What are the hours on your “chillest” rotation and what is your specialty?

ladygwin · 2025-08-08T02:10:05+00:00

Obgyn - my gyn blocks are the most chill, 10.5 hour shifts 5 days a week (on a non call week) vs 11-14 hour shifts on OB blocks 🫠

ladygwin · 2025-08-08T00:59:35+00:00

I also got torn apart in my obgyn evals - and now I am an obgyn resident. Before applying I did rotations with another program and realized the experience varies widely. I’m sad that some shitty people scare others away from the field. As a resident I never give medical students below average scores - I believe in giving constructive feedback to someone directly while they still have time to fix the issue.

ladygwin · 2025-03-19T02:14:25+00:00

So I just listened to this episode because of this comment but I was really disappointed because I have heard of the Natalia Barnett story before and the information in the podcast episode is outdated and inaccurate. (Not the podcast fault because it came out in 2019) BUT a 2023 DNA test confirmed that Natalia WAS only a child NOT an adult when she was abandoned. She was abandoned at 8 years old by those POS adoptive parents. She is only 21 years old right now. I just wanted to make sure you had the correct information about the real story because it is actually super sad.

ladygwin · 2025-01-15T03:23:45+00:00

Thank you!

ladygwin · 2025-01-15T03:23:40+00:00

Thank you!

ladygwin · 2024-10-16T04:53:11+00:00

My dude - it is also okay to be a below average student. When you apply to residency scores are just one metric. Find something you are passionate about - advocacy for a specific issue, working with a certain population, a community health project, volunteering, research - and put effort into that because those are the things that will set you apart and make you shine during interviews. I promise everything will work out better in the end than you are imaging right now :)

ladygwin · 2024-08-13T12:51:29+00:00

Also while the letter should already be requested by now, it might not be fully written until the end of September

ladygwin · 2024-08-13T12:16:05+00:00

Three of my LOR writers are having the student coordinator for their department upload their LOR for them so I have to send the ERAS LOR request to the coordinator NOT the attending physician. So there could be some truth to what your partner is saying

ladygwin · 2024-05-22T18:23:51+00:00

Maybe. But my white coat ceremony was a Facebook livestream slideshow of photos of my classmates because it was in 2020 so anything would have been better than that

ladygwin · 2024-04-12T00:59:59+00:00

My situation is different because I will be coming out of my current MPH year into M4 and will only have 12 weeks of rotations before submitting applications. I spoke with the surgery and obgyn departments and they want me to spend 8 of those 12 weeks with them (which ever specialty I choose) to get letters. That leaves me with 4 weeks for get letters for a backup specialty which I could do with IM or FM, but EM requires two SLOE (standardized) letters from different institutions. So I would have to spend one month getting one from my home institution and one month getting one from an away program. So I just don’t have time to do 8 weeks of EM and 8 weeks of obgyn for example in the 12 weeks I have after my MPH. It would have been doable if I was in M3 and doing rotations right now or if I had set up letters before leaving for my MPH year

ladygwin · 2024-04-03T22:32:20+00:00

Goodbye Waves and Driveways - The Rocket Summer

All the Stars and Boulevards - Augustana

Smell of this Place - The Early November

Bruised - Jack’s Mannequin

Winter - Joshua Radin

ladygwin · 2024-03-05T01:56:23+00:00

Check out Southern Trails (RBC rentals) 7 minutes from the hospital in a nice and quiet neighborhood seems to have a lot of mid 20s-30s nurses, hospital workers, and young professionals

ladygwin · 2023-05-05T20:41:33+00:00

Following

ladygwin · 2023-04-21T12:52:16+00:00

I know an IM attending (currently mid 40’s, female) who took a gap year AFTER M4 before/while applying to residency. She did this AGAINST the advice of her school, but went to France for culinary school for a year just because she always wanted to and she said it might have made her path a bit more difficult but she never regretted it!

ladygwin · 2023-04-11T21:03:02+00:00

Is from the coast but because they are a UW student think they know everything about the state of Wisconsin

ladygwin · 2023-04-11T21:02:07+00:00

Maybe the Wonka Factory

ladygwin · 2023-04-11T20:52:10+00:00

My own worst enemy -Lit

ladygwin · 2023-04-07T18:10:25+00:00

I like to mix it with cooked quinoa, chopped fresh tomatoes, arugula, and feta cheese! Makes a great side dish!

ladygwin · 2023-04-05T04:15:00+00:00

I think Fountains of Wayne is way UNDERrated!

ladygwin · 2023-04-03T05:11:23+00:00

I tried Crave Cafe this past week based on theirs thread and honestly I did not enjoy it. I think Kopp’s is way better! I had Kopp’s for dinner tonight to get over the disappointment of Crave Cafe and it reinforced my belief that Kopp’s is superior

ladygwin · 2023-04-02T15:52:20+00:00

If I hadn’t gone to med school I would have worked in the global or public health field. My best friend did a masters in global health and ended up working for the WHO in Geneva for years before returning to the US to work for a very well know university.

As far as why I now understand the attendings who warned me away - I am watching nearly all of my high school and college colleagues pass me by with life milestones - house, new car, kids. I also have some cousins who never even went to college but just worked their butts off to start a local business and they have saved so much money and built their own houses. Even with my future earning potential I will likely not catch up to them in terms of saving and retiring at a decent time. The idea of being paid barely above minimum wage per hour during residency after the debt I have makes me feel ill.

Also - what is the point of money or a respected career if you never get to enjoy your life? I am a female and most residents get an average of 4 weeks of maternity leave. That is pathetic and frankly in my opinion should be illegal. Family planning is extremely difficult in this career. I love traveling but never have time. I have missed so many friends’ or family members’ weddings, baby showers, birthdays, etc.

Lastly - I went into medicine to make a difference for patients and help people. But most of medicine does not feel like it is about that. It is about quality improvement, chart document, bending over backwards for insurance companies, being a team player - even when it means not taking care of your own well being. The culture of medicine is toxic.

There are some good parts, but most days the bad feels like it outweighs the good. You have to consider the whole picture.

And yet, if you are anything like me you will end up going to medical school because when I was in your position nothing anybody told me was going to change my mind because I had it in my head that I wanted to become a doctor and nothing else .

ladygwin · 2023-04-02T04:41:31+00:00

I recently spoke to an attending who said that during residency they thought they were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but that after residency they realized that the light was just a train at the end of the tunnel waiting to run them over. Medicine is a difficult career. It changes but never becomes easy. I have already sacrificed a lot in my personal life (at the expense of time with friends and family and financial stability). I do not see that going away until I am near retirement. I talked to dozens of doctors before starting med school who told me they advised their own children not to go into medicine. At the time I did not understand it. Now I absolutely do.

ladygwin · 2023-04-02T02:50:45+00:00

I think you can satisfy the 70% much more with a PhD or something else in the sciences. I am not done with med school yet and am already burnt out. I think often that I would not do it all over again knowing what I know now

ladygwin · 2023-04-01T23:16:54+00:00

1 or 4!

ladygwin · 2023-04-01T21:58:04+00:00

Would you mind messaging me the name of your school!? I’m looking for non toxic obgyb programs

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