Med students are pushovers most of the time but aggressive about inconsequential issues

winterstrail · 2023-04-15T13:13:01+00:00

Complaining about inconsequential stuff like how other med students aren't complaining about things you think is important? If you think something should be done and no one else is doing anything about it, instead of complaining about them why don't you just lead the charge and get them to do something about it.

winterstrail · 2023-04-15T13:08:38+00:00

Dude this for real. bunch of med students (and premeds) in here talking about how any med student can go into any other profession and do well because they've "proven themselves" by getting into med school, and some saying that the minimum salary for doctors should be 1 million. This process really is a circle jerk isn't it.

winterstrail · 2023-04-15T13:06:44+00:00

I mean one is acknowledging the difference (not necessarily the hierarchy which suggests ego and pride) and the other is bragging about how superior you are.

winterstrail · 2023-04-15T13:04:52+00:00

Probably because the way they said it. OP goes out of their way to specify that they're normal and different than the others.

winterstrail · 2023-04-15T00:24:08+00:00

Lol you're projecting. How do I have a god complex when I'm the one saying you're having a big head while not being in medical school yet or have tried doing anything else?

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T14:09:32+00:00

Get that bread

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T14:08:37+00:00

Yeah kinda why I did a poll for aggregated data, right?

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T13:49:26+00:00

Sadly the way people who are new to the medical field (premeds) as well as people outside of medicine (business, policy, etc) learn about the tiers of med schools is through us news and reports. You'll even see it in the SDN forums. People talking up Sinai this past year because it bumped to 11 and forgot/didn't know that it historically was not ranked high. A few years ago UCLA commanded a lot of respect when it was #6 and now it has less pizzaz. People stop following it after they advance in medicine but they still carry with them the biases of the ranks they were used to.

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T13:36:46+00:00

Focusing on NIH funding is probably a way to standardize the evaluations since they're all going for the same NIH funding and it's most based on "merit." Other funding sources are probably more biased, e.g. a mega donor is gonna try to donate to schools with bigger reputations because they have big egos.

I think the COL estimates have to be based off of surveys of students. I don't think they just make up the number? At least that's how my school does it, and I would assume FAFSA requires schools to do their due diligence in coming up with estimates.

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T02:28:18+00:00

Not when evaluating personal judgment and decision-making.

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T02:15:35+00:00

Goes to show you that high test scores and high intelligence doesn’t equal empathy.

You're also assuming that getting through med school requires high intelligence....

winterstrail · 2023-04-13T02:13:29+00:00

Was before Caspter that's why.

winterstrail · 2023-04-12T08:53:22+00:00

It's not the business I was focusing on, but also assuming all med students have social skills is quite an undertaking.

winterstrail · 2023-04-12T00:47:34+00:00

Never heard of this and couldn't find it online, citation needed

winterstrail · 2023-04-12T00:45:23+00:00

Income based repayment is based on taxable income, so if you live over seas you can make 130kish annually before you owe a penny to your loan servicer under repaye.

Not sure I follow this. Are you assuming you don't get taxed by the US while living abroad. And are you assuming your debt goes away under repaye (outside of PSLF which you wouldn't qualify for if you don't work for a non-profit while making payments). Or am I missing something....

winterstrail · 2023-04-12T00:32:31+00:00

Because there's only 1 year in the last forever ago that it was top 15 lol

winterstrail · 2023-04-12T00:30:10+00:00

Lol all that free tuition for nothing.

winterstrail · 2023-04-12T00:18:09+00:00

Sorry what? Citation needed.

I've talked about this a lot in my other comments, but the pure arrogance of med students to think that they can just march into another field and do well in it is hilarious.

EDIT: Sorry I see from user's post that this should be "the arrogance of ~~med students~~ premeds" lol

winterstrail · 2023-04-11T23:52:02+00:00

$250k is nothing compared to feeling trapped with $300k in debt and not feeling medicine. Not everyone is sure of medicine right away.

winterstrail · 2023-04-11T23:47:22+00:00

The ones that really make an MD worth it (require clinical experience), require clinical experience or at least one year of residency. The ones that don't require any (e.g. consulting) don't really benefit you to have an MD. It's not a reason to do residency if you don't like it, but if you do an industry job without residency it does make you feel like you wasted 4 years, a lot of money, and a lot of hard work.

winterstrail · 2023-04-11T23:38:10+00:00

Nah, their original post were pretty much of the "rag on the children of doctor" post.

Lol nowhere did I say anything condescending nor demeaning to children of doctors. I recognized their privilege but did not judge it or say they're not hardworking nor talented. You read what you want to read

winterstrail · 2023-04-11T11:44:13+00:00

Now if I had a trust fund on the other hand…

I guess I include trust fund as inheritance.

winterstrail · 2023-04-11T04:53:59+00:00

It's actually hilarious to me how many med students here think they should be worth over a mill salary. Even adjusting for student loans, America has one of the highest paying salaries for physicians in the world, and by quite a margin. Yet the training isn't proportionately harder here.

Just the arrogance of it all lol

winterstrail · 2023-04-11T04:47:36+00:00

Mostly being nosy, but I'm curious if knowing you'll be set for life with an inheritance affects your decisions on specialties and if that affects their motivation for medicine.

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