Mcw Class Of 2011 Awesome Part 3!!!!!!!!!!

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TheProwler said:
Hmmm, seems arse newenger was checking out my profile recently...
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The following screen names are the most recent visitors to my page:

  1. Agent Splat...
  2. Ashers
  3. Blesbok+
  4. Koch
  5. njshibby
  6. Pinkertinkle
  7. USCguy
  8. Xandie
I guess Ashers is looking for a young blood to prey on...STALKING is not the way to go. Boldness is way more sexier.

Agent Splat... You'd be doing yourself some good if you spend less time spying on me and more time perfecting your rusty "***** scoring" skills.

Xandie... I forbid you from visiting my page from now onwards.
 
Wow, someone is cranky.

I have a question about the schedule for micro lab. We have a video day scheduled for Sept 5th- are those days really necessary to attend?
Sad that I am planning my skipping already, but in my defense, it is the only time I can get in to see my doctor.
 
MCW2011 said:
Wow, someone is cranky.

I have a question about the schedule for micro lab. We have a video day scheduled for Sept 5th- are those days really necessary to attend?
Sad that I am planning my skipping already, but in my defense, it is the only time I can get in to see my doctor.
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YES, YES, and one more YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS to all your questions. For Dick's sake, you ask a lot of questions. Make your own schedule and follow it... do not allow anyone tell you what class to attend or not. You are not accountable to anyone, but yourself. However, don't forget that:as you lay your bed, so shall you lie on it.
 
Is it true that you get your path score immediately once you submit your test? Can I choose not to look? Do they post on angel later? I don't know if I want to see it immediately!
 
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Allerian1004 said:
Is it true that you get your path score immediately once you submit your test? Can I choose not to look? Do they post on angel later? I don't know if I want to see it immediately!
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yes, we got it right away. it would be pretty hard not to look, and yes, it's posted later.
 
The period of time between finishing the test and clicking "submit" is incredibly tense.
 
just a note for any med students playing along at home:

It is NOT okay for your parents to call the school after you have received a sub-satisfactory score on an exam--not ever.
 
i know this is a decision to make a few months from now, but which is better- usmle world or kaplan qbank? kaplan is having a lunch talk on monday, so that's why i'm wondering about it now.
 
monv15 said:
i know this is a decision to make a few months from now, but which is better- usmle world or kaplan qbank? kaplan is having a lunch talk on monday, so that's why i'm wondering about it now.
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World. The step 1 forum is pretty unanimous.
 
monv15 said:
i know this is a decision to make a few months from now, but which is better- usmle world or kaplan qbank? kaplan is having a lunch talk on monday, so that's why i'm wondering about it now.
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Whatever you do, don't buy anything now.

I liked Kaplan. Most people disagree with me, but I got through all of it, and had some exact questions from Qbank on step 1. I also thought I was well prepared for Step 1 with it, since the questions were harder.
 
I sure can't argue with the results I had using Kaplan, but who knows how I would have performed with UW....I just started using UW for Step II and it seems fine.

Whatever you do, just be sure to make it through the entire bank of questions, and read every answer explanation. I really think this is one of the keys to doing well on the test.
 
Gimlet said:
I sure can't argue with the results I had using Kaplan, but who knows how I would have performed with UW....I just started using UW for Step II and it seems fine.

Whatever you do, just be sure to make it through the entire bank of questions, and read every answer explanation. I really think this is one of the keys to doing well on the test.
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I liked Qbank. I think the questions were somewhat harder than the real thing (in trickiness, not necessarily in subject matter), which actually I think pays off because you remember it better when you have missed a question about it (and you will miss a lot). Never used World.
 
So how many months of Qbank did you guys buy? Would something like the 3 months be enough? I feel like 6 months might be too far out?
 
Allerian1004 said:
So how many months of Qbank did you guys buy? Would something like the 3 months be enough? I feel like 6 months might be too far out?
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I really only used one month. 3 months is a max.
 
I recommend just one month. Also, I used USMLE World and loved it.
 
1 month. Also, I would recommend that you make a priority of doing every single question rather than go through biochem 5 times.
 
Hey. How is the micro lab exam? We have that tomorrow and I'm wondering how intensely I should study for it.
 
skoutt said:
Hey. How is the micro lab exam? We have that tomorrow and I'm wondering how intensely I should study for it.
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um, pretty easy, if I recall correctly. I think I only got a few wrong. Definitely know all the lab tests.
 
Ashers said:
I think they made our year more block-like than before.
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If having exams 3 out of every 4 weeks is more block-like, I would have hated to see what it was like before!
 
DoctorFunk said:
If having exams 3 out of every 4 weeks is more block-like, I would have hated to see what it was like before!
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According to my friend who graduated in 2007, he told me we had a nicer schedule compared to his as M2s. I think theirs might've been more spread out and not many study days since we got a few of those.
 
3 months of exams spaced by 2 weeks.... ugg.
 
Yeah, that stretch from about mid-October to Christmas really sucked. Every time you finished an exam, you could start to feel the next one looming...never felt like you had time to take a breather for a day or two.
 
Gimlet said:
Yeah, that stretch from about mid-October to Christmas really sucked. Every time you finished an exam, you could start to feel the next one looming...never felt like you had time to take a breather for a day or two.
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Block 3 micro was when I got really burnt out. I started watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights instead of studying.

I also got very burnt out sometime during the spring semester.

Both times I couldn't force myself to study. It was bad.
 
Gimlet said:
Yeah, that stretch from about mid-October to Christmas really sucked. Every time you finished an exam, you could start to feel the next one looming...never felt like you had time to take a breather for a day or two.
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yeah, fall of M2 is easily the worst of the first two years
 
TheProwler said:
Last year, Dr. Willoughby gave us a lecture on how he did it. I didn't go, but I've seen him around on the floor several times this month. Pretty cool line item to tack on your resume.
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In the grownup professional world we call it a "CV."
 
TheProwler said:
Last year, Dr. Willoughby gave us a lecture on how he did it. I didn't go, but I've seen him around on the floor several times this month. Pretty cool line item to tack on your resume.
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I was interviewing with an ID specialist a couple weeks ago and they were telling me about several attempts across the country to replicate his technique that all failed and ended in your typical rabies death. Seems like people are starting to feel that she may have had some sort of partial immunity to rabies to begin with.

So yeah, cool story to tell at dinner parties, but I wouldn't go basing my whole CV around it until a few more successful case studies emerge. ;)
 
Also according to one of the pediatricians involved in the case, there was a lot of prayer on behalf of that girl in WI. For what it's worth, but I believe it can help. The pediatrician attributed almost everything to the girl's and her family's faith.
 
Ashers said:
Also according to one of the pediatricians involved in the case, there was a lot of prayer on behalf of that girl in WI. For what it's worth, but I believe it can help. The pediatrician attributed almost everything to the girl's and her family's faith.
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Can't quite say that about the girl who died from diabetes.


Disclaimer: I have nothing against faith and prayer. In conjunction with medical care.
 
akpete said:
Can't quite say that about the girl who died from diabetes.


Disclaimer: I have nothing against faith and prayer. In conjunction with medical care.
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Nor my dad's patient with chondrosarcoma who refused treatment. That person went to my church and used to be in my parents' bible study. There's a place for prayer WITH appropriate treatment.
 
DoctorFunk said:
So yeah, cool story to tell at dinner parties, but I wouldn't go basing my whole CV around it until a few more successful case studies emerge. ;)
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I would like to take credit for the following news story published just this morning, as the big guy upstairs simply cannot resist an opportunity to make yours truly eat his own foot.

Brazilian boy with rabies in recovery
'Milwaukee protocol' finds some success

Thanks a lot Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and your anti-Funk bias. :mad:
 
DoctorFunk said:
I would like to take credit for the following news story published just this morning, as the big guy upstairs simply cannot resist an opportunity to make yours truly eat his own foot.

Brazilian boy with rabies in recovery
'Milwaukee protocol' finds some success

Thanks a lot Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and your anti-Funk bias. :mad:
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But I posted that yesterday from Yahoo! News... which is how the whole discussion started. :confused:

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Ashers said:
And in honor of the M2s and block 3 virology, here's an article about rabies being cured with the Milwaukee Protocol in Brazil.
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Ashers said:
But I posted that yesterday from Yahoo! News... which is how the whole discussion started. :confused:

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Dammit Funk. You'll never make a good doctor if you can't keep up.

I've docked 5 bucks from what I owe you now. Further screwups will result in increased reductions.
 
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