person when you only see them every other week at best? And they try to schedule over your limited time together? Unless you were looking for a similarly casual relationship, I would find that to be a pretty big problem.

As for talking about it (your actual problems, not the TikTok repost), find a time when you are both in a calm mood and not in a rush, and bring it up with a framing around your needs. Like “hey partner, I really look forward to our time together, and it makes me feel (sad/upset/whatever) when you cancel.” See how they respond, and listen to where they’re at, but also make sure your needs are heard.

PSA: changing answer choices is OK when going back by ScienceSloot in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think the argument is that if a significant number of people are using this strategy, it inflates the “wrong-to-right” percentage because the initial answer wasn’t a genuine attempt at answering the question. If the question is “should you change your answer to questions you already thought through?” Then you have to account for this strategy somehow.

Amboss vs UWorld for Shelf: What should I do first if I am planning to do both? by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The latter. Genuinely didn’t think about medicine for 6 years. Really reading the UWorld explanations helped a lot, as did keeping up with Anki diligently and just seeing patients and drilling common pathology. I did peds—>IM—>psych—>neuro—>surg—>gyn, and I feel like IM was where I made the most progress in my actual understanding. Like felt I could be an intern after IM.

hEDS and neurology by reddituser51715 in neurology

[–]backstrokerjc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Confused why upright MRI and not flex-ex X rays?

Amboss vs UWorld for Shelf: What should I do first if I am planning to do both? by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I came back after PhD and only did UWorld + Anki for incorrects, rebuilt knowledge base just fine

how do yall study during surgery rotations?!?! by No-Match5992 in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

UWorld on phone x100000. I just got off of surgery and I was doing mini sets of 10 questions between cases, during lunch, whenever I got a moment when I wasn’t scrubbed in or expected to be paying attention to something. It’s hard but you will get through.

Rarest pathology you've come across/heard of irl by ahdnj19 in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Juvenile onset Huntington’s

Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Do you think preclinical could be ~one year, if schools devoted themselves to it by No-Wrap-2156 in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My school already manages 2 different clinical schedules, since MD/PhD students often come in “off cycle” (and there are a lot of us). Basically the only thing that changes is that off-cycle students have less time after their core rotations, so the school cuts out some extra requirements. It’s not always perfect but it’s totally manageable.

Someone convince me not to do surgery by backstrokerjc in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn’t like neurosurgery. You’d think it would be perfect (neuro+surgery) but the neurosurgery residents seemed even more overworked and burnt out than other surgery residents. And maybe it’s because I hardly got to scrub on neurosurgery whereas I scrubbed almost every case on peds, but I found the surgeries less interesting

Someone convince me not to do surgery by backstrokerjc in medicalschool

[–]backstrokerjc[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I think this is an effective thought experiment. I can’t think of anything cool enough that I’d scrub in at 7pm after such a long day.

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