MCQ 12 # surgery # neetpg #oncology #usmle #plab #mbbs. r/GeneralSurgery: This is a Forum for Surgeons, Residents, Medical Students and other health personnel to discuss topics related to General Surgery….If you want to really crank out cases and cover more call or cover multiple hospitals, you’re looking at $500-600k plus relatively easily. Some specialties in GS more so than others, but most fellowships and pure GS have a great outlook. Very strong. Great job outlook. People will always need surgery.The overall competitiveness level of general surgery is Medium to High for a U.S. senior. With a Step 1 score of 200, the probability of matching is 34%. With a Step 1 score of …I work in a smaller community hospital (115 beds) that is part of a larger academic consortium of hospitals. I am in a group of 4 general surgeons. Not a trauma center so I no longer have the headache of dealing with trauma like in residency. I operate 1-2 days a week, generally from 7:30 to 2.If you do want to brush up on some bits in the interim, here's my advice as someone who has just finished a gruelling FY1 gen surg rotation -. As the FY1, most of the medical management of patients will fall to you. Get familiar with electrolytes. As the most junior member of the team, checking bloods and correcting electrolytes will usually ...The goal of residencymatch.app is to create a stable version of the r/medicalschool residency spreadsheets. A problem with the current system is that they are created and managed by individual users which often results in trolling or misplaced information. By centralizing all the data, it will be easier for users to organize the information ...My interest primarily stems from the recent advances in functional neurosurgery especially for things like DBS, focused ultrasound, and gene therapy. Functional really seems to be at the forefront of therapeutic advancement in these fields.I'm particularly inspired by some of the gene therapy programs at places like Ohio State (Dr. Bankiewicz ...Class Rank: 2nd quartile. Step 1: Pass. Comlex 1: Pass. Rotations: Our school is weird and dose letter grades not H/HP/P/F, but I guess H for surgery, HP for FM and OB. Research: 4 posters, 0 pubs (I acutely really like research and have a couple projects going that should get a pub or 2 in the next year and several posters)Resilience is expected of you from day 1. Practice letting things roll off your shoulder. If you are not able to do that surgery is probably not where you will be happy; I hope I am saying that in the kindest way possible. Constructive advice I can give is have a home base, somehting that can root you down, be it meditation, family time, video ...If you already have 3 strong ones from surgeons I think using a research letter as your 4th is a good idea -- provides a different perspective: 2 very very stron LORs from surgeons, 1 decent chair letter (straight up based on grades/scores). I am not sure i can snag a 4th strong LOR clinical but i will email and ask that attending.I'm applying to general surgery this year and really do not want to do a 2-year mandatory research year. I could squeeze by doing 1-year, but I really can't see myself doing 2. Are there any resources aside from checking each programs website that show all the 5 vs 7 year programs?Only surgery will save the patient's life, nothing else will. You can cure cancer. With a lot of early stage cancers, surgery will often be the only intervention a patient will need. Some may need additional chemo or radiation, but surgery in the mainstay treatment. You can improve the quality of life of patients.A friend of mine had a test on gross anatomy about the abdominal wall some weeks ago. The professor pointed to one of the muscles of the cadaver and asked here which one it was. She said "M. obliquus internus". He said "No, wrong." Because it was M. obliquus internus abdominis . [deleted] • 6 yr. ago.Regardless of what anyone says on here the fact is that as a PGY-1 general surgeon you will and should be doing a lot of data gathering and assessment and planning. Surgeons don't wake up in the morning and say "wonder who I can cut today". It's planned weeks or months in advance.On my cards rotation, it felt like most of the cool and definitive procedures and treatments were done by the cardiac surgeons. Although cardiology seemed like a better lifestyle than cardiac surgery, I definitely have much more passion for cardiac surgery. I've considered interventional cardiology, but it seems like stents are really only ...Surgery residency is universally long hours for 5 years, lots of stress, lots of long days. Now in residency you will also have off rotation months where you may not work nearly as much, but you'll definitely have many months of late nights with early mornings. That's how surgery is. Every specialty has a tradeoff.Rural general surgeon of 9 years here. I have 4 days off a month. Ten days of call a month, and 20 vacation days a year. There is barely enough free time to cut grass once a week, let alone small scale farm. Best friend is a general surgeon in eastern WA. All he does is gall bags, appys, inguinal hernias, scopes.Many dread hearing their doctor say “You have cataracts,” but it’s not a big deal. Thousands of individuals receive treatment for cataracts each year, and modern surgery techniques...Stay tuned to the Campus Huddle as we will be back with in-depth deep dives on gameplay and your favorite modes leading up to launch on July 19th! College Football 25 launches …I'm applying to general surgery this year and really do not want to do a 2-year mandatory research year. I could squeeze by doing 1-year, but I really can't see myself doing 2. Are there any resources aside from checking each programs website that show all the 5 vs 7 year programs?2) Surgeons used to pretty much be able to do what they wanted and how they wanted to in the OR. There has been a huge change in the last 25 years about adding structure and reigning in the cowboys. Also, general surgery has lost a ton of cases to GI, interventional rads, and other surgical sub-specialties.The gen surgeons I work with do a lot of cholecystectomies, pancreatectomies, hernia repairs, and bariatric surgery (both roux-en-Y and sleeve gastrectomies). So I tend to associate the field with the GI system, unless someone has done fellowship in like breast or vascular or trauma or something like that. 2. Award.Pros and cons of trauma surgery vs general surgery. Gen surg: Starts you off with the more foundational and obviously general approach Akin to starting to family med and then getting your foundations before going into a subspecialty where the learning curve is just different. In gen, you can hone your suturing skills, post op care skills, etc etc.Anyone else applying 2024 Match gen surg? I found a spreadsheet and forum for those of us in this years cycle.A lot of people, especially on Reddit, will claim that "you should only do surgery if you can't imagine yourself doing anything else". I've heard this phrase from lots of med students and residents; I'm sure many of my attendings would agree with it if asked. But that idea has always rubbed me the wrong way.ADMIN MOD. All Inclusive Resort Spreadsheet w Ratings and Prices. Here is a spreadsheet I made with all the inclusive resorts I could find with the average rating between Trip Advisor, Google, Costco and Expedia. Prices are for March 9-16, 2024 or as close to it when they had rooms available. For families, I did 2 adults, 2 children aged 10.New 2024 Match Cycle Radiology Spreadsheet. ️Serious. I guess next cycle's spreadsheets are starting to trickle in. Radiology (including both diagnostic and interventional) has a new, updated spreadsheet here for the upcoming 2024 match cycle. I'll leave creating and running a discord server up to someone with more experience on …Average hours become between 40 to 50 with minimum call or weekend duty. Really depends on which surgical specialty. Urology and Orthopedics are pretty chill (for surgical specialties). General surgery is quite variable and will depend on what/if you subspecialize. Colorectal and surgical oncology are pretty chill.r/BaldursGate3. r/BaldursGate3. A community all about Baldur's Gate III, the role-playing video game by Larian Studios. BG3 is the third main game in the Baldur's Gate series. Baldur's Gate III is based on a modified version of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (D&D 5e) tabletop RPG ruleset. Gather your party and venture forth!Advice on general surgery ST3 applications. I’m aware ST3 application results are out today so thought this would be well timed. I’ve been looking at the ST3 scoring matrix, and it looks like having had time out (as I have) is massively penalised. However it’s not clear what the maximum points for papers/presentations etc are.Updated for 2021 - Browser for fellowship match statistics by program. Program specific results for the 2021 fellowship match were just published. The tables published by NRMP regarding the number of total, filled, and unmatched fellowship spots by program aren't particularly user friendly, so below you can find a more easy to browse format ...This is the unofficial subreddit for the Western Governors University's Bachelor of Science in Computer Science program. Updated Spreadsheet for Class Transfers. A while back, somebody posted a spreadsheet with their own guide on where to take classes to transfer them into WGU. I have been using it as a rough guide since then.Major complication rates for sleeves are 1% ish. Bypass 2-5% but you reserve that operation for the cherriest of cherry picked candidates. Patients stay in house 1 night in a well run program. Readmissions low. Reop rate super low most complications are non-op.Currently you will either go the traditional route (5+2) whereby you do a general surgery residency (5-7 years) and then a standard 2-year fellowship in vascular surgery. Or you can go directly into vascular surgery and match into an integrated program right out of medical school. Program lengths vary from 5-7 years, depending on research ...General Surgery: wide variety of surgery wide field of operating. You have where to move your hands during the surgery and it's just a fixing a car, working in team etc. mostly ALL patient are getting better (if pre/op/post obviously is good) for example in a successful appendectomy. I have a mentor where I can learn my favourite part of ...Hey everyone. Applying to General Surgery next year. I have 4 honors so far with an H in surgery. 2 more rotations left to go. My step score is a 24x and I go to a mid-tier medical school on the east coast. Have a great personal story for surgery but have been involved in many research projects that have not been published yet.Official ERAS Megathread - October 2023. Hi everyone, Here is the latest edition of the ERAS Megathread for the 2023-2024 application cycle. Check out these resources and feel free to drop your questions, anxieties, and vents in the comments below. Please use the "Message the Moderators" button (located in the sidebar) to let us know about any ...what is surgery residency actually like? [Residency] Residency. As an M3 interested in surgery, Ive always heard that the hours are brutal and life is miserable for a time. I just wanted to ask any current or former surgery residents what their lives were like during residency, mainly intern year, and how they managed to live some semblance of ...Residency. Hi all, just wanted to create a consolidated list of the residency spreadsheets that have started popping up for the 2019-2020 application cycle. Will try to keep this updated, but please feel free to PM me if I miss things or there are updates! **PSA: the spreadsheets become “locked”/read-only when there are more than 100 people ...Note that the r/medicalschool moderators do not moderate these sheets or channels. All discord invites were functional at the time they were added to this list. If an invite link is now expired, check the specialty spreadsheet for an updated invite or see if there's a chat tab in the spreadsheet to ask for help.General surgeons of reddit, tell me about your job and/or life outside it! Specifically, I am wondering if it is feasible to work less/take less call and accept lower pay. ... General Surgery lifestyle sucks because even the "small" surgeries like appys and some choles are relatively emergent, in that if a patient comes in at 10PM with one of ...Therefore, I aimed to gain a better understanding of the data to see how various factors (Step 1, Step 2, Research, Med School, AOA, Performance on clerkships) impacted interview invitations. Methods: Online, anonymous applicant data (N = 236) from 2017-2020 orthopedics match years were collected. Data was imported into R and graphed.Mastery in general surgery fellowship thoughts? This seems like a really new gen surg fellowship, what are everyone thought about it? It's caught my eye because that's basically what I want to do, gen surg and robotics. Zero interest in Bariatrics and a lot of the MIS programs do require Bariatric, also thinking about doing just a hernia ...If you have a lung injury or illness, your doctor may tell you you need to have lung surgery as part of your treatment. Lung surgery is a treatment procedure that’s done with the g...As requested, IamA general surgery resident near the end of my training - AMA! My short bio: Did my medical school training in the Midwest. Now nearing the end of my general surgery residency in a program south of I-10. I have experience with all types of general surgery subspecialties - trauma, vascular, cardiothoracic, laparoscopic/robotic ...We are still looking for links to spreadsheets for Orthopedic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, and Prelim/Transitional Years. Likewise, if you discover a broken link in this post, please let …Moments like this reinforced my love for surgery, seeing how masterful craftsmanship — such as this end-to-side anastomosis of a graft to the anterior tibial artery or an intricate dissection of the planes during a total parietal peritonectomy — transformed and restored the human bodyAlso applying gen surg and I have 3, I heard that the majority of invites come out Oct 20 - Nov 3, so stay positive! Following because I have the same concern. I look at the spreadsheet and it seems like some programs have sent out invites but definitely <50% of programs had. I will start worrying next week.CT Surgery: Cardiac and thoracic are actually very different. Commonality for both is a super intense training program either via a 2-3 year CT fellowship after general surgery or a integrated CT residency.-Cardiac - lot of tough cases but your bread and butter will be CABGs and valves. NO, the field is not "dying", please stop asking.Correct- that is the Dimick book. The Osler course is unfortunately a paid course- basically a couple dozen prerecorded mock orals with feedback for the examinee and a couple of mock oral sessions for the person purchasing. Behind the knife podcast series. They have a yearly ABISTE series that runs in January.Surgery residency is universally long hours for 5 years, lots of stress, lots of long days. Now in residency you will also have off rotation months where you may not work nearly as much, but you'll definitely have many months of late nights with early mornings. That's how surgery is. Every specialty has a tradeoff.General surgery would add Cameron's Current Surgical Therapy, although it might be a little too high level for a medical student or even intern. Plastics is Grabb and Smith, Michigan manual for something hand held.Call us at 1.866.CALL.MLH (1.866.225.5654) The General Surgery Residency Training Program at Lankenau Medical Center prides itself as being a "hybrid" program for general surgery training, which includes the best aspects of a superb "community" hospital—Lankenau is ranked in the top one percent of hospitals in the nation—and the ...If you look at the match data from 2014 GS is generally uncompetitive as long as you're willing to apply broadly. If i were you i would simply focus on doing things that further my knowledge and interest in surgery and veer away from the pre-med checklist method we all used especially in regards to research. -1. true.Here is a build spreadsheet with explanation and backgrounds. I made a google spreadsheet with some builds I gathered and created myself, with comments on downsides and strengths of each one, as well as the best backgrounds for each one. It does not have all build and still need some refinement, but I think it is a organized one.166K subscribers in the PlasticSurgery community. Welcome to r/PlasticSurgery! This subreddit is a general hub for discussion, before and after…Yikes. Psychiatry for Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, IL. Program requires to you to have a physical address within a 30-minute drive of the hospital. Very restrictive since 35 minutes away are a bunch of nicer Chicago suburbs with way more amenities and better housing options.Step 1: Obtain the template. Get a copy of the printable Med Surg Report Sheet Template using the link on this page. Similarly, you can download it from the Carepatron app or our resources library.Here's a little handy "where-to-start" for the new residents out there. 1. General Reading (Pick one): Sabiston, Greenfield, Schwartz 2. ABSITE Reading: Read your resource from above + Fiser Absite Review +/- Fiser Absite Review Practice Questions 3. Case Prep: Zollinger, Netter, Skandalakis, Google Images (lol) 4. Pocket Books: Fiser Absite Review, M.D. Anderson Surgical Oncology Handbook ...Thinking of switching out of surgery. I'm an intern at a very non-malignant half community/half academic type of general surgery program, and after 3.75 months I feel like I want to change specialties. I really wish I loved surgery and could put up with it, because I have so much respect for the profession, and I've worked my butt off for a ...The two are very different. Anesthesia is a super diverse field and as others have said, you can do everything from OR stuff to regional anesthesia to pain. General surgery is also super diverse with what you can do, but as others have said, you're going to be the one doing the cutting and running the show in the OR.Iam a non US IMG with Grad year of Jan 2018.. I have passed CS and recently scored a 260 in step1.. Currently studying for CK.. have no research experience and no USCE in surgery.. ( but have 2 USCE in IM) Should I try finding USCE in surgery before Match 2022 or should I try finding a research position for a year and postpone match for another ...Feel free to ask all your questions about interviews here! For current residents and M4s who have had some interviews, feel free to share your experiences, tips, and anything else you might find helpful. Below are links to the specialty specific spreadsheets with useful information. -mod team.Just wanted to bring attention to the reddit spreadsheet for the upcoming application cycle. Good luck to everyone applying this cycle. Any new spreadsheet for this year's match yet? 34K subscribers in the neurology community. Welcome to r/neurology home of science-based neurology for physicians, neuroscientists, and fans of….a) Equity for General Surgery applicants in the interview and application process b) Improved application and interview systems that support the needs of the applicants c) Increased efficiency of process for programs so that focus can be on conducting holistic review Applicant Considerations:Thinking of switching out of surgery. I'm an intern at a very non-malignant half community/half academic type of general surgery program, and after 3.75 months I feel like I want to change specialties. I really wish I loved surgery and could put up with it, because I have so much respect for the profession, and I've worked my butt off for a ...A community for asking questions about your birth chart or astrology in general. When asking about yourself, INCLUDE YOUR CHART FROM ASTRO-SEEK.COM and your question must be specific, either about a planet, sign, aspect or house in your chart, or things like a transit, profection or progression, or a particular area of life.If you do want to brush up on some bits in the interim, here's my advice as someone who has just finished a gruelling FY1 gen surg rotation -. As the FY1, most of the medical management of patients will fall to you. Get familiar with electrolytes. As the most junior member of the team, checking bloods and correcting electrolytes will usually .... There is almost no disease process that a CT surgeon would sOrtho. Reply. qkrrmsdud. • 4 yr. ago. If working out is a priority ov ADMIN MOD. /r/weightroom Program Spreadsheet Collection. The other day there was some talk in the daily thread about gathering all the usermade spreadsheets for various programs that are floating around, and putting them into a nice, easily used archive. The spreadsheets will be put into a new section of the wiki. Here is also a link to last year's admission sp Now that I want something more competitive I’m starting to get concerned. Med school: low tier US MD Step 1: 233 Clinical grades: 2 H’s (psych & family med), 2 HS’s (IM & neuro), 1 S (ob/gyn) - I’m on surgery rn. Doing everything I can to honor it. Research: Stalled out on an IM project before it even started due to problems with study ...Just wanted to bring attention to the reddit spreadsheet for the upcoming application cycle. Good luck to everyone applying this cycle. Any new spreadsheet for this year's match yet? 34K subscribers in the neurology community. Welcome to r/neurology home of science-based neurology for physicians, neuroscientists, and fans of…. I'm really, really struggling with knowing if I'm cut out for general...
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