Med School?

ABdrummer

ABdrummer

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Anyone here in medical school? I'm not, I was just wondering if Dr. NS is valid and its something I'll hopefully be doing in the future.
 
I'm doing my bsc in nursing. Or shall I say, mursing. Haha lame joke. But yea I'm applying after I'm done.
 
I mean it's definitely valid. Are you trying to model something after that or join the doctor NS team?

https://www.doctorsns.com

Of shoot an email to

info@doctorsns.com

General inquiries

Tel: (902) 468-1866

1-800-563-3427

Fax: (902) 468-6578
 
me too bro

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Best of luck man. I will be applying, I decided to postpone for a year and give myself a gap year to work though. Senior at the University of Iowa currently, Human Physiology major. Finished all the Pre-Med coursework, grades are good, extra curriculars, blah blah. I just decided that I wasn't mentally prepared to go STRAIGHT from undergraduate studies to graduate if I did happen to get in. My brother went straight to vet school, as did my dad and they both burnt themselves the fuck out.

Where are you applying? Any place in particular you're hoping to get in? Whenever people ask where I'm going I say, "wherever the fuck I get in." IF I get accepted to multiple programs, thats when I start deciding WHERE I want to go haha.
 
I'm actually curious about this. Still trying to fully understand the difference between MD and DO, but so far all I've gotten is that "its a more holistic view"

Whatever the hell that means
 
We actually have a cult, but it's as dead as can be.https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/cult/forum/cat_id/6433/

Also:

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Allopathic(MD) vs. Osteopathic(DO). Basically DO's believe that everything in the body is connected and related (valid point), and that manipulation of bones and muscles leads to healing (osteopathic manipulative theory, or OMT). Not a ton of research to back it up, some claim it works and others don't, like everything else hahah
 
I know 5 people that recently accepted to med-school, 4 of them took one to two years to do some work in their field, before they applied. Remember the average age for people to start med-school is about 24.
 
Currently sitting in the a call room doing my last internal medicine call shift. Peds starts tomorrow AM. Fml.

 
haha, the countless times people ask me where i am going to Physical Therapy school my response "where ever i get in, and if multiple i will have a choice" as of now i applied to 12 schools and heard back from two and 0-2 unfortunately
 
I decided on just applying MD. I was considering applying to both, but I narrowed it down. Multiple reasons why, but yeah. I have quite a few friends that got into the med school here, and one of our good family friends just got into the PT school.

My good bud robby, I think hes 25 if I'm correct, he just started med school this year. He's a fucking genius. 39 on his MCAT, 3.98 GPA i believe, while double majoring in Chemistry and Molecular biology, yada yada. Well. He was accepted at Yale, and one other ridiculous school I dont remember, but then was offered a full ride scholarship to Iowa, sooo thats where he went. Who the fuck gets a full ride to medical school? Jesus.

 
In practical terms, they are the exact same. The only difference is that MD schools are more competitive (due to name recognition and being an advantage for residencies in competitive specialties). In all 50 states MDs and DOs have the same scope of practice.

There are a few other med students on this board... I think there was a med student and pre med cult at one point. If anyone has questions about the process/etc. feel free to ask or PM me

 
Oh, there it is. Yea, way dead.

Omni, is school in the Netherlands also structured undergrad -> 4 years med school -> then residency?
 
After you finish pre-university secondary education you apply to a uni.

Then four years of studying followed by two years of residency.

After that most people specialize in something, which takes another 4-6 years.

(People also quite often take a brake from studying and just work as a doc for a few years before specializing.)
 
I don't know where you live, but you most definitely do not need a fellowship for emergency medicine here. You do your residency and you're home free.
 
After a residency, some emergency physicians go on to complete one or more fellowships in sub-specialties of emergency medicine. These include disaster medicine, emergency ultrasound and imaging, toxicology, sports medicine and pediatric emergency medicine. Fellowships typically run one or two years and provide an intensive focus on that area of specialization. Doctors who wish to specialize must first become board-certified in general emergency medicine, then complete a separate certification process for each sub-specialty. Emergency medicine certifications must be renewed every 10 years, and doctors must meet prescribed standards for continuing education.
 
Just curious as someone looking at grad school, are all you guys planning on not really skiing ever or consistently, especially future doctors? As from what I've seen you hardly get any free time at all, even when not at work.
 
Thought I wanted to go, ended up doing a MPH to "boost" my resume and turned out loving that more than medicine, now working on further graduate work in Public Policy.

I have a few fraternity brothers who went to medical school, one to vet school. A lot of hard work, not that the MPH or MA/phd I'm working on now aren't hard.
 
i'm planning on going to med school and my sister is currently in med school. she does a ton of work, but skiing maybe once a week is still viable for sure she says. you just can't expect to ski 3 or 4 times. it all comes down to how efficient you are
 
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pre-med junior at Wake Forest University in NC currently

top choice right now is UNC Chapel Hill for med school as I'll have established in-state residency by the time I matriculate which will save me like $80k and give me a 100x better chance of acceptance

thinking of doing a two year gap between undergrad and med and doing Teach For America. anyone have thoughts on that? anyone know anybody who's done TFA?
 
Depends what you want to do - if you do shift work (eg. Emergency Med, Hospitalist), you have a fair amount of off time. If you're the one family practice doc in a small town, you have none (always on call). Medicine is a broad enough field that you can find a niche to meet whatever you want out of a career. That said, yes - I did make the choice knowing that I probably won't ski as much as I could in another career or perpetually ski bumming. I'll spare you the lame 'skiing isn't everything' crap... etc. etc.
 
I have several friends and classmates that went more or less that route.. and their general consensus is that it isn't necessarily 'fun' while you're doing it, but it's a great learning/life experience. I wouldn't recommend it if your only goal is to have it for a Med School app, as there are much simpler and straightforward ways to get in (namely, focusing on doing well on the MCAT, getting good grades, and demonstrating that you know what you're getting in to via shadowing/volunteering/working in healthcare).
 
Do a lot of people take a gap year or two? I know the average age is increasing but I feel like i wouldn't want to elongate the already long process...
 
Varies a lot by school, but at mine the avg. age of matriculation is ~25.. which corresponds to 2 or 3 years off. I'd guess that 15-20 out of 160 are straight out of undergrad.
 
Nah I'm interested more so for through experience of a full time job and living in the real world as well as hopefully getting to know and having a positive impact on some troubled youths
 
Don't.

There have been a slew of articles recently that touched on how stupid it is to put people without a proper educational background (credentials, student teaching, etc) into classrooms often in areas that really need some of the highest quality teachers to deal with the issues the students (generally impoverished) are encountering.

If you're looking for a gap year (or years) there are a slew of other opportunities available that might even look better for your resume. My advice is something in a patient contact role. Go be an EMT or get a position with a non-profit clinic or something. All those would be way better than TFA.

Articles for reference:http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11883
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/..._i_stopped_writing_them_and_my_colleague.html

 
yea the pre med cult is pretty freaking dead... but i could still send you an invite upon request if youd like. and yea, the whole taking 1-2 gap years thing is becoming the norm now. im graduating in may 2014 and planning on doing a couple years of research prior to (hopefully) matriculating into medical school.
 
Oh no I totally feel where you're coming from. I love skiing, but it doesn't dictate my life too much. I just know that I want to stay around it. I was looking at PA school because I know myself and that I wouldn't be happy with the amount of dedication it takes to reach M.D. status (not that PA isn't demanding also, but not to such a degree as med). So I'm just always curious where other people's minds are at on the same topic because I wouldn't feel fulfilled with my life if I just took a low/simple job just to ski, but I also want to still be around it somewhat. Thanks for the response.
 
This is just a little thing I noticed. I love it when people walk around the campus all the time as freshman and sophomores, "Yeah I'm gonna do medicine once I graduate," in an attitude that just makes it sound like any other job. I just chuckle. Most of us that are actually realistic about getting there, and have the means(grades, dedication, the like) to possibly get there ALWAYS say, "uhhh if I can get in with what I've got. Otherwise I have to figure out another route."

 
thats cause everyone is really stuck up about med school. everyone likes to run around saying they're pre-med majors when there's usually no such degree and they're probably just bio. and besides, there's a tons of bio majors at most schools anyway. an english major could go to med school if they do well on the mcat and have sufficient stats in other applicable areas.

You're better off as a biochem major for the MCAT. All future medical science is going to be done in biochem and molecular bio, and bioinformatics.
 
I will be going into college next year, and majoring in Health Sciences with a pre-med intent. I am excited to get through that and then start the med school application process!

I'm hoping to eventually become either a surgeon or a neurologist.
 
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