Medical School

[SigKapSweetie]

www.giantmicrobes.com

Get your loved one gonorrhea for Christmas!

[ufdale]

lol the bf's brothers all got those for christmas last year. They're 25 and they ran around fake sneezing on people with their flu and common cold stuffed animals. Weird little stuffed animals (haha and weird brothers too, but that's IMO)

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

www.giantmicrobes.com

Get your loved one gonorrhea for Christmas!

I just saw this post/thread- I have the whole set for my classroom. The kids (even the high schoolers) love them!

[speedsters]

ahhhh! my friend was presenting her biology thesis and next to her poster she had e. coli and strep. so my friends who went to see her thought this was great, so the girl presenting got each of the seniors on the crew team a giant microbe!

i got syphilis, and my roomate got gonorrhea. it was pretty funny.

[blackngoldengrl]

bump! It's a new school year, any 1st years out there?! I'm happily enjoying the joy of rotations that is 3rd year. Anyone else?

[SoEnchanting]

Originally Posted by blackngoldengrl

bump! It's a new school year, any 1st years out there?! I'm happily enjoying the joy of rotations that is 3rd year. Anyone else?

MSIII here... just finished Surgery and am now on Psych. 3rd year is truly a breath of fresh air after the Step 1...

Have you decided on a specialty yet?

[BigRedBeta]

Agree, being an M3 is soooo much better than any of part of the first two years. Actually doing things has made me hate the first two years that much more so.

I started on Surgery - really loved the two weeks I spent on Pedi Ortho. Have spent the last 4 weeks on Peds. Have 4 weeks left, 2 at the University Outpatient clinic, then 2 weeks on inpatient.

I'm pretty sure I want to do Peds, then either a cardio or GI fellowship (maybe neonatology), but my time on Pedi ortho had me considering an ortho residency, though my Step 1 score isn't fantastic. Not sure I could handle an Ortho residency anyways.


AOII Angel - I've been thinking about the Med/Peds route as well, then doing the peds fellowship. How did your husband like it? Does he think it was worth it? I've had a lot of people tell me that it's a dying residency path (even though it's pretty new), as well as describing the residents as red-head step children, and a bunch of other negative things. Did it help him in his search for a fellowship position? Does he plan on focusing just on peds patients, or is he expecting to spend time on following kids as they become adults too? Any sort of info you could give me would be great!

[minDyG]

I didn't want to start a new thread, so sorry if this seems like a hijack...

Recently I've met a huge group of fourth year med students at Medical College of Georgia (they just started frequenting my place of employment). Last week, they all found out where they matched for next year for their internship and residency. The process reminded me a LOT of recruitment and bids matching, so of course I was fascinated by the whole thing! Does anyone know more about how the process works, if it is in fact similar to bid matching? Just curious!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

www.giantmicrobes.com

Get your loved one gonorrhea for Christmas!

I got "The Clap" for my husband for our 4th anniversary! Actually, I walked around all day at work, handing it to people then telling them that I just gave them gonnorhea! Invariably, everyone dropped it like a hot potato!

blackngoldengrl, enjoy 3rd year....it was easily my favorite year of med school! Sure, 4th year is cake, but 3rd year is exciting!! Still want OB/GYN? I came soooo close to doing OB before I made the insane decision to do Surgery. After two grueling years of 120hr work weeks and q3 call, I made the best decision of my life and switched to Radiology. Awesome field! You might consider it...great options for practice!!

[blackngoldengrl]

Ahh Surgery?!! You were a trooper to stick it out as long as you did, and before the 80 hour reform?! Hats off!
I'm still thinking ob/gyn, but I have yet to do the roation. So far I've liked family and psych. Next rotation is medicine...q4 call.

[AOII Angel]

My husband is Med/Peds , Board certified in both but doing a fellowship at Hopkins in Peds Endocrine. He thought he'd do surgery or neurosurgery, then he did medicine and knew it was for him. Despite all the rounding, it's a lot more intellectual than most surgical fields. He ended up specializing in peds just because the subspecialties of peds tend to be more challenging than the adult subspecialties in his opinion. In my opinion, I HATE peds! We didn't have a family medicine rotation...instead we had a student clinic called Comprehensive Care Clinic that was precepted by the FM attendings. We learned a lot, but it was universally hate and called Incompetent Care Clinic! I liked Psych too, but I only did emergency psych...gotta love those actively psychotic patients!