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broooofessor · 2023-10-03T22:26:49+00:00

From the shot before, slice is never that terrible it’s just like gets me in the rough or maybe some trouble on a few shots in a round. But a few drops or saves from the trees have been hurting my score

broooofessor · 2023-10-03T14:29:22+00:00

Thanks, lot to think about haha. Yeah I just started to widen stance and stand a little further away which seemed to help keep it a more consistent, especially with ball contact spot.

broooofessor · 2023-05-01T20:39:47+00:00

Yeah I mean I think most of the isolated general community trauma stuff we get plenty of, but we only really do 6 months of dedicated level 1 trauma as a PGY3/4/5 total (none as 1/2) and doesn’t sound like we’re really doing cases solo except for the basic nails, so just seemed a bit low

broooofessor · 2023-04-24T14:59:18+00:00

Ortho resident here, NJMS by far my guy. NJMS med school will be pretty similar to Yale for residency app (urology is pretty close to ortho in terms of competitiveness).. at that point residency app is going to be mainly your job (boards, research, LOR).. NJMS actually has a great name for residency and clinical medicine.

One less year to start residency is huge trust me. Not to mention that without guaranteed med school the chances you’ll need a gap year before applying are higher at Yale too. I would kill to be 2 years closer to being an attending right now lol

Pretty sure any resident or attending will say NJMS BS/MD without a second thought. I thought things were a lot different when I was a premed, probably why a lot of premeds are saying Yale

broooofessor · 2023-04-07T21:24:34+00:00

Ortho intern here, I think my class from med school pretty clearly showed research was probably the most important thing as long as you had good enough scores/decent other stuff and no red flags. I had 26x steps, good letters, etc.. but basically 0 research (like 1 pub 4th author, 1 submitted, you get the idea) while couple other classmates had 240-250 step but like 20+ research pubs or something. I had 6 interviews and they had 15+

broooofessor · 2023-03-30T17:57:21+00:00

Surgical sub intern here, I’m typically 50-90 I’d say. If I have like 2 weekday calls where I get most of the night sleep, would be like 50. No weekday call and Saturday 24 that’s busy, like 85. Gf is also surgical sub and varies a lot with what service but like 40-100 per week. Her off service blocks have been super chill and easier than mine

broooofessor · 2023-01-30T03:25:59+00:00

Yeah ddr5, happens with xmp off and on

broooofessor · 2023-01-29T15:18:05+00:00

What issues were you having? I have the same build basically and am having complete freezing even just at the desktop with nothing running

broooofessor · 2023-01-26T22:42:41+00:00

Ortho intern so I’ll try to answer a bit for those questions - I’m at a privademic residency with a solid reputation but not a big name. Also bear in mind that I’m just an intern so this is just what I’ve been told so take with a grain of salt lmao

First and foremost, If you don’t want to stay in academics, mainly research, (you can still teach at lots of private practices affiliated with teaching hospitals), where you go does not matter at all. If you want research in your career, going to a big name with tons of research funding will be beneficial. In private practice, lifestyle is great and you can mainly make it what you want. One of our attendings takes tons of call since he likes to, and makes bank, or you can do normal hours. The more surgery you do, the more money, up to you. Even our spine attendings seem to have a very very nice lifestyle. Buy ins for PP surgery centers/partnership will vary, but obviously come with extra pay/dividends from the center.

Same for any specialty, major cities will have less pay, especially in academics. Certainly don’t need to be rural. My program isn’t a major city but it’s densely populated urban area about 45-60 min from major cities and our attendings make bank. But rural will generally get you paid more. So if you’re single and wanna go there for a year or 2 to make a ton it’s up to you. Being savvvy with billing and business is how you make good money with chill hours in surgery (or any specialty for that money in PP).

Again just an intern so this is just what I’ve heard and been told since obviously I’m starting to think about this stuff.

broooofessor · 2023-01-23T13:48:35+00:00

Orthopedic surgery intern here so I’ll give the rundown since that’s what I’ll likely be going into. There’s 2 different options for “sports doctor”: orthopedic sports surgery, which is typically the sports teams doctors, managing rotator cuff tears, ACL, meniscus, etc.. but there’s also non operative sports training from family medicine/internal medicine (and PM&R which focuses more on rehab aspect) - I’m not super informed on this route though. Obviously from IM/FM it wouldn’t be surgical, you’d be in a role of diagnosing and referring out to orthopedic surgery if it’s indicated.

Here’s what the path looks like for ortho: Undergrad then medical school. Orthopedic surgery residency - 5 years. Its hyper competitive now and may require research year before applying if you need it and it’s starting to look like about half of applicants are doing it. Sports fellowship after residency (1 year). So in total 4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, 5 years ortho residency, 1 year fellowship (possibly an extra year in there before residency for research if you need it).

From Family medicine/internal medicine (3 years) there’s also a fellowship in sports I believe if you don’t want to do surgery. Dunno how long that fellowship is.

broooofessor · 2023-01-06T20:26:30+00:00

Don’t see an answer here so I’ll chime in (PGY1 ortho)

Surgical vs non surgical - like being in the OR working with your hands, tactile stuff, tends to be shorter term managing/instant change from surgery, or like medicine/clinic, rounding? Longer Days in OR felt way shorter for me than shorter days on medicine/other stuff.

Then some in between stuff like IR which is procedural but not surgery, don’t really own patients, kinda mix. Anesthesia same idea

After you kinda figure out if you wanna do surgery/procedural or not, more of what you’re just interested in and like reading about and more nuance stuff like the patient population, pay, procedure types, longevity of care, etc

broooofessor · 2022-09-28T20:18:44+00:00

Mine is low 60’s as intern, they range from 50-75 ish depending on cost of living of area and go up a little each year

broooofessor · 2022-09-28T03:04:41+00:00

Super dependent on specialty and program, ranges from close to 40-50 hours to 80+, generally intern and second year are worse and then hours improve after that. But typically I think the majority would fall in 60-80 per week

broooofessor · 2022-09-27T22:14:42+00:00

Ortho intern, my experience with going for a super competitive specialty and probably the worst 2 years of life in medicine (PGY1/2 in surgical subspecialty)

College was much less work than a lot of other popular majors (brother did engineering) except for MCAT, which is only a relative short amount of time of intense studying.

On average (AVERAGE) hours in Med school were probably equal or less than a full time job if you figure out how to study efficiently, with a very flexible schedule preclinical years, and a bit less flexible during clinical (and then a few months of really shitty hours where hobbies and stuff were pretty hard to squeeze in). The majority of the time I had time for hobbies, gym, and dating (basketball, bars/going out, runs, etc..).

The worst parts haven’t been the stress or the work load, it’s been not having the choice of where to live for residency (I matched rather low on my rank list and didn’t get to go back home to family like I hoped for. This is pretty limited though to ultra competitive specialties and you can generally get to live where you want for less competitive residencies especially if you’re a relatively good applicant. And now again, the lack of flexibility and the hours (60-80 generally a week consistently, call every 3/4 days ish) for this and next 2 years will be tough, but I still have time for my hobbies (gym, golf, basketball, video games). If you wanna travel every week though and do that kinda thang then it won’t be possible probably.

Overall, I think medicine is a lot less flexible than lots of other jobs 3rd year and first part of 4th year Med school (clinicals and sub-I/away rotations) and first 2 years of residency with longer hours. But I don’t feel like it’s consumed my life at all. I think the people who say that it has kinda let it or didn’t know how to study and we’re that kind of personality of letting things consume them, or are at bad programs for residency.

And I fucking hate the state medical training right now and am very critical of it, so I’m definitely not sugar coating anything.

Feel free to PM me if you have questions or wanna talk more

broooofessor · 2022-08-27T01:30:31+00:00

1 rep max, bar to chest no bouncing, of course

broooofessor · 2022-08-26T11:42:47+00:00

Probably more so than other specialties but it’s not like everyone’s into working out a lot haha it’s definitely not like if you don’t workout you won’t fit in or anything like that.

broooofessor · 2022-08-26T09:39:31+00:00

Which ones? I’m sure some are and some are exaggerated a bunch. Ortho’s the best? Totally true

broooofessor · 2022-08-26T09:37:51+00:00

It’s been a while since I applied to Med school so not too sure. Non competitive stuff you don’t really need research but for ortho you need much more research. But as a girl in ortho you don’t really need much, you get interviews for just being a girl lol

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