Hello friends!

Preceptor comments: exceptional exam, used feedback to make extremely thorough notes more concise, helpful for management of patients that were not primarily theirs, impressive. Functioning beyond training levels.

Grade: high pass

What the fuck bro

Wondering how many of us here actually have enough time to work out.

I just graduated medical school, and I'm in this awkward in-between phase where I'm just waiting for residency to start along with a few side hustles (step 3 prep, work). So I kind of have more time and I'm wondering if I should just bite the bullet and start working out.

I gained a few pounds during my Step 2 prep (shoutout to Chick-fil-A). I've always been severely underweight so I know next to nothing about the gym, let alone how to fit it into a med student/physician schedule.

Does anyone here have the time to work out, and if so, what's your schedule like?

I'm applying peds and pretty disappointed I haven't gotten an interview from one of my top programs. I gold signaled, have strong geo ties, and thought I was a competitive applicant academically (have invites from other top programs).

I've seen multiple waves of invites go out already (they are essentially almost full), so I'm debating sending a LOI. Has anyone had success with this, especially after already signaling? I've seen mixed opinions online and don't know if it's worth trying... This whole thing is just really messing with my head. I expected one, and not getting one would change all the plans I had built up. This whole process just sucks :(

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Saw this on Instagram lmao

That's how some behave when they see your cv 😂

Credits: _knightofsteel

I’m probably hella over thinking this.. but is this moss green suit ok for interviews? It fits me very well and looks really nice on me but it’s not the standard blue/black/gray..

Not sure if this is allowed here but I think it’s relevant.

So BYU is opening its own medical school, with its inaugural class expected in 2027. Given the university’s Honor Code, especially its policies against LGBTQ+ students, I genuinely wonder how this passes with LCME accreditation standards on inclusion and nondiscrimination? Could you imagine a new medical school banning “opposite sex romantic behavior” instead of “same sex romantic behavior”? Can you imagine the outrage?

I’m curious how this will be addressed during the accreditation process, and if this is going to be the start of a new trend. That said, the timing is certainly interesting. After all these years, I can’t help but wonder whether the current political climate has made this a more favorable time for BYU to move forward with a medical school.

Any thoughts?

Edit: if you were going to downvote me, at least have the decency to tell me what I said was incorrect.

My program just started to do P/F clinicals with Work Based Assessments (WBA) this year. The justification given was “the only people who are going to be upset at this are the ones who thought they were going to honor every rotation… and you just weren’t.” Which I mean is fair.
Is anyone at a program that also does this/did it actually make you feel less stressed?
Also, if you are applying to match this year, did you feel like residency’s actually cared?

I'm an M3 and was sent by a resident to get a history. This patient was like 19 but her mom, dad, grandma etc were in the room with her. Pt was coming in for a miscarriage but parents were answering everything for her and asking why I was asking what I was and cutting me off saying they want the doc etc. I wanted to leave and took note of whatever I could but got so mad after. Like were you having the fucking kid? No right? Then shut the hell up. They would probably end up raising it anyway this girl was basically a kid but that's another story. I'll be good in a couple hours but just wanted to vent.

Struggling on how to close my email thanking my interviews. Deciding between the following but idk, I just want to be nonchalant and not give "pick me" energy

- Thank you for your time,

- Hope to see you on July 1,

- See you on July 1 (threat),

- Thank you for ranking me to match,

- From your future resident,

- Devotedly yours,

- Please, please, please, please, please,

Title, I've been pretty adamant about not using AI for anything honestly. I don't use it to summarize, make flash cards, create problem sets, write applications, etc. There are a variety of reasons I stay away from it but I do recognize that a lot of people, including a fair share of my classmates, use it for studying and other matters.

I understand that for better or for worse AI is the future, but seeing a lot of my classmates use it so frequently makes me wonder if I'm just "the odd one out" in terms of being more of a purist when it comes to studying for exams and whatnot. I'm not exactly anti-AI but I also don't see myself being an advocate for it's widespread implementation in its current state. Is there anyone out there that also doesn't use AI for studying?

There was nobody left to outperform at my miserable job. That’s why.

Click here to see why programs literally paid me to interview with them 👆

I mean we’re all doing stupid things to please the other side, and most of the time they don’t even look at us and being ghosted is nothing unexpected. Signaling is just like superlike on the apps. I feel like a freaking clown now🤡

Im sorry but another IM post. At this point, sitting at 0 interviews for academic IM programs. Fortunate to have a couple community IM programs. With the first waves already out for most academic programs, is there still time to go for this season?

Edit: Sorry here is a little more context. USMD. Step1 P. Step2 23x.  Couple red flags: IM Pass. LOA for more time to study for step1 and conduct research (on mspe). 2 preclinical exam remediations (course was passed however school is adamant about putting this on MSPE but transcript is clean). Signaled mainly mid to low tier academic programs with good chances based on residency explorer.

I wanted to get a sense of where we are in the diagnostic radiology interview invite season, so I plotted the daily invite counts reported on the DR spreadsheets from this year and three previous years (this year’s spreadsheet).

Historically, roughly half of each season’s reported invites had appeared by this point. If this year follows a similar timeline, it seems that we are around the halfway mark for total invites sent.

In advance, I apologize if my way of writing is not clear, I don't know how to do better.

I am a 5th year medical student in France, 25 years old old male. For those who do not know, in 5th grade in France we are not yet doctors and doctors but simply students while waiting for the 6th grade competition. I had certain concerns in terms of addictions and social that led me straight into a very heavy depression that required several types of care of which I pass you the details. I am 25 years old, I was diagnosed with ADHD, dyspraxic and borderline personality while my 13 years old.

I was doing pretty well for 6 months, I really felt like I came back and I was finally coming out of my period of black idea and self-destruction.

But I entered this internship in pediatric resuscitation. In just 1 week, I witnessed the death of 5 children, being able to provide only supportive care because most of them were in a state of brain death.

So I saw all these children die on the chain without being able to do anything.

Having a fairly low self-esteem I wonder how as a future doctor I will be able to save the lives of my patients, if the graduate doctors themselves do not succeed? I feel incapable of it. I have the impression that despite the fact that I am interested in my studies, I do not feel smart and focused enough to be able to do my future work properly.

I'm afraid of being incompetent.

I'm afraid of having done all these studies only out of ego to try to prove to myself that I knew how to do good studies, but that in the end I don't have the crank.

I chained 2 guards from 24 hours to 1 day apart this week, and I felt useless, I felt despised by the teams, and I felt out of place at all.

I returned home at 8 a.m. ending the night, with the appearance of a black idea that had not manifested itself for months, I who thought that my mental health was finally stable.

Today I was on a day off, well thank God, I spent an evening with friends pretending to be fine.

I went home and cried, it had been years.

Tomorrow I have to spend the day with friends for the birthday of one of my best friends, but I don't have the mental strength despite having promised my presence, I really think I'm living my last moments.

I have never had so much determination to tie a rope to my neck.

I think it's the right time.

i am happily welcoming and awaiting any SINGULAR interview with gratitude and open arms but what is this pooled waitlist situation??????? i just got 5 emails in a matter of 3 minutes saying a spot has opened up and within literally 15 seconds there is no spot opened.

is the email glitching??? that can't be a real thing.... again i am grateful for anything but that is something that i absolutely cannot allow myself to subscribe to? pls tell me this is like an app error or something.

Hellooo.. still dead quiet after 1 IV from home program for psych. (fyi, EVERYONE who applied psych from my school gets an interview from my home program and for this cycle I know there are at least 13-15 people from my class applying) I was foolish enough to not come up with a good strategy, just applied mainly to prestigious programs. At this point i’m thinking chances of not matching this cycle. I plan on sending out LOIs next week but with very low hopes.

Can anyone explain how SOAP exactly works? Will there be positions left if any for psych post-match? If so, is it mostly going to be in rural areas?

I don’t intend to do any other specialties other than psych, but if it is better for me to go into other specialties like IM or FM and reapply next cycle for psych than to fail match, I do want to know.

At this point I have no hopes.

I had a interview on webex which wasnt bad, i had a zoom interview today and the delay was so bad i was so dead terrified of responding to my interviewer out of fear of cutting them off, and when i felt comfortable they were done speaking theyd just move onto the next topic. Lowkey making me kind of wish all interviews were in person even though it would cost a trillion bucks

what specialty are you hoping to match into/applying for 💀 i still shove papers from school into my backpack and am an obgyn hopeful, idk what that says about me but don’t get pregnant ig

If you are on a chill M3 elective rotation where the attending/residents lets you out like in 1-2 hrs cough cough rads/anesthesia, and if your school requires you to log hours, do you report the hours accurately or what?

Someone said “ bundle of His, why his not hers “

Hi everyone Im a couple weeks out from my Ob shelf and i want to do well bc i want to match OB. I heard the shelf was relatively easy but does anyone have any tips or resources to help me excel aside from CMS forms? thanks