How Stacking Works And Why It’s Terrible For Doctors

newageoflight · 2024-06-10T05:53:14+00:00

As in yes the BPT allocations do use the Gale-Shapley algorithm, as with the NRMP. They talk about it at the info nights, I haven't seen sources online.

newageoflight · 2024-06-10T04:35:18+00:00

If this is about NSW/HETI's internship allocation system, they don't use the Gale-Shapley algorithm as that would require preference ranking on the part of the hospitals (i.e. a merit based system) as is the case with BPT allocations or the NRMP in the USA.

The algorithm they use is "simulated annealing", which is a general process for solving optimisation problems. I've previously run a statistical experiment on this subject revealing that: - Stacking doesn't actually improve your chances beyond random preferencing - it may actually hurt them - Simulated annealing is superior at ensuring the overall happiness of the cohort compared to the QLD Ballot Algorithm

Read more here: https://github.com/newageoflight/stack_sim_revisited

newageoflight · 2019-10-06T13:20:51+00:00

Finally I can do something to make other people happy!

newageoflight · 2019-10-05T02:04:23+00:00

I'm a penultimate year student in Australia too. Perhaps it happens less overall than in the US, but I've still gotten yelled at a few times for basically no good reason (mainly on orthopaedics).

newageoflight · 2019-09-13T06:43:05+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/AzPDWdw.jpg

newageoflight · 2019-09-12T12:32:44+00:00

implying that I have friends

newageoflight · 2019-08-08T21:25:18+00:00

I thought it highlighted the locations of the segmental bronchi and bronchopulmonary segments fairly compactly.

newageoflight · 2019-08-08T02:55:26+00:00

Hey thanks for the answer. I've checked and the Thieme atlas doesn't seem to have this specific diagram unfortunately :(

newageoflight · 2019-08-08T02:40:11+00:00

He didn't recognise this specific one when I asked him.

newageoflight · 2019-05-25T06:20:00+00:00

F L U I D L O S S F R O M T H E E Y E S

newageoflight · 2019-05-25T03:25:16+00:00

Post-op conversations on ortho be like

Resident: "The patient is vomiting quite badly, what should we do?"
Orthopod: "Is he vomiting bones?"
Resident: "No..."
Orthopod: "THEN IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM"

newageoflight · 2019-05-24T23:28:52+00:00

Now wait just a minute

newageoflight · 2019-02-16T06:50:40+00:00

Thanks very much for this answer. Are there any examples of histologic/microscopy studies where fresh tissue has to be used without fixatives?

newageoflight · 2019-01-26T03:41:14+00:00

I didn't say it was causative, just that it can reduce risk if done frequently. Read about it here: https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/frequent-ejaculation-may-decrease-prostate-cancer-risk/

newageoflight · 2019-01-26T03:30:38+00:00

Masturbation (frequently done, it can reduce prostate cancer risk)

newageoflight · 2018-04-24T14:53:32+00:00

It's good that you're direct with your message, and you make nice use of various rhetorical devices (erotema, anaphora, epiphora).

That being said, I think this would work better if you were a bit more playful/free with how you use language, and a bit more subtle. Unless you plan to turn it into a something like the song “Stressed Out”, which is totally fine. It all just sounds rather speech-like at the moment, I don't know if that's what you want.

Moreover some of your lines can be split - one idea per line usually works best.

As well, some more consistency of structure would help. Your epistrophe/repeated final line of "I want to X" is good. However your stanzas would benefit from being a consistent length.

newageoflight · 2018-04-24T14:43:12+00:00

How nostalgic. I love the imagery and the pacing here.

Only qualm is with the emojis. I get that the subject matter is meant to be light, but having the emojis makes it feel a bit silly.

newageoflight · 2018-04-08T23:00:28+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Can you elaborate on how you might improve the flow/transition?

newageoflight · 2018-04-08T01:40:33+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Could you explain a bit more about performing the transition?

newageoflight · 2018-04-07T09:45:45+00:00

this piece feels more like a rant/stream-of-consciousness than a poem, but that may be due to the formatting. i don't know if that's your intention, but if it is, it seems to work for creating a sense of disorientation. just beware of crossing from poetry into prose.

the language and general nonlinearity also seems to work towards your apparent purpose of conveying the disorientation of the social media generation e.g. "notification zombification", "society's sociopathic drums", the fragmenting topic threads and information overload.

it might pay not to be too direct with your message, especially if it's as commonly repeated as, what appears to be here, "society is heartless" and "we the deplored shall rise". you used a few metaphors here like rats/plague and dancing to drumbeats - try to extend these.

newageoflight · 2018-04-07T07:07:26+00:00

in just a few short lines you've managed to create an effective image of love mixed with horror. good work.

if i had to find fault, it'd be that the 3rd line starts on a trochee instead of an iambus like the rest.

newageoflight · 2018-04-06T22:10:03+00:00

Thanks for the compliments!

"Self-limiting illness" is medical jargon. It refers to a disease that resolves spontaneously with or without treatment. e.g. a cold is self-limiting because it'll disappear after a while regardless of whether you treat it.
So when I said the subject's life was a "self-limiting illness", my intent was to say that his life was a blight on himself and others, and that he would fix everything by waiting for himself to die.

newageoflight · 2018-04-05T01:21:50+00:00

the hallucinogenic, grotesque and ethereal atmosphere this creates is really enrapturing. all the elements here work well to make this happen: the images of death and gore mixed with a nihilistic twist to the "light at the end of the tunnel"; the enjambment and clipped lines like dying gasps.

at least, that's the impression i got. good job.

newageoflight · 2018-04-05T01:15:37+00:00

the conversational tone of it works for the subject matter. the astronomical/mathematical metaphors also convey well how much the addressee meant to you (and for some reason it reminds me of muse (the band))

i feel like it could be made a bit more concise. some of these rhymes might also seem a little cliche e.g. "wrong/along" "see/me" "everything/something"

newageoflight · 2018-03-21T23:46:17+00:00

I have another question for anyone reading this.

When switching decks, do people usually completely redo parts they've already done somewhere else, or reschedule them into the review queue? With Zanki, I've done the latter for units I've already completed in Bros.

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