Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

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horribly crazy night on call...and now i'm sitting on the couch and would love to shower and shave.

but i can't find the strength to get up. somebody please call 911 or come and bring me a grilled cheese sammich.
 
Agent Splat said:
horribly crazy night on call...and now i'm sitting on the couch and would love to shower and shave.

but i can't find the strength to get up. somebody please call 911 or come and bring me a grilled cheese sammich.
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Take a nap, then get ready for the day by watching lots of TV/movies/playing video games.

I'm just about to leave for work after I had a night of running around because I lost my nice glasses, so I had to go buy new ones at Costco.
 
Figures they had to schedule the EM residency panel for tonight when I'm wiped out and post call. Looks like I'll be heading back down there this evening.
 
Ashers said:
Take a nap, then get ready for the day by watching lots of TV/movies/playing video games.

I'm just about to leave for work after I had a night of running around because I lost my nice glasses, so I had to go buy new ones at Costco.
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How'd you lose your glasses? I'd freak if I lost mine.

Wait, when do you wear glasses?
 
Aaaaahhhhh!!!! I can't decide what to be when I grow up. :scared:
 
akpete said:
How'd you lose your glasses? I'd freak if I lost mine.

Wait, when do you wear glasses?
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I think I had them in my pocket when I was running b/w Children's, MCW, FMLH, Children's corporate, MCW and the parking lot.

I've worn them since the beginning of M2 year for reading. They're basically for the prisms, my eyes have a tendency to point outwards (exotropia).
 
Ashers said:
Still? Why not? =( You've got a good shot for ortho being female and all that.
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Well, I'm liking my anesthesia month and I'm concerned that even though I like ortho, I may not be happy as a surgeon down the road due to a surgeon lifestyle. I get burnt out.

I like both, so for the last couple months I have dreams at night of me trying to choose that I don't remember in the morning but leave me stressed.




Hhhhmmmm... radiology. Got it.
 
Yes, quite so. Therefore... I get a handicap. Plus the cuteness quotient... really, I pretty much win by default.

You going to sit at my MAXIMUM OF 8 STUDENTS PER TABLE table? You should... it would entertain me.
 
Yep.

I'm packing and it sucks. I'm throwing lots of stuff away though, and that feels great. I wish I could just trash/donate everything and start over... if I were independently wealthy, I would totally do that. It would rock.
 
Ashers said:
Is that for PFI?

c/o 09 -- we should start taking applications for our table.
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I especially enjoy reading personal statements about childhood illnesses or medical relief trips to Africa, if that helps anyone get started.
 
DoctorFunk said:
I especially enjoy reading personal statements about childhood illnesses or medical relief trips to Africa, if that helps anyone get started.
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Only if they made one doubt that one wanted to go into medicine.

It needs to include what you can bring to help enhance the atmosphere of diversity and learning environment.
 
Ashers said:
Only if they made one doubt that one wanted to go into medicine.

It needs to include what you can bring to help enhance the atmosphere of diversity and learning environment.
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I can bring repeated, yet creative death threats against my peers in a deceptively humorous manner.
 
Ashers said:
How will these be delivered? Hopefully in a Tourette's type manner during any sort of Derse lectures.
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No no. Much more subtlely. Notes and such. Drawings. Songs. Poems. Meats.
 
Ashers said:
I'm bringing my camera tomorrow... maybe we can get some quality yearbook pics... esp if Funk wants to be on my page. 😉
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i'm selling space on my page. anybody want a nude photo with a dog?
 
I can't believe ortho didn't show up for residency day. Grr.

I guess that's 1 point for anesthesia. 🙄
 
akpete said:
I can't believe ortho didn't show up for residency day. Grr.

I guess that's 1 point for anesthesia. 🙄
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The anesthesiology people seemed really happy when I walked by. I stuck my head in the room, took a deep breath, then immediately felt better about myself.
 
April, my best friend is doing anesthesia (although he had originally intended to do surgery, decided the lifestyle was better). I can put you in touch with him if you'd like, and he's staying here, so he's not going crazy packing like some people I know (pointed nod at myself there).
 
So Xandie or Donnyfire: Evidently something like 113 people in our class do not, as of now, have complete schedules with all of the requirements to graduate. How many people in your class were stuck like that after the 4th year schedule lottery was run? Just trying to figure out if it's the system or if our class is just somehow completely ******ed when it comes to scheduling despite doing just fine in all of our classes and Step 1.
 
I think it's 113 after the first run, then from the email we got, I gather that they ran it again, filling in requirements you were missing regardless if it was on your lottery list or not. Then after that there are some people still with incomplete schedules. So if you open up Oasis and you're assigned to something that was not on your list, that's why. I think...

I'm assuming that our class had very similar lottery lists. Everyone wanted the same rotations.
 
Yeah! My schedule is complete. However, if I decide to do anesthesia, I have to change around practically half of the thing.

June: Ortho sub-I
J: Ortho research
A: MICU at the VA
S: Away rotation
O: Family medicine sub-I at St Marys
N: Women's Health Integrated Selective
D: vacation
J: vacation
F: vacation
M: Dermatology
A: International elective in Belize
M: PFI
 
July: nothing, guess that means I'm doing Derm in HI
Aug: Rheumatology (hopefully soon to be an away)
Sept: Ortho Sub-I at the dert (at least I got that one)
Oct: Pain Management Integrated Selective
Nov: Vacation
Dec: Ambulatory medicine
Jan: vacation
Feb: Medicine sub-I
March: Vacation
April: Derm (soon to be anesthesia in England)
May: PFI

I got my email off to Anne Kinowski by 5:01 I think requesting sports and joints or trauma.
 
I'm complete too. Big sigh of relief over here.

July: Peds Cards
Aug: Peds Sub-I
Sep: MICU at VA
Oct: Peds Card Surgery (integrated selective)
Nov: Vacation
Dec: Peds Rads
Jan: Vacation
Feb: Peds Ortho Sub-I
Mar: Peds Pulm
April: Vacation
May: PFI

Guess who might just be working with kids during residency? 😉
 
DoctorFunk said:
I'm complete too. Big sigh of relief over here.

July: Peds Cards
Aug: Peds Sub-I
Sep: MICU at VA
Oct: Peds Card Surgery (integrated selective)
Nov: Vacation
Dec: Peds Rads
Jan: Vacation
Feb: Peds Ortho Sub-I
Mar: Peds Pulm
April: Vacation
May: PFI

Guess who might just be working with kids during residency? 😉
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Definitely see a trend there.
 
Ashers said:
Definitely see a trend there.
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Thought you might get a kick out of the ortho ortho ortho month. Might have to pick up my very own bone t-shirt to wear in on the first day.
 
We had huge numbers of people with incomplete schedules too... nutters.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Thought you might get a kick out of the ortho ortho ortho month. Might have to pick up my very own bone t-shirt to wear in on the first day.
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Yeah, saw that. 😉

I have books you can borrow if you want. A nice one from 1974 or so... whenever my dad started clinicals. Also got the Ortho Netter (it's got a lot of pedi stuff in it). I've referenced it a few times already on peds.
 
Well, aside from my vacations and PFI, only two of my classes match up with the months I wanted them to be in....this could have gone much better, but I guess it could be worse:

Jul - Gen. Anesthesia elective
Aug - Neurosurg Sub-I
Sept - Forensic Path
Oct - Master Clinician
Nov - Vacation
Dec - Ambulatory Medicine
Jan - Vacation
Feb - Anesthesia Research
Mar - Medicine Sub-I
Apr - Vacation
May - PFI

I'll be at Bar Louie downtown watching the Brewers game tonight if anyone cares to join me...starts at 6:00.
 
Xandie said:
We had huge numbers of people with incomplete schedules too... nutters.
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Meh. I'm only incomplete because of an elective in July. I planned on 2 electives for whenever I didn't have my ortho sub-I, so it'll all be fixed really soon. =) Ortho in Sept did ruin my plans though to be at home when my dad's about ready to leave.

I don't really want my med sub-I in feb... hopefully I'll be able to switch it later. I hear there are some ortho interviews in the beginning of Feb. =(
 
DoctorFunk said:
I'm complete too. Big sigh of relief over here.

July: Peds Cards
Aug: Peds Sub-I
Sep: MICU at VA
Oct: Peds Card Surgery (integrated selective)
Nov: Vacation
Dec: Peds Rads
Jan: Vacation
Feb: Peds Ortho Sub-I
Mar: Peds Pulm
April: Vacation
May: PFI

Guess who might just be working with kids during residency? 😉
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Ha! That's a lot of children.

Since I've got MICU at VA in August, and you have it in September, I'll try to remember to fill you in with all the good info.


Ashleigh, awesome that you locked down an ortho sub-I. And holy fast on that email to Anne.

I am really surprised with my schedule - I got very lucky. I got my 3rd choice on integrated selective, 2nd choice on MICU (1st was Froedtert), and everything else was my first choice. And every category was in the month I wanted it.
 
I'm super duper happy but somehow I'm one of the 113 a-holes. I KNOW i had plenty of integrated selectives ranked, even in the months that they "filled in" stuff for me. I plan on putting the integrated selective, of which many are available, including a few I SWEAR I ranked, in place of the Feb sub-i at Dert.

July MICU Dert
Aug EM Dert (WHEWWW!)
Sep Emergency Psych at Nuthouse (yeah!)
Oct Inpt Med
Nov Vacation/Boards/Interviews?
Dec Vacation/Interviews
Jan Forensic Path (very lucky)
Feb Surg Sub Dert (they filled this in place of an IS, i assume)
Mar Surg Sub at Joes
Apr Vacation/roadtrip/write my novel
May PFI

I can't believe how lucky I got...worked out perfectly besides my incomplete status. I hope i don't have to do anything but drop the Dert sub-I in February to fix it. (there's several I'd definitely do available then)
 
Ashers said:
There really has to be a better way than this to making the schedule.
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We're too careful to screw this thing up...not 113 of us. I think it's an inherent problem with their system, not us being irresponsible and unprofessional. I double and triple checked that I had everything filled in.
 
April, that's how my schedule was too, except Feb and Mar were switched.
 
And I didn't mean you all were nutters, I meant the system was nutters.
 
by the way, i think it was Don that recommended an ICU month before the ED to me, and that worked out pretty awesome. Thanks, fuego!
 
I meant getting my first choice, not the actual classes.

Gosh, I'm extra-unclear today.
 
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