KCUMB Class of 2018

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apr27 said:
I highly doubt it. We can only potentially lose sites at this point. It's stressful, but I guess you are the author of your experience wherever you go, which, I think, is the silver lining, anywhere.
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So do we know what happened with the Los Vegas site then? I remember Dr. Dubin said earlier this year that they were in talks with a hospital out there, but I haven't heard anything about that since then.
 
apr27 said:
Florida


I would have said Ohio, but I don't know how people feel about the recent news regarding those sites.
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Why is Florida popular? I heard our biggest hospital is there right?
 
serenade said:
Why is Florida popular? I heard our biggest hospital is there right?
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It varies from year to year, but beautiful weather year round + strong rotation site = competitive. I may be wrong, but I believe one or two of the core sites there are non-preceptor based, idk for sure though.
 
Stagg737 said:
It varies from year to year, but beautiful weather year round + strong rotation site = competitive. I may be wrong, but I believe one or two of the core sites there are non-preceptor based, idk for sure though.
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I remember there being only one rotation site at a hospital with over 2000 beds in Orlando tho.
 
serenade said:
Why is Florida popular? I heard our biggest hospital is there right?
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Florida Hospital is a large facility with good training, predominately ward based I believe.

West Palm is almost exclusively hospital based. There are a few preceptor based experiences there, but even those, are based at a hospital so you still end up spending almost every day in a hospital during your third year in WPB
 
apr27 said:
what sites are non preceptor based?
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Every site will likely have some preceptor rotations (Family Med) the problem is when the site is exclusively preceptor based. There are situations where a student can do 2 months of IM and never once step foot into a hospital. That is a huge problem.

When selecting a core site, the find out which rotations are preceptor based, which rotations are hospital based, and whether or not you will be working alongside residents in a training program at the hospital sites.
 
Soooo anyone know when they're releasing the straw poll results? Shouldn't take several days to format a poll into an email...
 
Are they not posting any of the CISs anymore?
 
Eremba said:
It appears Dr G took a page from Dr P's book and isn't going to post his CIS sessions.
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I am not surprised about this since Dr P seems to be running the show in that department! I am surprised about Dr D's endocarditis CIS session though. He always posts his sessions and had even say one time that he believes in posting them, but would not make Dr P post his because they each have their style! Good thing it was straight forward!
 
Does anyone know what Ballum's physio questions are going to cover? Is it going to be like his CIS?
 
lemontartes said:
Does anyone know what Ballum's physio questions are going to cover? Is it going to be like his CIS?
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Zero clues have I.

I have read his assigned readings and watched the CIS. Still don't know what he actually wants me to know.
 
DoctorDoomsday said:
That low? It didn't go great for me, but definitely better than renal. I was thinking more like 80%. But I'm terrible at guessing averages.
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If 80% means things didn't go well for you then you are in a completely different league than the majority of us. I'm a B student and I rarely score in the 80s. Anyways..

I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that our physiology background is garbage. I think seeing the systems twice is a benefit to us, but it doesn't help our exam scores (or board scores) testing over minutia that we never even learned in the first place. Instead of assigning random readings from physiology books, give us a high yield physiology review. Teach us the first aid section. Assign a reading from BRS. Do something that will help us on boards. I understand that we are supposed to be adults and learn on our own, but part of the benefit of going to a good school is being guided in the right direction and learning from experience. What a joke.
 
Lost Vagus said:
If 80% means things didn't go well for you then you are in a completely different league than the majority of us. I'm a B student and I rarely score in the 80s. Anyways..

I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that our physiology background is garbage. I think seeing the systems twice is a benefit to us, but it doesn't help our exam scores (or board scores) testing over minutia that we never even learned in the first place. Instead of assigning random readings from physiology books, give us a high yield physiology review. Teach us the first aid section. Assign a reading from BRS. Do something that will help us on boards. I understand that we are supposed to be adults and learn on our own, but part of the benefit of going to a good school is being guided in the right direction and learning from experience. What a joke.
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I'm a B student as well. I was basing the average off several people I spoke to today, not my personal score. This test did go better for me than renal, but phys is a **** show. Why have a review that is worthless, teaches us nothing and then test us over minutia from last year. It is very frustrating.
 
Lost Vagus said:
If 80% means things didn't go well for you then you are in a completely different league than the majority of us. I'm a B student and I rarely score in the 80s. Anyways..

I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that our physiology background is garbage. I think seeing the systems twice is a benefit to us, but it doesn't help our exam scores (or board scores) testing over minutia that we never even learned in the first place. Instead of assigning random readings from physiology books, give us a high yield physiology review. Teach us the first aid section. Assign a reading from BRS. Do something that will help us on boards. I understand that we are supposed to be adults and learn on our own, but part of the benefit of going to a good school is being guided in the right direction and learning from experience. What a joke.
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this. all of this.

dubes, you readin' this?
 
On a different note,what's the deal with all these people wanting to stay in KC? 100 spots and 129 interested? I have been hearing left and right about people not wanting to stay here, how bad it is since it's preceptor based and we have to drive so long etc. Yet, we will have people not matching to KC if it's their first choice? I want to stay and I was almost certain it would be a no brainer
 
DoctorDoomsday said:
That low? It didn't go great for me, but definitely better than renal. I was thinking more like 80%. But I'm terrible at guessing averages.
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I wouldn't be surprised. I'm calling between 76-78. I talked to a couple people that normally score 8-10% above the average and they both got in the 70s. I know 3 people that got over an 80, several people that failed before the curve, and a lot in the 70s. I did much worse than I was expecting going into the test, but I also know why.

I actually didn't think the physio was bad on that test at all. Understanding the basics of an EKG seems pretty high-yield to me, and most of the other questions weren't bad. I thought it was a lot better than the physio we had for the last two tests, but maybe I'm just alone on that one.

Bbutterfly said:
On a different note,what's the deal with all these people wanting to stay in KC? 100 spots and 129 interested? I have been hearing left and right about people not wanting to stay here, how bad it is since it's preceptor based and we have to drive so long etc. Yet, we will have people not matching to KC if it's their first choice? I want to stay and I was almost certain it would be a no brainer
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I was a little surprised by that too. I'm guessing that around 40-50 of those people are in one of the dual-degree programs, but I still didn't think there would be 70-80 other people that wanted to stay here. I think part of it might have been the whole Ohio fiasco since there are so few people that seem to want to be there now.
 
Stagg737 said:
I wouldn't be surprised. I'm calling between 76-78. I talked to a couple people that normally score 8-10% above the average and they both got in the 70s. I know 3 people that got over an 80, several people that failed before the curve, and a lot in the 70s. I did much worse than I was expecting going into the test, but I also know why.

I actually didn't think the physio was bad on that test at all. Understanding the basics of an EKG seems pretty high-yield to me, and most of the other questions weren't bad. I thought it was a lot better than the physio we had for the last two tests, but maybe I'm just alone on that one.



I was a little surprised by that too. I'm guessing that around 40-50 of those people are in one of the dual-degree programs, but I still didn't think there would be 70-80 other people that wanted to stay here. I think part of it might have been the whole Ohio fiasco since there are so few people that seem to want to be there now.
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Only the MBA students have to stay in KC though, not required for the MA program. But you are right, the whole OHIO thing plus the fact that St Joseph is not available for our class messed things up!
 
This clerkship match process is going to be very interesting. I was hoping to stay in KC because of the convenience but its looking like 29 people are going to be pretty upset. I wish we had some sites in other (large) midwest cities.

This month could be brutal
 
Did y'all see how many ppl were interested in Wichita as well? Via Christi is a great hospital, but I was still surprised to see 30 wanting to go to flatland, KS. And only 4 at Palm Beach? Unexpected.
 
BigGAC1 said:
Did y'all see how many ppl were interested in Wichita as well? Via Christi is a great hospital, but I was still surprised to see 30 wanting to go to flatland, KS. And only 4 at Palm Beach? Unexpected.
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I'm sure a bunch of those people originally wanted to go to OH. Doing a 2nd match is just ridiculous. I could end up in OH right now and then be stuck in a ~150 bed hospital in the 2nd match. For some people that's just too much of a gamble.
 
Has anyone else noticed that our class size seems to shrink after every exam?

We are at 262 now. I'm pretty sure we started the year at 266. Whats going on?
 
Lost Vagus said:
Has anyone else noticed that our class size seems to shrink after every exam?

We are at 262 now. I'm pretty sure we started the year at 266. Whats going on?
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Spring 2015 - 272, Fall 2015 - 262..... ??
 
Lost Vagus said:
Has anyone else noticed that our class size seems to shrink after every exam?

We are at 262 now. I'm pretty sure we started the year at 266. Whats going on?
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HotLunch96 said:
Spring 2015 - 272, Fall 2015 - 262..... ??
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Beginning of the year it was 272. After Neuro it was showing 266 and now it's down to 262.
 
So.. after seeing the average, I've come to the conclusion that I've been doing something seriously wrong for these past 3 exams. I've been scoring 10-15% and consistently below average since renal began. Any help here? I've been doing Pathoma... just started looking at FA for cardiovascular. Haven't been reading as Robbins as deeply as I did for neuro.. maybe that's the cause. I honestly dont know what's been happpening, I went from an above average to a below average student. Any advice would be useful!
 
Elevencents said:
Haven't seen the thread starter post this semester yet.
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I was under the impression he/she had to stay away from social media bcse he/she was seriously struggling during MOD or sth around the end of the year.
But yeah, it's telling that we keep loosing people and our averages are essentially what they were 1st semester! Either we are burned out or we can't get a handle of whatever new system this is, or a combination of both.
I know some people are thriving with this new style but it looks like as a whole the class is not doing to hot right now!
 
lemontartes said:
So.. after seeing the average, I've come to the conclusion that I've been doing something seriously wrong for these past 3 exams. I've been scoring 10-15% and consistently below average since renal began. Any help here? I've been doing Pathoma... just started looking at FA for cardiovascular. Haven't been reading as Robbins as deeply as I did for neuro.. maybe that's the cause. I honestly dont know what's been happpening, I went from an above average to a below average student. Any advice would be useful!
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I read Big Robbins and up until this last test path was the only section I was doing above average on. I tried baby robbins for this test and it didn't go so well. Idk how people can use only that...
 
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