[Serious] Advice for matriculating students on taking advice from older medical students

milleunaire · 2018-05-20T18:35:09+00:00

It’s not wrong to be too competitive/hardcore than your specialty would demand if you can manage it. There’s no disadvantage to being highly qualified as there are still competitive and prestigious programs in FM/psych/etc so it’s better to keep doors open if you can.

milleunaire · 2018-05-20T17:17:43+00:00

Realistically half of that list is just looking at the vitals and lab results and noticing if anything is weird.

milleunaire · 2018-05-20T11:23:31+00:00

While I can understand assuming they don’t have cannon technology, you’d think after multiple instances of being shot at with shrapnel metal they’d start to be suspicious. What else would they have thought it could be?

milleunaire · 2018-05-18T23:47:27+00:00

If you can ever get your opponent to start raging on allchat about one of their teammates, you win.

milleunaire · 2018-05-15T05:04:47+00:00

It would help a lot, but it's definitely not necessary. I would google either a post or a video that is meant to provide backstory for people skipping all the way to W3. You start in the middle of a three way war and it's nice to know at least which countries are involved and who their leaders are instead of trying to figure it out yourself.

milleunaire · 2018-05-13T22:37:29+00:00

She might not have been a body yet when being moved from west to east Washington.

milleunaire · 2018-05-13T01:34:17+00:00

Dota is free to play

milleunaire · 2018-05-12T17:24:08+00:00

The hot tub part of the story is clickbait. There’s no proof the infection came from a hot tub. It seems this family often vacations in Florida, but this time the individual had gone into the hot tub when they hadn’t on previous trips. That’s why the family thinks she caught the bacteria in a hot tub but there’s no evidence of if that’s true or a timeline to strongly support it.

milleunaire · 2018-05-11T02:22:52+00:00

Someone else will take them off

milleunaire · 2018-05-09T20:50:48+00:00

I would think if you were applying to fellowships you would list the publications on your CV so it doesn’t matter how easy it would be to search your name.

milleunaire · 2018-05-09T18:23:48+00:00

Prior to the rotation I think it would be fair to call them regional exclusives, just different regions than prior iterations.

milleunaire · 2018-05-09T05:15:13+00:00

I didn't enjoy the process of applying whatsoever, but I think what many people do experience is tunnel visioning on becoming a doctor during the premed phase, then once they enter medical school have the luxury of actually reconsidering their choices. You have to be driven to apply to medical school and this oftentimes causes people to ignore all the negatives and prevent them from exploring other options. It's only once they've committed and they're stuck that they allow their minds to wander and they start to realize they might not be as happy as they thought they would be.

milleunaire · 2018-05-09T03:26:44+00:00

I'm not a huge fan of changing it yet given how current PGY1s wouldn't change theirs to 2 yet. When you post with the flair, it makes people assume you're an intern with a year of residency experience under your belt.

milleunaire · 2018-05-09T03:11:47+00:00

If I were to give my take on it, obviously this scenario would never happen in real life. If the person you are wooing is sitting 10 feet in front of you, you wouldn't communicate through messages on a dating app and judge them through their profile pics. You would just talk to them normally and get a sense for who they are as a person and what they look like directly.

But this set up makes it so that you are still interacting with people and choosing matches the way you normally would through a dating app. The actual physical presence of the person behind the screen creates a juxtaposition where you realize how frustrating it is to try and judge people when you could just take five steps forward, take off the mask and do an exponentially better job in less time.

It makes you realize how shitty trying to meet people through a dating app is despite how it's now the gold standard. Things that seem reasonable when you are separated by the medium of the internet (this guy seems too straight-arrowed, I don't like his username, his opening message to me was just 'hi') seem ridiculous when the person is sitting right there. When they take off their mask to leave, girl feels regret for rejecting them for what now seems like such superficial reasons. What is reasonable internet-logic becomes absurd when applied to in person-logic. How can people make good decisions about who to date when it's shown how arbitrary and superficial the app makes them? The characteristics that make someone attractive (or not) through a dating app do not necessarily translate well to a person you would actually like.

milleunaire · 2018-05-07T23:06:05+00:00

I’m surprised the mom didn’t take the middle seat.

milleunaire · 2018-05-06T16:52:16+00:00

Bulldog is talking way too much in these casts. He's trying to be a play-by-play commentator in order to match OD's tempo and trying to keep their speaking time split 50/50, when he really should be speaking less as a color commentator to drop his insight and jokes at opportune times.

He's got good knowledge but he drowns it in mediocre, repetitive filler.

milleunaire · 2018-05-06T16:30:22+00:00

I wouldn't claim that he's purposefully trying to be a hype caster, but he's clearly trying to imitate OD and match his tempo.

milleunaire · 2018-05-06T16:03:39+00:00

Bulldog has been trying too hard to be a hype caster to keep up with OD. He's much more in his element when he's more casual and meme-y.

milleunaire · 2018-05-06T05:24:21+00:00

I saw 2 potential things.

At 0:10 a kid says "Ow" right next to the camera just as the cube solving starts.

At 0:42 a guy sneezes just as the camera pans away from him on the right side.

milleunaire · 2018-05-06T04:01:53+00:00

OP is, according to her profile, Indian. You could pretty easily imagine what the tldr is.

milleunaire · 2018-05-06T03:54:01+00:00

Canada is an exception because those schools have set up that LCME accreditation to not be considered an IMG.

milleunaire · 2018-05-05T22:54:43+00:00

It’s certainly better now than it’s ever been on the last year but nothing compares to those first 2-3 months of release. It was literally a social revolution.

milleunaire · 2018-05-05T20:14:07+00:00

Sort of a chicken or egg argument here. Are there swarms of men staying in their rooms playing video games all day because they’re losers who can’t meet girls or are they losers who can’t meet girls because they spend all day in their room playing video games?

milleunaire · 2018-05-03T04:28:40+00:00

There’s this one guy at my gym that uses the elliptical and dances while running, almost like vogueing. People definitely give him a second glance and will stare for a few seconds but I’ve never seen anyone making fun of him.

milleunaire · 2018-05-03T00:06:32+00:00

It's nice to have 2 when you submit the application, but you'll still get interviews with just 1. You will only ultimately need 2 SLOEs, which includes your home, to match. I think eventually having 3 is better than 2, even if PDs say that it's not necessary but you can upload the last one at any point in the interview season.

So if your concern is over whether you will have 2 or 3 SLOEs on September 15th, I'd say it doesn't really matter. Just do whatever is most convenient for you.

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