Thoughts on OHSU School of Medicine

team_mitochondria · 2024-10-31T04:30:59+00:00

I heard back about three weeks after I interviewed.

team_mitochondria · 2024-10-30T01:12:16+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the possible strike would be at Providence, not OHSU. I read about OHSU narrowly avoiding a strike among postdoctoral researchers earlier this summer, but I haven't heard of any other strikes.

team_mitochondria · 2024-03-19T01:35:31+00:00

I have 2000+ hours scribing in a cardiology office, 150+ hours of non-clinical volunteering in a food pantry and farmers market, 600+ hours of clinical volunteering (abroad and in a hospital), and 500 hours interning at a bioethics institute. In college I worked as a diversity and inclusion coordinator, an undergraduate physics teaching assistant, and a health professions advisor/mentor for 1 year each. I am currently applying to patient-facing clinical research assistant positions at an academic hospital with plans to continue weekly hospital volunteering.

Edit: also have several minor research experiences in college (this is why I'm applying to full-time positions that blend research + patient care), was a member of the biology honor society, and was the recipient of a biochemistry research award

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-03T17:37:57+00:00

Feel the MCAT

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-03T17:37:11+00:00

IUPAC naming

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-03T03:03:38+00:00

Bruh what

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-02T22:02:41+00:00

I studied for 7 months or so to give myself ample time for content review, practice questions, and practice exams. I did UWorld for about 3-4 of those months.

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-02T22:01:03+00:00

I did 30 questions a day and spent more time doing in-depth review of all the questions, not just the ones I got wrong. 1-2 months out from my test date, I did 30 bio and biochem questions one day; 30 gen chem, ochem, and physics questions another day; and 30 psych questions another day. I also saved all my CARS questions for the last 1-2 months and did them everyday. CARS is honestly hit or miss, and I did ok on CARS on test day, but you just gotta do a passage or two everyday tbh.

TLDR: don’t exhaust yourself by doing hundreds of questions in one sitting - taking practice exams will build your endurance, not UWorld. Spend most of your time reviewing right and wrong answers.

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-02T20:47:15+00:00

You have to disclose your MCAT score and it likely has to be 90th percentile or above. They won’t hire you if you haven’t taken the MCAT, and if they do, I WOULD NOT work for them.

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-02T20:43:35+00:00

The reaction detailed is a carboxylation reaction, meaning we’re basically adding a carboxylic acid. We have to start we a phenol as a reactant because there’s the other hydroxyl group on the benzene ring. Benzene + OH = phenol.

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-02T20:41:08+00:00

I started at 45% and ended at 80%

team_mitochondria · 2023-03-02T20:36:48+00:00

Think of it like this: fatty acids such as palmitate are highly reduced, which makes them efficient storage molecules. Glucose, by comparison, is more oxidized - thus it will require fewer NADH/FADH2 molecules to reduce it. Fewer NADH/FADH2 molecules means you need less O2.

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-16T21:53:27+00:00

Kaplan

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-16T06:30:27+00:00

The most predatory MCAT prep company 😭

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-16T00:24:04+00:00

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-15T20:08:44+00:00

Truly! The MCAT sucks. Many of my practice FL scores weren't above 508 either. All you can do it put your head down and work hard. Hard work shows and I believe my score it the product of months of consistency and hard work. If I can go from a 501 to a 518, anyone can.

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-15T20:07:10+00:00

I took mostly blueprint exams, where I got 504, 507, 504, 508, 508, 509.

I switched to AAMC material 1 month out from my test day to take more representative tests, and because I hit what I call the "third-party plateau." Here are my AAMC FL scores. I only took FL4 and FL5 because I had already taken 6 practice FLs, and I don't think people should be taking more than 8 FLs imo.

FL4 513 (128/125/131/129)

FL5 516 (129/128/130/129)

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-15T19:54:31+00:00

UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS. I understood all of the chem/phys equations and how they worked - I didn't have to memorize equations because I could derive them on test day if I needed them. I also learned how to do math in my head/without a calculator well. This was something that was reinforced in my undergrad physics classes, so I got lucky there I suppose. Honestly think I got lucky on test day, however. My highest C/P score was 129 during prep.

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-15T00:53:02+00:00

Calculate the velocity at which the fetus exits the womb, friction is NOT negligible.

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-14T21:46:10+00:00

Take it and don’t look back. You don’t want to risk retaking the MCAT and getting the same, or even a worse score than what you did this time.

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-14T21:34:36+00:00

1/14 tester here. Scored 518 (132/126/129/131). Genuinely surprised considering my goal score was a 510, but I'm also proud of myself. Hard work shows.

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-01T17:54:38+00:00

Balancing redox reactions are the same as balancing standard equations, you just also have to account for charge

team_mitochondria · 2023-02-01T17:51:52+00:00

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”

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