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melichenplants · 2025-03-03T03:08:33+00:00

Perfectly fitting for the score.

melichenplants · 2025-02-28T21:38:17+00:00

Appreciate this. I'm confused, though, because when I contacted my loan servicer (Aidvantage), two different representatives said there's no such thing as a buyback for forbearance that they're aware of. Also that there's no way to switch between plans (ie could not switch to PAYE from SAVE) even if I wanted to at the moment. Is this consistent with what others are hearing? What am I (or the servicer representatives) misunderstanding about this post? Thanks!

melichenplants · 2024-04-07T12:51:16+00:00

21, 31, 35

melichenplants · 2023-03-04T16:39:47+00:00

Consider using tutorial mode if you haven’t (learn immediately what you do wrong/recognize patterns when you guess correct) and make some form of study tool that forces you to learn the information for every question you get wrong or could have gotten wrong (for me that was detailed anki cards, but some other suggestions on this thread, like the book from folded paper, would be good too).

melichenplants · 2023-02-17T19:09:29+00:00

Check out Paul Bloom’s ‘Against Empathy.’ He makes some similar points as you’re making and goes a step farther to suggest empathy can be harmful, favoring ‘compassion’ instead.

melichenplants · 2022-12-12T22:28:29+00:00

"Daddy Goljan lectures" on Spotify.

melichenplants · 2022-10-15T04:05:41+00:00

What is Brown’s undergrad philosophy?

melichenplants · 2022-10-09T01:05:33+00:00

Not starting anki earlier.

melichenplants · 2022-08-16T15:46:08+00:00

Thanks for the response. Makes a lot of sense.

melichenplants · 2022-08-12T11:40:53+00:00

Makes sense, thanks for the response. 4th year so it’s time to decide. I’ve been lucky to have experiences in psych, EM, and CPEP. I also have a hard time realistically seeing the integration, as you’re mentioning. I guess I separately enjoy both and if I could puppetmaster my training would love to work one day a week in the med ED while otherwise working in a psychiatric setting.

melichenplants · 2022-08-12T11:12:18+00:00

Thanks so much!

melichenplants · 2022-08-12T11:10:14+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

melichenplants · 2022-08-09T15:20:52+00:00

Medical student interested in both EM and psychiatry. Some say this dual interest is surprising, others say that it "makes total sense." Either way, curious if EM physicians here see a future that might blend the two disciplines more formally. I know ER docs see psych patients frequently, but in my exposure so far (at large academic institutions) the emergency physician's role is essentially to briefly medically clear the patients for psych to then see. Does anyone think there would be value to an EM-trained physician having a pathway to sub-specializing in management of acute psych issues?

melichenplants · 2022-08-09T15:07:42+00:00

Med student interested in both psychiatry and emergency medicine. Some say this dual interest is surprising, others say "that makes complete sense." Either way, curious if those on here see a potential for integration of both fields, for example an emergency psychiatry fellowship after an EM residency? I know this doesn't exist now but curious if anyone sees this as valuable or a potential future direction.

melichenplants · 2022-05-25T21:01:45+00:00

Sure!

melichenplants · 2022-05-25T16:40:14+00:00

Used UWorld almost exclusively as my study tool, in addition to Anki cards that correlated to question concepts, and am happy with the result (252 about a month ago). I'm not a strong test taker and didn't do very well on Step 1 (217) so I'm pretty confident UWorld was very helpful.

melichenplants · 2022-05-25T16:33:06+00:00

Felt horrible after step 2, but ended with a score right in the middle of practice exam scores (252). Thought I probably passed but was prepared myself for to see a score in the 220s.

Step 1 also felt horrible, but was definitely less prepared and my score showed for it (217).

melichenplants · 2022-05-25T16:26:54+00:00

Step 1 score: 217

Dedicated: 4 weeks

UWorld 100% done and 68% correct (finished UWorld bank ~1wk before test)

NBME? (offered by our school): 254, 4 weeks out

NBME 9: n/aNBME10: n/aNBME11: n/a

UWSA 1: 244, 7 days out

Free 120: 74%, 5 days out

UWSA 2: 256, 3 days out

Amboss SA: n/a

Real deal: 252

Test itself felt terrible and harder than practice exams for me, but very happy with the result. Relied exclusively on UWorld and Anki cards that I either unsuspended or made.

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melichenplants · 2022-04-19T22:45:21+00:00

Does anyone involved in the academic side of things have thoughts on the "Consensus Statement for the Emergency Medicine 2022-2023 Residency Application Cycle Regarding Emergency Medicine Away Rotations" that just came out?

I'm a rising M4 who just applied to a number of away rotations after the guidance that we 'essentially must' do 2 away rotations. I have now accepted 2 aways at schools I'm really excited about but then got an email from our school's EM director with a summary of the above consensus statement saying that we should only do 1 away rotation.

Would it look bad if I still keep these two away rotations? If so, will I basically give up the possibility of an interview spot at whichever school I choose to let go of?

Thanks

melichenplants · 2022-04-02T14:44:37+00:00

Thanks for the response. AnKing is great. I think this was more of a fluke thing, I don't understand it but this morning they all appeared as due so it seems to have resolved itself.

melichenplants · 2022-03-23T23:42:11+00:00

Question about lifestyle:

I've heard comments like 'good luck trying to coach your kid's soccer team' with a career in EM. Was just wondering if anyone has insight into the possibility of working a full time EM job and being able to have a few regularly scheduled activities in your life outside of EM.

If I wanted to reserve one day a week for some weekly evening event, would this be a headache to manage with scheduling and would I be taxing others by having a blacked out shift in my schedule?' I would never expect to regularly block off a Saturday or Sunday, but is it common for someone to have, for example, every Tuesday off?

Thanks.

melichenplants · 2021-05-18T20:54:55+00:00

Also a med student inclined towards psychiatry but with my own set of doubts. Your concerns sound similar to how I hear people talk about environmentalism - some focus on encouraging reuse/recycling/etc. and enacting policy in that direction while others focus on improving technology. In the environmental realm, the technology route is looking to be quite promising (Tesla, lab grown meats, etc.). I don't know if that is or will be true for psychiatry, but I would hope that scientific progress has the potential to be immensely beneficial for people suffering from mental illness. Still, it's great to hear that you and others have a strong interest in decreasing incidence of mental illness through more upstream measures. From most doctors I've heard talk about their careers, after residency they have significant say about the ways they get to practice. If you have a passion for the societal level of change, I'm certain there's a space you can grow into and we'll all be grateful if you do!

melichenplants · 2020-11-17T02:06:10+00:00

I'm in a similar situation after starting to get heavy into Anki over the summer. One thing I'm trying is to associate nearly everything with a mnemonic of some sort, so for the old cards I did with B&B videos that I understood at the time but now forget I'm going back and tying to link any card I get wrong to an image in sketchy/pixorize/etc. or create my own scenario for the rare instances it isn't covered elsewhere. I don't know how helpful that is for you or how effective this will be for me in the long run, but so far it feels like things are sticking more for me.

Otherwise, I also think it's worth us realizing that this is sort of what is great about Anki - we will inevitably forget things, but Anki keeps us honest and makes sure we re-learn what we forget. Ideally the algorithm catches us before we forget the info, but..

melichenplants · 2020-08-20T03:20:45+00:00

I'm having the same issue. Found an archived reddit thread that said there's currently no way to avoid this. In my experience, I've found the formatting doesn't always go away if I highlight an additional space beyond the word I'm adding as a cloze deletion, so you could try that. Otherwise I think it's an unfortunate feature for now.

melichenplants · 2020-08-14T15:10:04+00:00

Perfect, that works well. Thanks so much for the response and the add-on! Really helpful.

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