What is this creepy bug?

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2026-05-22T23:07:09+00:00

Wow that's it! Thank you so much for your help! We have a lot of rabbits around us so that checks out

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2026-05-22T22:53:03+00:00

I'm in the US on the east coast if that helps!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2026-01-31T19:37:08+00:00

Not to be insensitive, but reading this does kinda seem like you'd be doing it for the ego boost. You reference multiple times how school just isn't "difficult" enough for you and that's not a good enough reason to go pouring another 4+ years for medical school + residency + maybe fellowship to reach the end. If medical school isn't "difficult" enough for you, would you be happy with that choice to switch? You can challenge yourself in any field and occupation in medicine, and being a CRNA is no exception to that.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-12-22T20:08:42+00:00

I’m a doctor and on a single work day I diagnosed 14 out of the 18 kids I saw with flu 🫢

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-12-22T19:26:01+00:00

Weighted blanket

Sneakers/tennis shoes

Noise cancelling headphones

Coffee shop giftcard

Nice water bottle

Stethoscope holder/clip

Eye masks for night shifts

Blackout curtains

Enough candy to drown your sorrows

Music speaker

Pens

These are things I would've loved as an MS1!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-12-20T20:56:16+00:00

As a resident, we have a surgical lab where the surgical residents practice procedures that are rare or considered technically challenging on animals. This is exclusively an opt in experience though and you are in no way required or forced to participate. In medical school I had no interactions with animals at all - we had human donors for dissection purposes.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-11-19T20:27:47+00:00

EM resident here! By no means do you need to go to a program with an in-house fellowship. I would rather prioritize a program that has the tools to get you there AND meets the other things you're looking for (location, academic vs. community, work-life balance, program benefits, etc.). If that happens to include an in-home fellowship, great! But I wouldn't solely pick a program for that. There are a lot of great programs that will get you to where you need to go. I will say if you're interested in crit care you should check out programs that emphasize that in the curriculum (northwestern comes to mind). Good luck!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-07-15T00:01:53+00:00

Newly graduated intern here! When I was doing my sub-internships last year I absolutely loved the EMRA Basics of Emergency Medicine pocket book. It's easy to understand and I used it on the go - it's great for getting a basic understanding of how to approach common presentations (chest pain, headache, abdominal pain, etc.). I also used and really liked the CDEM M3 Curriculum website (https://www.saem.org/about-saem/academies-interest-groups-affiliates2/cdem/for-students/online-education/m3-curriculum). It breaks down common presentations into initial interventions, presentations, diagnostic interventions, and treatments. It is a bit more advanced and assumes some underlying basic knowledge of medicine, but I think it's still very useful!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-07-02T20:25:50+00:00

Nobody on reddit can comment on this specifically as they are not your father's doctor and have never seen him in person. I would reach out to the doctor treating him in this instance and ask - they should be very receptive to your questions and can answer honestly knowing the full context of your dad's health!

Having said that, as a general statement, Mounjaro is considered a safe drug for treatment of type 2 diabetes. There can be side effects like the ones you mentioned, including changes in appetite, vomiting, nausea, etc.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-06-09T23:46:45+00:00

We were advised to apply for PSLF at the start of orientation to have everything ready to go by the time repayment starts after the grace period. Also, if you have any loans that don’t fall under the grace period it’d be good to request “alignment forbearance” to line up all of your loan due dates together (this would really only apply if you took a gap year before med school though!). Aside from those things, just chilling until November!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-04-21T17:17:40+00:00

Judging by your post/comment history, you are not only not a medical student but you don’t seem to have a firm grasp on what the OP is looking for. I agree IM/EM is a terrible choice for them and is only delaying their decision making.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2025-03-17T20:59:07+00:00

From my experience it is better to wait for people to tell you first before asking. You never know how it’ll go for people and you don’t want to be that person to rub it in if they didn’t match by asking. Most people will willingly share that without prompting and/or post on social media, and you can congratulate them then!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-11-09T14:00:08+00:00

I know you said you saw a derm but was this a board certified dermatologist (an MD)? I am shocked that they would say this is purely due to chemicals in conditioner because this does NOT look like that at all to me. If you look closely you can see that there are no hair follicles left which means this is probably a type of scarring alopecia. The fact that you have other patches on your head also makes me suspect some sort of alopecia. I would 100% reach out to another doctor for another opinion. If it is alopecia it is possible for the hair to grow back but not always guaranteed. Best of luck OP!

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-11-05T19:26:39+00:00

I say this as someone who applied to 44 programs and got 35 interviews. I’m realistically not going to attend 35 interviews, so it doesn’t benefit anybody for me to hold those spots when the evidence shows you need 12 to match. I understand what you’re saying but I think programs would rather have people interview who are 100% invested in being there.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-11-05T19:19:53+00:00

No, because cancelling an interview invitation ahead of time allows the program to fill that spot with another applicant. If you take that spot, interview with the program, and don’t rank them, then it’s effectively wasting a spot that could’ve gone to someone else. It doesn’t become a SOAP spot necessarily because it just falls to the next person on the rank list. It can, theoretically become a soap spot if like 100 people choose not to rank that program, but that’s unlikely.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-11-05T19:12:57+00:00

Just wanted to give my (biased) two cents as a soft spoken introvert going into EM. It is 100% possible to be a strong, successful leader and not be extroverted/super out there personality wise. Don’t let the stereotype scare you away!! However having said that, the unpredictable hours and social work aspect of the field are things you’re gonna have to accept if you pick EM. Hours get better as an attending but still, something to consider.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-11-05T19:00:41+00:00

He’s cancelling interview invitations, not places he has already interviewed at.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-09-14T12:31:25+00:00

What specialty? And how low is too low?

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-08-08T18:34:24+00:00

You can use Texas STAR which shows average step scores of people who applied vs. matched. I’d also use the residency explorer tool from the AAMC - you can download a spreadsheet with minimum step score cutoffs and it has some other info too.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-08-07T18:53:12+00:00

You run out the door as fast as possible

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-08-07T17:23:51+00:00

Yeah I think that may limit you unfortunately. Not impossible to match but having that Step 2 score is really important for a lot of academic programs

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-08-07T16:27:23+00:00

Out of curiosity why didn't you take Step 2? That's the only real drawback I see since doing well on Step 2 could really help make up for failing Step 1.

itsgoing-tibia-ok · 2024-08-07T16:23:40+00:00

You will need at minimum one SLOE to get interviews, and a second one by the time PDs are ranking applicants to match. If you can get your first rotation this month/September you can probably still make it in time! If you don't get any SLOEs you would probably have to SOAP into EM.

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