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Pedie Packs said:
Gastroenterology
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
Radiation Oncology
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Neurology
Otolaryngology
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Cardiology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Vascular Surgery
Urology
Neurological Suregery
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Medical Oncology
Nephrology
Hematology
General Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Pediatrics
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Ours are mad similar.
 
FloatOn said:
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more! :laugh:
 
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ksmi117 said:
I wouldn't pay anything at all, and tell him he still owes you $80 for the ticket. So yes, what you've proposed is fair.
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I agree with ksmi, I wouldn't pay anything. 🙄

thamsenman said:
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This is the most engaging half-minute I saw tonight of the Bill O'Reilly show. Is that Glenn Beck?
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Now it's KEYBOARD DOG! HAHAHAHA
 
Good morning everyone!

bobsmith said:
what if medical school was like the giver and you just got assigned a medical specialty during your white coat ceremony
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I feel like that would be horrible. Passion in what you do allows good doctors to become great doctors, and choice allows for finding that passion.

bobsmith said:
a sorting hat would be sweet. the hat would be like "not neurosurgery, eh? are you sure? you could be great, you know, and neurosurgery will help you on the way to greatness...no? ok then...PEDIATRICS!"
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That would be interesting for sure, but I don't think that's how it would work! Remember, Harry Potter got to choose what he wanted to become while the sorting hat just separated them into houses. So for schools like CWRU or Vandy that have those "houses," a sorting hat could be used and should be provided 🙂.
 
morning!

I did that specialty aptitude test and it basically told me that I just want to cut people and I have no patience for crazies...and those two do not mix lol
 
metallica81788 said:
That reminds me, I need to check out the provided shadowing doctors for the premed club. One of the only things it's good for.

And ksmi, when you read this, you may need to think about talking to your LSU ortho team doctor guy. Is he the one giving the AED lecture Wednesday?
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Mk, I'll add it to my to-do list. And no, not him. LSU apparently has way too many team doctors. :laugh:

bobsmith said:
http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/interior.htm?self-assessment.htm

is the other online medical specialty quiz
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Radiation Oncology
Neurology
Gastroenterology
Pediatrics
Allergy and Immunology
Cardiology
Family Practice
Rheumatology
Medical Oncology
Otolaryngology
Urology
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Hematology
Nephrology
16. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

FloatOn said:
Steinumstein, and everyone else too, take this test and report back:
http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/
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1 physical med & rehabilitation 42
2 hematology 40
3 infectious disease 39
4 rheumatology 39
5 endocrinology 39
6 dermatology 39 :barf:
7 ophthalmology 39
8 neurology 39
9 radiology 39
10 preventive med 39
11 occupational med 39
12 allergy & immunology 39

These tests really want my to go into PM&R.
 
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The Virginia specialty test told me this:

1. physical med & rehabilitation
2. occupational med
3. aerospace med
4. preventive med
5. rheumatology
6. hematology
7. radiation oncology
8. psychiatry
9. thoracic surgery
10. pulmonology

Interesting...
 
That test wasnt too far off from what I was thinking. The only thing is im interested in GI but it listed it like 33. Other then that all surgery is at the bottom, and i know i hate surgery.

1. physical med & rehabilitation
infectious disease
radiology
prevent med
rheumatology
hematology
Internal med
Med onc
Rad onc
Peds
Occupational med
Psych
Endocrinology
Pulmonology
16. Nephrology
 
This is what the Virginia one told me:
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urology [/SIZE]
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thoracic surgery
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preventive med
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pulmonology
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hematology[/SIZE]
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radiation oncology[/SIZE]
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infectious disease[/SIZE]
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neurosurgery[/SIZE]
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I tend to agree with the Pathway Evaluation one, this one gives me things that I have no interest what so ever.
 
What's up with this quiz telling most of us to go into PM&R?
 
i don't need an aptitude test to tell me that i want to be cutting people open.
 
The Pathway Evaluation one told me this:

1. Neurology
2. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
3. Rheumatology
4. Child Neurology
5. Medical Oncology
6. Pediatrics
7. Family Practice
8. Radiation Oncology
9. Infectious Diseases
10. Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
 
scapermoya said:
i don't need an aptitude test to tell me that i want to be cutting people open.
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don't go around telling people that. lol

oh lstone...it seems there is no escaping from Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for you lol.
 
DrYoda said:
Everyone probably ranked personally time and other life style issues as highy important.

I'm assuming everyone has heard the PM&R= Plenty of Money and Relaxation joke.

(if not you have now 😛)
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:laugh: I talked with a family member who is a physician recently out of residency and he mentioned how the popularity/competitiveness of different residencies is shifting as the gender balance evens out and as more med students in general seek a family life. He also suggested that the physician shortage, esp. in primary care, could be much worse than predicted if decreased work hours are not taken into consideration.
 
Hi all!

Wow. The Buffalo survey gave me:

1. Emergency Medicine
2. Pathology
3. Preventive Medicine
4. Radiation Oncology
5. Vascular and Interventional Radiology
6. Otolaryngology
7. Family Practice
8. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
9. Dermatology
10. Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine

No argument here.
 
Tatastrophy said:
don't go around telling people that. lol

oh lstone...it seems there is no escaping from Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for you lol.
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Haha, I know! Same for ksmi! I had never really considered PM&R before. Maybe I should look more into it now lol.
 
SteinUmStein said:
:laugh: I talked with a family member who is a physician recently out of residency and he mentioned how the popularity/competitiveness of different residencies is shifting as the gender balance evens out and as more med students in general seek a family life. He also suggested that the physician shortage, esp. in primary care, could be much worse than predicted if decreased work hours are not taken into consideration.
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Wouldn't suprise me if he's right. I think 60+ hour weeks in medicine are going to start being the exception rather than the rule for many specialities.
 
lstone13 said:
Haha, I know! Same for ksmi! I had never really considered PM&R before. Maybe I should look more into it now lol.
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haha at least you will be rested and have lots of free time...apparently
Here is what the Buffalo one said:
Vascular Surgery
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
Neurological Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Plastic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
General Surgery
Cardiology

I'm not sure what I must have answered to make it so surgery heavy but it fits the fact that I feel an innate draw to it. The Critical Care Med actually sounds really awesome to me after spending last two summers working in the SICU.
 
Tatastrophy said:
haha at least you will be rested and have lots of free time...apparently
Here is what the Buffalo one said:
Vascular Surgery
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
Neurological Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Plastic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
General Surgery
Cardiology

I'm not sure what I must have answered to make it so surgery heavy but it fits the fact that I feel an innate draw to it. The Critical Care Med actually sounds really awesome to me after spending last two summers working in the SICU.
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Whoa! Surgery must be your calling! 🙂
 
DrYoda said:
Wouldn't suprise me if he's right. I think 60+ hour weeks in medicine are going to start being the exception rather than the rule for many specialities.
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wouldn't that mean we need a ton more physicians than we have currently?

it's not like the amount of work is going down anytime soon. and physicians don't waste much time to begin with.

one thing I have never understood about the whole primary care scarcity problem is that medical schools are only marginally increasing their enrollment. i haven't seen data on it, but I doubt that the number of people graduating with an MD has gone up that much in the last 10-15 years.
 
i had done the buffalo one a while ago, so it saved my results.

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine
Radiation Oncology
Otolaryngology
Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine
Gastroenterology
Neurology
Plastic Surgery
Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Sports Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgery

The bottom 5 look better than the top 5. :shrug:
 
lstone13 said:
Whoa! Surgery must be your calling! 🙂
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I've been lustin after Trauma Surgery for a loooong while but I may have to come down to the real world and go for a more reasonable specialty.
(haha but it is funny to see the looks on pplz faces when I proclaim Trauma as my love, they are like "but you look sooo nice!" lol):laugh::laugh::laugh:

Jolt-I wouldn't discount some of your top 5 so easily, I shadow an ENT and some of the surgeries I've seen are RIDIC!
 
scapermoya said:
wouldn't that mean we need a ton more physicians than we have currently?

it's not like the amount of work is going down anytime soon. and physicians don't waste much time to begin with.

one thing I have never understood about the whole primary care scarcity problem is that medical schools are only marginally increasing their enrollment. i haven't seen data on it, but I doubt that the number of people graduating with an MD has gone up that much in the last 10-15 years.
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The increases in admissions has only been recent and itll be several years (by the time we are attendings or maybe beyond) before the effect is felt. I believe i read somewhere on aamc that by 2015 they hope to have a 15-20% increase in admissions. Meaning that what by 2025 that increase will finally be felt as they all become attendings?

Also as yoda said increasing docs really depends on increasing residency spots which means the government will have to increase its spending in order to increase the residency spots as they basically pay for it...which as we all know doesnt seem like that wil happen anytime soon. At least to my understanding all increasing med school admissions will do (w/o increase residency spots) is decrease the number of FMG/DO that take US MD residency spots. Which in the end doesnt increase docs at all.

And tata i dont know you but from your posts i dont see how you could do anything btu surgery you seem beyond interested in it😛
 
scapermoya said:
wouldn't that mean we need a ton more physicians than we have currently?
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Yep. The goverment is counting on doctors to continue working what they do now, and with the retirments of the old-school docs and the rise of a generation that favors lifestyle heavily I think they'll be in for a suprise.

If the pay cuts or giant tax increase go through I think it'll be even worse ala France.

one thing I have never understood about the whole primary care scarcity problem is that medical schools are only marginally increasing their enrollment. i haven't seen data on it, but I doubt that the number of people graduating with an MD has gone up that much in the last 10-15 years.
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This hinges on how much they end up upping residency spots (if any). They are actually increasing med school slots quite a bit recently (before this they had med student numbers pretty much froze) with all the new schools and class size uppings. The problem is if they keep residency slots reletively flat this is only going to serve to keep FMGs out rather than increase the PCP number.
 
scapermoya said:
what's the incentive to cap the residency programs? or is it a lack of incentives to increase them?
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government would have to increase funding to increase residency spots. I.E its not going to happen?
 
what's the incentive to cap the residency programs? or is it a lack of incentives to increase them?
 
Elijah05 said:
And tata i dont know you but from your posts i dont see how you could do anything btu surgery you seem beyond interested in it😛
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Oh I am. I feel like that is the most hands-on area and I am a very tactile person. Seems like a natural fit and I get crazy excited (no seriously...crazy) when I get so see new types of surgery.
I was just bewildered by the fact that an throw-away test reflected that.

What did you think of your list?
 
Tatastrophy said:
Oh I am. I feel like that is the most hands-on area and I am a very tactile person. Seems like a natural fit and I get crazy excited (no seriously...crazy) when I get so see new types of surgery.
I was just bewildered by the fact that an throw-away test reflected that.

What did you think of your list?
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I thought my list was fairly right. Im pretty sure im going to do IM and then some sort of fellowship in IM like pulmonology, GI, etc...Im fairly sure i dont want to do obgyn, psych, surgery, geriatrics, peds, or derm...I mean my list of what i dont want to do only basically leaves radiology and IM? lol
 
Neurosurgery sounds so cool to me, but it's seven years in residency. I'll probably be a grandpa when I'm done.
 
Elijah05 said:
I thought my list was fairly right. Im pretty sure im going to do IM and then some sort of fellowship in IM like pulmonology, GI, etc...Im fairly sure i dont want to do obgyn, psych, surgery, geriatrics, peds, or derm...I mean my list of what i dont want to do only basically leaves radiology and IM? lol
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my bottom two were Ob/Gyn and Psychiatry....in which I guess I'd deal with temporarily/permanently crazy people 😛

haha whenever a doctor tries to scare me with the number of years of training I'd have to do...I smile and reply that its ok because at the end of it I will look like I am fresh out of Med School (seeing how right now some ppl mistake me for a 15 year old lol)
 
Elijah05 said:
I thought my list was fairly right. Im pretty sure im going to do IM and then some sort of fellowship in IM like pulmonology, GI, etc...Im fairly sure i dont want to do obgyn, psych, surgery, geriatrics, peds, or derm...I mean my list of what i dont want to do only basically leaves radiology and IM? lol
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people really overlook radiology. i'm biased because it's what my dad practices, but in all honesty the specialty is getting better all the time. the lifestyle is already great, and interventional radiology is increasing in scope all the time. on top of that, teleradiology is going to make things even more interesting in the coming years.

getting paged at 4 AM because some drunky put their forehead through their windshield in a blizzard no longer means you have to drive through the same blizzard to read the CT. awesome.
 
scapermoya said:
people really overlook radiology. i'm biased because it's what my dad practices, but in all honesty the specialty is getting better all the time. the lifestyle is already great, and interventional radiology is increasing in scope all the time. on top of that, teleradiology is going to make things even more interesting in the coming years.

getting paged at 4 AM because some drunky put their forehead through their windshield in a blizzard no longer means you have to drive through the same blizzard to read the CT. awesome.
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im def considering radiology i just really dont know much about it. I did research for several years in surgery and after getting into and talking to a lot of the docs/residents I just highly doubt id ever do surgery. Radiology may be for me but i guess thats what 3rd yr is for? 🙂 Its the last thing im going to worry about. Im sure well all figure it out at the end of 3rd year.

i think all i do at work is use my iphone and post here lol....
 
Yay!! I can finally post in this thread! University of Colorado class of 2014!!! That's all I wanted to say haha
 
Elijah05 said:
Radiology may be for me but i guess thats what 3rd yr is for? 🙂 Its the last thing im going to worry about. Im sure well all figure it out at the end of 3rd year.
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I think radiology would be fun! The Head and Neck surgeon I shadow operates on a lot of tumors (acoustic neuromas and such) and he taught me to read CTs and MRI scans...its kind of like a game for us now, who finds the tumor first lol...sometimes we stare for a long time though...cause there isn't one 😛
 
BlueElmo said:
FloatOn, I like that picture.
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You can find the rest of them here:
http://theunderweardrawer.homestead.com/twelvemedstudents.html

It's drawn by this anesthesia attending who started some other residency before anesthesia. She has the most adorable little kids (well that doesn't make me sound like a stalker...). You can check out her blog here: http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/

lstone13 said:
What's up with this quiz telling most of us to go into PM&R?
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I got pathology!? I don't like either quiz that much (well, one was the length of a test). I am on a mission to find a better one. I'll report back with my findings.

DrYoda said:
This hinges on how much they end up upping residency spots (if any). They are actually increasing med school slots quite a bit recently (before this they had med student numbers pretty much froze) with all the new schools and class size uppings. The problem is if they keep residency slots reletively flat this is only going to serve to keep FMGs out rather than increase the PCP number.
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I know Virginia Tech just opened up a new school, not in Blacksburg though. Class size of 42. I'm interested to see the direction it's headed.
 
Taty, I have a question for you... If you were to get into Duke, which would your top choice be, Duke or Tulane?
 
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