tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post786431510098118382..comments2023-11-03T07:10:31.874-05:00Comments on Creating the Godcomplex: Picking a Life 1MedStudentGod (MSG)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02670042423377931696noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-12701975076819756982008-03-07T06:54:00.000-06:002008-03-07T06:54:00.000-06:00T,Wow! I've heard of people who took a rotation af...T,<BR/><BR/>Wow! I've heard of people who took a rotation after already interviewed and ranked programs and I've always been in awe of the commitment involved to go through that process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-87648693988130209892008-03-06T18:23:00.000-06:002008-03-06T18:23:00.000-06:00Anesthesia was my LAST required rotation in med sc...Anesthesia was my LAST required rotation in med school. The LAST one. I was in my fourth year ranking peds programs. When I went to my dean and said I had fallen in love with a specialty I previously knew nothing about, she wanted to pull some hair out - mine, hers, both probably. <BR/><BR/>I guess the cheerful piece of unsolicited advice I have to offer is, hokey as this sounds, if you get a strong gut feeling you belong somewhere, listen to it and don't let little details like a huge life-upheaval or a tough residency stand in your way! :)T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09208990104460795917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-56334003060932166372008-03-04T23:41:00.000-06:002008-03-04T23:41:00.000-06:00Thanks for the links. I agree completely. So muc...Thanks for the links. I agree completely. So much of what we go through is more of a hazing ritual than meaningful learning about what a given specialty is really like. If your school does not have good mentors, or you do not know how to seek them out, you can miss out on a great specialty completely. <BR/><BR/>I know my school has been working to improve this and I hope they do. There will never be enough time to fully explore everything, but even having access to shadowing in specialties that are not part of the core 3rd year could help. The people who I saw struggle the most with the decision, myself included, were those who did not fall in love with one of the 3rd year core rotations.The Lone Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07718579151410824297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-36856950760378227552008-03-04T22:19:00.000-06:002008-03-04T22:19:00.000-06:00Hey msg... i have an unrelated question for you. I...Hey msg... i have an unrelated question for you. I will email you. Thanks for the great posts lately!Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03026462831603996279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-11873819284146508032008-03-04T20:27:00.000-06:002008-03-04T20:27:00.000-06:00And to think my PhD program expects me to decide m...And to think my PhD program expects me to decide my field as well as a research topic by the end of my rotations. Silly silly!OMDGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17937425894428802591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-1500712296498307982008-03-04T17:52:00.000-06:002008-03-04T17:52:00.000-06:00I recently attended a lecture regarding this very ...I recently attended a lecture regarding this very same topic. Lack of exposure, leading to poorly informed decisions, culminating in a lot of "wasted time" and expletives on the student's part.<BR/><BR/>Funnily enough, the advice was rather mundane. "Do your own research," and "Read these books when the time is right," was the take home topic Statistics were something at the 20% mark for residents switching specialities and 16% for practicing physicians. <BR/><BR/>Limited exposure underpins the entire problem but in many aspects, it's unavoidable. Time is always the enemy.The Caffeine Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17662215834511548631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4831474386182810748.post-25570319367400027452008-03-04T10:22:00.000-06:002008-03-04T10:22:00.000-06:00"It is, I feel, another way that medical education...<B>"It is, I feel, another way that medical education fails those it's meant to help, to educate."</B><BR/><BR/>Dead on. We waste hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit around and watch, to stoke some egos, to read books in our free time to make sure that we kind of know what's going on before we are made examples of in front of our team, to perform superfluous tasks at God-awful hours of the morning, and ultimately to figure out everything on our own anyway. <BR/><BR/>I'm looking into EM and my venerable institution of learning doesn't even have a useful EM adviser in our entire 6+ hospital education system. Fortunately, I found this out early on enough in the game so as not to be trapped as a fourth year searching for LOR's in EM and unable to find any.Bostonian in NYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16806067349785623843noreply@blogger.com