MD & DO Co’22 ERAS Panic Thread

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Cranjis McBasketball said:
Its crazy how much this process controls your emotions. Im not an anxious person at all normally. Today I got one rejection and instantly wondered if I had applied to enough programs (Family med applied to 50 with zero red flags lol). Then my brain went to really dark places. I am on a sub-i at a place with psychology residents and pharmacy residents and even PA residents. They've had students this past week rotating with them as well and I seriously started thinking "what if the residency placed these other students here to test how I interact with them... Are they even students? How much did the residency pay them? Wtf. I can't believe they'd do something like that. I don't even wanna go here anymore."

I snapped outta it
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I know how you feel dawg. The crazy leaps and bounds my brain makes...

“Was my tone of voice appropriate? Was I asking too many questions? Too few? Is everyone saying I’m doing a good job just to get me to leave them alone because they don’t want to deal with how much I suck?”

Crazy how much my brain wants to self sabotage
 
calivianya said:
Yep, trying not to freak out too much… but after I had a preceptor absolutely assassinate my character on an eval out of the blue, which I didn’t find out until I found the comments on my MSPE (fixed now), I’m really not going to feel confident until I get that first interview.

I’m usually a decent judge of people and I strongly disliked that preceptor at first sight, but I thought we got along well enough despite the obvious personality mismatch for her to at least score me objectively/neutrally on my eval. However, she gave me the lowest possible passing scores in each section and wrote some nasty, untrue comments on my eval that I easily got removed. That low score graph looks funny on my MSPE considering all the rest are great.

The whole thing give me a little lingering feeling of unease. It’s made me wonder if I’ve misjudged how much the people who wrote my letters actually liked me, too.
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FutureDoctor5000 said:
Hopefully we are all just being neurotic and we will all start getting lots of bite to

this is what I wonder/ don’t like about LOR’s.. like how do you know if the person you asked actually liked you after spending a limited time with them, at most a month sometimes even less. I mean we got along and I did well on the rotation, got good feedback but there is no way to 100% know. Now granted if this were 3rd year preceptor/faculty, they do have some vested interest in their students matching/doing well, and they have been through this process before so unless they absolutely hate you and don’t like anything about you it’s unlikely they would write you a bad LOR or even a lukewarm one to sabatoge your app.. atleast that’s how I feel about it.
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It’s not even about not liking you. A lukewarm LOR can tank you as well.
 
Y'all need to take a break. Go find a new netflix series. Find a new book. Go to the park, go to the beach. Apps are submitted. Enjoy having your residents let you out at like 12PM. Keep your notifications on and just chill, it's a waiting game now. Refreshing SDN and gmail won't do anything. If anything you'll just ruin your mental health which will be detrimental to you on interviews. Seriously it's been one day lol
 
FrechToastFries said:
Y'all need to take a break. Go find a new netflix series. Find a new book. Go to the park, go to the beach. Apps are submitted. Enjoy having your residents let you out at like 12PM. Keep your notifications on and just chill, it's a waiting game now. Refreshing SDN and gmail won't do anything. If anything you'll just ruin your mental health which will be detrimental to you on interviews. Seriously it's been one day lol
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As someone who was in this position last year, this post is 100% accurate. Do your most to enjoy your 4th year and don't spend your downtime obsessing about this. It's a 6 month long process!
 
FrechToastFries said:
Y'all need to take a break. Go find a new netflix series. Find a new book. Go to the park, go to the beach. Apps are submitted. Enjoy having your residents let you out at like 12PM. Keep your notifications on and just chill, it's a waiting game now. Refreshing SDN and gmail won't do anything. If anything you'll just ruin your mental health which will be detrimental to you on interviews. Seriously it's been one day lol
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How about going to the hospital? Don't y'all have to take electives during your 4th year?

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The wise one said:
How about going to the hospital? Don't y'all have to take electives during your 4th year?

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Yeah 4 weeks of online derm lmao then online medical spanish. Fourth yr is sweet lol ill know nothing anyway next June might as well enjoy M4
 
Deecee2DO said:
Yeah 4 weeks of online derm lmao then online medical spanish. Fourth yr is sweet lol ill know nothing anyway next June might as well enjoy M4
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That's great dude! I have to be at the hospital everyday at 5 am. The only good thing about 4th year is that I don't have to study.

Can't wait for match!

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My dudes/ettes, I am in my ER rotation and they have me working from 3 pm to 1 am on the reg for the next two weeks. Really hope I don't end up missing interview invites because of it. After this though, I'm going to try and take the absolute easiest **** I can, it's just that this is required.
 
Steve_Zissou said:
Damn. I’m wondering if there was something crazy on my app that I didn’t know about. Maybe rads just takes a moment.
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doesn't mean anything. Cornell and BWH straight up say on their site that they aren't sending jack out until November. All u guys are gonna ruin your 4th year relaxation time with all this panicking
 
CyrusHabs7695 said:
doesn't mean anything. Cornell and BWH straight up say on their site that they aren't sending jack out until November. All u guys are gonna ruin your 4th year relaxation time with all this panicking
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I don’t get programs who send out rejections couple hours after apps were closed. There is no minimum requirements listed on your site so if you don’t want a bunch of people applying why not be transparent with what your looking for? I don’t see what they have to gain from this.
 
Chelsea FC said:
I don’t get programs who send out rejections couple hours after apps were closed. There is no minimum requirements listed on your site so if you don’t want a bunch of people applying why not be transparent with what your looking for? I don’t see what they have to gain from this.
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Makes them seem more "holistic." In reality, they're just getting ERAS and AAMC more money.
 
Chelsea FC said:
I don’t get programs who send out rejections couple hours after apps were closed. There is no minimum requirements listed on your site so if you don’t want a bunch of people applying why not be transparent with what your looking for? I don’t see what they have to gain from this.
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Being able to say they get "XXXX" number of applications for "XX" number of spots.
 
Got my first II from my home program. The PD wrote one of my letters and my first thought was you a**hole you could've sent this 48 hours sooner 😀. In all honesty I'm just glad I have a home program I like and basically have a guaranteed spot.
 
Steve_Zissou said:
My dudes/ettes, I am in my ER rotation and they have me working from 3 pm to 1 am on the reg for the next two weeks. Really hope I don't end up missing interview invites because of it. After this though, I'm going to try and take the absolute easiest **** I can, it's just that this is required.
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Feeling ya. On a SICU elective, at the hospital from around 5:30am until whenever. Left around 7:30pm once this week but I’m out by 6pm most of the time. All I can say about that is 14 hour days when I’m not making any money for it are a load of crap.

That being said - smart watch. I don’t care what we’re doing - if I’m not on chest compressions or actively presenting the patient on rounds and if my watch vibrates and I see it’s an ERAS email, I’m walking out. I’ll be back in a few lol
 
calivianya said:
Feeling ya. On a SICU elective, at the hospital from around 5:30am until whenever. Left around 7:30pm once this week but I’m out by 6pm most of the time. All I can say about that is 14 hour days when I’m not making any money for it are a load of crap.

That being said - smart watch. I don’t care what we’re doing - if I’m not on chest compressions or actively presenting the patient on rounds and if my watch vibrates and I see it’s an ERAS email, I’m walking out. I’ll be back in a few lol
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This is me. I’ve had my phone out during rounds more during the past few days than the entire last year. I think most attendings and especially residents will understand, they were in our shoes not that long ago.
 
Woo! First IM II last night at 9PM EST. Definitely a program that is high on my list, and interestingly one that I "preference signaled" on the supplemental app - so maybe they weigh that with early II decisions? Who knows, but I'm incredibly stoked!
 
Got an email from AZ Pheonix saying they don't start sending IIs until October 11. I'm gonna try to chill on the neuroticism until then. Once mid october comes around we will see where I'm at.
 
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