Why don't many DO schools have fancy match ceremonies like MD schools?

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Complete bs. I know the real #s out there from at least 5-6 diff specialties. The amount of cash that you'll make with the amount of free time will be much larger than the #s on the Internet, depending on how hard you want to hustle. But, I can tell you that the real numbers for most specialties, outside of Anesthesiology, Peds, Nephrology, and Radiology, are about 30-50% higher than the Internet numbers assuming a normal workload for that specialty.

You got a bone to pick with peds? Lol. Peds is also much higher if you work full time. Peds has a high rate of part time physicians compared to a lot of specialties bringing down the average salaries you see online. Yes it is still one of the lowest specialties but a lot of jobs are for 3.5 days/week with no inpatient. If someone works 5d/w and takes at least newborn nursery call then they will make a bit more than what is posted online.

 

[Mad Jack]

All first years should be required to attend this as motivation to ACTUALLY study.

And yet scores aren't always the biggest factor. A lot of the people I knew that fell down their rank list did so more because they were awkward than anything else.

 

[Mad Jack]

My school is so spread out that meeting up for some kind of match day party would have been an enormous burden for everyone involved. We were broke enough as-is, an extra trip that would amount to spending hundreds for no good reason and that would pull us away from rotations didn't make sense

 

[Sardonix]

Complete bs. I know the real #s out there from at least 5-6 diff specialties. The amount of cash that you'll make with the amount of free time will be much larger than the #s on the Internet, depending on how hard you want to hustle. But, I can tell you that the real numbers for most specialties, outside of Anesthesiology, Peds, Nephrology, and Radiology, are about 30-50% higher than the Internet numbers assuming a normal workload for that specialty.

On top of this there are a couple modifiers I've noticed about doctors/residents/med students saying they can't afford anything
1. They've made terrible financial choices (that's not personal opinion, it's WhiteCoat investor emphasizing how common it is).
2. They live in terribly high COL cities like NY or the Bay Area because they can't imagine working in a smaller city. Sucks to suck.
3. Talking to the average r/medschool user who argues FM doesn't make "that much" you start to understand it's not necessarily greed, it's more that lots of med students were brought up in ridiculously privileged households compared to the average American and they seriously have no idea what they're talking about.

Sincerely,
Guy Who Still Has No Idea What He's Talking About (but at least is honest about it).

 

[Neopolymath]

On top of this there are a couple modifiers I've noticed about doctors/residents/med students saying they can't afford anything
1. They've made terrible financial choices (that's not personal opinion, it's WhiteCoat investor emphasizing how common it is).
2. They live in terribly high COL cities like NY or the Bay Area because they can't imagine working in a smaller city. Sucks to suck.
3. Talking to the average r/medschool user who argues FM doesn't make "that much" you start to understand it's not necessarily greed, it's more that lots of med students were brought up in ridiculously privileged households compared to the average American and they seriously have no idea what they're talking about.

Sincerely,
Guy Who Still Has No Idea What He's Talking About (but at least is honest about it).

Lifestyle creep and golden handcuffs are very real. I'll keep it short but I know that the feeling of "I make this much money, I should act like it" is very real and it is easy to compare your situation with debt to 50 year old people who make the same salary but have no debt. We compare ourselves to our parents and coworkers but don't see that they were broke as **** at 25 as well. This leads to a ton of lifestyle creep. It took a lot of bouncing back and forth between still eating ramen and balling out at fancy restaurants to finally settle into a healthy middle.

 

[DPTinthemaking15]

On top of this there are a couple modifiers I've noticed about doctors/residents/med students saying they can't afford anything
1. They've made terrible financial choices (that's not personal opinion, it's WhiteCoat investor emphasizing how common it is).
2. They live in terribly high COL cities like NY or the Bay Area because they can't imagine working in a smaller city. Sucks to suck.
3. Talking to the average r/medschool user who argues FM doesn't make "that much" you start to understand it's not necessarily greed, it's more that lots of med students were brought up in ridiculously privileged households compared to the average American and they seriously have no idea what they're talking about.

Sincerely,
Guy Who Still Has No Idea What He's Talking About (but at least is honest about it).

If this ain’t the truth. A surgeon I shadowed complained about how he didn’t make enough. Meanwhile, he has two homes, his children attend a 14k a year ea. private school, and one day while I was shadowing, he decided to buy a brand new Harley.

I come from a poor family (like... super poor lol), and I just thought to myself “This is why you think you are broke.”

As for your point #3, this is what I always try to take into account when people say doctors don’t make “that much.” I know I will have classmates like that and I will just have to bite my tongue.