It's almost like you just stated one of the facts of business: adminstrative people will do whatever causes the least conflict and work in their lives. Being in the military I know you understand this bureaucracy but apparently a lot of students haven't had jobs before so this is shocking to them???
I agree that this sounds like laziness by your school. We always had in-person exams with proctors present on a particular software, but our school sent out a poll early last week to figure out everyone's computer capabilities and when they announced P/F they also said that they would be using a new program that would allow for remote proctoring. To make you come in to sit for an exam, especially when it's not an NBME, is crazy.
I shall never cease to be amazed at the ripoff that is higher education. My DO school hasn’t updated a PowerPoint in over 10 years and I doubt any of them were made by our faculty in the first place. Nevertheless, my cheap and lazy school still has software to record us taking a test AND flags points where you look away from your screen for review by a human later. There’s no way it’s difficult or expensive in any way because they otherwise wouldn’t do it.
it depends if hospitals still look like a warzone.
At this point, I'd pay good money to do Aquifer all day, as long as I didn't have to wake up before dawn or try to read Rorschach blobs that vaguely resemble chest xrays
Don't worry, you won't get to do anything on your sub-i.
Had a meeting with residency advisor today that said there are whispers of ERAS timeline getting pushed back/condensed to make some more room for us towards late summer/early autumn.
That would be glorious. I mean I just need to do an away and a LOR in my desired field. It sucks but it is what is. But I can’t imagine how stressful it must be for surgical sub studs who want to do multiple aways before submitting apps. This essentially screws everyone trying to match outside of the typical core 3rd year rotations.
I lucked out and got two exposure to two seperate departments before this unfolded, so I should be able to scrounge 3 letters out of it, but they wont be ideal like from program directors of 3 separate programs.
it has timestamps. I was always afraid they might actually look at them and screw me .
You make a decision yet?
not sure if I am even going to be able to get the alternate specialty rotation considering everything that is going on. Going to continue to prepare for the primary plan and see if I have a change of heart. Will be difficult considering Sub Is might not even happen.
It definitely does but I keep telling me that everyone is dealing with it so the effects will be mitigated slightly because of that. Anything to stay sane
Yeah, but only sort of. People gunning for a specific competitive specialty since preclinical are going to clean up this year if it let them sneak in their subIs/get a couple high-quality letters early. People deciding on specialty late and who don't already have any letters lined up (like me) could be in a very, very, very bad spot if COVID keeps us out of the hospitals until July/August. I was completely banking on my next couple electives and summer advanced clerkships to figure out my life.
Oh I was too. I currently only have 2 LOR, neither of which are in my specialty of choice, and only 1 is actually uploaded. I have zero rotations set up for next year officially. I feel ya
None of this is a problem independent of the covid situation. When I applied I don't think I had any letters uploaded until after September 1st. I clearly remember that two of the four came in on 9/14.
I'm more worried about having someone to ask, fine with uploading late. If I have no medicine sub-I, no critical care, no elective in the specialty, no aways...what am I supposed to do? Go back and get letters from the attendings I worked with on totally unrelated rotations nearly a year prior? They probs wont even remember my name!
Yeah, I get that. In my specialty the only acceptable letters are from 4th year sub-i's anyway so that wouldn't even be an option. The good thing is it seems like your whole class—at your school and around the country—will be in the same boat no matter the duration of this fiasco, so I doubt you'll be at any disadvantage.
My school has cancelled away rotations until mid-OCTOBER
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I should have been more clear, we are refusing to ACCEPT any visiting students until mid October
This is for Baltimore/DC area which hasn't even started to see anything approaching the hotspots. But true I think Philly and Baltimore/DC are trying to plan ahead
I'm from socal, and am way too laid back and lifestyle-oriented to stay on the East coast for much longer
I do agree
Im not even worried about the collapse of society. Unlikely unless covid suddenly became 50X more deadly. The conerns I have are inconsequential in the grand scheme of society, like away rotations and inability to complete an application and having a normal timeline of application.
are you a second or third year? I think on the order of magnitudes of how bad this year has hit people: M3>M4>M1 (P/F)>M2 (dedicated during this is fine)
m3.
I’d put it M3>>M2>M4>M1.
Idk if prometric closes centers through may/June im gonna take a month off and start gaming again....
