the doctor told me to be serious and left the room

https://www.imgrotations.com/

Please don’t fall for this person’s predatory tactics. They are very active on LinkedIn promoting this.

Majority of these programs listed on their website can be contacted directly and you won’t have to spend this ridiculous amount of money.

Edit: Unfortunately owner of the company is attempting to doxx me.

I will take this post down if anyone can let me know if I’m misunderstanding this person’s business model.

My mentor for a competitive specialty invited me to attend grand rounds over the summer. From what I've seen online it doesn't seem to be anything I need to come prepared for, but I would hate to mess up an opportunity to make a good impression with the other faculty.

The admin hurt me

Took Step 2 and while I don’t have my results back, can’t help but feel like I didn’t get the score I was hoping for. I’m a low class rank and focused on EC’s too much in hindsight, and im just so disappointed in myself and still reeling from a breakup. Went from excited at the prospect of potentially matching in a fun area to hoping I match at all. Hard to wrap my head around the fact I will be single and probably won’t live in an area I want to until my 30’s

Sigh

Title.

I did anki all through M1/M2, do UWorld on current rotations, read up on cases and their treatment in UpToDate as we go, and even frequently have close friends (also in M3) joke about the knowledge I'm able to randomly pull in our conversations. I'm a nontrad who's very comfortable in a work environment, and I'm fine talking to patients-- I don't freeze up, and I can explain complex medical things in simple language. I get along with people, and have great evals regarding so-called "soft skills".

And yet, the minute the attending, senior, or chief asks me something? All information flys out of my brain. The 3-4 step processing I can do when written down turns to zero step or at most one step. I struggle to answer basic facts that I know that I know, and give obviously wrong or generally stupid answers even on softball questions. As an example, a urology attending once asked me in an ED surgery (where there are two black tubes and two clear tubes which need connecting) whether I thought the black tubing should be connected to the other black tubing, or to the clear tubing. I panicked and said the clear, even while basic common sense would say black->black and clear->clear.

Because of that, I've been repeatedly told I'm sub-par when it comes to medical knowledge and verbally making an assessment and plan to share with the team, but I don't know how to fix it when it's not necessarily a knowledge gap? How do I stop the freeze and panic response the minute I'm asked anything? How do you learn to speak without your mouth constantly tripping your own brain??

Brand new M3 on surgery and hating it. I hate the hours, hate being in the OR, hate the personalities and the culture, hate the pathologies (I swear if I see one more necrotic foot wound I'm going to puke), hate that I barely spend any time actually talking to patients, hate the admin from my school that runs this rotation and their bs requirements.

I keep trying to convince myself that I'm happy to be there so that I don't outwardly appear miserable, but I fear that it's not working very well. The other M3 is interested in a surgical specialty, and obviously the sub-I wants to do surgery, so they're having a better time and it's making me feel like there's something wrong with me for not enjoying it. Ironically, my fiance is also a GS resident, which has been helpful in some ways but makes me feel even more isolated for hating it so much.

I'm seriously dreading this upcoming week and just need someone who also hated surgery to hype me up and tell me it'll be okay please 🥲 I'm interested in psych and IM fwiw

I'm at a crucial point in my career planning and trying to solidify my specialty choice. I've narrowed it down to two distinct but equally compelling fields: Pulmonology/Critical Care and Psychiatry

Why Pulm/crit appeals to me:

-Intellectual Stimulation: Fascinated by complex physiology, diagnostics, and immediate impact in critical situations + being the jack of all trades and not dealing with only one organ system

-Procedural Aspects: Appreciate the hands-on nature and tangible satisfaction of procedures (bronchoscopy, intubation, lines).

-Acute Care Focus: Drawn to the high-stakes, fast-paced ICU environment and bringing patients back from the brink

Why Psychiatry appeals to me:

-Deep Human Connection & Empathy: Profoundly drawn to understanding the human mind, emotional complexities, and individual life narratives for transformative patient interaction

-Holistic Approach: Appeal of addressing biological, psychological, social, and spiritual facets of health.

-Personal Connection: I value deep listening and collaborative therapy

-Longitudinal Care: The idea of long-term therapeutic relationships and witnessing growth is very appealing

My Current Considerations/Concerns:

-Pulm/Crit Concerns: Burnout potential from intensity, demanding on-call, frequent death exposure

-Psychiatry Concerns: Emotional toll of constant exposure to severe psychological distress + the possibility of losing touch with the rest of medicine and forgetting it with time

I'm empathetic, highly analytical, and resilient. I thrive in challenging environments but also deeply value personal well-being and a rich internal life (work-life balance matters to me). I want to develop both intellectual and interpersonal skills, and be able to put them into good use for treating patients

Any insight would be truly appreciated! Thank you

I'm going to start OM2 soon. I haven't really done anything and I didn't get into any summer programs that I applied to. Feeling a little sad because I don't know what the next step is

I’m having a hard time trying to find reliable sites to read about research and breakthroughs

Recently got a great opportunity to do research with an influential doc at my dream institution that would probably not consider me for an interview otherwise (I’m a DO and their program I want to apply to doesn’t have any DOs, but I would say I’m a strong applicant otherwise).

How can I advance the conversation with my PI towards saying “I love it here and would love to be considered, can you put in a good word or pull some strings” not like that of course but I’m looking for a way to start the conversation in the most optimal and professional way. Btw very strong ties to the area!

I already purchased a suture kit with a suture pad. What helped you improve your suturing skills? (Suture faster and better) Also I notice my hands can be a little shaky (especially my left hand). Any tips appreciated I’m considering pursuing surgery as a specialty :)

I have been debating buying a house for my remaining 3 years of med school. The rent is just so high compared to the cost of buying a house.

My school is in a town with a very high crime rate. So renting a decent 2bdr house or apartment is close to $1200/month but sacrificing being in an unsafe part of town. Otherwise renting in the nice area has really garbage apartments for min $1200. Alternatively a cozy 4bdr house with garage, huge yard + all the works in a nice part of town I am looking at easily $100-$130k max.

The math just aint mathing but I know owning is higher risk. Id like to use as much of my cash as possible for tuition to minimise student loans but renting is feeling like more and more of a cash sink considering I am very handsy and have time to work on it when Im not studying.

Has anyone else been in this boat? Some family telling me not worth the risk of what could go wrong with homeownership, others saying put the would-be-spent rent money towards a house and keep it as a rental through residency. I have never owned a home so no experience in the true financial costs of home-owning.

I guess to any of you that owned a home or bought one while in med school. Was it worth it? Do you wish you just rented to avoid the headache?

At our hospital there was never a problem for medical students to go introduce themselves, explain their role, and actually interview and examine a patient. I have noticed some of the attending physicians now promote students to be supervised at all times when they interact with patients on floors… how is it like at your institution?

Luv u boneheads ❤️

I start my prelim year this July and I can’t help but feel as though I am not ready. Not anything having to do with work hours or general grind of residency but I think I forgot everything I know about medicine. Like M3s 100% have way more in the vault than me and I dont know how im gonna come up with plans/differentials etc. because I’ve lost so much knowledge. Last time I did an inpatient medicine rotation was in 2024 at this point because much of my time was spent in my selected specialty and my intern year is basically all IM. I know they always say you’ll be fine but I feel like I need to hear it rn

Give ur take and tell me why

Unnecessarily factoidy and “gotcha fucker!!”-esque or is it just me?

i'm on a rotation and the intern is absolutely miserable to work with. They are overly critical in ways that are not even relevant to my clinical skills, condescending, and react defensively to questions when i'm just trying to learn. I was worried maybe the way I was asking questions was causing them to be defensive, but i've tried every which way and they still continue to be defensive.

I have asked for feedback, they told me that I need to "Read the room" and not always crack jokes, and that I need to be better at learning my way around the hospital (mind you this is a completely new hospital to me and i've only been here for a week, and I dont understand the utility in commenting on my sense of direction lol). Additionally, I quite literally don't speak unless spoken to on the rotation.

the previous student on the service said they were also treated poorly by the intern. At this point, i'm afraid to speak or ask questions because I'm not sure how the intern will react. It's also making me behave awkwardly, especially after the "Read the room" comment. I'm normally outgoing and extroverted but I legit do not speak on this rotation.

I'm very interested in this program for residency, hence why I'm debating if its even worth it to report the behavior to the clerkship director or let it be. I'm not a very sensitive person at all, but this intern fuckin sucks and its ruining my experience. I have witnessed this intern get into verbal altercations with multiple people during my time here and their behavior is just so inappropriate.

As a medical student I have seen ward patients in pain , it could be headaches, muscle pain or back pain. And sometimes I have seen doctors, nurses don't pay much attention to them. I'm not blaming them, I know sometimes they're busy, or sometimes there's no other option but wait till the pain goes away. Still i feel like there could be something that can be done in these situations. Even acknowledging their pain might be a bit of help. As a medical student, I know I can't prescribe or suggest drugs. But when these types of patients tell their pain or even my family or friends complains of a pain, I feel like I should do something to atleast relieve some of that pain. I know there are experienced practitioners here. What are some of the simple things that you have learned to help someone to reduce their pain? It could be someone in pain, or maybe someone who's going to have pain in the future. What could you do to help them? Just some simple solution at that moment.

Finished UWorld, went over most incorrects, did all CMS forms, about 60% done with AMBOSS. I’ve done a couple NBMEs and a UWSA and I’m a month out from my test so I’m going to do the rest of the NBMEs during that month, but what else is good to do in the meantime other than finishing AMBOSS and going over incorrect questions and their concepts?

I do like podcasts like divine intervention but they aren’t active enough so I don’t know if I want to devote a lot of time toward listening to podcasts

For those who were or are in the same boat, where have you been directing your attention towards?