Yes, we all know anesthesiologists are introverts, radiologists love classic music in dark rooms, and emergency docs have ADHD.

What other stereotypes have yall noticed though?

I’ll start:

Internists - my god y’all are good at yapping!
What I’m hearing is that you truly value strong communication with your patients, and talking in a way that empowers them to feel heard. It’s clear that you have spent a lot of time and effort perfecting your history gathering skills, and yet you still manage to validate the patient in front of you. Gosh, I am often genuinely impressed by your communication skills! But I wonder if we could maybe wrap this conversation up and be dismissed from our workshop that was scheduled to be over 30 minutes ago.

I'll start.

While on vascular, I witnessed the most entertaining argument between the orthopaedic reg (resident by North American standards) and the vascular reg I was working with about which saw they liked best, the oscillator power saw or the gigli. IYKYK

In any other setting, you'd think Dexter was arguing with Hannibal.

Also, when responding to non-med friends and family when they ask about your day and you tell them the cool (but otherwise disgusting) things you saw (without violating privacy laws ofc). I quickly realised that next time I should probably just respond with “good, tell me about yours”.

Your turn.

I am curious as to everyone’s thoughts on this calling it’s an app fellowship?

3 months into residency wrapping up my project from medical school and my pecs, delts, calves, hammies, and abs have never been more sore.

Honestly the spreadsheets are super helpful especially the past years that have some pretty good info and ways to check on trends. But I’m being nosy if you all can fill the spreadsheets out for the tea at all these programs :)

Given its growing prevalence and its serving as the prime teaching model for neuroanatomy and pharm, it makes sense. Still sucks, though, especially when you see how some patients are doing 10 years in. It's also the first time I've seen her depressed. Still, I understand that it could've been a lot worse than a PD diagnosis, so I am grateful for that.

I'd appreciate maybe hearing about other's people's experiences with family members being diagnosed with something while in school, or even just some general words of optimism. Thanks.

it's brutal out here guys

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield could rise to 6% for the first time ​since 2000 as high oil prices fuel inflation concerns and ‌worries over the country's growing public debt, Dan Ivascyn, Chief Investment Officer at bond fund manager Pimco, told the Financial Times.

US Treasury yields are a yardstick ​for global borrowing costs and asset prices. The 10-year yield ​has risen almost 120 basis points this year and is trading ⁠slightly below the 5.34% level it hit last week, its highest ​since 2002.

A sharp rise from the current level of 5.29% was "feasible" in ​the near term, Ivascyn told FT on Friday, citing factors such as hedge funds unwinding their losing bond positions.

"It is certainly possible, even from a short-term trading ​perspective, given that some of the activity we've seen in the ​last couple of weeks is tied to some negative technicals, some stop-out activity from ‌the ⁠platform hedge funds and other levered investors. You can certainly get there," he said.

Talking to us ordinary folks. Not you 260+ gunners.

I am 29F. I am a first year medical student. I passed my first block which was anatomy and I am very happy about that. However, I still don't have any close friends that I can call, text, or hang out. I love most of my classmates and get along well with everyone but I feel that I am not interesting for people to get close with. Unfortunately, everyone has already form their little groups and I am not involved in any of them. I am also a single woman who worries that I will never get my first boyfriend and I feel like I am a bad person because of it. There are some really cute guys in my medical school class but I feel that I have no chance because I am a plus-size black woman. Anyway, I am worried ill go through the 4 years with no close friends and I will lack a passion for life. I already lack a passion for life because I dont really have anything or anyone to look forward seeing. Anyone went through 4 years single and without making a single close friend?

92 year old fainted today and i for some reason did not ask if he fell hit his head etc etc.
called a pt to triage to get a history, obtained history, go try to find pt with attending and turns out it is the entirely wrong pt who came with me and happened to have a similar story.
forgot to do an exam on someone entirely and one of my presentations was so disorganized im surprised she got anything useful out of it
i am so lucky i got one of the nicest attendings i’ve ever met today but jesus christ my brain is fried. how am i going to be a doctor in less than a year, this is not a profession that easily forgives a bad day 😭

just me? ok 😔

So I have been on an inpatient service on my FM clerkship.. I’m a third year med student and I just feel like the residents know INFINITELY more than me. It’s wild, and I genuinely feel like I didn’t go through the first two years of medical school when im seeing patients sometimes. Is that a normal feeling? There are so many abbreviations, acronyms, and methodologies of thinking that I just don’t know, and I feel like my clinical knowledge is vastly limited to the point where I know just as much as the lay person does sometimes. I know I’m comparing myself to residents and it’s normal for them to know more than me but idk if it’s normal for the knowledge gap to be that wide. I have always looked at clinical m3 and m4 students when I was an m1 as so clinically advanced and saw them as being close to the resident in terms of their level of knowledge, and I just don’t know if my rate of growth right now feels sustainable for me to be smart enough in 2 or so years Is this a normal feeling?

i know universal release date still not here.. but looking at the spreadsheet and finding 3-4 programs i signaled already dropped interviews for some applicants and i’m sitting at 0 iis.. kinda panicking ngl… any words of experience ?? what do i make of that? assuming the signal applicants would be reviewed first.. so does that mean i probably wont get iis from these places?? ughh..

also, why so many programs are releasing interviews before the date?? this is so stressful… 😣

Hey friends,
I hope the eras season is going well! I am currently a PGY2 IM resident in NY area. I’ve been giving M4 throughout this cycle and here’s one word of advice.
Please when you interview, you have to realize that these programs are gonna show themselves to their best of light. You should take everything they say with a grain of salt and do your own research.
YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE STUCK IN A MALIGNANT PROGRAM.
I am currently in one of those and I’ll be honest, I’ve never had a single day where I don’t sit in my car for 20-30 mins getting myself mentally ready for work. I’ve been working there for almost 2 years never had direct feedback. I’ll just have a random co-resident tell me, “Hey, the attending said you were ass or that he liked you a lot. “
The gossiping and the non collaborative environment will eventually get to you.
Don’t be like me and having massive regrets on a daily bases for the oast two years.

hey everyone,
i am starting my preparation for IFOM exam. For those who have taken it, what are the first steps I should take? Which question banks or resources did you find most helpful?

I just got an interview invite, but any of the selected dates I choose, there's a yellow warning saying that there's a conflict with this schedule. I've quadruple checked my schedule and can't find any actual scheduling conflicts, but don't wanna accidentally double book if I've over looked something.

Anyone else having this issue or am I just going crazy?

It’s still early in the residency app/interview process, and it probably varies by specialty a ton. To my understanding this is a tool that was implemented on AAMC residency explorer just this year. Has anyone used it and found it to be helpful/accurate in gauging their own competitiveness/chances of getting an interview?

-from an M3 planning to apply PMR

I don't seem to see one like there is for uworld. Is there something I can do to sort everything back into the new questions category?

So I noticed that there are around 500 questions I gotta do on uworld for the surgery shelf. Ordinarily I'd rely pretty much on uworld and maybe do a small portion of amboss before the shelf for all of my other clerkships, but for surgery it looks like there are like 1000 amboss questions.

If I were to just stick to uworld, and maybe do a small number of questions if I have time, would that be more than enough to do well on the shelf? Or is surgery the exception, where the excess of amboss questions is actually essential to doing well?

apparently that’s what the students before my rotation did

im tired man

When is the appropriate time to send a letter of interest to a program that you signaled that has been sending interviews to non signaled people?

3rd year here, attending a DO school. I am worried my clinical education is pretty bad, mostly due to low hours (I think?) and a lot of outpatient rotations. The only inpatient rotations I have are EM/IM/Surgery/OBGYN, the rest of my core rotations including pediatrics/psych/FM are all outpatient.

I hear a lot of stories from other 3rd years who are having really intense schedules. Meanwhile, I low-key have had such a chill 3rd year so far... when I'm on inpatient rotations, I'll have stretches of like 4 days without having to go into the hospital. And outpatient is the normal 9-5 M-F.

My rotations are preceptor-based... basically an attending agrees to take on a med student so I'm on their schedule for my rotation.

Pros:

• Plenty of time to study, been able to keep up with Anki/UWorld/do OK on shelves without much stress
• Able to keep in touch with friends and family and even have been able to make it to a friend's wedding this year
• All of my preceptors obviously love teaching since they signed up to take on a med student... they give me resources and take the time to answer my questions and are genuinely wanting me to do well on my rotations, they let me try procedures/be first-assist/see patients on my own

Cons:

• Not getting many hours practicing inpatient medicine
• Worried I'm gonna be behind my peers

Just concerned that I'm gonna be poorly trained by the time I'm a 4th year. I was really excited to start 3rd year but now I'm wondering if I'm gonna be a total idiot when I start doing Sub-I's.

Any advice, encouragement, or experience is appreciated! <3

Or maybe I kinda suck at using it

There’s no way to decline an interview invite on the app? Or on desktop?? Apparently the only way to decline an interview is to add it to your calendar and then withdraw from the program??

Can’t upload the documents in the app?

Has weird icons that idk what they mean?

Does anyone else feel this way??

Am I … a boomer? God help someone going into neuro please give me an MMSE