DMS Class of 2011!!

[Mortal_Lessons]

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I took the ARC and it was some what useful and somewhat a waste of time. It lets you get settled and meet people earlier, and things like that.
Its main focus is teaching you to study, and a taste of lecture intensity and nature. It is by no means a science refresher or anything like that.
If you have more specific ?'s i can address those.
Oh and if anyone needs a place to live, and isnt doing the north park thing. I have a room open in my apt. I'll be a 2nd year along with the other student posters 🙂

Hey, thanks for your reply. I'm signed up for the course and am anxiously awaiting the move next month.

Is anyone else doing North Park? I'm still waiting for the lease to arrive in the mail. Unfortunately, the Housing Office informed me that move-in isn't until Sept. 1 for those who recently signed up. I guess DMS reserves a small number of suites for medical students who arrive on-campus earlier than the other grad students, and once those fill up, any additional med students (e.g. me) have to wait for the suites to be made ready for move-in. Does anyone know where one could stay temporarily for a month? I'm looking into Hotel Coolidge. Thanks.

 

[bola]

Ok since no one else wants to do it...I have created the "Dartmouth Medical School c/o 2011" group!

 

[bola]

Btw...I'm not doing North Park...for some reason not really having the option to stay in the same place for second year turned me off, not like I might not end up moving at the end of first year anyways but yeah, for now it makes sense(probably because I'm in the middle of moving right now). So i'll be in Lebanon, 5 miles from campus I believe. I stayed there during my interviews and I liked the town houses a lot!

 

[Mortal_Lessons]

Ok since no one else wants to do it...I have created the "Dartmouth Medical School c/o 2011" group!

Haha, we're up to 3 members. There's got to be more of you out there. So join!

 

[Mozzo]

Can someone post the actual instructions for the little autobiography blurb we are supposed to submit? I am out of the country and don't have the sheet with me. Thanks in advance, your help is really appreciated!🙂

 

[Mortal_Lessons]

Can someone post the actual instructions for the little autobiography blurb we are supposed to submit? I am out of the country and don't have the sheet with me. Thanks in advance, your help is really appreciated!🙂

"At the request of the faculty, DMS requires each incoming student to prepare a one-pargraph autobiography to be shared with your new classmates, faculty, and administrators. The paragraph is yours to use as you prefer, though topics you might want to consider include your hometown, undergraduate college and major, extracurricular and community involvements, prior training and experience in health care, and significant family information, especially, if applicable, the name of your spouse/partner and age(s) of your child(ren). Thse paragraphs will be compiled by the Office of Admissions and distributed during the First Year Orientation Program.

E-mail to [email protected]. Please put autobiography in the subject line of your e-mail."

 

[Mozzo]

"At the request of the faculty, DMS requires each incoming student to prepare a one-pargraph autobiography to be shared with your new classmates, faculty, and administrators. The paragraph is yours to use as you prefer, though topics you might want to consider include your hometown, undergraduate college and major, extracurricular and community involvements, prior training and experience in health care, and significant family information, especially, if applicable, the name of your spouse/partner and age(s) of your child(ren). Thse paragraphs will be compiled by the Office of Admissions and distributed during the First Year Orientation Program.

E-mail to [email protected]. Please put autobiography in the subject line of your e-mail."

Thanks a lot Mortal! Really appreciate this.

 

[mmi]

hi future classmates, have any of you applied for the natl health service corps scholarship? it's been a strange process this year (eg they did away w the interview) and my app was actually thrown out due to a problem with dart's verification of acceptance report, and andy welch said this was unusual ... was wondering if anybody has had any similar experiences

looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks (!)

 

[punkdoc69]

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[Mortal_Lessons]

has anyone gotten any username and password to access the online health forms? i wanna get that out of the way but i don't have any of those.

hey, the username/password combo is the same one you use to log into your blitzmail account. there's a post about how to access your account on the dms facebook group online. you should join it. in the meantime though, here's a copy of the post to access your e-mail account (which should also work to log into student info for the health forms):

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure if everybody already knows this, but we can activate our e-mail accounts (BlitzMail). I just found this out today (after trying to figure out how I was going to sign into Student Information to fill out the health forms), so forgive me if this is redundant information.

Anyways, here's a useful link to help you set up your e-mail account: http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/support/library/software/email/blitzmail/blitz-intro/using-blitz.html

You can find the BlitzMail software download for Mac OS X here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/resources/downloads/mac/productivity/blitzmail-osx.html

And for Windows: http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/resources/downloads/win/productivity/blitzmail.html

Feel free to message me if you run into any trouble, though I just got started today so no promises. Good luck and enjoy your new accounts!

 

[mmi]

Are there any upperclassmen still out there?

I was wondering if anybody had any advice on filling out the On Doctoring checklist-- specifically, what we should consider when ranking our preferences for family medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine; and what to expect if we indicate an interest in rural medicine

for instance I'm not sure I even understand what the difference is between family med and internal medicine (patient populations? location in terms of clinic vs hospital--are internists more likely to be affiliated with a hospital? broader learning experience?). should we /only/ indicate a preference for peds if we are seriously considering peds as a career?

any input is appreciated. also do any fellow 11s out there know when we were supposed to have turned this in by?? they sent it to an email account that I didnt even think existed anymore (I left the school in May) and just received the checklist today. big thanks!

 

[physicsnerd42]

Are there any upperclassmen still out there?

I was wondering if anybody had any advice on filling out the On Doctoring checklist-- specifically, what we should consider when ranking our preferences for family medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine; and what to expect if we indicate an interest in rural medicine

for instance I'm not sure I even understand what the difference is between family med and internal medicine (patient populations? location in terms of clinic vs hospital--are internists more likely to be affiliated with a hospital? broader learning experience?). should we /only/ indicate a preference for peds if we are seriously considering peds as a career?

any input is appreciated. also do any fellow 11s out there know when we were supposed to have turned this in by?? they sent it to an email account that I didnt even think existed anymore (I left the school in May) and just received the checklist today. big thanks!

I would suggest that you not put peds as a preference even if you're pretty sure that's what you want to do. The problem with peds is that many of the skills you're supposed to practice for On Doctoring really require a good number of adult patients for you to become proficient at (motivational interviewing for alcohol and nicotine abuse, sexual history, some of the physical exam skills etc.) I'm not saying that kids aren't having sex or smoking or drinking, but you'll get much more of this with an adult population. Also, with peds you're likely to spend a huge amount of time just doing well-child visits. While those are important for children to have, they get boring quite quickly and you're not going to see and learn about lots of the the pathologies that are out there.

It doesn't make much of a difference if you choose family medicine or internal medicine. If you choose family medicine you're likely to see at least a few kids and maybe some OB/Gyn stuff. Internal medicine is strictly for adults and they don't do OB. Internists are also more likely (but not necessarily) located at DHMC or the VA. That makes traveling to your preceptor's office easier but you might also end up with an internal medicine subspecialist (cardiology, heme-onc, etc.) which also becomes a problem when you're supposed to practice diverse set of physical exam skill or interviewing skills.

I would suggest family medicine as the top choice for most people. Heck, I'm a MD/PhD candidate (so family medicine isn't really a field I would choose to go into), but I chose FM for my preceptor and I'm very glad I got the preceptor I did. Even though he's more than 60 miles away from campus, I get a good mix of patients and pathologies to practice interviewing and physical exam skills. It's worth the drive.

I would suggest that you not choose your On Doctoring (OD) preceptor based on what your interests are (like I said, I'm not interested in family medicine). There's plenty of time in 3rd year for you to try out different fields. OD is a time for you to pick up and practice various skills and the best way to do that is pick a preceptor in a field who is like to see a broad variety of patients.


About the interest in rural medicine question: if you select this you'll probably be sent to a preceptor in a more rural area than Dartmouth is in. You preceptor could as close as 20 minutes to Dartmouth or as far away as a little more than an hour. Being far away (other than gas) is not the end of the world: you may have a great preceptor and at least you'll have a couple of hours every two weeks when you can listen to music or the NPR without feeling like you should be studying 😀

 

[mmi]

thanks for the info physicsnerd. wow, 60 miles...wasnt prepared for that.

im also cutting and pasting a response i got from another 2nd year who had this to say about it, in case others of you first years were also wondering....


For the difference between family and internal med, it is basically just patient population. Family med sees all age groups while internal does adults usually with some sort of chronic condition. If I had to take a guess I would say more of
the internal med people would be found in a hospital setting, but they are also found in private practice. The guy I work with is an internal med doctor that works at a hospital in windsor (~20 mins away), but 90% of the time he see patients in clinic that is connected to the hospital. Since it is typically random who you get connected with, I would say take an internal med person if you want to see mostly older people in a more hospitalish type setting or do family med if you want to see a broader range of patients.
Some of my friends did pediatrics and while they all said they liked it, the most common complaint was that certain exercises we were suppose to do during the on-doc course (like take a sexual history) would be either extremely awkward or just not applicable. What I would not recommend if they give you the option is picking a specialist to do on-doc with. Although it is really interesting to do on-doc with a surgeon, you'll find it very hard to find a patient that you can interview and do a complete exam on.
As far as rural medicine goes, that's a crap shoot. If you put your interested in rural you will most def get placed in a rural clinical setting, but where that is would be anybody's guess. It could be somewhere as close as lyme, or as far away as St. Johnsbury.
Also since our class was kinda lazy about doing write-ups, I think they are going to start trying be a little stricter about handing in assignments in a timely fashion. I know a few of my friends got away with only doing a handful of assignments and the facilitators werent all that please. But overall its a really fun course and not taxing at all. Youll take out what you put in and as the year goes all it will all come together.