medical school

"into" "animals"

i'd be cool with being jonathan kaplan

SO MANY RESPONSES, I CANNOT CHOOSE.

Go sleep with some cute Israeli nurses.

how come nobody ever tells me to do that

actually i'm just gonna be a dermatologist with a time-share in florida

I hear the skiing is choice.

cio and sky me

nobody got my joke about the Xhosa :-(

Sorry, I don't know about any bike parts made after 1974.

i should have said !Kung instead, huh

IT WAS A JOKE ABOUT PEOPLE THAT SPEAK A LANGUAGE WITH CLICKS, LIKE MY BOTTOM BRACKET

Ahahahah I just assumed it was a manufacturer I didn't know. Clearly this is why a Laurel does not go to medical skoo.

!Kung would have worked. I figured you were talking about some noise album or psych band or some shit

congrats

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

way to go duderoo

oh man i said duderoo i need to stop smoking

congrats, plz don't get co-opted by the system

this is awesome!! congratulations, e!

Congrats, plz drink everything in MN for me.

Congrats, Elk hunting is back on then, plus dissection for tasty meats.

Congrats, I'm attempting to do the same at the age of 32, got to redo my school exams first though.

:D

thanks, dudes!

leigh, are you in the states? like, you're retaking the MCAT?

Nope, I'm in Scotland, I'm going to have to retake my high school exams as they're well out of date and I'm not a graduate then do the UKCAT.

nobody got my joke about the Xhosa :-(

I got it! I roffled!

Congratulations, you'll never regret it.

sweet. does this mean its time to start the JOHN JUSTEN AND FLUFFY BEAR DESTROY A PROMISING MEDICAL CAREER WITH BOOZE thread?

also, tombot, go sleep with some cute israeli nurses

fuckin awes brah!!!!

good job bro

Fantastic news!!!

WOO HOOOOOO!!! :-D

I'm gonna sue you so bad one day...

:D

don't forget about me when you can legally prescribe drugs.

I sat the UKCAT yesterday and did reasonably well so I'm over the first hurdle - just need to get top grades in 5 Highers while working full time, write a stellar personal statement on the ucas form, demonstrate top notch work experience and interview well then I'll be in with a ghost of a chance of making Med School.

i just looked through my copy of netter's. *_*

t-minus one day, ppl.

itt gbx liveblogs med school

omg i am in a lecture

waht are you learning today?

ingratiate yourself to the professor by making an icebreaking dick joke.

Can't wait to hear about how it's going.

if evan can break ice with his dick he's wasting his time in med school.

it's a lecture about stress management

first day of school, here

good luck dude!

lol, we had assigned "stress management" readings in nursing school, too.

What would have helped more: letting us sleep at some point over clinical weekends.

what are they suggesting that you perscribe to yourself to ease the stress level?

decent lol: caloric restriction retards the aging process = share food with others = feeding your academic rivals in order to eliminate them

another h4st1ngs dude is here, too!

o_O
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Wait, but being hungry is stressful!

Still, that's going to be my new reason for bringing treats to class. I'm trying to destroy everyone else's GPA.

that's really great! semi-academic sounds like a dream rn

i'm the medical director of the BH service at our local hospital and while i very much enjoy clinical work i do not enjoy all the other stuff, i just wanna see patients

I am very glad you did not pursue cardio, those guys (and by guys I mean TOO MANY MALES) are like the dorky orthobros.

I am 90 miles north of LA and my amazing PCP and cancer docs are with the Santa Barbara outpost, also spent time on main campus and am jealous of all the delicious Persian food you will have at your disposal. Keep in touch and we can do LAFAP!

Gbx I bet you are super awesome at your job, even the dreaded admin parts. Thank you for going where quality care is most needed.

*Santa Barbara outpost of UCLA. That org sure knows how to follow the money

Currently studying for the med school entry test (GAMSAT). Absorbing my whole life, but enjoying the process.

hey quincie! i think i am just generally OK at my job (the admin parts) but i appreciate the encouragement. i'm learning that in some important and also very stupid ways that the admin part is pretty essential in our very broken healthcare system (esp here in NM)

HP -- how does med school 'work' in australia? like do you apply after undergrad or are you applying right out of high/secondary school?

There's two routes! Not as familiar with the out of high school one, but from what I know it's for the top 99.99% achievers who do a small but not quite so hard test, followed by a 6 year degree, 2 year fast tracked bio-science undergrad, 4 year med school proper.
I'm taking the other route, where you do any undergraduate (literally any, I did a bachelor of philosophy/bachelor of theology) and then take this ridiculous gamsat test. To get an interview, universities weight your undergrad marks and your GAMSAT marks 50/50. The combined score needed for an interview is about 170%, I.e. 100% top marks in university and a 70% on the test, or vice versa/any combination of the two. I'm going into the test having received straight high distinctions for my degree filling 100% of the 170 quota, but still to get a 70 on the gamsat feels like a nearly impossible task. It's a 3 part test, humanities, two essays and sciences run over a whole day. It is ridiculously difficult, but I'm committed to the journey and think I can notch a 70 after a few trys. I'll be happy with myself as long as I can get 50+ on this first attempt next month. That's something I can build from

Loving your job, no regrets gbx? Any advice you'd give? I'm very much excited for this ride, have tentative plans of pursuing anaesthetic and less tentative plans of giving myself to some humanitarian work down the line. That's my drive for this whole thing really, which I'm glad to have as it is a very powerful motor to making sure this happens

I can confidently say I'd hit a 70 (or at least very close to it) on the test first time If there was no time limit, but the amount of info they ask you to absorb to answer a question 90 seconds seconds is absurd. It really feels like primarily a stress test from all the practice exams I've done.

If you're a rural applicant the combo score drops to 1.55 and my wife and I live 20 minutes away from a "rural" area which we have dreams of moving to in a decades time.... its not feasible to move now tho and you need to live rural foe 5 years for it to count. So close but so far!

I'm taking the other route, where you do any undergraduate (literally any, I did a bachelor of philosophy/bachelor of theology) and then take this ridiculous gamsat test.

that's roughly the process here in the US as well. I was an English major and did ultimately have to go back for some post-baccalaureate classes in order to qualify for admission

i love...parts of my job. the US healthcare system is pretty busted and that can lead to a lot of indirect moral injury if you're not careful (eg my clinic is so short-staffed, and my patient panel so large, that there have been times that the soonest follow-up appointment I can get someone is months out. this is Not Great for when someone is in crisis). but ultimately very rewarding, yes. do i sometimes think that i should have been an electrician? also yes

Combine careers. Go into surgeries in a jumpsuit and explain loudly why the previous electrician really fucked up the cables and didn't know what they were doing as you blare loud music of some sort from your iPhone, all while the surgical team are anxiously waiting for you to fix the issue with the essential piece of equipment for the ten-hour procedure that stopped working halfway through.

hmmmm yknow maybe not

Lol Ned. Sorry to hear about that. The US healthcare system does give me the heebie jeebies but glad to know there's doctors that care working in it

Test finished, now the painful 2 month wait for results......

good luck! these exams, and the wait for the results, are always excruciating. and if it’s anything like the US, there will be another 2-3 tests with similar stakes. it does get better eventually!

Thank you! I have no patience so these two months will be painful. Just this one and then an interview and we get into med school! Obviously that's where it REALLY begins. You're Dr.'ing? Or just in the know?

I am doctoring!