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Major: English
Minor: Biology
Medical School 1st Choice: University of Penn:prof:
Financial Status: Full Scholarship:wow:

Speciality: Emergency Medicine
or maybe Internal Medicine....


...thats where i want/wish to be...:laugh:
how about you? I am just curous whats schools/programs interest you and why? And what specialities you currently like?.....:)
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Major: Biology
Minor: Chemistry or Natural Sciences/Geosciences
Med School: UPenn or UPitt
Specialty: Derm, Rads, or EM (a bit more realistic)
 
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Major: Comm
Minor: Sociology
Medical School 1st Choice: Anything international
Financial Status: No financial aid (dolla dolla billz yall)

Speciality: Neurosurg or plastics
 
Ideal -
Major: Psychology
Minor: Biology
Medical School: UMass or UMich
Specialty: EM

Actual -
Major: Biology
Minor: None
Medical School: Uncle Bob's Discount Medical
Specialty: Janitor :cool:
 
HOPEFULLY :D

major- Clinical lab science
Med school- any MD program in northeast area ( UMass, BU, Brown etc and of course Harvard, but I highly doubt it lol)

specialty- Gen surgery
fellowship- surgical critical care
 
Major: Pysch
Minor: Bio
Med School: Columbia, Mt Sinai, Einstein
Specialty: Gen Surgery
Fellowship: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dreams Dreams :D:D
 
Major: playstation
Minor: pokemon
Med School: Princeton
Specialty: Mage
 
Always dreamed:
Major: History
Minor: Math
Med school: Columbia P&S
Residency: Surgery

Reality:
Major: Classics
Minor: None
Med school: Columbia P&S!
 
Major: Pyschobiology
Minor: Already have an A.S in nursing +pity+
Med school: Any in my state, but will relocate to GA
Specialty: Internal/Infectious Dis./or Gyno. (I'll have my mind made up by the time I get there)
 
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Major: Comm
Minor: Sociology
Medical School 1st Choice: Anything international
Financial Status: No financial aid (dolla dolla billz yall)

Speciality: Neurosurg or plastics
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this. except ortho insteada neuro.
 
Ideally I would have been born with attending-level knowledge and wouldn't have needed to go to school ;)
 
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Major: Theatre
Minor: Psychology
Medical School 1st Choice: Before I actually applied, it was Jeff or Penn. Penn rejected me, but it's all good, because I interviewed at the three other MD schools in Philadelphia and I fell in LOVE with Temple.
Financial Status: Full Scholarship would have been lovely, but I got nearly half tuition and I am THRILLED with that. :D

Speciality: Ob/Gyn at any of the busy maternity wards in the area, but someplace downtown like HUP or Pennsylvania hospital would be great because...
Fellowship: Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Penn has the only REI fellowship in Philadelphia anymore, hence the hopes for residency.
OR
Fellowship: Maternal-Fetal Medicine, either Jeff or HUP.

Other top idea.
Specialty: Pediatrics
Fellowship: Neonatology
Both at CHOP.
 
ideal life:)
major: biology
minor: biochemistry
medical school: UTSW
medical specialty: trauma surgery
 
Major: Psychology
Medical School 1st Choice: Columbia or Cornell


Specialty: Plastics
Fellowship: aesthetic
 
Ideal
Major: Psychology
Minor: Neuroscience
Medical school : UPenn or Mt.Sinai or Weil or Columbia.. Actually I like the warm so Duke lulz
Financial status: Full ride.. Duh..
Specialty: Neurology or Ophthalmology

Reality
Major: Psychology
Minor: Most likely none
Medical school : N/A
Financial status : N/A
 
I haven't even thought of it. I have no standards, just get me in.
 
Major: BA physics, BS biological chem
Minor: philosophy & mathematics
Med school 1st choice: Mayo or OHSU
Specialty: No idea
 
Five Years Ago:
Major: Mathematics
Minor: Theatre
Med School: OHSU
Residency: Psychiatry
Fellowship: Addiction Psych
Job: Academia / Professorship

Actual/Current:
Major: Neuroscience and Psych
Minor: Math, Theatre, Chem
Med School: OHSU
Residency: Internal Med
Fellowship: Infectious Disease
Job: CDC / Army / DoD, with a side of private biotech.

Things change.
 
Major:Biology
Med School: UNC or Yale
Specialty: Neurosurgery
 
calvnandhobbs68 said:
I love the hordes of people putting family medicine/pediatrics as their ideal specialty...such generous souls we have on SDN
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I don't know about you, but I like money and free time. Sorry we all aren't as self righteous as you are. :thumbup:
 
Major: Biology/Psychology
Med School: UCSF or Michigan
Residency: Peds/IM or IM/EM
Fellowship: Critical Care
Specialty: Critical Care or EM
 
Ideal -
Major: Kinesiology
Minor: None
Medical School: University of New Mexico
Specialty: Orthopedic surgery
Fellowship: Trauma
 
I'm happy with my undergrad... So I'll pick up at med school:

4 year scholarship to stanford.

Move on and become a neurosurgeon.
I only work 40 hours a week -- because I'm that good.
I still make >$350,000 salary.
I get the privilege to say "It's not like it's brain surgery to everyone I meet."
 
Frazier said:
I'm happy with my undergrad... So I'll pick up at med school:

4 year scholarship to stanford.

Move on and become a neurosurgeon.
I only work 40 hours a week -- because I'm that good.
I still make >$350,000 salary.
I get the privilege to say "It's not like it's brain surgery to everyone I meet."
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And a percent yield greater than 95?
 
Major: Neuroscience
Minor: Classics
Med School: Suny Upstate, Downstate, NYMC, Einstein, Stony Brook, NYU
Specialty: Endocrinology
Fellowship: ped. endocrinology
 
Major: General bio or Philosophy
Med school: Just a school in Ca maybe DO
speciality: General internal med (either PCP or Hospitalist) or Family Medicine
 
Frazier said:
I'm happy with my undergrad... So I'll pick up at med school:

4 year scholarship to stanford.

Move on and become a neurosurgeon.
I only work 40 hours a week -- because I'm that good.
I still make >$350,000 salary.
I get the privilege to say "It's not like it's brain surgery to everyone I meet."
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You look a great guy for sure.
 
Ideal
Major: General Biology
Minor: Public Service
Medical school : NYMC or Rush
Financial status: Full ride!
Specialty: Internal medicine (hospital medicine) or oncology

Reality
Major: General Biology
Minor: IDK yet
Medical school : N/A
Financial status : N/A
 
Ideal
Major: Biology and Political Science
Minor: None
Med School: UT Southwestern
Residency: Internal Med or Neurology
Fellowship:None
Job: Working in private practice and as a fellow in health policy at a think tank in DC (or London)!

Actual
Major: Political Science
Minor: None
Med School: UT San Antonio
Residency: Internal Med or Neurology
Fellowship: None
Job:Working in private practice and health policy work in Texas :(
 
Ideal
Major: Who Cares
Minor: None
Med School: VCU (Full Ride)
Residency: Family Medicine
Fellowship:None
Job: Working in Rural Medicine

I know this is supposed to be an "LOL" thread but it amazes me the number of people who want to go into surgery and/or neurosurgery.
Several friends of mine have already changed from surgery into peds/IM.
Only person I know who did Neurosurgery went into medical school wanting to do Peds... talk about a change of heart...
 
MacVA said:
I know this is supposed to be an "LOL" thread but it amazes me the number of people who want to go into surgery and/or neurosurgery.
Several friends of mine have already changed from surgery into peds/IM.
Only person I know who did Neurosurgery went into medical school wanting to do Peds... talk about a change of heart...
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Chances are that most people who say they want to do surgery will realize that they want to have a life more.
 
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If I could do it again:

Majors: Mathematics & Sociology
Minors: Physics, Biology, & Philosophy
Medical School: MD/PhD in Southeast (current)

Residency: addiction psychiatry or post-doc/professor somewhere in the Southeast
Career: Biomathematics researcher and professor (NC State, if fate were kind!)

Things change over time as we learn more about ourselves. For example, my undergraduate experience didn't include non-prerec math and physics...
 
Ideal:
Undergrad: Harvard/ UPENN/ or Columbia
Major: Biochemistry, math, Physics
Minor: Music (piano)
Med school: Harvard/ Weill Cornell/ Columbia
Residency: Orthopedics/ Transplant / Onco

Where i wish to work: New York Presbyterian/ Mount Sinai/ NYU
Where i would live: UPPER EAST SIDE most favorably 5th, park, or madison between 59-75st, prewar, pet friendly, pied-e-terre allowed, atleast 3500 sq ft, outdoor terrace, doorman.
Wife: younger version of Mariah Carey (think her look back in the 90s early 2000s)
 
theanatomist said:
Major: English
Minor: Biology
Medical School 1st Choice: University of Penn:prof:
Financial Status: Full Scholarship:wow:

Speciality: Emergency Medicine
or maybe Internal Medicine....


...thats where i want/wish to be...:laugh:
how about you? I am just curous whats schools/programs interest you and why? And what specialities you currently like?.....:)
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Lol Same stuff exactly except I'm a Bio major Econ Minor.
 
Undergrad: Psychology, U of MN TC
MD: U of MN TC

Yet to be determined:
Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, U of MN TC
Fellowship: Neuroradiology, U of MN TC

I am a viking. I chop wood for fun and wear sandals, t-shirts, and shorts in 50 degree weather.
 
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