Mentioning you're a MS at a top school without seeming like a showoff?

[mmmcdowe]

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Yeah, I weep every night because i have to explain that my school is in NYC not south america. 😉

 

[Morsetlis]

Mentioning you're a MS at a top school without seeming like a showoff. How to do it?

People seriously get threatened. it's annoying particularly when they're the ones bringing it up or asking. Lately I've just been lying and saying that I'm a grad student studying human pathophysiology

You're just getting your degree in medicine, eh?

 

[ucsfstudents]

Just be yourself when you are answering the question. You can only control your own response, not others.

 

[Elbowstoopointy]

This is OP

 

[CaptainSSO]

No pain or suffering. It's just interesting that the non-medical lay public, much like you, doesn't know the difference between medical programs, institutions, or cities for that matter. I'm so jealous of people like you who don't feel the need to be informed, and can cruise through life in the dark.

For your username being HumbleMD, you are quite a douche...

 

[thepoopologist]

Just tell them if they ask. How they react speaks more of them than you.

 

[Dr Love]

No pain or suffering. It's just interesting that the non-medical lay public, much like you, doesn't know the difference between medical programs, institutions, or cities for that matter. I'm so jealous of people like you who don't feel the need to be informed, and can cruise through life in the dark.

Lol, I sense deep pain. I understand your frustration, being at a sub-par med school and all, and I would also find it interesting if I met people that confused a medical program with a city.

But no need to get jealous, whether you get a degree from a top school or U Penn, you'll still be able to practice medicine. Right? Good luck buddy, lol.

 

[coffeeeandtea]

Since there are only approximately 25 osteopathic medical schools in the country, can I run around and say I go to a "top 25" school?

hahahaha 👍

 

[AlexMorph]

Time for some self-reflection on your degree of douchebaggery.

10 to 1 you come across as a douche and it turns people off.

Pro-tip: When everyone around you seems to have a problem chances are it's you with the problem.

We can end the thread right here with this one. Well said.

 

[AlexMorph]

Lol, I sense deep pain. I understand your frustration, being at a sub-par med school and all, and I would also find it interesting if I met people that confused a medical program with a city.

But no need to get jealous, whether you get a degree from a top school or U Penn, you'll still be able to practice medicine. Right? Good luck buddy, lol.

Lol. What are the chances he still doesn't get it...

 

[Aislinn]

Idk, even people with very limited knowledge about residencies and medicine recognize the Hopkins name. Who knows how much the show influenced that.

There's a reason the shows were Boston Med and Hopkins. I would consider Harvard and Hopkins the most recognizable (and no I'm not affiliated with either).

Yale would get a lot too bc of the Ivy name but I think Hopkins beats it. Who knows. The original point about U Penn not being on that level to lay people stands lol

I disagree. I think Yale is a lot more recognizable to the average person than Hopkins.

 

[ScubaStarved]

I disagree. I think Yale is a lot more recognizable to the average person than Hopkins.

This thread is now about Venn diagrams:

 

[D elegans]

Die thread die

 

[liveoak]

Some people do. I've experienced this first hand. The worse thing is when they resort to oneupping me by telling me about their daughter who decided medicine sucked so she's going into dentistry. Or telling me "good luck having a nice life in that career." Or the most recent one was "well doctors don't make that much money any more anyways." My reaction? I never said they did what does that have to do with anything?

you're making things up. we don't really care.

 

[DoctwoB]

Solution: Go to Pitt, UW, or Mt. Sinai,

Great schools, well respected in medicine, and when you tell laypeople where you go there response will be "but I thought you were smart, why do you go there"

 

[Miss Alyssa]

I don't understand. Don't you have hundreds of medical students at your "top school" that you can ask?😴

 

[AlexMorph]

This thread is now about Venn diagrams:

Let bring the conversation back to this awesome venn diagram.

 

[ScubaStarved]

Let bring the conversation back to this awesome venn diagram.