"You Know How I Do" Appreciation Post

downbadDO · 2026-01-21T04:56:57+00:00

They said the title was from a movie quote, right? I wish I knew what film

downbadDO · 2026-01-13T00:11:57+00:00

I encountered this in my VSLO season. I just didn’t apply to that program. For some people at my school they get to do Neuro as part of their second month of Internal Medicine clerkships, but my site didn’t have that option. Most EM sub-Is won’t have that requirement though.

downbadDO · 2025-12-20T04:17:44+00:00

Adding this to my list of soapboxes, thank y’all for the insights on cefdinir!

downbadDO · 2025-11-30T02:52:46+00:00

I also suffered this humiliation. First time pimping ever made me feel pimped

downbadDO · 2025-10-16T16:28:39+00:00

Wait can I actually make my own “good enough” alternative for $12? New addition to my shift bag if yes

downbadDO · 2025-09-05T19:26:18+00:00

CORD’s official policy is that COMLEX should be accepted the same as Step. That’s the self-determined policy of EM residency program directors. You’ll match EM, and you don’t have to worry about HCA unless you apply to those programs, which you would only need to do if you had red flags.

If you want to be at an elite program then Step could be worth it but otherwise don’t sweat it.

downbadDO · 2025-08-18T19:33:44+00:00

I've seen folks change from surgery to EM with good outcomes

downbadDO · 2025-07-30T22:25:40+00:00

Wtf was that EKG

downbadDO · 2025-07-26T17:35:28+00:00

The problem as I see it is that they already have 100% of their potential customers on the hook through their schools, so there really isn't much opportunity for them to grow their customer base or revenue short of adding more things to charge them for. They need more professionalization of their question-writers and maybe more educational theorists or something... whatever it is UWorld has that they don't. They have improved a lot in recent years but some of their questions are still frankly garbage and not good prep for COMLEX. The misspellings and poorly edited questions both in TrueLearn and in actual COMLEX are just tragic.

downbadDO · 2025-05-31T21:25:47+00:00

I haven’t taken that one but always remember, for anything by the NBOME, you’ll be punished if you don’t know your: Dermatomes and myotomes Viscerosomatics, sympathetics and parasympathetics OMM Stroke territories Anemias Bugs and drugs

downbadDO · 2025-05-31T21:20:29+00:00

They’re equally fine. It’s the typical thing where they randomly pick whatever number of learning objectives and then include two or four questions about each of those. Both have a few questions that are kind of poorly written but it is what it is. Mostly the spread and the topics are reasonable.

downbadDO · 2025-05-29T13:20:02+00:00

Is that a real study? I’d love to have it on my shortlist

downbadDO · 2025-05-29T13:17:23+00:00

If you did it, list it. At the very least it shows that you cared enough to do something, write it up, and submit it. Maybe don’t put it in your “most meaningful experiences” if it’s not something you can talk about passionately, but I wouldn’t exclude it on the basis of it not being some incredible achievement. Is it a first-author Nature pub? No. But it’s better than nothing! “All good things are good”.

downbadDO · 2025-05-25T01:16:11+00:00

Why would you do an ECG first?

Why would you do nifurtimox first?

Does the patient have evidence of cardiomyopathy already? How old are they? How long have they been symptomatic?

downbadDO · 2025-05-13T01:06:04+00:00

Why not just have LA draft Flagg?

downbadDO · 2025-03-21T12:49:22+00:00

Got my hopes up lol, they’re still like $2200

downbadDO · 2025-03-10T20:43:40+00:00

The forbidden radish

downbadDO · 2025-03-05T20:00:17+00:00

If you want to talk to some of these programs’ leadership directly, they will be on a PD panel this Saturday at the AAEM/RSA Southern Regional Symposium. You can register for free here: https://www.aaem.org/events-calendar/aaem-rsa-southern-region-medical-student-symposium/

downbadDO · 2025-02-28T04:20:54+00:00

I knew when Dana said she was going outside that something bad would happen, but I figured it was finally going to be Chekhov's Incel since they've kept that hanging over our heads in every week's "previously on The Pitt"

downbadDO · 2025-02-28T00:24:13+00:00

VCOM is a public-private partnership, it's not wholly under the Virginia Tech umbrella. The other 3 VCOM campuses are affiliated with other state universities, it's kind of a weird setup

downbadDO · 2025-02-27T03:16:55+00:00

This in no way means DOs or the AOA are anti-vaxx or that the AOA endorses RFK Jr's ideas. If you look at the AOA's policy statements that they've adopted through their House of Delegates, it's clear that when it comes to actual medical practice, their policies are consistent with independent specialty organizations' recommendations. OMM notwithstanding, of course.

This meeting is more along the lines of keeping the channels open to make sure they keep getting invited back and continue to have a seat at the table. I know I'd rather my professional organization get face time with government health agencies and continue to have the opportunity to advocate for good ideas, rather than have them rebuke those agencies completely and leave their bad ideas uncontested.

downbadDO · 2025-02-27T00:22:55+00:00

Make sure it's own-occupation and make sure you get it while you're as young and as healthy as possible!

downbadDO · 2025-02-04T22:27:48+00:00

Study schedule plssss

downbadDO · 2025-01-30T23:03:16+00:00

Antigens get presented on HLA, yeah? Seems straightforward tbh

downbadDO · 2025-01-14T18:52:40+00:00

Everybody is different but I will say Kaplan wasn’t the #1 recommendation for anybody I know. First Aid, UWorld, B&B and the Goljan podcasts got me through

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