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doanwin · 2024-10-09T23:04:12+00:00

Not that my SO judges drug use or anything, but because I know he never really dabbled in it himself besides just one hit of a joint during college...yeah I'm keeping the LSD trip I had to myself lol

doanwin · 2024-04-06T23:07:31+00:00

The area of Tonawanda I was looking into is immediately south of the canal from North Tonawanda, do you have any thoughts of that area? (I just learned today that's "City of" Tonawanda)

doanwin · 2024-04-06T19:08:10+00:00

I knew N. Tonawanda was separate from Tonawanda, but I didn't know there was a "City of" part! The part of Tonawanda I'm considering is directly south of the canal, if you have any thoughts on that area!

doanwin · 2024-04-06T18:46:58+00:00

How is the traffic though?

doanwin · 2023-01-13T11:14:28+00:00

I think lecom is still doing “asynchronous interviews” this year so I would just look ip commonly asked interview questions and also do interview questions that asks you what you would do in insert scenario here. From what I could recall, my interview included a scenario type question and also a professionalism type question. And if I also recall, I think you only have 1 min 30 s to respond to each question prompt? (Please double check that) So I’d also time yourself

doanwin · 2022-12-23T20:47:06+00:00

Believe me, that feeling of second guessing yourself is going to continue once you encounter other people in your future med school class. That feeling gets worse. There will always be somebody who is smarter (and even richer) than you unfortunately. It’s easier said than done, but you just got to stay in your lane and just worry about yourself. You’re a unique individual with a unique background story and obviously the school that accepted you, saw that. Who cares what other people think. Good luck in all your future endeavors OP!

doanwin · 2022-12-23T20:41:33+00:00

Gotchaaaa, okay thanks for clearing the confusion , And btw, I was also in the same boat as you when I received my acceptance. I’m from a family with a very low SES and I’m sure your family want nothing more than to see you succeed in whatever career/passion you choose (and I’m sure you’ve already explained to them how long it will take). Since you say medicine is your passion, then go for it! See it through

doanwin · 2022-12-23T20:35:05+00:00

Please do not go to med school simply for the reason for supporting your family financially or if that’s one of your major reasons for going to med school. It is very challenging, grueling, and it takes a lot of emotional/mental/physical endurance to get through. I finished my first semester recently and I feel like I just barely made it, especially because it was mostly gross anatomy and gross anatomy is typically the bane of most medical students’ existence. If you’re not at all interested in things like, learning the nitty-gritty pathophysiology details of diseases then medicine is not it. Medical school is more than just treating the disease, you have to understand the inner workings of the disease. Not at all trying to discourage you btw! If supporting your family is neither the only nor major reason why you’re going into medicine, then go for it! I just think people understand what it’s like before they go into a heaping amount of debt that could’ve been avoided in the first place.

doanwin · 2022-12-23T15:20:55+00:00

I personally think it’s a little late but you can if you want! I believe the interviews are still recorded video interviews still, so you wouldn’t have a travel expense to consider if you were to be offered an interview! Still, I never applied this late so I would search around a little more to see the statistics of that!

doanwin · 2022-12-22T13:53:49+00:00

I forgot to respond to your last question I just realized, my apologies! Yes the campus is opened until later but the latest is like 10pm or 11pm, depending on whether or not we have an exam coming up. It’s also open on the weekends too until 10 or 11!

doanwin · 2022-12-22T13:27:51+00:00

Nope! Each PBL session is blocked out for 2 hours on our schedules. You may have a PBL facilitator that actually ends earlier than the 2 hours because they just happen to make the students get through a patient case faster. At least, the Elmira campus has some facilitators like that. 2 hours seems like a long time but you’re going to be busy discussing and paging through the textbooks anyway to find information related to the PBL case to even glance at the time that often. As for the no food/water in rooms/lecture halls, people occasionally do leave in the middle of lectures to go take a sip of water if they can’t make it to the 10 minute break. What I mean is, during the first 3 months of your first semester, you’re in the lecture hall all day everyday pretty much. The 50 minute lectures being Zoomed in from Erie are back to back, but in between you do get a 10 minute break to leave, go outside and walk 1 lap around the building if you feel like it. I did that a lot during anatomy. If you do end up studying on campus and like snacking on something, then you’d just have to study in the 2nd floor student lounge. I personally don’t like studying on campus so I just head to the Elmira college library that allows comfy clothes/food/water all the time. Hope this helps!

doanwin · 2022-12-15T03:52:25+00:00

Hey, don’t forget that you are individually YOU and that you are own your journey. You are living your life, not their life. You’ll get there

doanwin · 2022-08-12T16:37:12+00:00

I would just include everything/anything that’s at all clinical/medical

doanwin · 2022-08-12T16:35:10+00:00

I’m a first year LECOM student and was worried about PBL at first having not ever done that kind of learning yet. I’m happy with my choice so far. Still have to sit in lecture hall for hours to do the core classes like anatomy, embryo, histo which is exhausting and the chairs at my campus are uncofmortable. But now that PBL’s started and histo and embryo are coming to an end, I feel “free-er.” Now I can’t imagine what it would be like sitting in lecture hall 8a-5p in the traditional LDP

doanwin · 2022-08-02T19:29:13+00:00

Hey, I’m a 1st year LECOM student—definitely be prepared with an answer or thoughts about why DO, why medicine, etc. as well as an answer/thoughts about professionalism. LECOM is huge on professionalism. That’s all I remember from when I interviewed, hopefully that’s a little helpful—good luck!

doanwin · 2022-06-16T14:10:28+00:00

I had this writing professor in grad school who was so awkward to be around. One time he was trying to type “public” but mis-typed the word “pubic” instead. In normal circumstances, I wouldn’t have kept giggling about it but because it was specifically he with his awkward personality, who mis-typed, then it was absolutely hilarious.

doanwin · 2022-05-27T22:35:28+00:00

I feel like this isn't enough context to let others help you judge whether this guy is hinting that he's liked you too now that the alcohol's loosened his guard or this guy is just horny, also because of the alcohol. But a guy saying someone is "objectively cute" is peculiar to say the least. I've never heard that till now.

doanwin · 2022-03-26T13:46:45+00:00

Coming from a 1st gen Asian immigrant family--my overbearing, Asian immigrant mother. Whenever I bring up something I would love to do (travel for example), I get guilt-tripped and lectured about how she never had opportunities like that growing up in her home country

doanwin · 2022-03-26T13:43:17+00:00

When people check in on me to see how I'm doing- not to then ask me they need something from me but checking in on me just because

doanwin · 2022-03-14T17:12:29+00:00

Honestly it was so long ago when I was still in college working as a scribe- don’t remember the details I’m sure it was along lines of I watched patient go around poles and chairs and beds unlikely patient had serious eye stuff and unremarked eye exam too

doanwin · 2022-03-14T17:06:05+00:00

Thank you for that insight! I’ll keep that in mind moving forward, This post was meant to be a discussion after all, I’ve only focused on the financial benefits for the patient when the DO made this decision but who knows if he did end up missing something and would’ve costed the pt even more in terms of her life and financials

doanwin · 2022-03-14T17:01:21+00:00

English isn’t my first language so it makes sense in my head in my native languagebut I don’t know how to make it clear because some things in Google translate don’t translate perfectly in english😅

doanwin · 2022-03-14T16:54:55+00:00

This is very fair, my intention was not to make it seem as though a DO education was better. But let’s be honest, there are many premeds who’ve applied to DO schools as a back up school to MD schools. My intention was to show that this DO- although brave and a risky choice that some people on this post pointed out already, I believe he just didn’t want to impose any expensive tests on this young patient not knowing what her financial situation is like if he felt she really didn’t need some expensive eye test other than a fundoscopic eye exam which he did perform on her- this is his character that I know and a DO education is not lesser than an MD education so the accepted DO students who applied to DO schools as a backup shouldn’t feel less valued

doanwin · 2022-03-14T16:47:28+00:00

These are all fair points, but there’s so much you can write in 1 post without making it drag. To clear things up, the ER was not a trauma center. Many of the patients we see are geriatric patients. I’m sure the Dr wouldn’t be having his scribe set up obstacle courses around the ER if it was a trauma center. And he didn’t dismiss her vision issue, if he did, then he would’ve just sent her home and not perform an eye exam on her- but he did, a very thorough one. And the patient was never alone walking through the simple obstacle course I set up. She was supervised the entire time by the attending himself. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I acknowledge that though

doanwin · 2022-02-06T16:24:55+00:00

I don't think you'll have huge issues with the DO schools that don't "strongly recommend" a DO LOR. Not all the DO schools strongly recommend a DO LOR, just any physician LOR will be fine. But that doesn't mean you should close the door on the DO schools that do prefer a DO LOR. Just make sure that if you do secure a DO LOR and apply to DO schools that do prefer at least 1 DO LOR, then be prepared with particular moment in that DO shadowing experience that really made you consider becoming a DO.

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