Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

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Gimlet said:
LOL...no, I just like knowing where I can expect to bump into people, I guess (not that I will be around campus very much this month).

Which ortho service are you on, Ashers?
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Sports & Joints since there are 3 M4s on the trauma service. I was on trauma last year, so they put me on Sports/Joints this year.
 
No bumping into me this month. 🙁 I know you're all disappointed.

I'm on peds ortho at Gillette in St Paul, MN. And thanks to their 3-week rotations, I've been watching TV all week. Probably for the best d/t the republican convention which has overtaken the city. Well, actually its the thousands of protestors that have taken over the city.
 
ugh, driving back from Waukesha in the rain when there's a stupid Brewers game is miserable. that took at least an hour.
 
akpete said:
No bumping into me this month. 🙁 I know you're all disappointed.

I'm on peds ortho at Gillette in St Paul, MN. And thanks to their 3-week rotations, I've been watching TV all week. Probably for the best d/t the republican convention which has overtaken the city. Well, actually its the thousands of protestors that have taken over the city.
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Have fun! Preserve some kids' epiphyses! Maybe even lengthen some limbs.
 
I'm at the VA MICU this month, currently featuring a whopping 2 patients. Lots of time to read, but the quarters can be kind of cramped and we haven't been given the typical M4 freedom to roam around the hospital or get lost in the library for hours on end just yet.
 
va for psych.

I'd like everyone to note that the traffic leaving down town in the morning is now much worse since they've completed the interchange.


Also, how many months is the average wait for clinical grades?
 
Children's for RPM (formerly known as CPR).
 
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkEvy-9yVyQ&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
 
indo said:
Also, how many months is the average wait for clinical grades?
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I'd say about 1.25 on average. It's nice to know that people will be evaluating you long after they've forgotten who you are, isn't it?
 
Gimlet said:
I'd say about 1.25 on average. It's nice to know that people will be evaluating you long after they've forgotten who you are, isn't it?
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out here at Waukesha, I think some of them might forget us the day after they knew us. We work under several different surgeons, so I don't know how well any one of them is going to get to know us. It might be because the resident is still on vacation, but I feel like I've got a ridiculously long leash over here. I don't need to have my day dictated to me, but man, this is precisely one of those "it's what you make of it" kind of rotations.
 
Which personality disorder are we all? I'm somewhere between histrionic and borderline...but definitely Cluster B.
 
Agent Splat said:
Which personality disorder are we all? I'm somewhere between histrionic and borderline...but definitely Cluster B.
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I'm a cluster C.

Gimlet said:
I'd say about 1.25 on average. It's nice to know that people will be evaluating you long after they've forgotten who you are, isn't it?
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OB/gyn took 10 weeks for mine. I hate OB/gyn. Evil.
 
my CPR grade (aka RPM or whatever for the new kids) took about two months.
 
Agent Splat said:
Which personality disorder are we all? I'm somewhere between histrionic and borderline...but definitely Cluster B.
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Whichever cluster features narcissistic PD.
 
When is MCW going to start interviewing med school applicants? I want to try to do some more interviews this year now that I don't care about asking for time off to do it.
 
Gimlet said:
When is MCW going to start interviewing med school applicants? I want to try to do some more interviews this year now that I don't care about asking for time off to do it.
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it does seem to be about that time for ED. Unless they actually are closing the school down after the class of 2012 graduates.
 
TheProwler said:
first interview is 10/3.
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Speaking of interview season, just sent my residency application out to 15 programs for Peds. Most of my supporting documents aren't uploaded yet (LORs, USMLE or MCW transcripts, MSPE) but at least they have my CAF, personal statement, and my super-awesome ninja photo. Guess we'll see what kind of fish I can catch with that bait until the slackers get the rest of my info in.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Speaking of interview season, just sent my residency application out to 15 programs for Peds. Most of my supporting documents aren't uploaded yet (LORs, USMLE or MCW transcripts, MSPE) but at least they have my CAF, personal statement, and my super-awesome ninja photo. Guess we'll see what kind of fish I can catch with that bait until the slackers get the rest of my info in.
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so are you applying for a peds residency? any idea what kind of fellowships you have in mind?
 
DoctorFunk said:
Speaking of interview season, just sent my residency application out to 15 programs for Peds. Most of my supporting documents aren't uploaded yet (LORs, USMLE or MCW transcripts, MSPE) but at least they have my CAF, personal statement, and my super-awesome ninja photo. Guess we'll see what kind of fish I can catch with that bait until the slackers get the rest of my info in.
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I'm just waiting on a letter from Dr. Olds that won't be done until mid-month. Other than that, I'm as complete as I can be until Nov. 1st when the Dean's letters come out.

You USMLE transcript will be uploaded in a couple days, if mine was any indication.

A couple people in the anesthesia forum have already posted that they got interviews from the University of Alabama. :scared: Didn't apply there, thankfully. The only correspondence I've gotten so far was an "acknowledgement" of my application by the University of Florida - doesn't mean anything, but at least it's comforting to know that my app is coming through on the other end of the system alright.
 
When I finished my residency application personal statement, I ruminated a moment about some of the things I had written...and it became incredibly clear that I should not actually apply. So May 2009 is the end of medicine for me!!! It's been real.
 
are you all ready to tack on "MD" to your last name?
 
TheProwler said:
so are you applying for a peds residency? any idea what kind of fellowships you have in mind?
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Looking at cardiology, critical care, combined cards/critical care, or possibly pulmonology.

My back-up idea is to become a hospitalist if I find out that not all hospitalists are as crazy-busy as the ones at Children's.
 
Yeah, my money came today!! So I will be applying soon. These quick-trigger interview invites I've been hearing about are scaring me. I have 3 anesthesia LORs lined up, and as of last week only one was uploaded. I don't have any ortho LORs lined up at this point. I would probably get Schmeling, and one at MN, but I thought the 3rd one would've been from Schwab but he apparently doesn't usually write letters anymore. Though he said he'd do one if I really need it because his wife was born in my hometown. But I would need to meet with him again, which is difficult being 4 hours away. The ortho gods are not smiling at me. Though my first day at Gillette was good today and I told everyone there I am applying for ortho even though I'm not sure.

Ah, the stress is starting to build. I've started rambling.
 
Wow, you guys are really on the home stretch. How many of you will have an easy schedule for spring 2009? I'm going to try to save a month of vacation for April 2010 so I can be done with med school two weeks after the match.
 
TheProwler said:
Wow, you guys are really on the home stretch. How many of you will have an easy schedule for spring 2009? I'm going to try to save a month of vacation for April 2010 so I can be done with med school two weeks after the match.
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I have vacation/light rotations/going to Belize starting Nov 1 until the beginning of residency. I'm a month and 1/2 away from the home stretch.
 
TheProwler said:
Wow, you guys are really on the home stretch. How many of you will have an easy schedule for spring 2009? I'm going to try to save a month of vacation for April 2010 so I can be done with med school two weeks after the match.
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I have my surgery sub-i in March, but pre match i'll be very preoccupied and subsequently post match I will certainly be taking it easy. otherwise i have April off, integrated selective (easy, i hope) in February, and forensic path in January (also easy + interviews)
 
Agent Splat said:
I have my surgery sub-i in March, but pre match i'll be very preoccupied and subsequently post match I will certainly be taking it easy. otherwise i have April off, integrated selective (easy, i hope) in February, and forensic path in January (also easy + interviews)
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Forensic Path will be nice for interviewing. Dr. Poulos is awesome - I could definitely see you getting along well with him. He has told me to leave early every day so far. The new chief ME, Dr. Happy (yes, that's his real name), is also very cool and laid back.

I have research in Feb, but then Medicine Sub-I in March 👎(hopefully at an easy place since I already did Froedterd during M3), then vacation in April.
 
SWEET. No one in my medicine rotation failed their medicine shelf, which is apparently a first for the July-August group. I'm just glad that means I passed.
 
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l69Vi5IDc0g&NR=1[/YOUTUBE]
 
It's good to see that even Dixons who spell their surname wrong live up to the Dixon name.

Go here for more random experiments, but it requires one to read. It involves Twinkies. (I was kinda surprised the website's still in existence.)
 
well, that's all submitted and stuff. Man I need a drink. Or 6.
 
Just got my October medicine sub-i assignment....I'll be at St. Joe's. Anybody have any experience/knowlege of what it'll be like for me there? I've been there for surgery and OB, so the smell will at least be familiar (as far as hospitals go, i actually sorta like the smell there). I used to like the hand sanitizer too, but now it's too greasy for me and makes my hands taste funny.

And, will my new personal policy of "no neckties" fly there? I got used to it after the following rotations in the following order: psych, ICU, ER, psych. Not sure I can go back.

I am actually sorta hoping/counting on the sub-i to be a great learning experience for me.
 
There weren't any sub-Is when I was there, but they take overnight call with the team -- q4, and you take days off with the team.

I think you get one of their zone phones -- they had 3 there in June, and one was designated "sub-I)

Yeasterbunny can probably give a little more info.
 
Who's your attending? That will make a big difference in how it goes. I thought medicine was fairly challenging there, but it was also partly because of the massive amount of time we spent in teaching rounds and noon conferences. I didn't like how their teaching attendings are different than the actual patients' attendings. You'll spend plenty of time chasing down the hospitalists to staff your patients.
 
Ortho fanatics, I read that Ashers recommends the little blue netter book for ortho anatomy. Did any other books stand out?

Anesthesiology fanatics, I have Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition by G. Edward Morgan, Jr., Maged S. Mikhail, Michael J. Murray on my computer. Should I carry something for CPR/ RPM ?
 
indo said:
Ortho fanatics, I read that Ashers recommends the little blue netter book for ortho anatomy. Did any other books stand out?

Anesthesiology fanatics, I have Clinical Anesthesiology, 4th Edition by G. Edward Morgan, Jr., Maged S. Mikhail, Michael J. Murray on my computer. Should I carry something for CPR/ RPM ?
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You on the ortho elective?

Depends on which team you're on. If you're on Trauma, you might want the Handbook of Fractures. I survived just fine without it last year and this year on joints. They basically ask questions about anatomy.

CPR gave us blueprints of anesthesia or some other book that fit into the scrubs pocket. That was handy.
 
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