Got accepted to med school but I’m high key stressing that my study routine/style won’t keep up with the huge amount of info needed to study for med school.
Anyone got any recommendations on study tools or styles that helped them??
hey everyone I am 23. and I've been pretty average my whole life but I cant take it anymore. I am in 3rd year of medicine I see everyone competing, discussing complex concepts and here I am knowing the basics of everything. and I am already excluded . I wanna be on the top and knowledgeable too .
is it possible for me after all this life ? if yea then as for 3rd year student where should I start and what resource shpuld I use to get clear , concepts and knowledge for deep understanding . atleast in 4th year I wanna be in top 10 .
Hi 👋 I’m hoping to get some thoughts on options for medical school
I’m thankful to currently be considering offers from KYCOM, KCU, WVSOM, and Marian. All of these have roughly the same tuition. KYCOM, however, offers the KYCOM Advantage, which covers the cost of equipment and the first attempt for board exams. If I attend KYCOM, I will only pay for tuition, insurance, and COL, and I will be able to access federal loans (3 years) before the BBB cutoff. KCU is ranked much higher and is in a bigger city, but I would only have access to private loans (4 years).
Does anyone have insight on whether it’s worth it to attend a lower-ranked school if the long-term cost will be much lower than KCU, especially for someone who is low-income, first-generation, and will be taking out loans for the first time? I’m currently interested in gastroenterology, oncology, orthopedic surgery, and cardiology. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Sooo this has been an internal battle I’m sure many people have faced but I’m currently unsure if I chose the right degree and whether I should look into switching to Medicine or even applying as a post Graduate after I finished University.
I’m currently a 1st year biology student, I initially planned medicine and did shadowing programs throughout my S6 year in academy as well as worked at my local pharmacy got patient experience however, I felt a doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t be able to handle the pressure of the work load and the idea of rejection clouded my confidence resulting in me choosing to apply to a degree I knew would be a much easier for me to get in, which it was.
At the time I also believed I preferred the idea of animals over humans and was convinced this was the correct choice. After completing my first year, bar my final few revision weeks before exams, I realise I have less interest in the animal behaviour side than I do the BioMed side of my courses. I understand I am still very early in my undergraduate career but it is a constant linger in my mind that I have missed an opportunity to put my self out there and try.
Even these past few months of independence has really helped with my confidence and ability to advocate for myself, however I also know how competitive this degree is, and I don’t want to come across as someone who can’t make up their mind or is half out the door when it comes to my degree.
I really did love my time shadowing and I’ve grown to miss my work at the pharmacy and patient care now I stepped away for university.
My mother is a big drive for me to do something healthcare related so I assumed if animals didn’t work out I’d just do lab work at a hospital but I fear I’ll miss the patient side of healthcare if I continue on this route.
Please un-romanticise this idea, really tell me what is the most reasonable thinking going forward with this is, I know there’s likely no straight answer but any opinion would help!!
Thank youuu :)
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?
Hey everyone,
So, I wrote my personal statement about a year ago and worked on it for a while. I had it revised by multiple people at my university, including an English professor and my pre-med advisor, and they said it looked great. I honestly thought I was good.
A year later, I come back to read it and had it revised again by someone new and I realized it needs work. After multiple rounds of edits, I’m honestly hella lost. I’m at the point where I’m considering just starting over from scratch.
Has anyone else felt like this? Any tips on what to do? or where to get help without spending a bag?
Thanks
What the title says. Is it good to take it in undergrad for the MCAT and/or med school?
Hi everyone,
I’m an undergrad wrapping up a research project and originally planned to present it at a conference, but that didn’t work out. I’m now looking into undergraduate research journals as another way to share my work.
I’m especially interested in journals that accept literature reviews or more flexible formats, since I may need to adapt my project a bit.
I’m pretty new to the undergrad publishing space, so I’d really appreciate any recommendations for:
Thanks in advance!
Picked up a job as a server as a restaurant the past couple months (I really need the moneys..)
Have people put in regular jobs and had success? Gonna have like 250 hrs there by the time I apply
Also link to a previous post of mine with my stats if anyone wants to take a look
https://www.reddit.com/r/medschool/comments/1pr61zn/md_school_list_for_2026_application_cycle/
Hey everyone,
I’m an MS3 in canada trying to get a better sense of what pediatrics actually looks like in practice beyond the usual “it’s rewarding but lower paid” narrative. Considering moving to the states at some point of my life
I had a few specific questions and would really appreciate insight from residents/attendings:
• What do your typical hours/week look like (outpatient vs inpatient)?
• How often are you on call, and what does that realistically involve?
• What does a typical day look like (patient load, pace, etc.)?
• How does billing/income actually work in peds, and what’s a realistic income range depending on practice style?
• Are there ways people increase income (e.g., subspecialties, hospital work, etc.)?
• How flexible is the lifestyle long-term (part-time, clinic-based, etc.)?
Also, if you were choosing again, would you still pick peds?
With the new limitations on Grad PLUS loans, do you think med schools will start offering more institutional aid?
Most people I know rely heavily on Grad PLUS to cover the gap, especially with total cost hitting $50k–$100k+ per year. Obviously some students from wealthier backgrounds won’t be affected, but I’d imagine a large portion of applicants depend on those loans to even make attendance possible.
Curious what people think happens next
• Do schools step up with more aid?
• Does this reduce the applicant pool?
• Or do people just turn to private loans?
Would like to hear perspectives from people already in med school too.
Question is in the title. I have checked MSAR and OHSU doesn't seem to really report anything (at least from what I could see). I tried emailing admissions multiple times as well as calling. For some reason their admissions is extremely hard to get a hold of I have found. If anybody has any insight, that would helpful and much appreciated.
I’ll make it as short as possible. I know medicine is what I want. Or at least the helping people. I am considering surgical residency. Considering my own practice and doing family medicine. And way on the other side thinking being a mortician. But I feel like I need to know how I feel about dead bodies. Not just seeing them but being inside them. Handling organs or moving things. I feel like my “limit” or lack thereof will really help me decide what direction to go in. How the heck do people figure stuff like that out! Laws protect dead people which is great but I feel like until I pick one and try I may not know and all of that seems a bit daunting. Any advice?
4 years until the MCAT, WE are getting a full ride into Yale Med.
I am currently in my second year as an undergrad and I have maxed out my schedule and still feel so behind on “clinical hours.” I’m so lost as to how people accumulate so many hours!! Did everyone start right away in freshman year?!
My only “might be clinical” experience right now is volunteering at the nursing unit of a hospital. However, the original description says non-clinical duties so I doubt it even counts. But my work includes helping with rounding questions and patients needs, basic restocking/food with permission, assisting patients with discharge by wheelchair, etc. I know people say anything with interacting with patients should count but Im unsure if I should seek out something more “clinical.”
I’m currently working as a registered behavior technician for 10 hours a week, which I’m unsure if it counts as traditional clinical experience but my job does provide me with a NPI number. I’m also doing paid education related research at my university and work around 10-12 hours a week on that. I love both of these activities and it would be difficult to drop either because I’m completely financially on my own.
I’d likely have to replace these with another paid job/internship.
On the side, I volunteer at local and out of state prisons as an instructor and teach courses there.
All of these leaves me with genuinely no time left for anything else other than studying and doing homework. Yet, when I look at these activities, I’m not sure if any is sufficient in satisfying clinical experiences or if I should give up on some and seek out new activities. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!:)
This is a very tentative and theoretical plan I’ve thought about as a way to boost my chances of matching to a competitive residency post-medical school. For context, currently a junior in undergrad, financially + health restricted. My plan hinges on two things going well:
Apply (and hopefully get accepted) to my college town’s medical school program that accepts 4-5 undergrads a year early. I’m one of 7 currently applying right now (as a junior). This is the most financially feasible and likely medical school I can do. However, the application is binding - once applied, you cannot apply to other schools unless you’re denied.
If accepted, see if they’d be willing to defer my acceptance for a year (I’ve had health issues in undergrad. I want to take a breather and figure out how to manage before undergoing rigorous med school).
My plan if the above is successful:
- My senior year of undergrad, try to join a research lab early at this medical school (other undergrads have done this after knowing they were going to go there). Establish a good relationship with the research director, the students, etc. Goal is to get a good feel for how they operate.
- Spring semester before graduating, I’ll get in touch with research labs at other, larger institutions / hospitals that have projects in my speciality of interest and apply for spots to work at them. Unfortunately, at the medical school I want to go to, there’s not a lot of exposure / research into my desired speciality. I want to increase my odds of matching to my dream speciality at my dream residency location. So, since my dream residency is at a very competitive location, I want to make myself just as competitive - if not more so - than someone at a well-known and well-endowed medical school.
- During gap year, move to this city and work in their research labs, helping with projects related to my desired specialty.
- Then, upon starting medical school, bring a brand new research project that I’ve created (having drawn from the insight and experience of this gap year of research from a well-established project) to my med school research director (someone I already established connections with by doing research for them my senior year of college).
- In medical school years, build on this project and hopefully take it somewhere
- So, when I go to apply for residency, even if worst case scenario I can’t get a publication, the posters + initiative + long-time experience and dedication to the speciality can serve in my favor.
Thoughts on this plan? Or would it just be better to try for medical schools with well-established exposure and projects for my desired speciality?
am a high school student and want to work in medical research. If I get my undergrad and then my Md PhD but don’t go to residency, can I expect decent job security/salary in research? Or will I need to go to residency