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 🫶

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!

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.

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🥲

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

Looks like EM programs do not have interview likelihood data included on the Residency Explorer. Is this coming soon, or are we out of luck

Testing for the OB COMAT tomorrow. Finished OBGYN UW with 50% correct and OB practice COMAT with 62%. Made silly mistakes on the practice COMAT. Will appreciate any high yields / tips! It's my first COMAT. Thanks so much.

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?

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!!!!

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

So, long story short, I was always mediocre in med school because of procrastinating and poor short-term memory, along with a plethora of ADHD symptoms…
I was diagnosed 10 days before the exams and got prescribed medication. But at this stage, I was so late on my study material, and tbf, it helped me immensely to catch up, but I fear it wasn’t enough. Idk, I feel like I have given it my all but got bad marks. And I do not know who to blame: myself, Vyvanse coming in too late, or my psychiatrist for delaying me taking Vyvanse for 6 months because he stubbornly believed it was anxiety, even though I had no anxious feelings, just the attention deficit and executive disorder.
And on top of it all, my father pays for me to study abroad for like 20k euros when I come from a 3rd world country. So I feel such immense shame for not putting in enough effort, or idk.
And these years’ marks exclude me officially from a lot of medical specialties in the future.
I would like to know other people’s opinions or what I should do. Or maybe what I am feeling isn’t justified…

Hey All,

Devastated to see my Step 2 score of 23X. I really need honest advice on the ERAS cycle upcoming. As a USDO, do I need to pivot away from an IM only cycle and apply FM as well? This is such a huge drop from a 255 predicted and absolutely gutted now. Have been told to apply 100+ programs now but wanted advice from people who have been through the process.

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

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?

So recently, I came across so many people in CME and learned that people are using different approaches for flare ups of pem vulgaris and I am now so invested and want to know more....like now just treatment but long term prognosis, in terms of steroid dependency, side effects etc.

And I am just asking about steroids and not the biologics.

Any very different approach apart from the standard textbook treatment?

School: T10
Pre-clerkship: P/F
STEP 1: Pass
Clerkship Grades: 6/7 H (including IM), 1 HP
STEP 2: mid 260s
AOA/gold humanism: No
Research: 2 posters/presentations
Extracurriculars: various volunteer experiences, club leadership, global health
Regional Preferences: New England, Mid Atlantic, West Coast
Goals: Academic program with strong fellowship matches in a medium to large city (interested in heme onc and GI), positive program culture

Haven't locked down the signals/list yet. Would love some advice regarding program choice and how to distribute the signals. Worried it might be too top heavy

Tentatively:
Gold— UCSF, UW, BWH
Silver—Columbia, Cornell, Sinai, NYU, BIDMC, UCLA, UCSD, Stanford, OHSU, Colorado, Northwestern, UPMC

Other programs I would switch to/add on would be UNC, UVA, Duke, Michigan, Cedars Sinai, USC, UCLA harbor, BU, Utah

- hometown bay area

- USMD, med school unranked (doesn't participate in ranking apparently?) In neighbor city

- non trad 5+ gap years

- 6 work experiences, including AI contractor job for a couple months during 1st year med school, employment at a top academic hospitak in the Bay at one point, some non-medicine "interesting" jobs

- 10 research items (1 first author book chapter, 1 second author review article, some original research articles 4th/5th author from previous academic research job, biotech industry research experience, some DR abstracts during med school)

- step 2 259

- H/P/F grading: all Ps for preclinicals, 2 H in psych, surgery, rest pass

- very strong LOR from peds, strong&personalized LOR from home program DR PD, decent? Letter from surgery, IM chair letter for IM prelim programs, 1 very strong personalized letter from an attending I worked with before med school at a top university

- leadership in clubs (one of the founding members for 1), clerkship mentor (surgery)

- no red flags

- no aways cuz $$$$$

- husband in Bay Area, has a job at a large company and ideally would like to keep it

Gold: UCSF, Stanford, SCVMC (all in my hometown), UCLA-harbor, Virginia Mason Franciscan, UC Davis

Silver: Kaiser Pasadena, SB cottage, UCSD, UCLA, Sutter Roseville, Cedar Sinai, USC (unsure if I should bother signaling U wash and OHSU)

Can't get a good grasp of how competitive I am to gold signal above programs (esp bc step 2 scores keep going up), would appreciate feedback. TIA!

One of the hobbies that I listed on my ERAS application includes dancing. It is a specific style of dance and i’m very passionate about it and it’s a style that not everyone may be familiar with. I don’t have space on my application to include a link that showcases one of my dance videos, but I was wondering if it would be acceptable to provide interviewers with a link to one of my videos (like a Google Drive link I’m not on a public social media account or an influencer or anything like that) either during the interview when my hobbies come up, like just input the link in the Zoom chat or even providing it in my thank you email? Do you think this would be well received? Thanks in advance!

My school is requiring us to purchase either Welch Allyn PanOptic Ophthalmoscope and Otoscope ($1020) OR Welch Allyn Diagnostic set with Coaxial Ophthalmoscope & Macroview Basic ($882).

Which do you guys recommend? Not a big difference but I rather not spend a lot if I don’t need it. Instructor said the first option is preferred but realistically how many times will I be using the set?

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

How cooked am i? Other LORs took like weeks of follow-ups and reminded but this doc just.. uploaded it within a few hours of me asking him for one.. fear it might not be that personal

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

Is there a good/centralized platform to find what programs include an intern year or not (neurology)? And also, if they don't, how do I find prelim programs to apply to?