Maybe one of these days when they have another name change event I will change mine to something that isn't my current career or alma mater.
My last employer was pretty generous with the vacation in that we all started out with 2 weeks from day one and got 3 weeks after about 2 years. People who had been there a really long time had 30 days. Compare that with summer off, 3 weeks for winter break, 1 week spring break, random days here and there, etc. So 1st and 2nd year are boring and tedious, but hey we get lots of time off.
Yeah but nothing like school vacation.
I'm taking this summer off and do nothing but relax and study at my leisure for step 1.
It bites that we have to go to class 3 days this week and 2 next week
So just to check, we have to go to both EBM sessions and one pbl session? What's the deal with the physio lab? I haven't quite gotten to respiratory yet.
Hmm, I thought about taking a consumer protection class but then didn't, so yeah, I got nothing. Yeah, I do think they have to send you notice that they're turning you over to collections before they do so. I'd at least call them and let them know this is your first notice. You want more info, and you want to make sure it doesn't show up on your credit report.
I hate cr@p like that.
Hmm, I thought about taking a consumer protection class but then didn't, so yeah, I got nothing. Yeah, I do think they have to send you notice that they're turning you over to collections before they do so. I'd at least call them and let them know this is your first notice. You want more info, and you want to make sure it doesn't show up on your credit report.
I hate cr@p like that.
Well since it sounds like they already know you're leaving, I'd just be honest. The thing that would make them feel the worst is if you ask for stuff as if getting it might make you stay. Now if you would stay if those conditions above are met, you might as well throw it out there.
Dude....you're nuts...
Ah, I guess I missed the vibe that you worked for evil people in your first post and that you wouldn't mind playing with them a little bit. It sucks that corporations ignore loyalty and only really respond to people who act like they're gonna leave.
You made me curious about where you worked with your comment about being in the news. Hmm?
So talking about med school stuff, does anyone else feel like they have no clue what's going on in EBM? It seems like there are too many buzzwords and too few explanations.
You will miss engineering, but med school has its advantages and I'm looking forward to 3rd and 4th year. That said I would definitely think twice if I could be guaranteed 150k in 7 years. Something like the 80s oil bust could end these good times, though (well for the people working for the energy companies).
grinder4, congrats on the accepance.
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So I finally got a letter from the CoM saying; "Yes we remember that we accepted you, and we're going to be sending you more information in the coming weeks about all the stuff that you need to do before school starts."
I guess they didn't forget about me after all.
No one posts there! (As if doctor's don't have a decent salary - but let's wait until next presidential election)
Need some help...
The waitlisted/denied students meeting tomorrow (27th) is business attire, right?
Well, you do have to take care of administrative bs like vaccines, financial aid, etc, but nothing intellectual. As for getting a head start, it's just not a realistic goal. Even if you cover some ground, it'll probably get you maybe one week ahead of everyone else. Enjoy your time abroad and your break -- med school and all its glory can wait 'til August.
So for some reason I missed that we have 2 pbl sessions this week. How freaking lame is that?
Dang...I didn't see that Neuro pbl tomorrow.
Grrrr
I hope I don't need to know much for those Physio things tomorrow.
(or neuro)
I wanted to get the big ones done early, mostly because I want to not have them waiting for me at the end but to also hopefully learn more early on, so my later rotations are more effective for me and my patients. I definitely wanted the hard stuff out of the way first, and it's also where you're going to learn the most, so I wanted to be as smart as possible by November OB is also one of the specialties I'm most interested in, so I wanted to do that when I was fresh from Christmas break, but far enough along that I wasn't clueless. I also like the idea of ending with Family Medicine, it seems like a good circle of closure to start with Medicine (the building block of everything else) and end with Family (which synthesizes so many of the other areas). Amx, I bet we'll be seeing each other on a service or two
I also did 3rd year scheduling yesterday and mine was so similar that I'm just going to cut and paste Amx's and change a few rotations.
I got 38, which was my first choice from the beginning, so I'm very happy
Medicine - 7/9/07 to 8/31/07
Surgery - 9/4/07 to 10/26/07
Neurology - 10/29/07 to 11/9/07
Psych - 11/12/07 to 12/21/07
Ob/Gyn - 1/7/08 to 2/15/08
Selective - 2/18/08 to 2/29/08
Geriatrics (aka Partyiatrics) - 3/3/08 to 3/28/08
Peds - 3/31/08 to 5/9/08
Selective - 5/12/08 to 5/23/08
Family Medicine - 5/27/08 - 6/20/08
You shouldn't get the idea from this that everybody wanted med/surg right at the beginning, it's just sort of a freak coincidence that Amx and I had such similar thought processes about it and both happened to be the people that posted on SDN. I guess we're both just a little masochistic
How's your hubby doing, by the way?Maybe we can finally talk in person instead of just the quick hello and a nod on the way into or out of the ELH.
If it's not required, I'm not there (Something tells me I'm in for a rude awakening next year...) He's working hard on trying to get promoted soon... I hope he does too so he'll stop complaining about not being promoted
Everybody pumped for both EBM and PBL tomorrow? It'll be great.
or rave about it this fall.
