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<p>The physicians I have interacted with have always told me exactly the same thing. After i began taking Anatomy (fascinated by it!), I contacted one of our attendings (a surgeon) and asked him if i could tag along with him sometimes. I have been spending half a day with him per week going to surgery and rounds. </p>
<p>I am witnessing first hand what Princess’Dad said above.</p>
<p>Interview invitation season is just about over for me. Ended up with 23 total interviews (7 prelims and 16 radiology interviews). I ended up scheduling 22 interviews and have already done 5 of them. Still a long ways to go but the stress of waiting for interview invites is just about over.</p>
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<p>Good luck! Seems like the competition gets stiffer and stiffer every year, but I have a feeling you’ll do just fine. Let us know how things go.</p>
<p>Good gosh man! Thank you for this thread! I am a high school senior aspiring to be some type of physician eventually, and the amount of work involved from your account seems tremendous! Thanks again for the enlightenment!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if I am capable of doing all of this right now. Do you feel overwhelmed or has your many years of college prepared you for this process?</p>
<p>I apologize if my post is juvenile in the context of this thread.</p>
<p>Kanzu
If you enjoy it, the work is fun!</p>
<p>There are many major transitions you have to make in your journey to becoming a doctor: from college to medical school, from the first two years of medical school to the third year of medical school, from medical school to being a resident, and from being a resident to being an attending. I wouldn’t say that the preparation is always adequate and there are certainly moments where you will feel overwhelmed and ill-equipped to handle the responsibility that you are tasked with. But, in the end, you’ll find ways to adjust and you’ll come out just fine.</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement gentlemen. I look forward to watching you succeed!</p>
<p>Step 2 results came in today. Very happy to say that my S rocked them! He had done very well on the Step 1 and his Step 2 score came as a bit of a surprise to him. It’s providing a much needed mental boost in the midst of a very busy and stressful three weeks of interviewing.</p>
<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all !</p>
<p>Mine came in today as well. 26 pt improvement over Step 1. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten a lot of interviews and rejections already but a good Step 2 score can’t hurt for ranking purposes. </p>
<p>More comforting, my score is an indication that I’ve learned something my 3rd and 4th years of med school. I consider the info tested on Step 2 to be much more akin of what I will be using on the wards vs. Step 1 even though Step 1 is more important for application purposes.</p>
<p>Congrats NCG…his improvement was very comparable to yours.</p>
<p>He has 16 interviews set up, got three rejections (at true big time reaches, though he does have one interview set at another reach) and is about 1/3 of the way through his interviews. The next 10 days are going to be wild including crisscrossing the US a few times in 5 days.</p>
<p>Good luck with the rest of your interviews.</p>
<p>Good luck to your son as well. </p>
<p>Interviews are tough. I can’t wait for the next 2 months to pass by so I can get back to doing medicine again.</p>
<p>Fellowship Match Day is tomorrow…it’s been a long road. I’m more than a touch anxious, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.</p>
<p>Good luck BRM…hope you get what you want!</p>
<p>Good luck! I hope you will let us know where you are going!</p>
<p>How’d the match go?</p>
<p>thanks guys. I matched into my first choice! I was a nervous wreck this morning though, and it was a massive relieve to finally know. While it was far less dramatic checking online while waiting for NICU rounds to start than residency match day (which was complete with ‘kegs & eggs’ party before hand and announcing in front of over 200 people), the other residents in the NICU were super vocal in their support and made it more than I was expecting. The best news is that the program I’m headed to filled all their spots, and my home program was also successful and filled their spots - one of which was a close friend.</p>
<p>Because I’ve had people try (and sometimes successfully) to find me off of CC, I’ll avoid posting specifics, but suffice to say, I need to reacquaint myself with the cold weather after the past 3 years in SEC Country. </p>
<p>And in the only news that could make today better…I’m forever done with the NICU after today. By about day 4 I was already pointing out that I’d never take care of another 27 week preemie ever again. Don’t get me wrong, there are parts of the NICU I love, but it’s such a highly specialized patient population, that it doesn’t translate that well to bigger kids - a very unique set of problems that I’ve grown completely comfortable treating that people in other fields probably could not fathom. And the feeder/grower babies who are well…bore me to tears.</p>
<p>BRM, Big congratulation! (And thanks for all the helps you gave us in the past.)</p>
<p>Congrats BRM, thats awesome. What peds fellowship are you going into again (I looked through the last 5 or 6 pages, but didn’t see it)? If it narrows down your location too much, no worries.</p>
<p>I’m going into Pediatric Critical Care. I love taking care of kids in the Peds ICU - the sicker the better!</p>
<p>^ very cool - I really like critical care as well. The upcoming ABEM and ABIM agreement to allow EM docs to get certified in CC is just icing on the cake for me in terms of going into EM :)</p>