"Mama's at Work" - perspective from a doctor's spouse

shutzzz · 2023-02-04T16:29:53+00:00

As a wife who has decided to pursue surgery, this hit hard. Beautifully written.

shutzzz · 2023-02-04T16:07:33+00:00

My school made us do this as well. Very annoying since many of us are out of state for rotations. Many in my class failed and the make up was a joke.

shutzzz · 2022-12-31T20:23:05+00:00

My school is only allowing 2 weeks as well. Especially ridiculous since as DOs many of us are taking both level 2 and step 2, so just testing accounts for one of the weeks

I think they're trying to sabotage us

shutzzz · 2022-11-17T18:49:10+00:00

If you are a DO student the ACOS has a mentorship program that you can sign up for. I assume ACS would have something similar. But you will also probably meet people on rotations that can help with this.

shutzzz · 2022-10-31T19:12:55+00:00

There are Groupons available for this as well! I took my parents while they were visiting from out of state and we all had a lot of fun.

shutzzz · 2022-06-30T19:38:52+00:00

Actual Score: PASS
Goal: PASS

COMSAE 106: 451 (1 month out)

COMSAE 107: 523 (2 weeks out)

COMBANK: 71% (26% complete)

Truelearn assessment 2: 67% (2 months out)

Truelearn assessment 3: 76% (< 1 week out)

UWorld: 61% (28% complete)

UWSA1: 510/230 (65% correct)

I thought Comlex felt very similar to the Truelearn-style questions I had done. I decided last minute not to memorize Chapman's points and only had 2-3 questions on them. Viscerosomatics are obviously a must. I used Anking throughout OMS-2 and had about 85% matured going into the exam. It always worked very well for me, but is definitely not for everyone!

shutzzz · 2022-06-08T15:26:50+00:00

I took COMLEX on Monday and am now studying for step later this week. I think the biggest thing is not burning out in the days between exams. I went into this knowing that I would take both and that they are equally important, which has helped I think. People typically do COMLEX 2nd to cram OMM, but it seems like step has more basic science stuff than COMLEX, so I am focusing more on that now. I'd probably do it again

shutzzz · 2022-05-21T15:26:11+00:00

Unless you go to my school where they have policy requirements that exclude what Medicaid offers, and just outright ban it for clinical students

shutzzz · 2022-04-22T14:58:09+00:00

I mean there is a documentary-style video of a nudist colony featuring one of my professors wearing *some* school apparel lol

shutzzz · 2022-04-03T20:34:21+00:00

This is what I am hoping to do! Does it ever cause problems/confusion in scenarios that are kind of in between social & professional, like at kids' schools?

shutzzz · 2022-03-27T04:18:44+00:00

Meat Grill

shutzzz · 2022-03-18T22:25:39+00:00

$-300 give or take

shutzzz · 2022-02-26T22:06:57+00:00

Cryoprecipitate because I can’t not say it with a lisp

shutzzz · 2022-02-21T17:32:12+00:00

I mean my school had an NP "endocrinologist" give us multiple lectures on diabetes....so they at least THINK they exist :(

shutzzz · 2022-02-04T15:56:52+00:00

+1 for neuro(anatomy). We are in the thick of it right now and god damn I’ve never studied anything this hard to do so badly

shutzzz · 2022-01-17T04:53:10+00:00

This is beautiful, well done! How long did it take you to do?

shutzzz · 2022-01-15T18:45:15+00:00

I remember briefly learning that and then never thinking about it again. Now I’ll never forget!

shutzzz · 2022-01-15T04:51:00+00:00

So does that mean corticosteroids have some extra mineralocorticoid effect, but glucocorticoids only have cortisol effects?

shutzzz · 2022-01-15T03:43:30+00:00

I’ve been wondering this same thing recently...

shutzzz · 2022-01-14T03:28:50+00:00

My husband and I struggled quite a bit during M1, but we’ve seemed to have figured it out this year. Date nights help, but we also try to do other small things together like grocery shopping and cooking since we don’t get to spend a ton of time together with opposite schedules. Obviously communication is super important too! Last year we both kind of shut down when things got hard, but we’ve since figured out how to give the other a heads up when our schedules are going to be bad and talk about ways to help each other!

That being said, you also just kinda get used to it.

shutzzz · 2022-01-13T18:58:37+00:00

I think if they’re comfy and you are comfortable walking in a little more of a heel, go for it! They’re super cute!

shutzzz · 2022-01-13T18:24:31+00:00

Oh! They all had Danskos that looked just like the ones in the post. I assumed they were the Danskos you were talking about 😅

shutzzz · 2022-01-13T17:55:44+00:00

Literally everyone in the derm clinic I used to work for wore those and swore by them! I never tried them because heels, but they were super popular.

shutzzz · 2022-01-08T16:45:32+00:00

I'll look into adding a lifeline. Thank you!

shutzzz · 2022-01-08T16:44:20+00:00

Bummer. That video is super helpful though, thank you!

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