<p>“curm - tell her to do family practice rotation in Texas. Connecticut does not produce enough babies for practice.”</p>
<p>In New Haven, there are plenty of babies being produced.</p>
<p>At UTSW during the OB/GYN rotation most MS3s deliver more babies than some residents do at other programs. It’s #2 in annual deliveries in the world only behind a hospital in India.</p>
<p>Interesting, TPG, DD was also in a highly Hispanic area when she got lots of deliveries. It was primarily eople whose medical care was all paid for by the government and perhaps between that and their ESL status plus the fact that the region has been primed with student for years, perhaps they either are accustomed to students or don’t even realize students are doing their delivery?</p>
<p>It was great for DD and the physician was right there, no danger to the mom or baby, but I cannot picture anyone living in a Real Housewives region would tolerate a student in their picture perfect delivery room. A student in a more affluent area is less likely to have that opportunity to deliver babies. I think, too, the larger the population, the more likely people use specialists instead of family docs.</p>
<p>D1 is doing OB/GYN as her continuity clinic this fall. She’s already complaining that because her mentor is in private practice, none of the patients will let a student touch them. The students at the OB/GYN clinic at the public hospital are getting to do plenty of deliveries.</p>
<p>lol I don’t even know which rotation delivering babies would fall under. ;)</p>
<p>^I do not think that specialty has changed since our kids are delivered and even since we were delivered.<br>
Speaking of responsibilities, the trip to poor areas of globe might be very interesting as they are actually performing many tasks that they will not have a chance to do for awhile in the USA, and they could have just finished their first year. At some schools it is also could be counted as rotation and there is an additional benefit of greatly improving your foreign language and learning first hand about other culture.</p>
<p>Curm - May be I am thinking of OB/GYN. </p>
<p>I agree with others here about rotation in Houston being in the county hospital where people just show up for delivery without a private doctor and interns on rotation are doing the deliveries.</p>
<p>DD got more than a dozen deliveries in a rural family med exploration, so it could be family med or OB/GYN.</p>
<p>Anybody else here tired of reading about the 80% MCAT factor? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I raise my hand.</p>
<p>I was told recently (by the director of a top 10 program) that he didn’t like the MCAT, didn’t understand it’s purpose or usefulness and when pressed, he said the only use of of the MCAT he could see was to “confirm” the GPA. Perhaps the MCAT will some day become a simpler test with a binary result?</p>
<p>During D1s first interview session, her interviewer was looking at her application on his computer and he commented: a 9 on V, that’s so ridiculous, you’re obviously a well spoken English major, that’s just more proof that it’s a lousy test. </p>
<p>She told him that she appreciated his ‘interpretation’ of her score :).</p>
<p>At D1’s school (and new this year at UMich too), all interviews are “blind”. That means the interviewer does not the student’s GPA or MCAT scores when they conduct their interview. The interviewer does have the rest of the applicant’s packet–including the secondaries, EC list, LORs and PS.</p>
<p>What is the 80% MCAT factor? 80% of your chance of acceptance depends on MCAT score?</p>
<p>Ssssh. Don’t say that too loud. You might attract the ■■■■■ who’s been posting that to every possible thread today…</p>
<p>(FWIW, it’s not true. If you want to see what med school admission directors say, read this:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/261106/data/aibvol11_no6.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/261106/data/aibvol11_no6.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>Plumazul, what you are saying sounds right. Schools wonder how easy it is to get As at certain less prestigious institutions so if you have a nice MCAT score it puts that whole thing to ease.</p>
<p>I wish I could be more personal and involved in this thread, it seems so nice and supportive but I am already paranoid about how easy it would be to figure out who I am from my post history and I can’t tell whether that means I should say screw it and not hold back or whether I need to be more cautious.</p>
<p>I will say that I am over a month into my PhD phase and it is a pretty rough transition out of the lock step grind of medical school where you are coddled and made to believe that you can’t fail. Next week I will be repeating an experiment for the 3rd time because I have messed it up the previous two times (and I know exactly what’s wrong so the issue is me, not the experimental design). The experiment from start to finish takes 5-6 days of work (including incubations and such) so there’s really nothing like ending a week with nothing to show for all your efforts.</p>
<p>Ah! Science. As my DH used to say–welcome to REAL world. (Where nothing ever works right the first time.)</p>
<p>^sorry to hear it, sounds pretty frustrating. It also seems like it happens to approximately everyone I’ve ever known to do lab work (undergrad, PhD, postdoc, etc), so at least misery loves company?</p>
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Sound like a good idea. A CCer once posted that he believes once the score is above some threshold, any increase of the score does not influence the odds of being admitted to some schools much. Stretching his belief to the extreme, it then becomes a pass/fail test. In other word, MCAT is important for the admission to many schools only in the sense that whether the score of an applicant is above some threshold defined by the school.</p>
<p>Regarding the challenging of experiment in research, DS said at one time that a particular experiment done by a postdoc in the research group he was in had failed for 3+ times over several months. Most members in the research group, as well as PI, believed that unless he could get help from a certain long-time research member, the probability for him to get it right is very slim. I heard it is because only that research member (who had had over 10 years experiences in that narrow research area) is very good at using that set of sophisticated equipment. So, it is really that hard!</p>
<p>Brown, based on back channel communications I have with other posters, I am pretty sure a determined poster could figure out who any of us are, our facebook, our home address, etc. I understand your desire to remain anonymous, but it is probably already too late if some one has the interest and the search knowledge.</p>