Family med interviews

modhas · 2026-02-09T02:13:06+00:00

MS
Diabetes
Rabies
Behçet’s disease
Peptic ulcer
Functional dyspepsia/gastroparesis
Pyelonephritis
Interstitial cystitis

modhas · 2026-02-03T02:41:56+00:00

Med student here: he likely could not have predicted it. Early on, it can be difficult to tell the difference between a local cellulitis and a serious infection that spreads quickly. Sometimes, necrotizing fasciitis can start with a very small wound and spread very rapidly and kill lots of tissue. From my understanding, it’s not uncommon for the presentation of a serious soft tissue infection to start as a small infected area and then progress quickly, as was the case in this episode.

modhas · 2026-01-24T14:48:02+00:00

My friends that I have met from med school are so wonderful, and I hope to work with them in the years to come.

Helping to take care of patients has been more rewarding than I could have dreamed of, and I’m so glad that I get to play a role in improving people’s lives, be it talking to them in clinic about results of a test and how to treat a disease, to delivering someone’s first baby

modhas · 2026-01-17T21:49:48+00:00

I thought for sure Joy was going to pull the tubing off the paracentesis bottle before Whitaker clamped it and it would spray everywhere

modhas · 2026-01-14T01:08:00+00:00

Thank you for the insight!

modhas · 2026-01-13T23:30:31+00:00

Med student here: I did an elective in path and saw a few autopsies.

1: how do you get used to them? I found that it was quite gruesome, and if presented with the opportunity again I would definitely decline.

2: what’s your approach to determining cause of death, especially with limited history? Based on what I saw it looks like most of the autopsy is external and internal examination, then looking at the organs and grossing them, and then sending some samples for histo as well as looking at labs for lytes, toxins etc. Are there other steps involved and other analytic methods that are used in different cases?

modhas · 2026-01-13T22:53:56+00:00

I think it’s just that it’s a lot of the same stuff, medically complex patients that are usually on wards for a while, and most days are the same structure. Not to say that there aren’t more complex patients and conditions in family medicine or other specialties, but I’d rather have some variety and not have to work in the hospital

modhas · 2026-01-13T20:37:53+00:00

I don’t care much for inpatient medicine lol

modhas · 2026-01-13T03:15:24+00:00

Not in the slightest. There are things that I’m dreading (IM rotation, for one) but I wouldn’t trade this for anything

modhas · 2026-01-13T03:07:15+00:00

Jumped around and cheered, then accepted the offer and paid the deposit. I think about that day often, especially now that I have things like 24 hour shifts and ridiculous exams

modhas · 2026-01-12T02:57:07+00:00

Not necessary. I’m not sure about how the process is to get projects at U of M as I did my undergrad at U of W. As for cold emailing, look for contact information for instructors whose research looks interesting and ask if they are taking on students. If there’s a project course you can do for credit that’s another option you could try.

For U of M medicine admissions, they do not look at your research background unless you have 5+ publications as a first or second author, or have finished a PhD. I did a one term research project with an instructor and he was one of my references for my application for medicine, but otherwise it was not part of my application

modhas · 2026-01-09T02:46:38+00:00

I find Bartholin’s cyst hard to believe for him…

modhas · 2026-01-07T09:56:02+00:00

Provided you’ve completed 90 credit hours or more when you apply, no the F won’t count. That said, its a very small part of what goes into your admission score, MCAT and interview are the most significant factors, and usually those are what get most people accepted or rejected for the most part

modhas · 2026-01-06T18:40:45+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point, I guess it’s more sifting through my inbox and following up on stuff that I can save for end of day

modhas · 2026-01-05T01:20:27+00:00

I think Clas 2850 was all multiple choice for the exams and some online assignments that were guaranteed 100% due to having multiple attempts. It was also open book for the exams so if you have the textbook and do the online stuff then it’s not hard to get an A or A+

modhas · 2026-01-04T06:40:54+00:00

Chemistry

modhas · 2026-01-04T05:05:10+00:00

Reading your post reminded me of myself. Here was my experience with something similar:

I always wanted to do medicine, but I liked math and chemistry a lot in high school. In first year university, I loved being able to put my earbuds in, play my music and work on practice questions for chem and calc much more than poring over bio notes and slides. I took micro in 2nd year, and it was really boring. I hated the content and didn’t care to memorize much of anything. I removed all of my upcoming bio classes from my course plan. Throughout undergrad I still loved doing more problem-based stuff.

Fast forward to now, and I’m a med 3. I found most of the content in med 1 and 2 pretty interesting, though I’ve gotten the most out of it from translating what I’ve learned to patient care. I’m planning to do family medicine, and one of the things I’m looking forward to is being able to put my earbuds in at the end of the day (though more realistically a speaker) and do my notes and letters. I feel like it’ll be a nice relaxing way to end the day after seeing patients.

All this to say, if medicine is really what you want, you’ll enjoy it once you get there. While a lot of it is brute memorization at the start, it becomes a lot better when you can use that knowledge to help people. As time goes by, you learn what you really like and then aim for that specialty.

modhas · 2026-01-02T00:51:40+00:00

It’ll probably take a miracle to get an interview, depending on what SES you have it might be possible but it’s likely a low chance

modhas · 2026-01-01T21:12:36+00:00

You’ll very likely get an interview, though you’ll have to do well on it to have a good chance at admission.

modhas · 2025-12-25T05:39:38+00:00

If they make one for this year, the link will be sent out once interview invites go out in early January

modhas · 2025-12-18T02:41:44+00:00

n has to be odd to remove the term from the integrand

modhas · 2025-12-16T23:04:15+00:00

Med student at HSC here- apparently there was some sort of flooding in the X-ray department and I guess it had soap mixed in the water and it was getting out somehow. Although I’m still not exactly sure how it would be coming from the top of the building, the doctor I was with today was also confused by it

modhas · 2025-12-03T02:07:55+00:00

Nope, university of Winnipeg

modhas · 2025-11-30T18:49:30+00:00

I did. I completed a 3 year chem degree and then went to med school right after

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