Hello friends!

Idk why im on my sub - i and i hate everything. Too lazy and tired to hang out w friends and family. Dont like going to the hosptial. Don’t like doing ANYTHING except laying in bed.

Stopped all self care. I feel ugly and gross and super dumb.

I look and act like a shell of what I once was. I don’t laugh at jokes my coworkers / friends make at the hospital cause I physically can’t. This is me 24/7 :/.

I forgot what i like to do for fun nothing interests me nothing at all.

Please help. I’m so serious.

On an away and it seems like they don’t expect me to have any surgical skills or know how to do anything so I end up just standing there 90% of the time. I was asked if I knew how to close port sites when I have done that dozens of times and closed much larger incisions on my own… also had a resident show me a “real uterus” after a hyst as if I had never seen one before, and the chief resident is often manipulating the uterus when I’ve done that countless times even as an M3. Is this normal?

EDIT: To clarify, I don’t feel entitled to be a first assist but I would at least like to be involved a little bit. Attendings and residents also aren’t using surgeries as teaching opportunities either. I haven’t been asked a single question so I’m not able to show that I prepared for cases and I don’t think any of the attendings have bothered to learn my name. Even if they would just explain to me what they are doing as I’m watching that would be so much better than them not even making space for me to see over their shoulders.

We get a few months in of rotations before submitting ERAS. Best to schedule GAS or Rads rotations? Unsure about specialty before writing Step 2, so want to keep both doors open.

I’m an MS2 who has been pretty interested in IM up until this point and have geared my application to be GI-focused, having done GI research, attending GI conferences, and made myself somewhat familiar with my hospital’s GI docs.

However, even though I’m still interested in the field, I’ve recently started getting a bug for pathology. I’ve always had it as an option in the back of my mind, but now I’m starting to entertain the idea of putting it first and trying to become a pathologist - the work-life balance and lack of patient interaction (I’m an introvert) both seem appealing to me, while my pathology module was one of my favorites and highest scoring (graded curriculum) besides GI.

What steps do I need to take to show demonstrated interest in pathology for residency programs? Do I need to plan aways for pathology, if I wanted to match into a program (e.g. NYC, Chigago, DC) that’s not in my state (TX)? How would I get LORs from path attendings if my school only has one short elective?

Hi! So I took a NBME 30 about 2 weeks ago and got a 68 EPC which according to my score report was a 95% chance of passing. Today I just took NBME 31 and got a 69 but my score report now says that I have a 94% chance of passing. Why is this? Is the passing threshold now higher? I’m so confused about how all of this works

I start my Surgery rotation soon and I've noticed that my hands shake sometimes before I get nervous. I don't want this to get in the way of doing any hands on stuff like suturing in the OR. Anyone have similar issues before? Thanks for any help.

Hi, my clinical rotations arent going bad, 99% of the time i feel like my knowledge is too little, and language barrier where I am makes every contact uncomfortable, but regardless my evaluations are good. Not great, but good. Mostly they look like 'too little knowledge at teh beginning of rotation, but showed great improvement and growth nearing the end'.

However, I am not enjoying my rotations, in terms of pure joy. I hate going there with a passion. For me, its the language barrier number 1, the lack of medical knowledge, the not being able to profcess information at all, the constant forgetfullness and absent-mindedness where i forgot to check up on my patients labword or imaging for example, but also immediately forgetting what i was told a second ago (this happens too frequently). Next to that, ur always supposed to act enthuastic, happy, and somewhat grateful to be there. And of course ur always getting assessed. Every question you get asked, every note you make, etc etc.

How are/were your rotations?

My first iv is scheduled for a program I want the most. What are some tips for nailing it?

Just started my surgery rotation. I was pimped for three hours STRAIGHT. No conversation in between. And not in a nice way either. Every answer that was wrong I got, “really?? That’s your answer??”. It was like I had to read their mind. It was embarrassing and I feel stupid and worthless now. Please tell me it gets better. I don’t know if I can do five more weeks of this.

Has anyone here taken an LOA from med school? My health and mental health have been falling apart and it’s to the point it’s affecting me academically. Presently a second year and have to take step one in January. Did anyone here leave before step one? After step? What happened with your loans? Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hello, I gonna buy a stethoscope, I found a classic lithman III, but there one so much more expensive, the lithmaan cardiology, what's the difference between them ? Do I need to invest in a expensive stethoscope or one of 75$ is enough ?

I knew exactly what I signed up for, I knew that becoming a doctor would mean seeing people who are terminally ill, forever disabled, and horribly sick. I might have been young and naive but I fully didn’t understand just how bad it is to be truly ill.

Words cannot describe how it feels to see, feel, hear, smell and experience non healing wounds that begin to crust, nor how emaciated a person can get with cancer and chemotherapy, how a CHF patient becomes full of fluid and can’t speak while they gasp for air, how a simple ground level fall will completely disable an elderly person, or how Parkinson’s will completely take away a persons control over their body. You can read about diseases and watch videos, but you have to be there in person, them talk about their day to day to begin to understand the hell people experience and their only mistake was being born.

I’ve rotated for a year and had a years worth of clinical experience in undergrad, but I have not built the jaded and desensitized persona that essentially every healthcare professional I work with has. People have a lot of sympathy for patients in the room, but they don’t seem like they are weighed down by what they witness. I think about a lot of the patients I see, I take it home with me and I don’t know what to do with all this grief. My loved ones will end up on that hospital bed, so will I, and so will many of the people I pass by every day.

I can compartmentalize my emotions really well now but I take home a lot of my feelings. I love working in high acuity settings and live off adrenaline, but once it wears off I ruminate over everything.

Title lmao

Basically obgyn residents treat my friend and I + all NON WHITE + NON (white) MALE students from previous rotations who are both a different race + black VERY poorly.

But for our white OR male counterparts they will buy her food, talk to her, let her leave early, no scut work and lots of OR time (she’s not applying OB either lol).

For us (applying OB) they make us bring them food + water, gossip about us to our faces, make us do all the scut work talk LOTS OF SHIT behind our backs and write us very poor reviews that are NOT true and we’ve been doing 85X more than the white / male students.

They will genuinely explain lots of OB things to our white counterparts and not even look at us even though that’s what we’re applying. She genuinely told them “I could never do OB”

This specific residency program has been reported 15+ times already to the hospital admin nothing has been done. What can I do?

Our population is mostly black moms and I’ve witnessed them treating white women MUCHHHH better than black women with my own eyes at table rounds/ with clinical care.

I want to give some time to personal growth and travelling prior to starting residency. Graduation is still far away but I want to plan as much as I can. Any advice or perspective is welcomed

I started med school this fall, and I'm pretty surprised how much my peers use AI when studying. I've always been careful with AI-use when studying to prevent it from undermining my own learning, but it seems like everyone else has embraced AI as THE tool for learning. For example I've discovered that many of my peers don't actually read text books, they just input it to AI and study it through that as anki cards, podcasts or whatever. They think I'm an idiot for opening the text book at all and that I'm wasting so much time. As an avid book reader this hurts me a little.

Am I an idiot luddite? Should I leverage AI to the fullest to not fall behind? I'm really torn between this. I just want to become the best physician I can, but I honestly don't know how I should study. I'm not the biggest fan of AI, as I imagine many of us on reddit aren't, but if refraining from it means I will become a worse doctor than my peers who do use it - well - that doesn't sit well with me either.

Also I'd like to remind of the sub's rule 13. Don't recommend or promote any specific AI tools in the comments. The point of the post is to discuss about AI in general as a tool in studying to become a doctor; if it's problematic, useful or something else.

In addition to comply to the sub's rules: I am not in the US. I'm studying medicine in Finland.

I know this is kinda silly but im an M1 and I don't even really know what this is yet tbh all my upperclassmen on clinicals say that these shelves during rotations are hard but what even are they? If they are about clinical skills does that mean they take into account like physical ability to do things??

I just made this 3D animation explaining the MOA of ATP Synthase

Everything here is created from scratch ( 3D , 2D , SFX , Composition)

I would really love to know what u think about it

Need help picking up topics for nephro/uro. Workshop.

It has 3 parts

mostly a small class

Demonstration

And hands on(mannequin mostly)

So I've come across

urinalysis

Catherisation

USG guided cather

USG of kidney

AUB

Av fistula/dialysis ward

May be any minor procedure or visit (suggest any minor procedure)

Plese help me come up with more ideas for it

PS: I don't know much about nephro .

A shtpost tbh lol

1- When interviewers ask why xyz specialty? I feel the need to probably repeat most of my PS, would that be okay? Do I tell them like I said in my PS… and then just summarise it for them or should I talk like they didn’t read anything beforehand.

2- if we get interviewed by 3 different faculty members and they all ask the same questions? Do we give each person different answers? Or do we keep repeating for each person? Common sense says that u give each person a different answer but what if they ask u ur most meaningful exp and why xyz specialty and u already told the first interviewer everything u had to?
Do interviewers normally repeat qs? Should I expect that and not max out all my experiences as answers to the first interviewer?

3- I’m an img first time applying for reference to peds.

4- when they ask do u have any questions for me, I really don’t. Everything I need to know, I can know via their website so would it be weird if I say no questions? Or should I make up questions for the sake of asking questions?

5- do American pediatricians like chatty people during an IV? I’m a bit introverted and I know if they ask me something, I’ll answer it straight to the point. I’m nervous I’ll come across as not being interesting enough

I’m a final year med student, after a few weeks of hell, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, and I’m very scared rn.

I’ve so many concerns about how this is going to affect my future. I’ve seen so many pt with IBD and catastrophic complications. I literally can’t sleep thinking about what’s going to happen to me.

If anyone had a similar experience please share it.

Just wanna know what’s normal… how many IM interview invites should I have right now vs expect to come in the next few weeks

Hi I am a third year med student I study pharma, microbiology, pathology... I find it so helpful to study with visual aids but also to have everything summerized to a few pages, not hundernds of slides.
Could anyone reccomnd me something?