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FloatOn said:
I'm afraid to bring this up, but how did it go for everyone?
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I think a lot of people didn't hit their averages. Some are upset right now, but a good number got good scores above a 30 and are still complaining it's not good enough and might retake, I don't know why, I'd kill just to get a 30
 
Artimacia said:
I think a lot of people didn't hit their averages. Some are upset right now, but a good number got good scores above a 30 and are still complaining it's not good enough and might retake, I don't know why, I'd kill just to get a 30
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Sometimes it just takes a few days to let your score sit right with you. Most of those people complaining will probably sing a different tune in a few days. That's how I was about my score.
 
StarryNights said:
Yea, it seems like quite a few people didn't do as well as they would've liked to on the 3/27 thread. I feel like being ready and actually taking the test itself is a huge milestone to be proud of yourself for no matter what. A lot of people I know don't even take the test or are serial postponers due to fear. At least you now know what the real test is like. Although I got a score I'm happy with, the entire month of waiting and fearing (cause I had a massive headache during the test and was pissed I didn't void) brought me to the conclusion that I will retake it twice if I need to cause I can't see myself doing anything else.
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Dang, I'm so glad I didn't use SDN back when I took it, everybody talking about it would've made me so anxious!
 
It's a new day!! haha. Thanks for the support guys. I'm not that worried about it. That's what a retake is for.
 
I just finished AAMC #10. My last practice test. 14/12/12. Dude, I would SO take that as a real score. Yes, please!

Only 1 question wrong in PS (but that curves to a 14 for #10, it seems), and 5 of the 6 questions I got wrong in BS were organic chem. That is getting the majority of my attention these last few days.
 
i believe she had a 30+, and a retake as well. you're both right.
 
Geekchick921 said:
I just finished AAMC #10. My last practice test. 14/12/12. Dude, I would SO take that as a real score. Yes, please!

Only 1 question wrong in PS (but that curves to a 14 for #10, it seems), and 5 of the 6 questions I got wrong in BS were organic chem. That is getting the majority of my attention these last few days.
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nice going girl, my last prac mcat was around 38/39 as well, hope ull get a similar score!
 
wow this thread has really been dead haha.

Just curious if you had to pick a specialty today what would be the top 3 and why? Obviously it is too early to really know for sure but lets just speculate anyway.

For me:
1) Orthopedics - I like the idea of improving peoples quality of life by relieving pain and restoring mobility. Helping someone to return to an activity they loved is awesome. I also like that for total joints the recovery time and success rate is quick/high respectively.

2) Primary care physician - I have always liked the idea of providing long term care to people and building relationships.

3) Anesthesia (possibly pain management) - I have worked in the OR for 3 years and the anesthesia docs are possibly the coolest and happiest docs I know. The OR environment is great, I really like the team aspect (surgery is appealing for this reason also). I think pain management is cool for reasons similar to what I said about ortho, and you get more long term patients than the regular anesthesia work.
 
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rHinO1 said:
wow this thread is really been dead haha.

Just curious if you had to pick a specialty today what would be the top 3 and why? Obviously it is too early to really know for sure but let just speculate anyway.

For me:
1) Orthopedics - I like the idea of improving peoples quality of life by relieving pain and restoring mobility. Helping someone to return to an activity they loved is awesome. I also like that for total joints the recovery time and success rate is quick/high respectively.

2) Primary care physician - I have always liked the idea of providing long term care to people and building relationships.

3) Anesthesia (possibly pain management) - I have worked in the OR for 3 years and the anesthesia docs are possibly the coolest and happiest docs I know. The OR environment is great, I really like the team aspect (surgery is appealing for this reason also). I think pain management is cool for reasons similar to what I said about ortho, and you get more long term patients than the regular anesthesia work.
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I'm feeling interventional radiology or radiation oncology today.
 
rHinO1 said:
wow this thread has really been dead haha.

Just curious if you had to pick a specialty today what would be the top 3 and why? Obviously it is too early to really know for sure but lets just speculate anyway.

For me:
1) Orthopedics - I like the idea of improving peoples quality of life by relieving pain and restoring mobility. Helping someone to return to an activity they loved is awesome. I also like that for total joints the recovery time and success rate is quick/high respectively.

2) Primary care physician - I have always liked the idea of providing long term care to people and building relationships.

3) Anesthesia (possibly pain management) - I have worked in the OR for 3 years and the anesthesia docs are possibly the coolest and happiest docs I know. The OR environment is great, I really like the team aspect (surgery is appealing for this reason also). I think pain management is cool for reasons similar to what I said about ortho, and you get more long term patients than the regular anesthesia work.
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ortho- hopefully, affiliated with a college athletic department or pro team.

family med- preventative medicine and education for everyone

cardiology- i'd like to do some exercise physiology research related to cards and the heart has always impressed me.
 
rHinO1 said:
wow this thread has really been dead haha.

Just curious if you had to pick a specialty today what would be the top 3 and why? Obviously it is too early to really know for sure but lets just speculate anyway.

For me:
1) Orthopedics - I like the idea of improving peoples quality of life by relieving pain and restoring mobility. Helping someone to return to an activity they loved is awesome. I also like that for total joints the recovery time and success rate is quick/high respectively.

2) Primary care physician - I have always liked the idea of providing long term care to people and building relationships.

3) Anesthesia (possibly pain management) - I have worked in the OR for 3 years and the anesthesia docs are possibly the coolest and happiest docs I know. The OR environment is great, I really like the team aspect (surgery is appealing for this reason also). I think pain management is cool for reasons similar to what I said about ortho, and you get more long term patients than the regular anesthesia work.
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1 - heme/onc seems awesome and i know i hate surgery and will likely end up in medicine somewhere

2 - radiology -

3 - nephrology - kidneys yay

this is 100% going to change im sure though in 2 more years when i do M3. I hate the lifestyle that is surgery so i know i will likely stay away, not to mention after being around it for 2 years i just never really felt drawn to do it, in fact i hate the idea lol.

outside of surgery, psych, and peds though its all fair game in my mind right now, internal med and all of its subspecialities (except pulm cc), neuro, radiology who knows. Hoopefully m3 clears it up 🙂. And even though i may be interested in radiology or something, in 2 years if i have average grades and like a 220 step 1 i can kiss radiology good bye and say hello to internal med 😛

and sorry about the mcat guys🙁. I guess most are retaking or something? Hopefully you do better the next time.
 
FlowRate said:
Even if they're technically different, I think of the two as about the same, so number 2 would be Emergency Medicine and number 3 would be some sort of IM subspecialty--probably Cardio.
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I'm not too sure how different the two are, but I think they are similar enough. Some radiology work you can do from your home office now which would be awesome 👍. Emergency med would be fun and the hours are good.
msb1190 said:
ortho- hopefully, affiliated with a college athletic department or pro team.

family med- preventative medicine and education for everyone

cardiology- i'd like to do some exercise physiology research related to cards and the heart has always impressed me.
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The hospital where I work has an ortho group affiliated with the Padres, and the health system has a group for the Chargers (but they are mostly working in another hospital near by). It seams like the guys at my hospital that work with the most athletes are the sports med guys that do shouldr/knee scopes, and we have an awesome doc that is an ankle/knee/elbow limb specialist and does a lot of trauma type work (people breaking bones during soccer/football/skiing). I think the later seems more appealing to me rather than doing the scopes.

I think I would be happy doing knee/hip replacements for geriatric patients though.
 
Elijah05 said:
1 - heme/onc seems awesome and i know i hate surgery and will likely end up in medicine somewhere

2 - radiology -

3 - nephrology - kidneys yay

this is 100% going to change im sure though in 2 more years when i do M3. I hate the lifestyle that is surgery so i know i will likely stay away, not to mention after being around it for 2 years i just never really felt drawn to do it, in fact i hate the idea lol.

outside of surgery, psych, and peds though its all fair game in my mind right now, internal med and all of its subspecialities (except pulm cc), neuro, radiology who knows. Hoopefully m3 clears it up 🙂. And even though i may be interested in radiology or something, in 2 years if i have average grades and like a 220 step 1 i can kiss radiology good bye and say hello to internal med 😛

and sorry about the mcat guys🙁. I guess most are retaking or something? Hopefully you do better the next time.
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what is the difference between nephrology and urology? just one is surgical and the other is not?
 
Ob/Gyn - Either general or REI or MFM

Peds - Neonatology

I can never decide on the one that interests me after that. It's kind of a -way tie between ortho, neuro, anes, EM, and a few IM subspecialties.
 
I'm not sure how common it is to do, but we have 1 doctor in our entire hospital that does knee allographs (transplant donor bone, he travels all over the world giving lectures on the topic). I think that is really cool and would be really interesting to learn to do. The doc also does research on cartilage growth using stem cells.
 
rHinO1 said:
what is the difference between nephrology and urology? just one is surgical and the other is not?
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Nephro is an IM subspecialty, and uro is a surgical specialty, but I don't think they're as closely related as, say, neuro and neurosurgery. Nephrology is more kidney-specific, and also has a lot to do with hypertension (the big nephro groups that has privileges at my hospital is called hypertension and nephrology associates. They're also the ones writing dialysis orders.

Uro is largely surgical and deals with the kidneys as well as the rest of the urinary tract.

Here ya go. http://www.ehow.com/facts_5460969_nephrologist-vs-urologist.html
 
Geekchick921 said:
Ob/Gyn - Either general or REI or MFM

Peds - Neonatology

I can never decide on the one that interests me after that. It's kind of a -way tie between ortho, neuro, anes, EM, and a few IM subspecialties.
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I haven't given a lot of thought to either of those, but they both sound cool. I think the OB part would be awesome- delivering babies 🙂. I'm not so sure about the GYN stuff, exams would be ok I guess (not being creepy), but doing stuff like D & C's wouldn't appeal to me.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Nephro is an IM subspecialty, and uro is a surgical specialty, but I don't think they're as closely related as, say, neuro and neurosurgery. Nephrology is more kidney-specific, and also has a lot to do with hypertension (the big nephro groups that has privileges at my hospital is called hypertension and nephrology associates. They're also the ones writing dialysis orders.

Uro is largely surgical and deals with the kidneys as well as the rest of the urinary tract.

Here ya go. http://www.ehow.com/facts_5460969_nephrologist-vs-urologist.html
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cool thanks 👍
 
is it possible to do IM, practice for a few years (pay the loans down), and then come back for a subspecialty?
 
rHinO1 said:
I haven't given a lot of thought to either of those, but they both sound cool. I think the OB part would be awesome- delivering babies 🙂. I'm not so sure about the GYN stuff, exams would be ok I guess (not being creepy), but doing stuff like D & C's wouldn't appeal to me.
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I won't do elective abortions. I will likely just refer to colleagues that will. However, D&Cs are also done for miscarriages where not all of the products of conception were passed, so you have to go in and get the rest of it. I will have no problem doing those.

msb1190 said:
is it possible to do IM, practice for a few years (pay the loans down), and then come back for a subspecialty?
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Yes, but from what I understand, it sounds like a great idea now, but once you have to consider the fact that you will have to go from an attending's salary down to a fellow's salary (and fellowships can have residency-like hours sometimes) isn't too easy to swallow. Better to just do it all in one shot, IMO.
 
Geekchick921 said:
I won't do elective abortions. I will likely just refer to colleagues that will. However, D&Cs are also done for miscarriages where not all of the products of conception were passed, so you have to go in and get the rest of it. I will have no problem doing those.



Yes, but from what I understand, it sounds like a great idea now, but once you have to consider the fact that you will have to go from an attending's salary down to a fellow's salary (and fellowships can have residency-like hours sometimes) isn't too easy to swallow. Better to just do it all in one shot, IMO.
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Yeah we don't do abortions at my hospital but I have watched several D&C's. I am not easily grossed out but that kinda gets to me. I think if I was the doc and had a relationship with the patient and knew what they were going through I would be more inclined to help without feeling grossed out.
 
I'm kinda talking out of my ass because I've never observed a D&C, but you just have to remember the pregnancy is already over. Whatever's still in there will only do harm to the mother.
 
Just saw this video. This guy is very talented, raps like ll cool j, snoop, dmx, then Jay-z.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHT860Z-oJs[/YOUTUBE]
 
Geekchick921 said:
I won't do elective abortions. I will likely just refer to colleagues that will. However, D&Cs are also done for miscarriages where not all of the products of conception were passed, so you have to go in and get the rest of it. I will have no problem doing those.



Yes, but from what I understand, it sounds like a great idea now, but once you have to consider the fact that you will have to go from an attending's salary down to a fellow's salary (and fellowships can have residency-like hours sometimes) isn't too easy to swallow. Better to just do it all in one shot, IMO.
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i think the biggest thing that would keep someone from doing this would probably be a family.
 
Geekchick921 said:
I'm kinda talking out of my ass because I've never observed a D&C, but you just have to remember the pregnancy is already over. Whatever's still in there will only do harm to the mother.
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I have absolutely no ethical problem with it, I am strictly talking about seeing body parts (sometimes you see whole limbs) and unidentifiable mess in a glass jar afterward. I know it is totally necessary for the mother.
 
rHinO1 said:
I have absolutely no ethical problem with it, I am strictly talking about seeing body parts (sometimes you see whole limbs) and unidentifiable mess in a glass jar afterward. I know it is totally necessary for the mother.
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Oh, okay. Yeah, seeing that would upset me, too. A few times when I was pregnant I googled "12 week fetus" or something to see what she looked look like in utero. Well, there are a few REALLY graphic abortion pictures floating around the webernet that show up, too. 🙁
 
Geekchick921 said:
Oh, okay. Yeah, seeing that would upset me, too. A few times when I was pregnant I googled "12 week fetus" or something to see what she looked look like in utero. Well, there are a few REALLY graphic abortion pictures floating around the webernet that show up, too. 🙁
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We have these guys that come to campus 1-2 times a year and put up giant abortion pictures that are really disturbing right on the main walkway through campus. The pics are like 15x15 feet.
 
rHinO1 said:
wow this thread has really been dead haha.

Just curious if you had to pick a specialty today what would be the top 3 and why? Obviously it is too early to really know for sure but lets just speculate anyway.

For me:
1) Orthopedics - I like the idea of improving peoples quality of life by relieving pain and restoring mobility. Helping someone to return to an activity they loved is awesome. I also like that for total joints the recovery time and success rate is quick/high respectively.

2) Primary care physician - I have always liked the idea of providing long term care to people and building relationships.

3) Anesthesia (possibly pain management) - I have worked in the OR for 3 years and the anesthesia docs are possibly the coolest and happiest docs I know. The OR environment is great, I really like the team aspect (surgery is appealing for this reason also). I think pain management is cool for reasons similar to what I said about ortho, and you get more long term patients than the regular anesthesia work.
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1. Ob/gyn- interested in women's health in general, nice balance between medicine and surgery, able to be part of what women consider the most important experience of their lives (pregnancy and childbirth), very hands-on, interesting fellowship opportunities (like geekchick said, MFM and REI).

There are no 2 and 3... 😱
 
floatie, i know you have a dirty mind. you're all about the urology.
 
i just put up a pretty epic mcat post. hopefully people find it useful
 
FloatOn said:
1. Ob/gyn- interested in women's health in general, nice balance between medicine and surgery, able to be part of what women consider the most important experience of their lives (pregnancy and childbirth), very hands-on, interesting fellowship opportunities (like geekchick said, MFM and REI).

There are no 2 and 3... 😱
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haha nice, that's commitment. Ok, but what if you had to pick a 2 or 3 then would it be surgical or medical? at least give us that much... 😛
 
bleargh said:
aw thanks gcizzle. i'm pulling for you on 5/1! stay in PA!
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Thanks, man! 🙂

I don't know if you saw, but I got a 38 today on AAMC #10! One more right question in each section would have bumped me up another point, too. Tomorrow involve some more organic chemistry mechanism review (5 of the 6 questions I got wrong in Bio were organic questions), and a few other points I consider a little weak, and then chilling for most of Friday.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Thanks, man! 🙂

I don't know if you saw, but I got a 38 today on AAMC #10! One more right question in each section would have bumped me up another point, too. Tomorrow involve some more organic chemistry mechanism review (5 of the 6 questions I got wrong in Bio were organic questions), and a few other points I consider a little weak, and then chilling for most of Friday.
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sick. keep the ship steady, I 👍 your friday plan
 
i guess the other 2015 homies are studying for finals
 
I just looked at this thread and I hope that you guys do well! Just thinking about the MCAT got me a little nervous all over again. I took it last summer...

Is anyone taking summer courses also? I will be doing some research, and hopefully have plenty of time for secondaries..
 
BrainBuff said:
I just looked at this thread and I hope that you guys do well! Just thinking about the MCAT got me a little nervous all over again. I took it last summer...

Is anyone taking summer courses also? I will be doing some research, and hopefully have plenty of time for secondaries..
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I took the MCAT last summer too. I'm going to take at least 1 class over the summer. Mostly I plan to work on my research project in the lab and fill out secondaries. I plan to do some surfing too 🙂
 
FloatOn said:
1. Ob/gyn- interested in women's health in general, nice balance between medicine and surgery, able to be part of what women consider the most important experience of their lives (pregnancy and childbirth), very hands-on, interesting fellowship opportunities (like geekchick said, MFM and REI).

There are no 2 and 3... 😱
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Really, do women really consider pregnancy and childbirth their most important experience?
 
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvTypGztutA&NR=1[/YOUTUBE]

Holding on by the skin of my teeth. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffff so ready to be done.

In other news, a resident my dad met where he lives said he'd be totally down with trying to get me in to shadow him. I think shadowing a resident would be BALLER STATUS.
 
or hell on wheels. depends on the specialty. let me know how that goes if you get the chance.
 
you will reach baller status by shadowing a resident
 
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