summer plans?

[xdknjx]

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Do any of you M1's out there know what your doing this summer? Anybody doing something besides research?

 

[Ypo.]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

 

[xdknjx]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

Yeah research during college was enough for me. I'm trying to find a language program in europe but I don't know which would be good. Anybody ever do something like this during a previous summer?

 

[PreMedAdAG]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

ditto... i'm planning on enjoying the last couple months of my 24th year of life 🙂

 

[SoCuteMD]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

Well, some of us need to pay our rent and bills, regardless of the season.

 

[DeterminedMD]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

Sitting on the beach soakin up the sun!

 

[Perrin]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

If I don't work, I'll be living under an overpass the whole summer. So research will keep me off the streets. Plus, I'm doing clinical research, so I get to hang around the OR and maybe learn a thing or two. I get to make my own hours so I'll be able to travel if the need arises.

 

[Ypo.]

Here is the thing- I'm using my loans to pay for my trip this summer. I figure that when I'm a doctor, I'll have the money but not the time to do this kind of travel. So better to do it now while I'm poor but free.

It is easier for me because I have a spouse that helps out. If I had to pay for the rent all on my own I wouldn't be able to afford Peru-I could still afford Hawaii because I just camp in remote places when I'm there.

I just assumed that people that people who are planning on doing research this summer are completely focused on their future and getting into a competetive residency, and/or genuinely interested in the research.

 

[amyliz]

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

The specialty I want to go into is very competitive, and I'd rather not give myself reasons not to match. Plus, since it's what I'm interested in, doing clinical research and hanging out in the OR all summer really does rock my world. It also doesn't hurt that the guy I'm doing research for told me that as long as I work hard and pull off decent board scores, he'll do whatever it takes to get me to match.

 

[blue_feiyan]

i'm doing 2 preceptorships with the Family Medicine Presceptorship program they have in Texas

 

[latinfridley]

i'm doing 2 preceptorships with the Family Medicine Presceptorship program they have in Texas

Where ya wanna go? I'm thinking about doing the same program, but I only have a one month break to do it.

 

[blue_feiyan]

Where ya wanna go? I'm thinking about doing the same program, but I only have a one month break to do it.

I'm gonna try to stay for the first preceptorship in Bryan College Station since I do know some of the family physicians around here already. They're wonderful. And I'm going to try to get one in Houston for the second preceptorship. This, of course is assuming that I pass physiology lol

 

[Blake]

Plus, since it's what I'm interested in, doing clinical research and hanging out in the OR all summer really does rock my world.

WORD !

 

[Ypo.]

The specialty I want to go into is very competitive, and I'd rather not give myself reasons not to match. Plus, since it's what I'm interested in, doing clinical research and hanging out in the OR all summer really does rock my world. It also doesn't hurt that the guy I'm doing research for told me that as long as I work hard and pull off decent board scores, he'll do whatever it takes to get me to match.

It takes all kinds. I'm glad people do research, I like reading about it, I just don't like the work.

There is a part of me that thinks I should do research this summer, but then there is this other (bigger) part of me that is like 'nahhhhh...." Not necessary for the specialties I'm interested in.

Maybe I'm not a 'good' medical student, but being a medical student/doctor is only one (admittedly large) part of me. The other part of me is an adventure and nature-loving backpacking freak. 😀

 

[Brainsucker]

Peru, and Hawaii. one month each. 😀

I have a question: how do you folks work up the motivation to spend your last free summer (until retirement) working in a research lab? I just can't do it to myself.

I'm doing it so I don't have to take a year later. Maybe. I'm hoping I'll enjoy it. I haven't really enjoyed research experiences in the past, but this time I'm designing the study (sort of) and will have much more intellectual involvement, so I think I'll like it more. It's also a chance to spend tons of time in the OR and to make friends with the faculty in the department.

That said, I hope to take a couple weeks to go to Japan and visit my friend who's starting school there towards the end of the summer.

 

[pakidoc]

doing HARDCORE research (killing rats)

 

[erin682]

Maybe I'm not a 'good' medical student, but being a medical student/doctor is only one (admittedly large) part of me. The other part of me is an adventure and nature-loving backpacking freak. 😀

Same for me. I went backpacking for 5 weeks on the Appalachian Trail after my first year. It was a great way to decompress.

 

[Ypo.]

Same for me. I went backpacking for 5 weeks on the Appalachian Trail after my first year. It was a great way to decompress.

Wow, thats cool! I've always wanted to do that trail. How far did you hike? I've hiked on that trail for a couple of hours, thats all-but I wanted to keep going.

 

[erin682]

Wow, thats cool! I've always wanted to do that trail. How far did you hike? I've hiked on that trail for a couple of hours, thats all-but I wanted to keep going.

Well I've done 2 long trips now and I've gotten to about the 700 mile mark on the southern end. I really want to do the whole thing eventually but as I don't have anymore summer breaks I'm going to have to finish it in bits and pieces. I'd definately recommend doing that or some other adventure. I don't want to look back and regret missing a chance like that.

 

[Ypo.]

Well I've done 2 long trips now and I've gotten to about the 700 mile mark on the southern end. I really want to do the whole thing eventually but as I don't have anymore summer breaks I'm going to have to finish it in bits and pieces. I'd definately recommend doing that or some other adventure. I don't want to look back and regret missing a chance like that.

Yeah, doesn't it take at least five months to do the whole thing?

When you went there-did you take a bus to your starting place and a bus back home from where you ended? I'm just curious because now I'm considering doing some of it this summer, but I have dogs and don't know how I could get them there and back. If I drive to the starting point, then I'll have the problem of how to get back to my car. 😕

 

[el_chavo]

I too have been considering doing a section of the Appalachian trail. I'm a westerner by birth so I've never even seen that part of the country. Where's a good place to get info? Also, are there accessable busses to get back to one's vehicle?
Right now for me it's between the AT and spending some time backpacking in Glacier National Park. I haven't been to either one and I realize they are very different, but does anyone have experience to help sway me one way or another?

 

[erin682]

I too have been considering doing a section of the Appalachian trail. I'm a westerner by birth so I've never even seen that part of the country. Where's a good place to get info? Also, are there accessable busses to get back to one's vehicle?
Right now for me it's between the AT and spending some time backpacking in Glacier National Park. I haven't been to either one and I realize they are very different, but does anyone have experience to help sway me one way or another?

I've always wanted to spend some time in glacier. It would have to be in the summer though because I'm a southerner and therefore a cold weanie. Anyway as far as AT info a good place to start is www.appalachiantrail.org. Thats the official site but there is tons of info out there. If you do decide to hike it I would recommend wingfoot's thru- hikers guide. You don't have to be a thru-hiker to need it though. Its got information on mileage, shelters, town a long the way to resupply and tons of other stuff. There are other guide book options but thats the one most people use.

Transportation is always an issue. Usually when I go I have no idea how I'm going to get home. Typically it'll work out that I'll either hike/hitch into a small town and from there you can usually find someone who shuttles hikers for a small fee. They can take you back to your car if you are within a certain range or they can take you to a nearby larger city where you can catch a bus, plane or whatever back to a your car or the city closest to your car from which point you would need another shuttle. It sounds pretty complicated but its amazing how it usually works out pretty easily.

On my last trip we decided that it was time to go home one morning, hiked into a tiny town that afternoon, caught a shuttle into roanoke and were on a bus the next morning with no plans.

As far as traveling with dogs I'm not really sure. I know there are resources out there because tons of people hike with their dogs I've just never done it so I don't know. I'm sure you could find some AT forums out there and find out pretty easily. I do know, though, that you cannot travel the AT through the Smokies with a dog. They have a lot of bears and bears and dogs are a bad combination. They do have a kennel service though where they will watch your dog and having it waiting on the other side when you get there.

Ok well I feel like we're monopolizing this thread so if you guys have more questions feel free to pm me. I love trail talk!

 

[UT_mikie]

In June I plan on doing a 4 week program in at the Cacha Medical Institute in Riobamba, Ecuador. I figure now might be a good time to start working on some Spanish. After I get back I'll be doing a 3 week Texas internal med preceptorship and then maybe heading to Europe for a few weeks with friends. Like someone else said. Gotta enjoy the last free summer of our lives. Yea I may kick myself for not doing research later, but I got a new digital SLR camera sitting with an empty memory card. 😀

 

[coastal]

I'm going to africa-month of clincal work in Kenya and Ghana (each), then the girlfriend will come over and we'll travel in Kenya and Tanzania for 5-6 weeks. Financing it with the line of credit.....the old time versus money conundrum-my girlfriend and I are sure we can't afford it, but we're also sure we can't afford not to take advantage of the last free summer we'll get in awhile (clerkship, residency, kids......). Techinically, my school requires us to do some sort of research before we graduate, and it is usually done following second year. I'm hoping to work that into my clinical experience in Africa-nothing too brilliant, just enough to get the pass. Can't wait to get the backpack on again....it's been 3 years now, which for a travel junkie is way too long!

 

[Ypo.]

I'm going to africa-month of clincal work in Kenya and Ghana (each), then the girlfriend will come over and we'll travel in Kenya and Tanzania for 5-6 weeks. Financing it with the line of credit.....the old time versus money conundrum-my girlfriend and I are sure we can't afford it, but we're also sure we can't afford not to take advantage of the last free summer we'll get in awhile (clerkship, residency, kids......). Techinically, my school requires us to do some sort of research before we graduate, and it is usually done following second year. I'm hoping to work that into my clinical experience in Africa-nothing too brilliant, just enough to get the pass. Can't wait to get the backpack on again....it's been 3 years now, which for a travel junkie is way too long!

What kind of research/ clinical experiences are you going to be doing? What organization are you arranging this all through?

I was thinking about doing some volunteering this summer-I looked into Uganda-but I'm just not sure about the organization and I don't know anyone who has done something like this...so I'm not sure which organization would be good.

 

[Kazema]

I'm going to Ecuadorrrrrrrrrrrr for 3 weeks. Then maybe Philadelphia for some shadowing stuff or something.