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The current lawsuits against some residency programs is on the basis that they only take non-USIMGS. Those programs argue that no US medical students want to be in their programs. Fair argument on both sides.

What about competitive fellowships? There are 20%+ USMDS and even more DOs that go unmatched into GI, Cardiology, Pulm/ Crit, Heme/Onc. And these fellowships are funded by US Medicare money funded by American tax papers. And I’m sure there are enough USMDs and DOs willing to train in rural Kentucky if offered a competitive fellowship spot.

If the rational is we need more primary care doctors, that’s fair and it’s accomplished by having more non-USIMGs as IM residents even though most train in the north east.

But what’s the fairness in having USMDs and DOs competing with foreigners for IM fellowships?

For added context, I am engaged to my partner of 4 years, and we have a dog and own a house. And it seems that over the past few years, after all the long days of studying and rotations, I always would rather come home and spend what little time I have with my partner and our dog instead of devoting this time to ECs or other academic/professional ventures. Sure, I have been involved in a few ECs, a handful of research projects, and definitely DO have hobbies, but I still have this worry that prioritizing my relationship has made me a boring applicant? Like despite being involved in a handful of different ECs, I haven't served as 'president' of any student org, haven't won (or applied for) any awards or scholarships, or done much volunteering (seriously, how the fuck do y'all have time to volunteer?).

The biggest thing that I have going for me is that I crushed step 2 and got honors in all of my clerkships. But beyond that, I feel like I've sort of been 'going through the motions' as far as med school goes, if that makes sense?

And just to be clear, this is not me blaming my partner. Frankly, I have no regrets about how my medical school career has panned out. But looking back, I feel that devoting myself to my relationship has perhaps made me a boring applicant, just because I prioritized spending time with my partner more than being involved in ECs. Anybody else in a relationship feel this way?

Hi, just started my surgery rotation. I am rotating on cardiac and I am not scrubbed in watching a screen for 6+ hours. My OR nurse told me to go to the room next door as they were closing and I could possibly help. My resident was in the room and asked me why I left the previous case and I explained why. We then got the pt a bed and he gave me the option to go back to the original case or go home. I am doing literally nothing and learning nothing, so I decided to go home. Is this reasonable? Did I come off bad by leaving the original case and going to another to help close?

1. CPRS as an EMR is trash, I agree. Barely usable for actual medicine. The functionality is probably worse than paper charting.

2. There is something so soothing about charting in a 30-character wide column in a monospaced font.

Am I a bit autistic? Maybe, but it makes my brain feel so nice with the beige background and the equally spaced lettering within a narrow visual field. It’s like writing notes in a windows 95 notepad doc. I so genuinely love it.

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I fucked up big time. Our school requires us to do 4 weeks of outpatient medicine in our 4th year. At this point I already had a strong feeling I wouldn't match due to a low # of interviews. This was definitely not my best rotation and I was somewhat going through the motions (preventative & primary care stuff is not really my cup of tea) but the written evaluation is pretty scathing. The comments say "written and oral presentations were below par", "did not demonstrate enthusiasm for outpatient IM", and "did not seem engaged throughout the rotation". It mentions that patients enjoyed speaking with me and I did the work and not disrespectful, but this is the first and only time that legitimately negative comments have showed up in the section that is publishable on my MSPE.

Now I'm about to start a surgery prelim and reapply ortho (with at least one backup), but I'm terrified that this is going to fully tank my reapplication. Anyone been in a similar situation? This has been weighing incredibly heavily on me.

Matched IM. Currently on a last rotation of IM after like 5 months of much needed blow off time. I came into this rotation thinking it’ll be a good place to assess my skills and what not. And I’m finding that I’m just dumb. Most just find myself going through the motions of asking questions but not really formulating a ddx as I am going and am just anchoring on the admitting diagnoses and work up that was already started. I can’t help but feel like this’ll translate to residency and that I need to start studying again or something despite everyone saying it’s normal.

What should I do yall? I don’t feel residency ready at all and like maybe my education/way about learning has been flawed and that I’m just foundaitonally bad

I am a Canadian who has been accepted to my dream USMD program, but I’m feeling hesitant about accepting it because I am not a US citizen. I have been hearing that it can be hard to match to residency programs in the US even as a USMD grad because they might not sponsor a visa for me. I can easily get a visa for med school, but since it is near impossible to match back to Canada (and I don’t really want to) I am worried about potentially having issues four years down the line, and I don’t want to regret this decision since I also have Canadian MD offers that I would be turning down. If this info helps, it’s a really strong US MD program, and I’d be happy to stay and practice in the US, assuming I can get a visa as an attending too.

Anyone have any insight? I feel like there’s got to be tons of Canadians who have done this and I never thought about this as an issue until recently??? Is there somewhere I can look to see what residency programs will sponsor visas for international/Canadian USMD grads? 

i have never even thought about going into derm (way too competitive + midlevel creep scares me + i'm just not interested in skin or hair at all LOL) but seeing all these dermatologists show the BAGLOADS of skincare products from attending AAD... damn.

Full disclosure: I'm not a med student BUT I'm helping my med student fiance who doesn't have enough karma to post on here so please bear with me. How important are sub-internships in IM to get into IM programs as a D.O?

He's applying to 1-2 Sub-i where he's very interested in applying for IM residency but there's no guarantee he'll get into any of them. Moreover, if he is rejected, he can't try again since they have encouraged them to only apply one at a time to the Sub-i and take any programs that accept them.

1. Has anyone been through this before? What was your strategy for scheduling this?

2. Has any DO gotten into IM without doing SubIs?

Thank you all in advance for your answers <3

Hello, I was just curious about steps for matching into psychiatry. Im a DO student finishing up my 3rd year, and was just curious about if I'm in an okay spot for matching. Currently just curious to know if I am in a good spot, especially with only 2 auditions so far.

I just want to do community based-psych care, no interests in academics programs.

1 pending publication (global epidemiology project) , but nothing psych

HP in psych rotation, getitng a psych-focused LOR from my peds, and LOR from my psych rotation so far.

Passed level 1, no step 1, currently locking in to make sure I get a good level 2 score since most people who matched psych even last cycle did not do step 2.

I have 2 auditions so far in DO heavy programs, but I don't know if I will be able to get more once VSLO comes out. Would 2 be okay or is this a red flag? I am getting mixed advice saying I must fill out July-December or I am cooked. Obivously the more the better, but the ones I got so far are in my top 5 programs I would apply to.

I have a lot of strong leadership hobbies ( on the board of my local religious center, exercising, 2 years of Crisis Text Line volunteering)

Ideally I'd want to stay in the midwest. Let me know if I am in a good spot for now, or if there's anything I can do. After doing inpatient psychiatry and seeing how peoples lives actually got saved and turned around I firmly fell in love as well as some personal/family circumstances that really made me interested in the field. So it would be my dream to learn and become a psychiatrist :))

Has anyone heard back from either, specifically for neurology? Rush says decisions 4/17 but I see on the tracker other specialties heard back

I'm able to apply for an away elective for September. However, I only see opportunities showing up for PA, and I'd prefer MD as that's where I live. Nothing is showing up in MD. Does this mean I'm too late to apply for anything? I've never used VSLO before so maybe I'm just missing something obvious.

Any advice is appreciated!

I've always heard about the family events, birthday parties, and other functions that would have to be sacrificed when going into medicine but it never really hit me until recently.

I'm a 29 y/o nontrad and just applied (and may most likely have to reapply, but that's beside the point) to med school last cycle. I've also been dating this incredible girl (30 y/o)- absolutely gorgeous, classy, super caring, and incredibly fun to be with. Someone I could truly see spending the rest of my life with. The topic of children came up and I was stubbornly adamant about not having kids within the next 4-5 years due to med school. Unfortunately that was a deal breaker for her and we've since split up.

This situation has really made me question the rigidity of my life timeline, especially when it comes to my pursuit of medicine and how I want it to shape my life. I think I've since changed my opinion and believe that since medicine already takes so much from us, we at least deserve our own autonomy when it comes to our personal lives so I've decided that my personal life is something that now takes priority and medicine is just going to fit into it.

So I ask you all, do you feel like you fit medicine into your life or do you feel like you keep your pursuit of medicine as your #1 priority and let your life fall into place around it?

Looking to schedule 4th year electives and curious what neuro rotations did everyone do that matched into neurology?

Is doing neuroradiology necessary? I could not fit it into my schedule.

I was awarded a competitive research grant, but it was not ultimately activated because of an administrative technicality.

The project was completed successfully without funding.

Is it appropriate to still list this on my CV?

For example, something like this:

Grant Title — Funding body

Awarded (not activated due to administrative constraints)

Or is there a more standard way to present this?