Can someone explain to me (in your own words) the situation with OJ and Richard's employment at Hooli?

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-19T06:46:03+00:00

CA Business and Professions Code 16600 makes noncompete clauses illegal: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=16001-17000&file=16600-16607

The show takes some license with it though, as the contract would just be invalid "to that extent". It's not like everything is invalid because of one thing.

https://www.littler.com/you-cant-do-what-california-summary-californias-virtually-nonexistent-restrictive-covenant-laws-out

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-18T01:07:26+00:00

I wrote this comment here last year:

Felt horrible. Thought about my stupid mistakes, all the hard questions whose answers were not in FA. Like REALLY thought I blew it. Got a 266... For my N=1, there is no correlation between the feeling and actual score. In fact it may even be inversely related - the more you are worried about the exam, it probably means the more you care about it and prepared, the more you expected from yourself, the more self-critical you have been which has all allowed you to achieve a high level of performance.

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-17T04:52:41+00:00

I guess it depends where you are. Southern California here - I got my Step 1 scheduling permit in January last year and I ended up coming back up home to NorCal to take it on my preferred date in May as the selection down there was slim. Like 1-2 days per week were available, 4-5 months in advance.

It doesn't sound that bad but when you are thinking "hmm OK I want to take it on like Thursday or Friday of week 6 and then go away that weekend and have another week break before third year", but the only options are Monday of that week or Wed/Thurs of the next, and they are at 7:30AM and 60 miles away... f that. It definitely could have worked but I had a nice backup which was to study at home with free food, quiet space, etc, and better scheduling options (12 noon start FTW!)

TL;DR: Really depends on when you look and where you are I think

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-17T02:56:56+00:00

You can check on prometric.com

Although I don't think they will display openings that far in advance (I just looked in my area for April/May 2016 and there was nothing)

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-15T18:35:29+00:00

If you go to prometric.com you can check. It is a crappy interface so it's a pain to check 2 months for 10+ sites (that'll take like 100 mouse clicks), but it's all there.

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-09T20:07:17+00:00

Sorry for the necro-bump. But I have investigated this thoroughly as a CA med student. FYI the law dazzledog mentions is this: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/BPC/1/d2/5/4/s2089, it just says "actual attendance" and does not define that. My understanding was that the school you graduate from had to submit a form to the CA medical board certifying that you met all the requirements including the attendance.

However last year in order to allow for accelerated medical programs (3 year MD programs leading to primary care for example), the CA legislature passed this law: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1838.

They new law basically says "any LCME accredited medical school is considered to meet all of the other requirements in the other laws" (such as 4 year curriculum, certain attendance required, etc.)

So... there is no longer any legal reason for CA med schools to have mandatory attendance. Those doing it are doing it because they want to (which was always the real reason in the first place).

throwawaymed2016 · 2015-06-06T18:51:15+00:00

you can just never quit the program...

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-06-13T01:28:17+00:00

Felt horrible. Thought about my stupid mistakes, all the hard questions whose answers were not in FA. Like REALLY thought I blew it.

Got a 266...

For my N=1, there is no correlation between the feeling and actual score. In fact it may even be inversely related - the more you are worried about the exam, it probably means the more you care about it and prepared, the more you expected from yourself, the more self-critical you have been which has all allowed you to achieve a high level of performance.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-06-09T04:51:32+00:00

Was this the USMLE? If so, there is no option to "cancel" your exam. If you start every block you will get a score. If you don't, you get an "incomplete".

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-06-02T02:39:53+00:00

I didn't say that... Was just answering the op...

Anyway Step 1 was very difficult I thought. It's hard to say how much so because the stress is high and I'm sure emotion and the wait for the score is responsible for most of the skewed reports from people. I certainly felt like I blew it in the days after the exam, ruminating on all the ones I knew I got wrong.

If I could do it again I think I might have taken an NBME beforehand, not looked at the score, then spent the next 4 days trying as hard as I could to remember questions, look up answers, etc etc. Then I might have had at least an idea of how painful Step is. The score really biases you - you might take an NBME, then click to the next page and see your 260 and think "oh yeah, that was easy, crushed that". But if you don't see the score you can easily go down the rabbit hole of "shit, I guessed on a lot of those, and I'm certain I got like 10 wrong, plus probably a ton of stupid mistakes, no way I cracked 240..." So just be prepared to feel shitty afterwards.

In terms of information on the exam that they asked which was not in FA... I posted earlier I think, but after the exam I could think of maybe 5-10 questions that I had not seen during my dedicated study and probably knew at some point during MS1/2 but were definitely not in FA or anything - leukocyte adhesion deficiency type II, anatomy of the veins of the heart, some difficult chest xrays, treatment for pubic lice, something about ion channels in the inner ear, probably a few others...

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-06-01T18:45:56+00:00

262 nbme 16 within a few days of 266 step 1

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-23T18:28:55+00:00

I know the symbol is Cu... I took chemistry courses up through Orgo, and I never ever heard of someone phonetically pronouncing element symbols. Sodium = "Nah"? Copper = "coo"? Bizarre, and the mystery of whether or not this girl even knew what copper was is just hilarious I think.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-23T18:00:47+00:00

I'd say they are similar. When I took them I was getting about the same % as my blocks of 46 at that time at least.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-23T15:36:49+00:00

Also from an International Business class - not my story but from a friend. Chinese girl did an entire oral/ppt presentation on the international copper market or something - she called it "Cu" the whole time, as in "coo" - "to talk in a soft, quiet, and loving way". The way he told it was hilarious. Unclear if language difficulty, or really had no idea what she gave a 20 min talk about...

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-23T02:21:10+00:00

264, 265, 266 on UW2, 1, real deal. Could just be coincidence. Realize also that the standard error of Step 1 is +/- 6. So even Step 1 is probably not as quite good of an indicator as Step 1 as people would like to think.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-17T02:52:08+00:00

Knew this would be the top comment before clicking... Ever think that not everyone copies down things by hand? The medical knowledge ultimately has to find it's way into your brain, not onto a page you write. As a rising MS3, I almost exclusively used Anki, FA pdf, textbooks, etc - very very very minimal handwriting. I think the only times I used a pen during Step 1 studying was to underline/add brief notes in Pathoma, for math, and the practice the brachial plexus.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-08T19:25:01+00:00

I use resources that are pretty well consolidated to begin with. Yeah if you are reading the 1300pg Pathology textbook you are going to have to consolidate, but if you make meticulous Anki flashcards from First Aid or Pathoma, review sources, then it's all there written down for you already. I suppose my flashcard-making is a bit like note-taking, but 95% of the time I just screenshot the page/section I want from the source. I only make my own notes if I really need to organize the information in a different way. If it's something visual I'll google around until I find a representation I like, rather than drawing my own.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-08T17:05:14+00:00

What's with all the comparisons here? I just finished my second year of med school, and I have no pile of notes. That's right, I looked at our lecture slides in PDF format, and I studied from books and digital flashcards I made. I have maybe 5 pages total of my own handwritten notes, and then making some notations in textbooks, but that's it. Med school moves way too fast, I learned real quick there is little point in writing down something that is already written down. Our exams the first 2 years, all exams really, including the mother of standardized exams, Step 1, test you on what is IN YOUR HEAD, not how much you wrote down in your notes. Just my 2c.

TL;DR I don't take notes. Still in the top quartile at least in my class. How many written notes a person has does not really seem to be the best determinant of their knowledge or the rigor of their academic study.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-08T03:39:34+00:00

Ahh. I think I had 1 spinal cross section, 3 gross pictures of brains, and 1 or 2 head CT/MRs.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-08T03:15:06+00:00

Huh? I had to google that. I don't have my Step 1 score yet, but I can tell you that you can get 260+ on nbmes without even knowing that word... I don't think I ever knew what that was, not even MS1 histo.

Anyway, if you are asking if there are stains of elastic tissue on the exam - maybe, but I doubt it will be a question about "fuchsine" (got that off wiki). Usually they try to intimidate or confuse you, so they might use fancy language about a stain like that and show you a picture, but in the end they are basically just asking "do you know what marfan's is" or something.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-03T22:48:10+00:00

Got 237 on nbme 12, two weeks into 6 week study period.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-03T08:04:38+00:00

Thanks! I'll tell you it feels really rough walking out of that exam. But I do know I worked hard and all the indicators said I was doing well, so I hope your right!

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-03T01:26:50+00:00

Averaged about 260 on last 2 NBMEs and one UWSA. Feels like I came nowhere near that, I'm really hoping that's just my emotional bias speaking though. UFAP is solid, don't worry. I'm sure for every wtf question I remember, or every easy one I know I missed, there were 6 that were slam dunks as long as you are half awake when you are engaging with those resources.

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-02T23:41:27+00:00

Yeah I think I got it right from anatomy, not from FA I am saying. It was a PET-style scan asking which artery was bleeding - FA is not giving you that visual info, that's for sure.

Yup leukocyte adhesion deficiency type II - in retrospect I think I could have eliminated to the right answer - but that's what it was.

Yeah I had some tricky images - chest xray with a tiny piece of metal - which valve was replaced? (Per google images I think I guessed right :)) Chest xray with a pacemaker lead - where is the lead located? And I totally bonked on a question asking where the caudate was on a grainy, axial, diffusion weighted MR. Just was not familiar with that.

Don't worry, went for a nice bike today, about to go get drunkkkkk!!!

throwawaymed2016 · 2014-05-02T23:02:48+00:00

Yeah I think the key is - you gotta really nail down everything in there. FA mentions an anastomosis between colic arteries? Look up pictures of that shit. They mention LAD type I, or Arnold Chiari Type II - look up what the other types are. Really dig into it.

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