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MD & DO co'21 Residency Panic thread
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Debunked
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deleted645092
It’s bull****.
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throwaway199
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throwaway199
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Guysssssss hot off the presss
www.nrmp.org
Press Release: Match Week to Reveal Training Path for More Than 42,000 Resident Physician Applicants - The Match, National Resident Matching Program
Number of applicants and positions make the 2021 Main Residency Match the largest in history Washington, D.C., March 11, 2021 – On Friday, March 19, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) celebrates Match Day for the 2021 NRMP Main Residency Match. Medical school students and graduates...
Is anyone else planning or temped to plan a vacation? I have been agonizing over it for months. We are trying to be pandemic safe but we feel we really need a break before diving into residency? I have been vaccinated but my wife and kids have not. I honestly can’t stop day dreaming of a Hawaiian beach or other paradisiacal location. Anyone else considering something similar?
Yeah, I've been debating an all inclusive mexico trip or a trip out west. Feel like optics of mexico are bad for my social circles but realistically I think an all inclusive trip can be more safe than road triping and stopping at 20+ stops/towns/etc. So torn but I feel the same as you man. I'd hate starting residency without some sort of trip under my belt
My wife and I (both vaccinated) did a trip out to AZ. We flew but had N95s on the whole trip. Planes are overall pretty safe most times because they cycle the air really well. Great hiking out there and we got a very private airbnb. Grilled out every night and hiked and such. Mainly in Sedona, hit up Mesa too though. Didn't post anything because of optics and the only ones who knew we were there were family. Worked out super well as an n=1
So this means 40k of applicants have matched positions?Guysssssss hot off the presss
Press Release: Match Week to Reveal Training Path for More Than 42,000 Resident Physician Applicants - The Match, National Resident Matching Program
Number of applicants and positions make the 2021 Main Residency Match the largest in history Washington, D.C., March 11, 2021 – On Friday, March 19, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) celebrates Match Day for the 2021 NRMP Main Residency Match. Medical school students and graduates...
42K? So similar previously? Not that many go unfilled?
I need some closure on this... Is it discussed anywhere about if it's truly debunked or not?
It's all over a bunch of discords and reddit posts and you can ask prior applicants from last year. You can also ask anyone that knows how websites work in general. Just trust me on this one, man. It's a webpage with the gated options listed for when it's time to change it for the real thing. People had this same thing last year and didn't match. People who withdrew had the same message this year according to the EM discord.
One way or another we'll know in 4 days. No need to bring @sunshinefl into this - they have been nothing but amazingly supportive this whole cycle on this thread. Grateful for peers like this in medicine 👍
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Thanks. I don’t use Reddit or Discord (new to me, actually). I feel like there’s this whole other world I don’t know how to navigate. I’m such a boomer.
They weren't talking about the user. They were taking about the nickname lol.
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I love godzilla movies. My hype for this one might be greater than my hype for match dayisn't this awesome?!
(Jk)
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AnatomyGrey12
Pretty sure it was just a phrase and not actually talking about sunshinefl since sunshinefl said nothing in the exchange lol.
RESULTS: Based on my calculations the last kong vs godzilla movie was 60 years ago and the last match was 1 year ago, therefore based on the hype calculation y(number of giant monsters) x z(years of hype build up), godzilla vs kong comes out to a hype factor of 120 and the 2021 match comes out to be 0.
LIMIATIONS: The limitations of this study include a case of end of fourth year brain rot and significant nostalgic interest
I double checked your work and it checks out
* adds peer reviewed as f*** to soap application *
probably as real as many of the publications claimed by applicants.
Guys, it was a joke 😛. I guess it's hard to hit that funny bone when anxiety is running high. I'll try harder next time!
I'm going to hawaii
One more weekend, folks. I'm a 5 year SDN member and a proud underdog. It's been quite the ride- applied only to DO schools with a 3.56 gpa and a measly 499 MCAT. Grateful for this community, had a lot of help for board materials and advice. Cheers mates
Cheers brotha!! Fellow underdog as well. Been on here since 2016 leading up to med school apps. It really has been a surreal adventure. I can't stop thinking about that quote, the days are long but the years are short. All the day to day stress from exams to anatomy to rotations and alike... we're so close now. Crazy to think about it looking back now
Stop making me emotional guys 😢
But seriously this place has been amazing. From pre-med days SDN has never led me astray, I really don't know why it gets such a bad rap from other people. I have always counted on getting solid advice from my fellow bone wizards on here. Collectively much better advising on here than what my school tries to provide and it didn't cost 200K.
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deleted645092
Just stepped out of the hospital for the last time ever as a med student.
Got on SDN halfway through college. Multiple IAs, 3.6GPA, 28 on old MCAT, 5 years to graduate. Some told me not to bother trying, whiles others helped structure my personal statement to address all the issues without sounding like I was making excuses. Got accepted after my first interview, withdrew all my other apps and never looked back.
It can be done.
Got on SDN halfway through college. Multiple IAs, 3.6GPA, 28 on old MCAT, 5 years to graduate. Some told me not to bother trying, whiles others helped structure my personal statement to address all the issues without sounding like I was making excuses. Got accepted after my first interview, withdrew all my other apps and never looked back.
It can be done.
It really is bittersweet. I applied three times to medical school. With my back against the wall, I did an SMP and destroyed the MCAT. That MCAT thread (June 2016 I think?) was one of the most fun SDN threads ever. Kept me sane and on track. Crazy to see people from that thread in here, and some who fell off since. The very first school that rejected me in my first cycle is the one I am graduating from this May.
When my graduation gown came in today, I kinda got emotional. Ive been working my whole life towards this. The degree, the residency, the rest of my life. Hard to believe it is almost here. And though SDN is absolutely a nutcase sometimes, I have enjoyed all the fun times throughout. I havent given much to SDN, but it has certainly given me a whole lot over 4 years.
When my graduation gown came in today, I kinda got emotional. Ive been working my whole life towards this. The degree, the residency, the rest of my life. Hard to believe it is almost here. And though SDN is absolutely a nutcase sometimes, I have enjoyed all the fun times throughout. I havent given much to SDN, but it has certainly given me a whole lot over 4 years.
Yuh I’ve been seeing a few people post openly on medtwitter (I know, I know... I got on the train I’m sorry! It’s horrible) how their “biggest flex” was that they never got on SDN or Reddit entirely through med school. Get off your high horse; ain’t no “flex.”
Literally SDN advice & the awesome people on here are a huge reason I was able to make a plan of attack & stick to it for applying to medical school as an underdog who found medicine late, cause none of my advisors at my undergrad took me seriously as a pre-med; they only knew how to advise cookie cutter perfect applicants applying in-state (as if any work went into that at all?)
SDN homies also helped me figure out how to study for a gigantic exam and take it seriously for the first time in my life (MCAT), help decide which school to attend, help with doing well in med school, support for studying for board exams, and help me strategize residency application.
Ain’t no “flex” gtfo.
Got the second dose of the COVID vaccine today & I’m stuck up with all the adverse effects you can think of right now; felt the need to vent. Carry on homies.
57 hours left!
Literally SDN advice & the awesome people on here are a huge reason I was able to make a plan of attack & stick to it for applying to medical school as an underdog who found medicine late, cause none of my advisors at my undergrad took me seriously as a pre-med; they only knew how to advise cookie cutter perfect applicants applying in-state (as if any work went into that at all?)
SDN homies also helped me figure out how to study for a gigantic exam and take it seriously for the first time in my life (MCAT), help decide which school to attend, help with doing well in med school, support for studying for board exams, and help me strategize residency application.
Ain’t no “flex” gtfo.
Got the second dose of the COVID vaccine today & I’m stuck up with all the adverse effects you can think of right now; felt the need to vent. Carry on homies.
57 hours left!
My biggest flex is that so far I’ve managed to do med school without any caffeine lol
Same. Saving that for residency if needed.
Yeah I’ve made it through 4/5 weeks of my surgery rotation without it so I think I’ll be able to do the rest without it too.
For real. My second audition I was hitting 1000mg of caffeine on average, got up to 1500mg a day or two.
Those 300mg bangs will get ya...
(To be clear my usual day is 200-400~, i just let myself get outta hand that month lol)
Holy crap. 4th semester my diet was mostly Taco Bell and bang energy drinks. I’m proud that I’m down to 3 cups of coffee a day now.
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AnatomyGrey12
Bro same... Bangs all day on sub-i’s/surgical rotations. Got it down to only 1 a day as my pre-workout in the mornings now. Going to try and keep it that way for residency lol
I drink half an iced latte on the longest, most tired of days. Usually no caffeine, but on the toughest of months (like my current one) I have 1-2/week.
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Haha. Yeah I only drink water. I try not to eat any fast food either. I mostly eat stuff either my wife or I make. I do occasionally eat out, but it’s rarely fast food. Taco Bell gives me the ‘rrhea.
But Potatoes are finally back!!!
More like butt potatoes.
Well being a vegetarian I really appreciate the potatoes and boycotted tacobell while they were off the menu.
Yepppp. Also why i refuse Taco Bell. Ate it once and never again.
