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<p>This exists! 
Can’t post youtube vids here, but search for “Rotogrip” or “Automatic snow chains” - not sure how well they work, and they’re only for heavy duty vehicles like snow plows, ambulances, etc.</p>
<p>Congrats on your graduation, NCG. You must feel great to be done. 8-)</p>
<p>MCAT2, MS3s do need a car in some med schools. DS’s school has a lottery for each rotation and they get to rank the list of clinics by preference. Most of the places are within 30 mins drive from school and some are very close to either home or to his school. Depending on the distance of the clinic where he gets to go for rotation, he will decide whether to stay home for that rotation or stay at his school and drive.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>DS mentioned that he might need a car even before he needs to communte to hospitals. The reason is it is really not the same thing to drive a car in a city where the road may be covered by snow and ice as compared to driving in a “very dry” state where there is little rain, let alone snow.</p>
<p>mcat - Yearly is excessive. Certainly there can be frequent moves. With peds being only a 3 year residency, it means that I’m on my 3rd city in 3 different states in literally 3 years and 1 month (med school-> residency -> fellowship). And with my first attending job at the end of fellowship, I may repeat that sequence for 4 cities in just over 6 years. But once one gets into being an attending, if you’re moving that quickly, you can’t gain enough traction to really establish yourself. If you’re in academics there’s no way to really get any research done, and in private practice, you can’t establish any sort of patient panel to make any money if you don’t settle down.</p>
<p>I would however agree that in academics being flexible on the possibility of moving is the best approach to make the most progress. However, location is only a component of reputation - I know someone who is a fellow in a particular pediatric subspecialty at Boston Children’s who is completing a review article - not even a meta-analysis - for their “scholarly activity” while a fellow at my hospital (well known in the field, but not Harvard and for the general population they’d expect rednecks not intelligence) had a pretty straight forward research project which caused an international organization to reverse their previous position statement.</p>