Five days until residency

[biffbacon]

only five days left in my life until the hell of general surgery internship starts

 

[glen]

What was the hardest for you so far?
Getting into Medical school?
First Year?
Second year?
Boards?

 

[biffbacon]

probably first and second year. its alot of studying, and then you take your first step of the boards after second year. third and fourth year are time consuming, but more fun b/c there is far less book work, and your actually in the hospitals seeing patients

 

[Shantanu]

Where did you go to medical school at? Also, where did you do your undergrad?

 

[biffbacon]

i went to Indiana U. for med school, and valparaiso University for undergrad

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: biffbacon
only five days left in my life until the hell of general surgery internship starts

Congrats, are you going to specialize?

 

[biffbacon]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: biffbacon
only five days left in my life until the hell of general surgery internship starts

Congrats, are you going to specialize?

yes, im doing anesthesiology

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: biffbacon
only five days left in my life until the hell of general surgery internship starts

Congrats, are you going to specialize?

yes, im doing anesthesiology

Hang in there & don't overspend the first few years out in the work world, I see a lot of docs screw up their lives by livin' the life, when they need to focus on a sustainable lifestyle....

<--knows a lot of docs that are in their 60's & 70's that'll die on the job rather than ever retire because they can't control their spending or their families leech off from them so heavily...

 

[Shantanu]

Awesome. I'm applying to med school this summer. All the Ohio public schools, Northwestern, Chicago, NYU, Mount Sinai, Albert Einstein, Cornell, Stanford, Yale, and a few others.

I've got above average MCAT and GPA for all of them, but I'm East-Indian and male so that doesn't help

 

[biffbacon]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: biffbacon
only five days left in my life until the hell of general surgery internship starts

Congrats, are you going to specialize?

yes, im doing anesthesiology

Hang in there & don't overspend the first few years out in the work world, I see a lot of docs screw up their lives by livin' the life, when they need to focus on a sustainable lifestyle....

<--knows a lot of docs that are in their 60's & 70's that'll die on the job rather than ever retire because they can't control their spending or their families leech off from them so heavily...

yeah, i know the temptation is great. alot of the anesthesiologists are getting hired out of residency between 250k and 350k a year. thats quite a big jump after making 40k in residency.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I've noticed a lot of female med students in the last few years, it's a trip to see a team of them (all female) round on patients.

 

[vi edit]

yes, im doing anesthesiology

Wow. Congrats. That's one of the hardest ones out there. On the plus side, they are also one of the highest paid too.

 

[biffbacon]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
I've noticed a lot of female med students in the last few years, it's a trip to see a team of them (all female) round on patients.

yeah, alot more females in medicine today, but i sure dont mind. its nice to have some around

 

[Shantanu]

If you look at the application figures since '97, the number of applications from males has been plummetting so fast it's not even funny.

Women are on track to outnumber men at medschools either this year, or by '05 at the latest. That said, they still have affirmitive action for females at med schools.

 

[glen]

If you are a black female with a 3.0 GPA and a 25 MCAT, you can go any where you want.

 

[biffbacon]

Originally posted by: glen
If you are a black female with a 3.0 GPA and a 25 MCAT, you can go any where you want.

i find that sad, b/c it is true, and at the same time, a white male with a 3.7, and a 29 on the mcat could have trouble getting into many schools

 

[Relf Lauren]

What were most of your GPAs/MCAT scores?

Is it me, or is it harder to get into med school in Canada (Ontario). To be safe, you need 10's on all of your scores, and a Q...

The VR section scares me...

 

[bbrontosaurus]

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: biffbacon

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: biffbacon
only five days left in my life until the hell of general surgery internship starts

Congrats, are you going to specialize?

yes, im doing anesthesiology

Hang in there & don't overspend the first few years out in the work world, I see a lot of docs screw up their lives by livin' the life, when they need to focus on a sustainable lifestyle....

<--knows a lot of docs that are in their 60's & 70's that'll die on the job rather than ever retire because they can't control their spending or their families leech off from them so heavily...

yeah, i know the temptation is great. alot of the anesthesiologists are getting hired out of residency between 250k and 350k a year. thats quite a big jump after making 40k in residency.

don't forget that anesthesiologists are also the ones that are most likely to get sued

 

[biffbacon]

very true

 

[SubZeroX]

How long does an anesthesiology residency take? And may I ask what your Step 1 score was to land this match?

 

[biffbacon]

anesthesia takes 4 years. and step 1 was a 235

 

[StageLeft]

Congrats and as moose mentioned don't overspend. I know of MDs who have overspent and even though they reel in the cash they don't have as much to show for it as they may like.

 

[mdbound]

Congrats!!! Good luck with your prelim. Where are you doing your prelim and your residency (if I may ask)? Just curious....

I'm just finishing up my third year in med school at UCLA and am looking forward to finally starting fourth year! But I'm still trying to decide what I should do...Medicine or ER. I figure that once I do my sub-I's, I should have a better idea. Another question though, Anesthesia is a close third for me, and I'm also curious why/how you decided to go into it? At this point I'm pretty confused, so anything would help me!

I really appreciate all of your comments...

Congrats again!

 

[tcsenter]

Good luck and don't start sampling your wares when you get to be a gas passer!