MD & DO co'21 Residency Panic thread

Started by kraskadva
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ohhh yeah I forgot you were surgery. Im semi aware of that culture so less surprised now. I keep thinking you're also IM.
nope lol but I do have an IM clerkship left #3rdYearMakeUps 🙁
i ate a giant box of ice cream out of sheer disappointment
i know people rank programs thinking that they can never get fired or held back but it happens. some bad evals and an attending who hates you with a fire so fierce can really screw you over.
 
#neverokay
Ridiculous. I'm so disappointed I've been listening to sad songs for the past 3 or 4 days which only make me feel even more crushed. I loved everything but after they threw this bombshell just shook me. I'd ask for a hug but ... we're in a pandemic lol
 
it's more common in surgery along with getting fired unfortunately at some of the bigger academic programs. SIGH. My friend's sibling was a gen surg resident and got fired during her PGY4 year so it happens. very frustrating since she had to start over with FM.

Geez and the surgery leadership often wonders why resident burnout is bad
 
Geez and the surgery leadership often wonders why resident burnout is bad
Forreal 🙁 and the more desirable a location is, the more elitist they get smh. Maybe if you need to keep holding residents back, YOU'RE TEACHING wrong.
How do I get over the pain that I'm ranking this so low loooll 4 days of mourning and not over it. The moment they said it in my interview I just sat there like how do I exit out of this zoom experience. lol
 
Forreal 🙁 and the more desirable a location is, the more elitist they get smh. Maybe if you need to keep holding residents back, YOU'RE TEACHING wrong.
How do I get over the pain that I'm ranking this so low loooll 4 days of mourning and not over it. The moment they said it in my interview I just sat there like how do I exit out of this zoom experience. lol
If it makes you feel any better the program I would have told you 4 months ago was absolutely my number 1 is going to probably be ranked 11....
 
If it makes you feel any better the program I would have told you 4 months ago was absolutely my number 1 is going to probably be ranked 11....
I was ranking this program one also until this interview day!!! TWINS :highfive: It does make me feel better. Thank you, friend!!!

Esp cause in my post-IV depression I started listening to NICKELBACK
 
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in my post-IV depression I started listening to NICKELBACK
Oh No What GIF by Identity
 
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Forreal 🙁 and the more desirable a location is, the more elitist they get smh. Maybe if you need to keep holding residents back, YOU'RE TEACHING wrong.
How do I get over the pain that I'm ranking this so low loooll 4 days of mourning and not over it. The moment they said it in my interview I just sat there like how do I exit out of this zoom experience. lol

It’s kind of like a breakup, better to find out sooner rather than later. You get to mourn what you thought was going to happen with enough time to come up with a solid plan B to get excited about!
 
TWO 👏🏻 INTERVIEWS 👏🏻 LEFT 👏🏻

One is my #1 DR & one is a TY. SOOOO pumped to be done after this next week.
Nice! For January I was supposed to have 3 this past week, and 2 in 2 weeks, but I cancelled the third one because it was going to be just padding the bottom of my list, and then 1 of the 2 weeks from now asked us all to move up because they were seeing a Covid trend and they wanted to finish their season. So I ended up still having 3 this week, leaving only 1 more.
 
Nice! For January I was supposed to have 3 this past week, and 2 in 2 weeks, but I cancelled the third one because it was going to be just padding the bottom of my list, and then 1 of the 2 weeks from now asked us all to move up because they were seeing a Covid trend and they wanted to finish their season. So I ended up still having 3 this week, leaving only 1 more.

We almost there homie 🤟🏻
 
I'm rationalizing it as cost-effective if I can skip the cost of CS 😉
From my experience, some programs will still reimburse you for STEP 3 even if you take it early. Although I'm not sure how common it is.

Is it official that we will have to take CS? Do people really think this will happen?! No!
 
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Yessss I put a lot of mine at the end of the season I feel you. So many more ethical questions as opposed to the 10/10 chill vibe of DR interviews.
The problem is that if they are chill then they want you to ask them all questions for 2 hours. That's an even worse circle of hell than some canned response behavioral questions haha.
 
The problem is that if they are chill then they want you to ask them all questions for 2 hours. That's an even worse circle of hell than some canned response behavioral questions haha.
I’d rather they just used something from my whole app to spark a conversation. Those are my favorite ones.
 
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Heads up to my gen surg peeps, especially my DO fam - one of my schools base hospitals, garden city hospital, recently (not sure how recently as i was just made aware of it) got their gen surg program accredited and is on ERAS! I think the word is theyre looking to recruit 2-3 residents but not 100% sure (it was 2 a year when it was AOA)
 
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Heads up to my gen surg peeps, especially my DO fam - one of my schools base hospitals, garden city hospital, recently (not sure how recently as i was just made aware of it) got their gen surg program accredited and is on ERAS! I think the word is theyre looking to recruit 2-3 residents but not 100% sure (it was 2 a year when it was AOA)
@Spectreman
 
Heads up to my gen surg peeps, especially my DO fam - one of my schools base hospitals, garden city hospital, recently (not sure how recently as i was just made aware of it) got their gen surg program accredited and is on ERAS! I think the word is theyre looking to recruit 2-3 residents but not 100% sure (it was 2 a year when it was AOA)

Fellow ortho Bro.. How you doing interview # wise? Kinda curious to see how DO bros are doing.
 
I was told to send it last week of Jan 😎 but if anyone else has insight lmk
I will say when your interest program finish with interviews...they will then have all the candidates and start that ranking process...n hopefully somewhere during the communication process whether they are really interested in you...same as for applicants...when we finish all our interviews and really decide our #1
 
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