What kind of thread do you want to make (over again) and why?

[Ross434]

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I want to make a "why do you want to be a doctor" thread, because, well, there just needs to be more people discussing this topic.

 

[gujuDoc]

I want to make a "why do you want to be a doctor" thread, because, well, there just needs to be more people discussing this topic.

There are one too many of those for people who will probably end up changing their minds half a dozen times anyhow.

 

[DrBowtie]

As I saw on someones profile, SDN is dying. Very little new content. I am thinking about walking away for awhile.

 

[commonsense34]

 

[gujuDoc]

As I saw on someones profile, SDN is dying. Very little new content. I am thinking about walking away for awhile.

SDN gets active mostly during certain times of the year........

At least this is true of the premed forums........

But mainly the premed forums are active during post MCAT discussion of difficulty of the MCAT and different forms (that's two times already), when scores come out(2 more times), and when people finish making their school lists right after April MCAT score release in June, or in Oct right after August MCAT score release.

The rest of the time, it is not half as active.

 

[DrBowtie]

Guju, its not about thread activity, its about content. A simple search yields answers to almost every thread on the front page. I do like to come here and discuss things but it seems like the same thread every time. Maybe I have learned all that SDN can teach me right now. I have been trying to help others but how many times can you say "read the MSAR".

 

[gujuDoc]

Guju, its not about thread activity, its about content. A simple search yields answers to almost every thread on the front page. I do like to come here and discuss things but it seems like the same thread every time. Maybe I have learned all that SDN can teach me right now. I have been trying to help others but how many times can you say "read the MSAR".

Oh I think I misunderstood your original post. But yah, I agree. I guess though I feel repetitive at times, I tell them what to do anyways because I feel bad for a lot of people. But yah, I'm with you. That's why I keep linking Sail Crazy's post about ECs every time I see a new work/activities thread come up.


Mostly, I don't think I'm getting much advice here so much as giving a lot of advice based on what I've learned from friends at USF. But I still like to read for the more humorous people like Turkey and Psycho who crack me up to no ends.

 

[DrBowtie]

yeah I agree. Mostly I read for humor these days. I have a good idea where I am going with my pre-allo stuff now. I think I am going to start being a regular in the lounge.

 

[gujuDoc]

yeah I agree. Mostly I read for humor these days. I have a good idea where I am going with my pre-allo stuff now. I think I am going to start being a regular in the lounge.

🙂

I learned a long time ago that there's only so many times that you can learn the process to med school. I can't tell you how obssessed the former PAMSA president was with having the USF COM Dean of Student Affairs coming to meetings as well as having REL there. Too many times actually. I would have loved to see more diversity by having physician speakers, but it was always about getting the USF DEAN to come there because he would like to kiss butt. I hated it and hated that year. Anyhow, it was boring and old and I learned how repetitive hearing the med school process is real fast. Not saying that I didn't enjoy listening to the Dean. he's a real nice man and all. But Come on!!!! I would have love to see some surgeons, subspecialists, neurologists, and family physicians speak. Hell maybe a volunteer director or two to come in and speak and give orientations on volunteering opportunities would have been nice. But whatever. That was 2 years ago. But that's when I learned all about the process. and that's when I realized I'd heard it too much.

But I still like coming here just to try and be helpful to others and meet the interesting people that are our future peers.

 

[byeh2004]

i remember it was the day before the scores came out on the mcats, there were 400 people on at 4am on the mcat discussion thread i was like whoa wtf... haha

 

[DrBowtie]

Our Alpha Epsilon Delta meetings feature docs and researchers bi-weekly. It is pretty interesting as well as giving opportunities to ask to shadow.

 

[byeh2004]

thats pretty awesome, im hoping to do that with AMSA this fall... brett i finally finished the freaking nscs app... im going to now sleep.

 

[DrBowtie]

I submitted yesterday afternoon. I think my essays have a cheesy factor to them but oh well. The topics were kinda lame. I think I have a decent shot since I look pretty ridiculous on paper.

 

[aragonh]

Guju, its not about thread activity, its about content. A simple search yields answers to almost every thread on the front page. I do like to come here and discuss things but it seems like the same thread every time. Maybe I have learned all that SDN can teach me right now.

Im glad I didnt hear about SDN until after I did my interviews.

I never met a "stereotypical" pre-med but some on this board came really close to it. Most of the people are cool. However, some need to take a chill pill.

 

[gujuDoc]

Our Alpha Epsilon Delta meetings feature docs and researchers bi-weekly. It is pretty interesting as well as giving opportunities to ask to shadow.

Oh our AED meetings are fine. I'm part of that too. But our Premed AMSA meetings when I was an officer just sucked. The year after I left, so pissed off at everything that happened, it turned around and some major changes happened.

Actually, the new president that took over was a good friend of mine accepted for the C/O 2009 at several med schools.

Under her presidency things changed dramatically. First off they raised 10,000 dollars for Pediatrics AIDS. That was pretty much unheard of before.

Secondly, she had people from out of state med schools come and talk, as well as in state med schools. But she also put on a medical forum like UF's Medical College Forum. We hadn't done that in like more then 7 years, with the exception of when I was an officer and things went wrong.

Then, she got volunteer directors to give orientations and participated in a wide variety of other opportunities.

But when I was an officer, no one really cared what happened and it just got to be boring because the president at that time was a control freak and wanted you to live on his schedule and nothing ever got accomplished because he was full of intimidation that just got people pissed off more.

 

[gujuDoc]

Our Alpha Epsilon Delta meetings feature docs and researchers bi-weekly. It is pretty interesting as well as giving opportunities to ask to shadow.

Oh by the way, this pretty much sums up our AED meetings too. AED is actually a lot more fun. I'm shadowing coordinator there, so I know a lot of docs affiliated with USF med school. And have gotten people in with some pretty interesting shadowing positions. We also have participated in the mini med school lecture series that is a 3 day seminar held every year.

We also particpated in many more volunteer activities and different things. We did med school tours too. Mainly FSU, USF, LECOM-Bradenton. We were supposed to go visit UF too, but never had a chance. We had some volunteer coordinators in too.

 

[Shredder]

I never met a "stereotypical" pre-med but some on this board came really close to it. Most of the people are cool. However, some need to take a chill pill.

ive met plenty in real life. ive met plenty more on sdn. big turnoff.

brett i spend quite a lot more time in the lounge these days. i agree that preallo repeats itself. i guess thats its nature. mcats even worse in that regard, i ditched it right after scores came out.

i want to make an affirmative action thread in response to OP. or a get off your high horse thread (not really yours, but you get the idea).

 

[DrBowtie]

I really wish the MD/MBA thread would liven up. I wish there was more people seriously interested, participating, or graduated.

 

[Shredder]

I really wish the MD/MBA thread would liven up. I wish there was more people seriously interested, participating, or graduated.

ha yeah...i used to think about that a lot, then i gave up on the idea. for too many premeds md and mba are just mutually exclusive things. people dont see merit in business training, they see evil. thats life what can you do, is it really worth hitting everyone over the head with it. its just not that common of a combination. besides...im not sure how much i would like young people running around there, its a pretty mature forum. sometimes i feel like i even dont quite belong--similar feelings with the lounge, its an older crowd.

what kind of thread to make for the first time? md/mba convincing thread?

addendum: oops were you talking about some thread specifically, i didnt catch that. the forums definitely dead as well though.

 

[DrBowtie]

Well also MD-MBA.org is a under construction so I am putting together a comp program list as a sticky. Maybe that will spark some interest. It is true that many on the board don't see the merit and I am on the fence about it. I think it would be the ideal training but, I dunno if I want to give up one year and some medicine electives.

Edit: yeah sorry I interchanged thread for forum.
Edit 2 : I changed my adjectives for describing the MD-MBA site. I was using Trump Talk. mward if you read this...I am offering my help.

 

[Shredder]

Well also MD-MBA.org is a piece of junk so I am putting together a comp program list as a sticky. Maybe that will spark some interest. It is true that many on the board don't see the merit and I am on the fence about it. I think it would be the ideal training but, I dunno if I want to give up one year and some medicine electives.

Edit: yeah sorry I interchanged thread for forum.

haha careful, the md/mba mod made mdmba.org. its not a fantastic site, but its there and i guess it will only be as good as the demand for it. you could probably pursue electives in another yr, but of course thats 1 extra yr added. everything comes with opportunity cost. you could always do the mba separately but im looking for formal programs. maybe you could contact the md/mba mod and work your way into the website?

1k poster! ugh im a forum junkie

 

[TheMightyAngus]

As I saw on someones profile, SDN is dying. Very little new content. I am thinking about walking away for awhile.

Agreed. No issues are discussed. Just the same what are my chances bull****. Maybe things will get better once interview season gets going. Right now..LAME

 

[DrBowtie]

haha careful, the md/mba mod made mdmba.org. its not a fantastic site, but its there and i guess it will only be as good as the demand for it. you could probably pursue electives in another yr, but of course thats 1 extra yr added. everything comes with opportunity cost. you could always do the mba separately but im looking for formal programs. maybe you could contact the md/mba mod and work your way into the website?

1k poster! ugh im a forum junkie

I didn't make the connection. I will def. cut him some slack since he is in the midst of a program and web development takes a good chunk of time. I offered to help keep it updated so we will see if it improves.

 

[Shredder]

I didn't make the connection. I will def. cut him some slack since he is in the midst of a program and web development takes a good chunk of time. I offered to help keep it updated so we will see if it improves.

yeah, he used to post quite a lot on the mdmba forum, but he might be busy right now for whatever reason. he set up some md/mba conference in atlanta too this year, so i think hes doing what he can. but it would be nice to have some mentor figures around there. id also like to contribute to the mdmba cause...but i dont feel ready yet, probably when i actually enter a program.

 

[LabMonster]

The forums have lost their bite a bit. Now I'm just trying to hit 500. Effing pathetic.

 

[Rzarecta]

The forums have lost their bite a bit. Now I'm just trying to hit 500. Effing pathetic.

Hahaha, same for me!! When I finally do hit 500, I will prolly just post in my class thread, and finally be free of this accursed site!!!

 

[gujuDoc]

ive met plenty in real life. ive met plenty more on sdn. big turnoff.

brett i spend quite a lot more time in the lounge these days. i agree that preallo repeats itself. i guess thats its nature. mcats even worse in that regard, i ditched it right after scores came out.

i want to make an affirmative action thread in response to OP. or a get off your high horse thread (not really yours, but you get the idea).

I know the feeling. I've met many people who freak out over even one B or constantly are like but this person didn't get in, so now I'm screwed blah blah blah. they just need to realize to do what is right for them and not worry about trying to over analyze someone else's application.

Oh by the way, I saw that you wanted to do a joint program. What kind are you interested in ???? MD/PhD, MD/MBA, or MD/MPH. Just curious.

 

[gujuDoc]

The forums have lost their bite a bit. Now I'm just trying to hit 500. Effing pathetic.

Hey Labmonster I wanted to share something with you.....

I remember you discussing your GPA situation. You might want to check with the different schools on their specific policies, because the other day I found out that our school only looks at the most recent gpa and MCAT. So even if your overall with undergrad and postbac undergrad is not the cutoff, what they are looking to see is that postbac meets the cutoff. This might be true of some of the schools you wanted to apply to, so go ahead and call and find out what different schools admissions policies on these issues are.

 

[gujuDoc]

ha yeah...i used to think about that a lot, then i gave up on the idea. for too many premeds md and mba are just mutually exclusive things. people dont see merit in business training, they see evil. thats life what can you do, is it really worth hitting everyone over the head with it. its just not that common of a combination. besides...im not sure how much i would like young people running around there, its a pretty mature forum. sometimes i feel like i even dont quite belong--similar feelings with the lounge, its an older crowd.

what kind of thread to make for the first time? md/mba convincing thread?

addendum: oops were you talking about some thread specifically, i didnt catch that. the forums definitely dead as well though.

Whoever thinks an MBA is useless, needs to take a second look. There are soooooo many advantages of getting an MBA. First off, many doctors have no clue how to run the business aspect of their practice, so that will teach them a lot of the ins and outs of the paper work. Secondly, if you are interested in getting in a more serious healthcare management positition, starting your own private practice with a partnership of a few people, etc....knowing the business side of things will severely help a great deal.

So yes an MBA is a great investment. I have a desi friend from these boards, that I talk to a lot outside of SDN. He'll be doing an MD/MBA and often tells me a lot about this sort of stuff. I think he's doing a good thing going this route and think it wil hold many benefits to properly understand business. He also did a double major in economics and biochem. Again, a good thing to know how to run the paper work. Medicine is more then clinical treatment. It is part clinical treatment, part business at the end of the day.

 

[patzan]

i remember it was the day before the scores came out on the mcats, there were 400 people on at 4am on the mcat discussion thread i was like whoa wtf... haha

I'd like to restart my "MCATs is not a word" thread about every day...because it's not...and few get that.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

As I saw on someones profile, SDN is dying. Very little new content. I am thinking about walking away for awhile.

SDN is not dying - go visit the lounge. The reason that pre-allo is boring is because there are only so many topics that can be discussed. The same six or seven topics are bound to come up over and over and over... until pre-allo ceases to exist. Why? Because their is only six or seven topics relevant to pre-MDs. That's just the way it is.