Class of 2021 . . . how ya doin?

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I've been having doubt about my life plan recently...I think having to make decisions for real has put me into panic mode a bit. But having a conversation with my mentor today was very grounding and a reminder of why I want to do what I want to do.
 
cdo96 said:
I’ve narrowed down my VIRMP search to 16 hospitals!!!!! That’s such an improvement over the 44 I was sitting at before
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Coopah said:
Impressive! I'm still stuck at 31 :arghh:
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WildZoo said:
As of page 6. Note that I'm taking 3m off the table as an option because her move yesterday makes no sense for a woof. If she is one she probably deserves the win lol


In-character early vote for one of the historically lowest posters. Of course, that's easy enough to replicate as a wolf. Most of genny's posts d1 were fluff fluff fluff

Interesting. Not sure why she picked sporty in particular out of all the people who typically don't post for a while.



These posts are what gave SAR the initial titch of a village read from me. It's village SAR tone.

Why is wondering so obsessed with sporty



Noting that sporty still never answered this question


Again, so obsessed with sporty, mentions her more than any other player, I'm just not sure how to read it yet
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Are you guys planning on applying to more than 10?
 
cdo96 said:
I’m gonna do 20. Because I have more than 10 that I’m interested in, and I spent the money for up to 20, may as well use them. :laugh:
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I really only want to apply to 10, but I'm concerned that is a dumb choice lolol
 
mmmdreamerz said:
I feel this on a deep and very personal level
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I found this guide and it was like “make it into three paragraphs of like what you’re looking for in a hospital, your goals/ skills, and what you can provide to the hospital.

what I can provide to the hospital:
  • I’m sometimes funny
  • I make a lot of self deprecating jokes
  • I buy a lot of snacks when I get stressed and will share
  • that’s it
 
cdo96 said:
I found this guide and it was like “make it into three paragraphs of like what you’re looking for in a hospital, your goals/ skills, and what you can provide to the hospital.

what I can provide to the hospital:
  • I’m sometimes funny
  • I make a lot of self deprecating jokes
  • I buy a lot of snacks when I get stressed and will share
  • that’s it
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I think i saw the same thing. It was helpful but also not lol
 
cdo96 said:
I found this guide and it was like “make it into three paragraphs of like what you’re looking for in a hospital, your goals/ skills, and what you can provide to the hospital.

what I can provide to the hospital:
  • I’m sometimes funny
  • I make a lot of self deprecating jokes
  • I buy a lot of snacks when I get stressed and will share
  • that’s it
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My chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... my two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to this hospital.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons....

 
finnickthedog said:
Me on Tuesday: Volunteers to talk about anesthesia in c-sections on Thursday
Me today: Wtf is wrong with you Finn? You volunteered to talk tomorrow?
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I did the same thing with a diversity event my school was hosting.

I originally signed up back in March and it was going to be in April, but was cancelled. Then like late September or early October I got an email saying "thank you for volunteering to be a panelist, these are the information sessions"

I legit didn't even remember signing up for it in the first place, and definitely didn't agree to the new date, yet somehow went through with it
 
PippyPony said:
I'm probably applying to one. Maybe 2 if I'm feeling spicy.

Worked for undergrad, my first job, and for vet school. Apply where you really truly want to go.
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So are you just gonna not specialize if you don’t get into your one internship? Or apply the next cycle? Or are you not planning on specializing and were just doing the internship for that extra year of good practice before gp?
 
mmmdreamerz said:
I really only want to apply to 10, but I'm concerned that is a dumb choice lolol
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PippyPony said:
I'm probably applying to one. Maybe 2 if I'm feeling spicy.

Worked for undergrad, my first job, and for vet school. Apply where you really truly want to go.
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I have 6 hospitals that I would be absolutely elated if I matched with. Then 7 hospitals I would be pretty satisfied with. Then 5 that I would be okay with that would work out. And finally there's 2 that I would be good with them, but they're not my top ones.

If I had balls I would only apply for 6 but I do not bc the scramble scares me. And why apply for 13 when you can apply for 20.
 
vetmedhead said:
I'm still torn trying to figure out if I want to do a rotating or a shelter med specific internship
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Uiuc has a lovely one and you’re the only shelter intern so you get to see anything cool that comes in vs last year when they tried having two and only one would be on surgery or community med at a time so they didn’t always get to see the cool things
 
SkiOtter said:
So are you just gonna not specialize if you don’t get into your one internship? Or apply the next cycle? Or are you not planning on specializing and were just doing the internship for that extra year of good practice before gp?
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If I don't match, I will figure out the next step at that point. Sometimes things just aren't meant to be at that point in time, and that's ok. There is no rule that says you have to follow a linear path to a magical single end point with this stuff -- I live the proof of that every day.

To answer your overall question, I could see myself enjoying a number of career paths, in both the short term and long term. My one requirement is a decently high concentration of cats. They like me.
 
PippyPony said:
If I don't match, I will figure out the next step at that point. Sometimes things just aren't meant to be at that point in time, and that's ok. There is no rule that says you have to follow a linear path to a magical single end point with this stuff -- I live the proof of that every day.

To answer your overall question, I could see myself enjoying a number of career paths, in both the short term and long term. My one requirement is a decently high concentration of cats. They like me.
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I too demand kittens
 
mmmdreamerz said:
I really only want to apply to 10, but I'm concerned that is a dumb choice lolol
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cdo96 said:
I don’t think it’s dumb at all! I just can’t narrow down to 10. :laugh:
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^ this, but also I have no idea. I really wouldn't be surprised if I managed not to narrow anything down. I'm too indecisive.
 
cdo96 said:
Anesthesia in C-Sections: little to none :prof:
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I did one recently where we got into surgery so fast that one of the puppies (still covered in fetal goo) legit kicked at me as I was working on clamping off the umbilicus to hand it to an assistant.

That was a first. Most energetic little Frenchie puppies ever, super adorable mom. Owner was a douchecanoe.
 
Coopah said:
It is almost 10pm. I must be awake in eight hours. I have just finished my records for the day. I also must now relearn how to do a dental before my procedure tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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My kinda girl. If you're not doing new things on like, three hours of sleep, is it even practicing medicine?
 
Trilt said:
I did one recently where we got into surgery so fast that one of the puppies (still covered in fetal goo) legit kicked at me as I was working on clamping off the umbilicus to hand it to an assistant.

That was a first. Most energetic little Frenchie puppies ever, super adorable mom. Owner was a douchecanoe.
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awww I love it (the puppy not the owner)
 
Coopah said:
It is almost 10pm. I must be awake in eight hours. I have just finished my records for the day. I also must now relearn how to do a dental before my procedure tomorrow. Wish me luck.
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I literally have no experience with anything involving teeth at all. Like none. It’s like this giant ominous hole in my education...they got to the mouth and just said nahhhh we don’t need to teach that.

(I should add that, in fairness, I had a couple dentistry lectures and was supposed to have a couple labs, but covid. But still dentistry is not well covered here and I feel especially bad for people that will actually have to do a lot of it, which thankthelord will not be me.)

But you’ll rock it! Good luck🙂
 
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Our old curriculum had very little dentistry.. 3 lectures but no labs. Only got hands on experience if you took the elective rotation, which was not always available. I've never done an extraction on anything. Thankfully our new dentist is super invested in teaching, and new curriculum has a half credit course with labs and everything.
 
WildZoo said:
Our old curriculum had very little dentistry.. 3 lectures but no labs. Only got hands on experience if you took the elective rotation, which was not always available. I've never done an extraction on anything. Thankfully our new dentist is super invested in teaching, and new curriculum has a half credit course with labs and everything.
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Yeah, we used to not have a ton but recently got some amazing and invested dentistry faculty so we had a handful of lectures on equine dentistry and then maybe 5-10 on SA dentistry spread between ~2 courses. SA dentistry is currently an elective rotation here but they just upgraded their facility (used to run out of essentially a closet lol) and from what I've heard it's going to be required for all SA trackers next year. I don't believe equine dentistry is required for large/mixed but that makes sense given that many people in those tracks intend to be food animal focused and may never actually perform dental floats depending on their career path, whereas dentistry is more common in SA medicine as a whole unless you specialize.
 
Y'all, I have become torn on life goals. Don't want to do clinical medicine any more, but have only realized that in the last 10 days while on a very intense rotation here and having the NAVLE. So not sure if it's just burnout at this point. Trying to find the balance of doing my fair share this rotation while also becoming super disinterested overall in clinical medicine.

Not going to start looking at jobs until this weekend. We'll see how I feel after the next rotation.
 
batsenecal said:
Y'all, I have become torn on life goals. Don't want to do clinical medicine any more, but have only realized that in the last 10 days while on a very intense rotation here and having the NAVLE. So not sure if it's just burnout at this point. Trying to find the balance of doing my fair share this rotation while also becoming super disinterested overall in clinical medicine.

Not going to start looking at jobs until this weekend. We'll see how I feel after the next rotation.
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I would suspect burnout if you feel this way now after being on neuro and didn't feel that way on earlier rotations. Neuro is rough, very rough. Remember life in GP (if that's what your goal was previously) is wildly different from life in a tertiary referral center. Each has their pros and cons of course. And life as a student is wildly different from life as a doctor. Not saying there's anything wrong with deciding not to do clinical medicine of course, just saying it does sound like there is some burnout playing into this based on timing. Hang in there :biglove:
 
WildZoo said:
I would suspect burnout if you feel this way now after being on neuro and didn't feel that way on earlier rotations. Neuro is rough, very rough. Remember life in GP (if that's what your goal was previously) is wildly different from life in a tertiary referral center. Each has their pros and cons of course. And life as a student is wildly different from life as a doctor. Not saying there's anything wrong with deciding not to do clinical medicine of course, just saying it does sound like there is some burnout playing into this based on timing. Hang in there :biglove:
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I keep saying that if they let me graduate tomorrow, I'd be gone. 😆 So I feel like burn out is a strong source of my current apathy cause I was much more gung ho on oncology last block, and I suspect I'll be more gung ho again on the next block which will be cardio. Solely GP was never the ultimate goal (would be fine doing ER/GP mix, but not the ultimate love of my life), and what I am thinking about now is something I've always wanted to be involved in since even high school. It just got put on the backburner for a while.
 
batsenecal said:
I keep saying that if they let me graduate tomorrow, I'd be gone. 😆 So I feel like burn out is a strong source of my current apathy cause I was much more gung ho on oncology last block, and I suspect I'll be more gung ho again on the next block which will be cardio. Solely GP was never the ultimate goal (would be fine doing ER/GP mix, but not the ultimate love of my life), and what I am thinking about now is something I've always wanted to be involved in since even high school. It just got put on the backburner for a while.
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And you know, that's ok too, because there is so much to vet med outside of the "typical" path. No reason not to look into other things 🙂
 
batsenecal said:
I keep saying that if they let me graduate tomorrow, I'd be gone. 😆 So I feel like burn out is a strong source of my current apathy cause I was much more gung ho on oncology last block, and I suspect I'll be more gung ho again on the next block which will be cardio. Solely GP was never the ultimate goal (would be fine doing ER/GP mix, but not the ultimate love of my life), and what I am thinking about now is something I've always wanted to be involved in since even high school. It just got put on the backburner for a while.
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Is it possible to do your regular er/gp and that other thing on the side? I know my gp is part of a local university’s (non vet school) IACUC board outside of regular work so it could be possible.
 
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