(If you don't get the title, hop on the bus to Philly and rent the awesomest show in quite some time).
Anyway, we got our 4th year schedules. And although I could choose to gripe about how I asked for a month off to study for Step 2 CK (Clinical Knowledge) and they totally ignored me, I will instead choose to focus on how I got all my other requests and importantly WILL BE COMPLETELY DONE WITH 4TH YEAR BY DEC 21.
Flipping. Awesome.
The experiences of a recently minted MD/PhD out to take over the world.
Posts Which Might Have Meant Something (A "Best Of" About the MD/PhD Experience)
- Grad vs Med: The Smackdown
- Surviving Graduate School (And Possibly Even Getting a Degree), Part 1
- Surviving Graduate School, Part 2: Be the Captain of Your Own Ship
- Surviving Graduate School, Part 3: Constant Dripping Hollows Out a Stone
- The four most important decisions of graduate school
- The MD/PhD Journey: Welcome to the bottom of a new ladder!
- You say Mudphud, I say Sucker
- MD/PhDs are people, too
- Like Being in the Ring with Mike Tyson
- Student, evaluate thyself
- ChumpWork
- Big Deal, I'm Very Professional
- Grad vs Med: The Smackdown--UPDATE
- Random Observations from the Clinics
- Whatcha, whatcha, whatcha want?
- It's graduate school that sucks; not research
Terms Possibly Unfamiliar to Non-Med Types
- Mudphud: An MD/PhD
- Fellow: A jolly gentleman. Kidding--someone who could be an attending but instead choses to continue training despite being paid and treated like livestock
- PGY: Post-graduate year, ie PGY1 would be a first-year resident, PGY2 would be a second year, etc
- Hammer page: Someone pages you every few minutes for hours; dreaded by all
- AI: Acting internship, done in 4th year medical school, to try and prepare you for your internship
- MS3: A third year medical student
- Rounds: Where the docs and med students get together and check up on all of their patients, usually REALLY early in the morning
- Intern: A first-year resident
- Attending: The senior physician in charge of the service and your future; aka the big boss, the head cheese.
- Clerkship: A rotation through a clinical specialty, such as medicine, pediatrics, etc.
- Shelf test: The big, scary national exam given at the end of each clinical clerkship
- Pimping: When the attending quizzes you on medical stuff in front of the whole team. Var: getting pimped, pimp question
Other MD/PhD, Grad or Med School Web Pages and Blogs
About Me
- Dr.VonB
- An MD/PhD beginning her residency, with an MD/PhD husband beginning his residency, with a weensy MD/PhD offspring beginning her life and two large dogs in tow.
I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to be called "mister", thank you very much.
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2 comments:
Dude...whoa. That's freakin' cool.
I'm a little bit jealous, frankly. Just a li'l bit.
Neat!
I'm a soon to be IMG planning to take USMLE next year. Say, was step 1 hard?
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