Unnecessary compeitition during MSI?

[PJMe]

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Does anyone else sense a bit of Unnecessary competition during MSI? Or does med school just attract the ones with the personality disorders?

The guy who reads two chapters ahead in anatomy so that he can show the entire group the depths of his wisdom in lab.

The girl who must make it known that she knew she wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus.

The born-again organic lifestyle vegetarian dude who looks down on you for eating a fast food burger while taking a huge bong hit.

The dork that actually quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation.

The really ugly girl who’s convinced that all her guy classmates wants to get into her pants.

The right-wing Christian girl who constantly wants to “learn” about your spiritual beliefs.

 

[Rafa]

These are the walking anuses who you tried to avoid as pre-meds in college. Unfortunately, many of them still slip through the interview anus-catcher, and make it into med school.

Best advice I can offer is just to ignore them. They're like mosquitos. You can never swat enough of them. Always a few more textbook-geniuses ready to unleash further verbal malaria.

 

[i61164]

Does anyone else sense a bit of Unnecessary competition during MSI? Or does med school just attract the ones with the personality disorders?

The guy who reads two chapters ahead in anatomy so that he can show the entire group the depths of his wisdom in lab.

The girl who must make it known that she knew she wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus.

The born-again organic lifestyle vegetarian dude who looks down on you for eating a fast food burger while taking a huge bong hit.

The dork that actually quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation.

The really ugly girl who’s convinced that all her guy classmates wants to get into her pants.

The right-wing Christian girl who constantly wants to “learn” about your spiritual beliefs.

Glad I don't go to your school.

 

[chintu]

Yes, the anatomy block at my medschool was insanely competitive. I barely survived it. After that there was still competition but not as much. I am an MS2 right now and I can say that its much better now that everyone has realized their place in medschool and they are happy where they are without cutting each other's throats. Plus most of my classmates are worried about boards more than anything at this point.

 

[CanIMakeIt]

Does anyone else sense a bit of Unnecessary competition during MSI? Or does med school just attract the ones with the personality disorders?

The guy who reads two chapters ahead in anatomy so that he can show the entire group the depths of his wisdom in lab.

The girl who must make it known that she knew she wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus.

The born-again organic lifestyle vegetarian dude who looks down on you for eating a fast food burger while taking a huge bong hit.

The dork that actually quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation.

The really ugly girl who’s convinced that all her guy classmates wants to get into her pants.

The right-wing Christian girl who constantly wants to “learn” about your spiritual beliefs.

I feel for you man...here at UNC we don't have any of those or at least I haven't encountered them so far ... and I hope I don't....0.75 semester down and only 3.25 more to go ... 👍

Don't include these people in your group and u should be fine....

 

[deuist]

Let's see...

We have the ugly horny girl that no one wants to have sex with.

We have a group of ultra religious Christians nick named "The God Squad" that scoffs whenever a teacher mentions evolution or psychiatry.

We have the super rich girls who wonder why others routinely turn them down to go to the most expensive restaurants and bars in town.

We have the stuttering tyrant that tries to become in charge of everything but is really a crappy leader and wonders why nothing ever changes.

We have the second year who always comes into our study area to give us life advice.

We've got gossipers---lots of them.

Luckily, we have no gunners who boast about their study habits.

 

[Law2Doc]

Let's see...

We have the ugly horny girl that no one wants to have sex with.

We have a group of ultra religious Christians nick named "The God Squad" that scoffs whenever a teacher mentions evolution or psychiatry.

We have the super rich girls who wonder why others routinely turn them down to go to the most expensive restaurants and bars in town.

We have the stuttering tyrant that tries to become in charge of everything but is really a crappy leader and wonders why nothing ever changes.

We have the second year who always comes into our study area to give us life advice.

We've got gossipers---lots of them.

Just videotape it, call it The Real World, med school edition, and sell it to MTV.

 

[njbmd]

Does anyone else sense a bit of Unnecessary competition during MSI? Or does med school just attract the ones with the personality disorders?

The guy who reads two chapters ahead in anatomy so that he can show the entire group the depths of his wisdom in lab.

The girl who must make it known that she knew she wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus.

The born-again organic lifestyle vegetarian dude who looks down on you for eating a fast food burger while taking a huge bong hit.

The dork that actually quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation.

The really ugly girl who’s convinced that all her guy classmates wants to get into her pants.

The right-wing Christian girl who constantly wants to “learn” about your spiritual beliefs.

Hi there,
All of this stuff is not going to matter too much in the scheme of your career. The only person that you are in competition with is yourself. You have to constantly challenge yourself to do better and better. One of the cardinal characteristics of "pre-med syndrome" is that one feels the constant need to compare onesself to all others and find something to boast about. This is immature and totally a waste of precious study time. It sounds like your MS-I classmates are still in the late stages of pre-med syndrome. You can often use this to your advantage for entertainment purposes.

So what if some person wants to read ahead and show off. Pick their brain as much as possible (might save you some study time 😉 ). So what if someone wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus (enjoy telling some pee pee, wee wee, MD jokes). So what if some veg dude looks down on you for eating the fast food burger while taking a bong hit. Ask him to share the weed! Might break the ice on those boring days. 👍

Laugh at yourself and don't take your juvenile classmates too seriously. By the time you all are third-years, everything evens out. We used to take digital photos of people sleeping in class and show them in between class to break the ice. We also used to throw a "nerf brain" across the room in Neuroscience class. In short, do anything that helps the class come together professionally that you can. Medical school can be fun.

Who knows? Maybe that dork that quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation might be the person who trades a call with you when you need it or that ugly girl might actually be good in bed (great stress relief) and who can't use a little more prayer from that "born again Christian right winger"? It might net you ten more points on that Gross Anatomy lab practical if she's praying for your soul. It's all good. 😀

njbmd 🙂

 

[aragonh]

Does anyone else sense a bit of Unnecessary competition during MSI? Or does med school just attract the ones with the personality disorders?

I'll be honest and say that I love brainf*cking these people.

There's this girl in our class that tries to be what shes not. She always has 2 show that shes extremely competent at everything. What do I say? "Baby, you can rock my world anytime. In fact, let me just lay down here and u can do all the work!!"

Theres this guy at our school that just cant stop asking ridiculous questions. How do u solve this dilemna? Beat him to the punchline. Whenever I see his hand up, I immediately shout out a dumb question in the forms of "Professor, can u explain that concept again, but explain it as if we were 8-year olds so that none of us can have any doubts"

And my all time-favorite type of person: when people want to get into a pissing contest against me in my specialty. Before med school, I've done some research (and publications) in several topics in medicine. We have touched on several of these topics at school. It surprises me how some of these people believe that they are the shizzam once they "mastered" that piece of knowledge. I hate to break it to these people, but you're not an expert in the field just because u memorized half a textbook. Actually, I'm lying. I love to break that news to them. I just have to keep it real 😉

 

[Rafa]

Hi there,
All of this stuff is not going to matter too much in the scheme of your career. The only person that you are in competition with is yourself. You have to constantly challenge yourself to do better and better. One of the cardinal characteristics of "pre-med syndrome" is that one feels the constant need to compare onesself to all others and find something to boast about. This is immature and totally a waste of precious study time. It sounds like your MS-I classmates are still in the late stages of pre-med syndrome. You can often use this to your advantage for entertainment purposes.

So what if some person wants to read ahead and show off. Pick their brain as much as possible (might save you some study time 😉 ). So what if someone wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus (enjoy telling some pee pee, wee wee, MD jokes). So what if some veg dude looks down on you for eating the fast food burger while taking a bong hit. Ask him to share the weed! Might break the ice on those boring days. 👍

Laugh at yourself and don't take your juvenile classmates too seriously. By the time you all are third-years, everything evens out. We used to take digital photos of people sleeping in class and show them in between class to break the ice. We also used to throw a "nerf brain" across the room in Neuroscience class. In short, do anything that helps the class come together professionally that you can. Medical school can be fun.

Who knows? Maybe that dork that quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation might be the person who trades a call with you when you need it or that ugly girl might actually be good in bed (great stress relief) and who can't use a little more prayer from that "born again Christian right winger"? It might net you ten more points on that Gross Anatomy lab practical if she's praying for your soul. It's all good. 😀

njbmd 🙂

Repeated for posterity.

 

[PJMe]

I agree. I think it’s safe to say that the material in Med school is like reading the Cliff’s notes version of a novel (ie. For the most part, the material has already been digested for you to absorb as quickly as possible) and there’s nothing wrong with that since they’re just teaching us the relevant material to clinical medicine. My problem is with the people that can’t grasp that fact and act like they mastered a topic because they read (ahead) a few chapters in Netter. Maybe this is the root of the mass psychosis I see?

 

[Paws]

Funny thread but so true, man! I laughed right out loud over the christian who wants to "learn" about your spirituality.

Med school is a pressure cooker experience and I think many of the crazy pre-meds we left behind at our old school are right here with us now! Only, from schools all over the country. I also know that plenty of people annoy the sh&t out of me, but then amazingly, I seem to annoy the &^% out of other people. Hard to believe, but it appears to be true.

As a result, I really make a strong effort to keep up with my life outside of school so that when I am at school I can just sort of gaze off into the middle distance when something weird is going on around me. Eventually it passes, time passes and we progress towards graduation!

 

[Samoa]

It gets better. People stop caring about things like that, and all those annoying people usually find their own crowd or else get past it and start acting like normal people. Really, I promise. It all ends up OK.

 

[Sureshot83]

We used to take digital photos of people sleeping in class and show them in between class to break the ice. We also used to throw a "nerf brain" across the room in Neuroscience class. In short, do anything that helps the class come together professionally that you can. Medical school can be fun.

This is an endless source of entertainment in my school. You would not believe how fun it is to make a series of photos documenting a given individual's fighting a losing battle against sleep in lecture. Thank goodness for cell phone cameras.

The prof also threw a nerf brain around on the first day of neuroscience. I wouldn't say that was particularly fun.....more random than anything else.

 

[PickyBicky]

It gets better. People stop caring about things like that, and all those annoying people usually find their own crowd or else get past it and start acting like normal people. Really, I promise. It all ends up OK.

The truth of the matter is that it gets better when you start your third year and can avoid seeing some of the freaks and weirdos for months on end... unless you have to be on service with the derm-wench.... I hate the derm-wench!

-PB

 

[Samoa]

The truth of the matter is that it gets better when you start your third year and can avoid seeing some of the freaks and weirdos for months on end... unless you have to be on service with the derm-wench.... I hate the derm-wench!

-PB

I know what you mean. I check to see who I'll be on rotation with before I sign up.

 

[drmota]

explain this derm-wench please.
-mota

 

[darrvao777]

I am guessing the derm-wench is a supergunner?

 

[Paws]

I am also looking forward to not seeing most of my classmates for months in end, except I also dread being cooped up with one or more of the annoying ones on a rotation. We have a girl in our class who doesn't seem able to actually do work on her own but seems to need you to "explain" everything to her. ???

She is always after people to sit down and 'talk through' stuff with her. In other words, she can't be bothered to struggle and work through stuff on her own like the rest of us. That's how most of us actually learn the material, so I don't understand her methods. But, I am so dreading being on a rotation with her.

 

[MSHell]

I am also looking forward to not seeing most of my classmates for months in end, except I also dread being cooped up with one or more of the annoying ones on a rotation. We have a girl in our class who doesn't seem able to actually do work on her own but seems to need you to "explain" everything to her. ???

She is always after people to sit down and 'talk through' stuff with her. In other words, she can't be bothered to struggle and work through stuff on her own like the rest of us. That's how most of us actually learn the material, so I don't understand her methods. But, I am so dreading being on a rotation with her.

You can pretend to be transiently deaf-mute.

 

[marcus_aurelius]

Does anyone else sense a bit of Unnecessary competition during MSI? Or does med school just attract the ones with the personality disorders?

The guy who reads two chapters ahead in anatomy so that he can show the entire group the depths of his wisdom in lab.

The girl who must make it known that she knew she wanted to be a pediatric urologist since she was a fetus.

The born-again organic lifestyle vegetarian dude who looks down on you for eating a fast food burger while taking a huge bong hit.

The dork that actually quotes the medical school motto in normal conversation.

The really ugly girl who’s convinced that all her guy classmates wants to get into her pants.

The right-wing Christian girl who constantly wants to “learn” about your spiritual beliefs.

haha....all i know is that at some unconcious level, it all comes down to two things....

1. MONEY (for guys...more money, more ladies.......for girls i dont know)
2. LIFESTYLE (making enough money to live it up)
3. For some Power is more important than money....(this i've never understood bc i always equated money with power....perhaps for those who were picked on a lot).
4. for some, pleasing the parents...but this usually ties in with money, power/prestige etc.


medicine in the u.s. is similiar to business....cut throat....the bottom line.

i used to think some of my classmates were freaks...now i have accepted the truths.

the med student status is good for picking up chics though

 

[marcus_aurelius]

Just videotape it, call it The Real World, med school edition, and sell it to MTV.

nobody would watch it, it would be the most boring mtv ever, and ugliest too.

is it just me or do the good med schls tend to pick up all the hotter girls?

 

[QofQuimica]

nobody would watch it, it would be the most boring mtv ever, and ugliest too.

is it just me or do the good med schls tend to pick up all the hotter girls?

From my interviewing experience, I would have to say that all of the hotter girls (and guys! 😍 ) attend Vanderbilt. I was sitting in on a lecture while I was there, and it was extremely distracting to have so many gorgeous medical students in the room. 😳 That is the one school that particularly stood out to me in that regard.

 

[PJMe]

Whatever. Everybody knows that the hottest girls all go to Mt. Sinai 🙂 It's part of the admissions process there: MCAT, GPA, and your score on that web site... I think it's called "hotornot.com"

 

[QofQuimica]

Whatever. Everybody knows that the hottest girls all go to Mt. Sinai 🙂 It's part of the admissions process there: MCAT, GPA, and your score on that web site... I think it's called "hotornot.com"

I take it you go to Mt. Sinai. 😉 Anyway, I didn't apply or interview there, so I wouldn't know. But I am totally serious about Vanderbilt. Very, very good looking students there.

 

[Hurricane]

Wasn't the latest Bachelor a resident at Vanderbilt? I guess their hotness requirement extends to graduate medical training as well...

 

[BaylorGuy]

Wasn't the latest Bachelor a resident at Vanderbilt? I guess their hotness requirement extends to graduate medical training as well...

Yeah, the bachelor broke up....

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-7-2006-90606.asp

 

[Jedix123]

Yeah, the bachelor broke up....

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/3-7-2006-90606.asp

Didn't see that one coming..

 

[BaylorGuy]

Didn't see that one coming..

Yeah, much like what happened to the other however many Bachelor shows they've had

 

[PickyBicky]

explain this derm-wench please.
-mota

Ah, the mighty derm-wench. We all know the derm-wench. The derm-wench is a gunner, overly self-inflated, a$$ licking POS who will stop at nothing (including my personal favorites, "Dr. XXXXX, I am soooooo interested in family!" OR "Dr. XXXXXX, I am soooooo interested in Ob-gyn!" OR "Dr. XXXXX, I am sooooo interested in neurology!") to obtain their goal of agonizing over writing 'scripts for Abx Vs. steroid Vs. anti-fungal Vs all three!

-PB

 

[PickyBicky]

Ah, how wrong this is. One of the more unfortunate myths of medical school. Nobody (save your parents and grandparents) gives a **** you're going to be an MD.

-PB