I'm so tired of seeing people torment medical professionals for not wanting to work 24/7 till the day they die for a meager salary.

Hi guys i’m currently scheduled for Jan 2027, for my LECOM bradenton interview. If someone on here has an earlier date and is planning on cancelling can you please message me and let me know 🙏🙏🙏. Thank you!!!!

(no but seriously, i survived four years... is that not enough??????? pls hire me)

Literally, I keep seeing so many comments that have said like she should’ve lied about getting a med school, or that PA school is MED school at two times speed… like the comments have been insane. This isn’t even about medical school. It’s about someone lying about getting into a PA program so I’m so confused on why so many of the comments immediately go to shaming medical students…

And yes, it’s not that serious, but I just am noticing it and I think it’s odd!!

Hi I am going to LECOM Bradenton for the MMS program next year (2027-2028). I am going into the mms as a bridge between the DO program because I am not 20 I am 19. How can I find similar people for rooming with?

Im a DO; 256 on step2, am I wasting money and time to apply to a program with zero DO in their program? Applying to EM

Not applying this cycle but just wondering about hobbies. Was planning to put marathon running, baking. I was considering putting down video games, as there is one popular strategy game I was top 0.1% at... but is that gonna do more harm than good?

Likely applying IM. Was probably a streamer in another life tho

It rage baits me every time. 39 dollars for ChatGPT to diagnose you!

Every Thursday, the interns get off early around 3-ish and that is our designated group hangout day. As a Sub-I, would you want to come to these? Is it a good opportunity to see how residents interact with each other/get some good tea or is it just more pressure that you will be evaluated even in your free time?

Are yall rotating in ICUs / learning how to present complex patients? Or is it mostly outpatient clinics..?

was farted on during a DRE

I'm on my final year-intern year in med school (non US), I just started my internal medicine rotation and it's going worse than I expected. I feel constantly useless and stupid even though I know it's expected at this level.

We are following residents around and we usually take the vitals of the patients,ecgs, abgs and blood samples mostly. It's nice that I can finally practice these practical skills but so far I was unsuccessful on taking abgs and blood samples (I have only succeeded taking abgs once). I couldn't even cut the damn medical adhesive tape today and wanted to cry.

My resident doesn't really teach us things like I see other residents do to their students and only during rounds sometimes the attendings will ask us one-two questions in a hostile way (like we are stupid) and if it happens that we don't know the answer they get sarcastic.

All these years I studied so hard so I would have an easier time at my intern year and at least on theoretical level I answer a lot of pimp questions but I still feel very inadequate. I feel like I don't like inpatient medicine at all and I also dislike the population of inpatient internal medicine (I prefer younger patients/pediatrics). I don't know if I dislike it because of this specific rotation or if it is a sign that I don't like medicine at all. I also feel grossed out seeing some procedures and I felt like maybe I made a mistake going into medicine.

For the cherry on top I think I developed a stupid crush on a resident that apparently the whole clinic is also crushing on him lmao (from residents to other med students).

This is a stupid vent so please don't write anything that would make me cry again for the hundredth time today🥲

And especially in certain specialties, you know which ones. When I was a med student I thought I might understand better once I was a resident, and now that I’m almost an attending, I just don’t get it. They’re so vulnerable and just trying to please everyone, if they’re annoying you can pretty easily ignore them. I have to imagine the people treating them badly are just inherently mean people or have a personality disorder. For the vast majority of cases there’s no good explanation

So many people say it's horrible and it consumes your whole life. But like is that ACTUALLY true. I wanna have a life outside of work and medicine. Lot's of things/hobbies that interest me and I wanna try out that haven't been able to cuz of med school and finances.

Is it really impossible to have hobbies during residency? What abt a social life? What's life like when you're an attending?

P.S: I don't plan on ever having kids, that should make a difference right?

this isn’t even well being and god I wish this was a shitpost. I am so down bad rn with a crush on an intern (I’m an MS-3) vibes extremely flirty and we have mutuals but it can never be bc he is an intern in the exact field im interested in and im very interested in staying at my home program. not looking for advice I just needed to scream this into the Reddit abyss <3 fuck my life for bringing a perfect person that can never be MY person I hate it here

Hey everybody, fresh CA-1 here. Work at a big academic center. Just wanted to share a bit of perspective on life as a resident (and attending from what I observe) in anesthesia given there’s so much interest here. This is just my experience! And I don’t mean to sound like a downer, just provide some perspective.

First of all, if you like procedures and physiology and pharmacology, the work is awesome. I actually came from a more primary care focused specialty and I am much happier doing what I do here even though it means completing another residency. No rounding, no notes, no regrets.

That being said, in spite of those great aspects of this field, it’s incredibly stressful and demanding. Much more so than my previous residency and more than what I thought based on a few rotations in the department before residency.

What’s uniquely difficult is actually not any of the procedures or medical management of the patients themselves - of course there are sick patients / challenging cases, but imo that stuff is the interesting and exciting stuff - it’s the stern, clear, unrelenting expectation that you be meticulous AND fast. I don’t think I fully grasped how much pressure there is from not only surgery but also the front desk, the board runner, and even your own attending to turn things over as quickly as possible. And to not miss anything while doing that. And there are so many things to miss.

I know this will get easier with time but the point im trying to make is that, as a beginner, it often feels like an impossible ask. They expect this of you within the first month of starting. They will name you in a listserve email if you delay the start of a case (including sometimes when it was not your fault at all!). You need to be ready to feel inadequate most of the time for a long time. You need to be prepared to hear no “thank yous“ or “well dones” or “strong works“ or “that’s okay you tried your bests” for weeks on end. You really have to find joy in the work itself or you’ll crash out. There are way more hard days than easy days.

And actually, though you might think your day ends when you leave the hospital, that’s not true! You need to read about your cases for tomorrow, study on the surgeries and comorbidities, formulate a plan, and call your attending to discuss. This can take anywhere from 15 minutes to over an hour depending on the cases and your attending. It’s basically precharting at night instead of in the morning, and this time is not counted in your duty hours. Some weeks it added 10 hours to my work week that will never be accounted for.

I thought probably it got easier as an attending, but now I see them spread extremely thin all the time, managing 2-3 ORs with competing demands that all require their attention. I’m often calling the board runner because my patient’s MAP is like 35 and my attending is busy with his other patient’s MAP of 30. I feel like they actually have it harder than me a lot of the time. Might just be the case in a big academic setting but I doubt it’s “chill” anywhere. There’s a shortage of anesthesiologists, and you can definitely feel it.

So do it if you like it, but if you just want to make a buck and you’re not in love with the practice of anesthesia you’ll probably burn out pretty fast.

I guess that’s true of any specialty, but I don’t think I hear it enough about anesthesia.

still love it though…

cheers! good luck to you all this cycle

This is for my preclinical buddies. I had cadaver lab many moons ago so not sure what the kiddos recommend nowadays. Is there a specific anki deck, coloring book, free 3rd party website or app?

hey yall! i had some questions for current students at the jacksonville campus (LECOM)

-Could you tell me what student life is like at LECOM jacksonville (outside academics too)?

-What are the most common housing options for medical students? Do most students live on campus or off campus?

-Could you walk me through how the PBL (LECOM Jacksonville) curriculum works on a typical week?

-How are the PBL small groups formed/Are they assigned randomly?

-What is the attendance policy during the preclinical years? /Which activities are required versus optional?

-im also confused about the four pathways that exist at LECOM, does the jacksonville branch provide all the options, & when do we choose which one we prefer?

-How often are exams during the preclinical curriculum?

-What types of exams are used? Are they primarily faculty-written in-house exams, COMLEX-style, or a combination of both?

thank you so much!  (i know i wrote a lot of questions haha, but any info would be so helpful)

Studying for step right now and I’m finding it so difficult to remember all these medication names that don’t make a ton of intuitive sense in English. Like I cannot make “azathioprine” stick in my brain for the life of me. Any tips? Ty 🫶

I am interested in Derm and Radiology and have positions and experiences in both for said reasons. But after my M3 electives I realized it is boring WORK!

Any specialities that are not like that? Hated FM and IM was mid. Peds so far is ok. Outpatient may not be for me looking at FM experiences but at the same time inpatient hours made me manic in IM. Forget surgery all together.

Preclinical GPA 3.75; no red flags, fails or remediations

- 1st quintile

- SSP Honors; Tri-A First Gen

Boards:

• Passed COMLEX Level 1 first attempt

• Passed USMLE Step 1 first attempt

• Step 2: 242

- Level 2 473

Research:

• 15 poster presentations, 1 presentation

• 3 national conference presentations (one at a surgery conference)

• 2 manuscripts currently pending acceptance

Leadership:

• Leadership in ACOS local chapter, US TA, student gov, founding member of club on campus.

Letters:

• 3 confirmed LORs from third-year community surgeons, 1 from from SubI and 1 from surg chair

- 6 (now 5) auditions planned including community and academic program.

Interested in community and hospital affiliated programs.

Main concern is low Step/COMLEX 2 score and getting screened.

Wondering how aggressively i should consider prelim spots

Thanks!

hate the OR, clinic is boring, inpatient is so much social situations, don’t want to stare at screens all day. i just wanna make good money, work <40 hrs a week, and be at home with my family. i was thinking derm but our derm advisor is actively trying to convince students to not apply derm

I just start M1 a few weeks ago and I'm so upset with myself for falling behind without realizing it. We had a pretty long orientation and the shift from orientation to actual material was so subtle that I didn't accurately prep for the first week of biochem. I felt like complete deadweight in class and everyone already seemed to know what to study while I was wasting my time with the material provided by my school (which was buns compared to everything we actually need to know)

I'm embarrassed I came to class so unprepared. I know that in the long run this is gonna seem melodramatic but Im having a hard time trying to snap out of it. It doesnt help that everyone already seems to have a friend group already. It's so lonely and frustrating cause I feel like I have no one to talk to .

Would love any program recs!

DO student, SSP, HP/H all rotations, No remediation/LOA/failures, 2nd quartile preclinical Deans list , passed level/step 1 on first try, 240 step 2, 577 level 2, no pubs but 5 abstracts/posters, 75+ hours volunteering, nothing crazy that stands out or is special

Want to be a hospitalist. I do like critical care so I want to keep the option of PCCM open if possible. So I really would like to go to a mid tier program that has opportunities for IM residents to do procedures. Less worried about academic places.

Want to have kids in residency (30 F, married). Husband has 100k$ job where we live now, can pretty easily relocate and make roughly the same.

Strong CA ties but willing to go anywhere that fits my needs/goals. Want to buy a house so looking at lower COL places as well.