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re: Med school advice
Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:25 pm to Ric Flair
Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:25 pm to Ric Flair
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LSU-NO always called them L1-L4 for med school back in the day.
That's because Tulane is a block away. L/T1-4
Everyone else refers to law students with an L, but typically the L comes after (1L, 2L...)
Everywhere else in the world (essentially), med students are either m1 or ms1-4.
M0= he starts in the fall and is attempting being clever.
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Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:25 pm to Cosmo
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You will meet the best friends of your life in medical school. It's an incredible experience.
Residency was this experience for me.
I guess it depends on what residency you do, but there was so much more free time in med school (in particular 4th year for me) which lended to a lot more fun outside of work.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:36 pm to bayou_bengal18
force yourself to keep a decent sleep cycle and maintain some type of exercise regimen.
dont get caught up in being alpha omega alpha, 'gunning', etc. be competent and stay sane.
dont get caught up in being alpha omega alpha, 'gunning', etc. be competent and stay sane.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:38 pm to Jizzy08
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Kick Dr. Kennedy in the balls for me, will you??
He’s a grade A+100%ile douche
Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:49 pm to bayou_bengal18
What was your ACT score?
Posted on 5/19/20 at 8:56 pm to bayou_bengal18
I went through so long ago that my advice won’t help.
Back when I went through it was actually hard and we didn’t have all these new fangled limitations in our work hours. We had call every 2-3 night and we liked it.
All jokes aside, don’t get caught up in competing with your friends. The guys who are sitting next to you in class are the same guys you will be passing nurses back and forth with in a few years. They are your Eskimo buddies.
Back when I went through it was actually hard and we didn’t have all these new fangled limitations in our work hours. We had call every 2-3 night and we liked it.
All jokes aside, don’t get caught up in competing with your friends. The guys who are sitting next to you in class are the same guys you will be passing nurses back and forth with in a few years. They are your Eskimo buddies.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:13 pm to BamaHater
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I think the OT is the last place I’d go for med school advice.
Speak for yourself, loser
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:17 pm to bayou_bengal18
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Med school advice
Prepare thy anus for the worth experience of your life and say goodbye to your social life.
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Any advice for a M0?
It is MS0.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:26 pm to DrunkerThanThou
Not everyone who sits in the front row is a gunner, but everyone who is a gunner sits in the first row.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:32 pm to bayou_bengal18
My alma mater! It’s a ton of work, put in the effort and it’ll pay off. Have fun, socialize with your friends, call your family when you can. Your classmates become your family essentially. The summer between your first and second year is kinda the only summer you’ll get for a while so use it well
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:39 pm to bayou_bengal18
Be okay with being average. Because for the top 10-20% of your class it's not really that hard.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:44 pm to MrSpock
the quicker you can accept that you are just an average student in the med school class, the better your social life will be.
If you’re going for the ortho/derm residencies, prepare to deal with the types using PEDs (Ritalin/adderall).
If you’re going for the ortho/derm residencies, prepare to deal with the types using PEDs (Ritalin/adderall).
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:45 pm to MrSpock
Don’t be dismayed by anyone here saying go to dental school or some other place.
I am absolutely not a paper pusher. I do agree that there is a lot less initiative taken by some but not all Hospitalists and PCPs these days.
As a sub specialist, it’s a great time to be in medicine. Certainly the times have changed and I can see some reasons for older docs to be disgruntled however for you and all you know you will hopefully have a fulfilling and no doubt comfortable life.
Med school was the best time of my life. Met my wife and had fun with friends. Residency gets harder, fellowship harder, and what know one tells you is that private practice gets even harder though you get better and more efficient with time.
Agree with not studying over the summer. Enjoy the last free summer you will have.
I am absolutely not a paper pusher. I do agree that there is a lot less initiative taken by some but not all Hospitalists and PCPs these days.
As a sub specialist, it’s a great time to be in medicine. Certainly the times have changed and I can see some reasons for older docs to be disgruntled however for you and all you know you will hopefully have a fulfilling and no doubt comfortable life.
Med school was the best time of my life. Met my wife and had fun with friends. Residency gets harder, fellowship harder, and what know one tells you is that private practice gets even harder though you get better and more efficient with time.
Agree with not studying over the summer. Enjoy the last free summer you will have.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:56 pm to bayou_bengal18
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Any advice for a M0? Will be attending Shreveport in the fall.
get some shitty scrubs to wear for anatomy so you can throw them away and burn it. the smell NEVER comes out.
also lucky for you, step 1 won't matter much. Now the big boys come out to play for step 2
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:58 pm to bayou_bengal18
Get published!
Participate in every study you can.
Get your name out there and do shite beyond school.
And blood tests can now show total alcohol consumed in the last 30 days. So you ain’t getting away with nothing.
Don’t be a dick as the government will set you upto be a multimillionaire, after paying you through residency.
Participate in every study you can.
Get your name out there and do shite beyond school.
And blood tests can now show total alcohol consumed in the last 30 days. So you ain’t getting away with nothing.
Don’t be a dick as the government will set you upto be a multimillionaire, after paying you through residency.
This post was edited on 5/19/20 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:58 pm to htran90
Are they going to make the usmle pass or fail with no scores? I heard a rumor about that recently.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 9:59 pm to bayou_bengal18
Read House of God.
Relax. Have fun while you learn about an amazing profession. It's not difficult, but requires an incredible amount of dedication to reading and studying. Find a routine and stick to it.
The absolute best 4 years of your life - mine were in NOLA, not Shreveport.
Relax. Have fun while you learn about an amazing profession. It's not difficult, but requires an incredible amount of dedication to reading and studying. Find a routine and stick to it.
The absolute best 4 years of your life - mine were in NOLA, not Shreveport.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:00 pm to Ric Flair
Tentatively, Jan 2022 step 1 becomes pass fail
so by the time OP is taking it in the month between 2nd-3rd year, it'll have switched
so by the time OP is taking it in the month between 2nd-3rd year, it'll have switched
Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:06 pm to TigerDL
Soak it up, enjoy it. The next 7-9 years (depending on which specialty you choose) will be the best years of your life. It is absolutely a worthwhile profession and very gratifying. I love medicine and have enjoyed the learning and practicing of it over the last 30 years.
Hopefully you already do, but if you haven't yet, learn to treat people with dignity and respect. Now is a great time to learn to listen, especially when you are dog tired. Remember when you are beat down that if you don't have patients, you don't have anything. Remember that the people around you in the hospital and in your office can make or break you and they deserve to be treated fairly. Don't focus on a specialty too early, but when you do, make sure its one you love, not just one where you'll make a big living (it's nice though when those two things intersect).
The Shreveport school is a quality school. My dad was on the clinical faculty there for 40 some years, and the school is enjoying a renaissance of sorts bringing it back to its glory days of the 80's and 90's. Clinical faculty is strong, research side is doing well and leadership is exceptional there. Good luck and have fun.
Hopefully you already do, but if you haven't yet, learn to treat people with dignity and respect. Now is a great time to learn to listen, especially when you are dog tired. Remember when you are beat down that if you don't have patients, you don't have anything. Remember that the people around you in the hospital and in your office can make or break you and they deserve to be treated fairly. Don't focus on a specialty too early, but when you do, make sure its one you love, not just one where you'll make a big living (it's nice though when those two things intersect).
The Shreveport school is a quality school. My dad was on the clinical faculty there for 40 some years, and the school is enjoying a renaissance of sorts bringing it back to its glory days of the 80's and 90's. Clinical faculty is strong, research side is doing well and leadership is exceptional there. Good luck and have fun.
Posted on 5/19/20 at 10:16 pm to CoolKat
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Read House of God.
I think House of God is a better read sometime between after medicine and surgery wards and before 3rd year of residency.
I used to have an attending who would mutter "bowel run of the stars" under his breath when a big work up was ordered. It always cracked me up.
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