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I have no strategy. I just bulldoze.

It obviously does not work.
 
I didn't even know we were already near top until you mentioned it!
 
Tatertots said:
Haha. There is a long winded story behind my love for Asian music but the short version is I am from asianville, California and 95% of my friends were Asian. I was the token white guy...actually I still am considering my school's demographics.
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Wow, this is crazy. All three of my best friends are international students from Asia, and pretty much 90% of the rest of my friends are Asian, too. I'm totally the token white guy! The weird thing is that I come from an Asian-less hometown, and my school has a very normal ~8-10% Asian demographic.
 
ozzi you should change your avatar to krillin because you're appearing very lackluster right now.
 
torshi said:
i can see that...biggest failure in here..... lol :meanie:
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Hahaha I don't actually get what's so special about top... I just bulldoze for funsies 😀

Oh, to answer your question from like 3 pages ago Tots, I only connected MCAT gallbladder/bile material to cholecystectomies on Scrubs (lol) because of my internship this summer. A lot of my Type 2 diabetes patients had cholecystectomies (gallbladder removals), and were encouraged to not eat fatty foods. I seriously need to go into endocrinology or I might die prematurely 😱
 
Tatertots said:
Are you most interested in endocrinology atm?

I mostly fail at anything to do with hormones.
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I totally am, I love hormones!! I haven't studied them properly yet, so I'm not fantastic with them (especially the menstrual cycle...), but I'm getting there. I'm definitely naturally better at endocrine stuff than some other systems like musculoskeletal and cell bio (I. hate. mitosis/meiosis. so much.).

But yeah, my internship was in endocrinology and I've got some high school experience with it as well, so that's my goal right now! 😀
 
Kangaroo Paw said:
I totally am, I love hormones!! I haven't studied them properly yet, so I'm not fantastic with them (especially the menstrual cycle...), but I'm getting there. I'm definitely naturally better at endocrine stuff than some other systems like musculoskeletal and cell bio (I. hate. mitosis/meiosis. so much.).

But yeah, my internship was in endocrinology and I've got some high school experience with it as well, so that's my goal right now! 😀
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keep it up 👍
 
Just curious: is endocrinology considered "primary care" as well as a "specialty"? Some of the endocrinologists I worked with saw some purely primary patients, with no endocrine issues.
 
Kangaroo Paw said:
I totally am, I love hormones!! I haven't studied them properly yet, so I'm not fantastic with them (especially the menstrual cycle...), but I'm getting there. I'm definitely naturally better at endocrine stuff than some other systems like musculoskeletal and cell bio (I. hate. mitosis/meiosis. so much.).

But yeah, my internship was in endocrinology and I've got some high school experience with it as well, so that's my goal right now! 😀
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Nice! Definitely keep it up!

I am a fan of the immunology/infectious disease area.
 
Tatertots said:
Nice! Definitely keep it up!

I am a fan of the immunology/infectious disease area.
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I feel like I could definitely get into ID, but I don't know anything about the immune system whatsoever. I feel like I should remedy that before the MCAT...

I also really want to do Latino health/work in Spanish-speaking areas, and there's a surprisingly huge shortage of endocrinologists in general, not to mention areas with less physicians overall.
 
Kangaroo Paw said:
I feel like I could definitely get into ID, but I don't know anything about the immune system whatsoever. I feel like I should remedy that before the MCAT...

I also really want to do Latino health/work in Spanish-speaking areas, and there's a surprisingly huge shortage of endocrinologists in general, not to mention areas with less physicians overall.
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i can't do any of that, i'm more of a hands on person. I would get bored
 
torshi said:
you psychic bro? yea but i honestly like the spine and nervous system hence why I'm a NSC major 🙂

and you? the same?
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yeah, i want surgery but also want a life. i might go into g surgery and fellowship in either plastics, breast or hands surgery and work in solo private practice. i have been on the surgery forums alot lately and i see that spine is where the money at right now lol
 
Oh god, I would absolutely hate surgery. I shadowed a surgeon for a couple of days and decided immediately it was not the career for me.

Never ever.

Clinical medicine all the way, baby.
 
ozzi22 said:
yeah, i want surgery but also want a life. i might go into g surgery and fellowship in either plastics, breast or hands surgery and work in solo private practice. i have been on the surgery forums alot lately and i see that spine is where the money at right now lol
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Yea I'm a lurker on all the surgery forums etc usmle scores hah

but yea i had some interest in plastics, i like the type of surgeries they can perform esp reconstructive.

Yea i honestly want a life too, but i know with ortho you can def have one, but with neuro I'm not sure. You kinda just have to try it yourself. I'm sure there is some time for family.
 
If not endocrinology, then maybe psychiatry or reproductive endocrinology. Or maybe even OB/GYN. But probably endocrinology 😀
 
torshi said:
Yea I'm a lurker on all the surgery forums etc usmle scores hah

but yea i had some interest in plastics, i like the type of surgeries they can perform esp reconstructive.

Yea i honestly want a life too, but i know with ortho you can def have one, but with neuro I'm not sure. You kinda just have to try it yourself. I'm sure there is some time for family.
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ortho is the way to go. either way i am definitely not doing neuro
 
I don't know, do you guys have any interest in being clinicians? How will med school be tolerable if surgery's the only thing you're interested in?
 
Mental health is so stigmatized and under-resourced in this country. And I'm not talking rich people who are mildly depressed, but rather, Type 1 diabetics who have comorbid Type 1 bipolar disorder and, while having generally good self-care, lapse into DKA every time they have a mental health crisis associated with their bipolar. Mental health permeates into every other aspect of well-being, and is so devastating when put into context. Psychiatry is fascinating.
 
Kangaroo Paw said:
I don't know, do you guys have any interest in being clinicians? How will med school be tolerable if surgery's the only thing you're interested in?
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Don't let them know that, show interest in all fields.

But, when it comes time....you know what to do..hah

but yea i don't think i can go through 8 years of education and residency and become a primary care physician sorry. I would need to do something that pays off "more" in my point of view and that keeps me busy.
 
torshi said:
Don't let them know that, show interest in all fields.

But, when it comes time....you know what to do..hah

but yea i don't think i can go through 8 years of education and residency and become a primary care physician sorry. I would need to do something that pays off "more" in my point of view and that keeps me busy.
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Honestly, there are a lot of perks to being a PCP. Especially if you want to work in underserved areas. Those areas are seriously lacking in basic care that would prevent so many other issues from popping up.

I don't understand the stigma behind primary care: yes, it doesn't compensate well, but it makes a large impact in areas which could most benefit from preventive, basic care.
 
Another thing I kind of don't understand is med schools that ONLY want matriculants who are absolutely 100% committed to primary care. Primary care represents a fairly narrow range of careers, and you can't possibly know for sure that you want to be a PCP when you're a junior in college. I totally understand wanting to graduate excellent clinicians, and the need for PCP's is great, but I feel like admissions could be more lax in this regard.
 
gj btw ozzi.

kangaroo we both do psychiatry :thumbsup:

assuming it's what I think it is. have to find out
 
Kangaroo Paw said:
Honestly, there are a lot of perks to being a PCP. Especially if you want to work in underserved areas. Those areas are seriously lacking in basic care that would prevent so many other issues from popping up.

I don't understand the stigma behind primary care: yes, it doesn't compensate well, but it makes a large impact in areas which could most benefit from preventive, basic care.
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Well thank god we have ppl that are more interested in primary care, because supposedly there is a shortage and then you have the ppl that like surgery unlike ppl who can't stand it or stay away from it as much as they can.

edit: I just got top! holy fu**
 
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