are you impatiently waiting for comat scores to be released today like I am? lol i took peds last wednesday. I think they should be up today or tomorrow? but maybe im wrong
Abso-effing-lutely. I’m so ready to have this over with for the year. I’ve checked a few times today… hopefully they won’t make us wait until too late tomorrow.
Lol i know! they usually wait till end of the day i feel like. Bet we both did well! Ill keep u posted
You’re amazing! I broke the 120s barrier, too - 125 for surgery. Man, we killed it this year!
HOLY SMOKES 125 on surg lmaoooo LETS GOOO beast mode babyyy. Wow we went out with a bang. Congrats!!
FM Applicant. Got 3 auditions and then a few rotations that some family medicine residents recommended for prepping for residency (OB, Derm, PM&R, NICU). However my last 8 weeks are online rotations. But Im also not a baller like you guys so I wanted some extra prep for intern year
Im legit trying to set up my sched to do the least lmao i know thats ballsy for intern year but i am so dang burned out that idc lol I legit made a reddit thread this morning asking for the chillest/online rotations so I can go to the beach. My thoughts are were going to have zero life for the next 3-6 years depending if you do fellowship or not and IM residency in general is notoriously brutal so I need as much gas in the tank as possible. We worked our asses off in med school its time to rest for a little-sorry if this sounds lazy lmao i made upmy mind that i need to force my type A brain to just chill for once
I am going as many places as I can possibly go… for the fun, mostly. Doing a rads rotation at my third year site to get an intro, then doing an ultrasound rads rotation and an interventional rads rotation as auditions. Then I’m picking up a SICU rotation in a crazy huge academic level 1 trauma center, because they rotate all their IR people through it so at least I’ll get to rub elbows. I feel pretty dang confident in the ICU environment in general, but SICU is a different beast from the MICU flow I know so well, so it’s still scary af.
Lmao ok this makes me feel a bit better. It's more that I honestly don't want to waste money to travel and live in a place for a sub-I and the stuff available near me is slim in my desired specialty. So I'm kind of adopting this mindset but at the same time I'm nervous about not getting how residency works. Although I figure after a couple sub-Is it should be clear enough? People on here just always harp on rotation quality so much.
Yeah they do harp on rotation quality in the sense of: residents, teaching wards-based, inpatient IM vs outpatient, no residents/online IM. the former will prep most people well for the flow of how things work and what I think most people on here refer to as “quality” vs crap lol. So if youre M3 IM rotation sounds like more of the former and you did well in it you at least know how to work up patients in the hospital setting know how to function well with a team of residents and know how to present. Whether we do a ton of SubIs or not were still going to walk into intern year feeling like we dont know **** anyways lol and we wont know **** bc no one does when they start intern year. were interns to learn how to be doctors
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I’d say so. I applied to well over 100 (not 100 distinct sites, but combo of distinct sites + different months) to get the six I have lined up.
Don't spend money on COMQUEST you don't need it. You only need UWorld and school-provided COMBANK to get honors on all of them.
Anki and Uwise is very very good for OB comat. Two things I wish i did for OB because its so algorithmic. I used Comquest and UWorld but amboss is fine
You actually found Uwise to be helpful? My friend took OB last month and said it was too in-depth so I've really only used it for the mandatory quizzes we had to do on there. I could make time to go at least do my weak topics if you think it'll be worth it. Even when studying for step 1 female repro was one of my worst subjects.
Female repro was my worst as well. I honored every comat with an avg of 120 except for OB and I truly believe it was a combination of being my weakest subject but also because its so algorithmic as I had mentioned and anki is very helpful for this (cheesy dorian is great bc it uses OME which has all the algorithms). I did not do Anki for OB and regret it. Anecdotal as it may be but everyone I talked to that had honored OB did Uwise and Anki for it
Averaging 120 on all comats, damn bro! I was struggling to keep it above 90. Good thing, my school grade is a combination of comats and preceptor evaluations.
Taking it next week. I'm just doing comquest.
heard mixed things. found a anki deck on reddit for EM, plan on doing comquest, but my exam isnt till march where I will be at peak stupidity
Ugh I really can't handle doing Anki ever again lol
Knowing you and how you killed every exam so far. I doubt this exam will have any bearing on anything from now on. And you could probably just take it without studying or doing questions and still pass.
I thought COMQUEST was good at covering the scenarios I did not see during my ED rotation.
Well. I honored it lol
So far all of my CQ predictions have been within 1-2 points.
Sweet, thank you!
Congrats! I took mine the same day as you and my score isn’t posted yet. 🤷♀️
Thank you! My school emailed me about my score but it hasn't been posted on the NBOME site yet
