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Any residents/attendings have experience with switching residency programs and/or specialties altogether? How did it go/work? What's the first step? I've heard of ResidentSwap, but that's about it....

I didn't participate in the AOA match. I thought you could basically hedge your bets by participating in both, but the way you explained having to declare for AOA, it doesn't seem like it would work...

I completely agree. There is an allo bias over osteo, especially for the ROADs specialties. But what I was trying to get at, was that if a DO student didn't end up in an ACGME program of his choice,...

I had a malignant experience with surgery as well. I think just because of the nature of the specialty, malignancy is much more prevalent in surgery than other specialties. Therefore, I think...

Didn't read all of the back and forth, and I'm late to the conversation, but I wanted to mention an alternative that I can't believe wasn't brought up: going to a D.O. program. They match far, far...

Give it some time, then she will be more receptive to talk about it. I agree with being straight up about what happened. You'll know when the time is better, since you'll be spending more time...

Need a bit of context here, mane.

Luckily our school did white coat s/p the first 2 years, right before clinical years and right after Step 1. That's how it should be with schools, imo. You actually earn it at that point.

Just pick literally any of the 10+ novice programs that have you lifting and progressing 3x/week, and make a small caloric deficit every day while eating what you want to eat. It's that simple. I...

If you want to eat something in particular, just eat it and move on. Forget "cheat". You're not prepping for a show and you're not getting paid to look shredded, I assume.

^I did a psych sub-I in the psych ER. It was like real life Walking Dead. Schizo's would be banging their heads against the plexiglass and making sounds constantly. Even my attending called the...

The only thing I'd add is that while it's good to learn the sounds, on all the Steps they provide very obvious clinical history that's s/o the respective murmur. So don't stress if you can't get the...

Can confirm. Am resident (PGY-1) now

In. Just lmao @ the title.

Yeah, np. Everything else still applies though, lol.

I had surgery first, which IMO was optimal in terms of getting it out of the way when you're still fresh. But at least you have medicine towards the end, which I had too. Medicine is great to have at...

Awesome, thank you so much for setting me straight.

Just passed Step 3. Thank god, because clinical management is so important to me as a pathologist. lmao.

Yeah, no, yet I still provided some constructive input instead of useless replies.

I honestly question whether metabolism "slows down" with age, or is it the decreased activity levels (being more sedentary with a desk job, sitting and watching tv when at home), and increased intake...