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Anatomy departmentDr. Solounias rules. He was my interviewier in December. Most comfortable, laid back interview I had! I can't wait to have him as a professor. He seems like a fantastic guy.
Anatomy departmentDr. Solounias rules. He was my interviewier in December. Most comfortable, laid back interview I had! I can't wait to have him as a professor. He seems like a fantastic guy.
With all the emails they send, they didn't send one for this?Anyone else catch Dr. Solounias on the history channel today? He was on Histories Mysteries - Ancient Monster Hunters
With all the emails they send, they didn't send one for this?
He's been on a few times (I've missed all of them), and they've never sent an email. I'm not sure if it's the same episode, but I don't think so because I know on one of them he was talking all about Greece. I think they just don't care
Hey does anyone know where to find any additional info on our rotations as far as when to be there and where to go the first day?
Hey does anyone know where to find any additional info on our rotations as far as when to be there and where to go the first day?
On still site.
Some rockstar matched yale rads. Bunch of other rockstars too, per usual.
Holy crap, childrens hosp of boston
I'm in the class of 2011, and was just wondering what this 'still' site is and where I can view the 2008 match list. Thanks.
I'm taking the COMLEX next week. It says I need my NBOME #. Where do I get that? I have an AOA card that states "student member" and has a 6 digit number under it. Is that it? Thanks.
Next week we might be doing OPQRST!
Not really sure where to get the NBOME #, but when I took COMLEX the only thing you needed was 2 forms of identification, one with a photo on it.I'm taking the COMLEX next week. It says I need my NBOME #. Where do I get that? I have an AOA card that states "student member" and has a 6 digit number under it. Is that it? Thanks.
Next week we might be doing OPQRST!
Don't worry. Class of 2009 DPC 1st time step1 COMLEX pass was 29/30. That's a 96.6% 1st time pass rate, which is pretty impressive IMO. I'm interested to see the numbers for class of 2010.To all the newly-minted 3rd years, congrats!
I am going to be starting NYCOM in Aug for the class of 2012 and am currently enrolled in DPC.
Can anyone who took the boards recently reflect on their experience in DPC and how it prepared them for boards? My main concern is significant gaps in knowledge. Do you think you were prepared for boards better, worse, or equal to the lecture kids? I understand that a large portion of boards success is attributed to the individual but I am quite nervous (and excited) about DPC.
Also, comments in general about DPC? I see that there is a great deal of administrative distress from the lecture kids, but I rarely see DPC kids from 2010 and 2011 venting on the boards.
THANKS! AND CONGRATS ON TAKING YOUR EXAMS!
Don't worry. Class of 2009 DPC 1st time step1 COMLEX pass was 29/30. That's a 96.6% 1st time pass rate, which is pretty impressive IMO. I'm interested to see the numbers for class of 2010.
To all the newly-minted 3rd years, congrats!
I am going to be starting NYCOM in Aug for the class of 2012 and am currently enrolled in DPC.
Can anyone who took the boards recently reflect on their experience in DPC and how it prepared them for boards? My main concern is significant gaps in knowledge. Do you think you were prepared for boards better, worse, or equal to the lecture kids? I understand that a large portion of boards success is attributed to the individual but I am quite nervous (and excited) about DPC.
Also, comments in general about DPC? I see that there is a great deal of administrative distress from the lecture kids, but I rarely see DPC kids from 2010 and 2011 venting on the boards.
THANKS! AND CONGRATS ON TAKING YOUR EXAMS!
In terms of pathology/pathophysiology of things covered on the boards, we were fine. I think most of us read Guyton/Costanzo/Robbins and Goljan or BRS throughout the year, so when it came time to re-read/review Goljan/BRS for boards it was familiar. It also helps to have a pathologist as the head of the program - I think we were all plenty familiar with slides and trying to correlate them with patient presentation.
In terms of the boards thing, I can only speak for myself - I felt tremendous gaps in my knowledge of microbio & neuro in general. That being said, I felt that (for my exam, at least) FA was sufficient for these topics. In fact, FA and Goljan was sufficient for ALL topics on my USMLE. So while I never really learned micro or neuro, what I learned in FA was enough to get me by on the boards. Same with pharm.
In my final 4-5 weeks of board review, I kept saying to myself over and over again, I wish I had more direction to know THIS is what was important! But then again, I never bothered to ask anyone and never really looked at FA as much as I should have the 1st 2 yrs. I never watched lectures either. So the resources were available to me, but I didn't take full advantage. I wish I had popped open FA and glanced at the 5 or 6 pgs of embryo that is important instead of trying to actually read a book on it. I wish I took pharm flashcards and highlighted onto them everything from FA so I didn't waste time reading G/G. Yes, I read G/G. I wish I looked at the beautiful "big picture" biochem diagram in FA before trying to read/understand all those metabolism chapters so that I knew that the only thing that was important was rate limiting steps and deficiencies.
So while I wish I had more direction, I don't know whose fault that is. I mean, I paying them a lot of money, right? The least I could get is some direction. Many of us felt that we got caught up in irrelevant minutiae the first year and only got our acts together second year. Thats a lot of wasted time. You won't truly appreciate how precious time is until you start your hardcore studying for boards.
The administration... well, some of them are stubborn (to put it mildly). While we told them to change the case library to reflect more neuro and more microbio and less kidney, we got the response, oh so youre experts on the kidney then? So then of course we did what we had to - independent learning, learning things completely unrelated to the case. Outside of their stubborness, I think they're okay - we get fed and we get to b*tch directly to them, and to each other, once a month. Dr. Elkowitz was kind enough to rearrange our schedule a few times when it was clearly unfair, so I think he's definately more "on our side" than the general NYCOM admin's.
Overall, if I could do it again, I would... but would keep MUCH more of an eye towards what is board relevant. You'll get these lines about "you don't know whats gonna be on the boards" and therefore you have to prepare for everything"... IMO, thats erroneous b/c that would mean Kaplan, BRS, FA, all the review companies would be out of business. So just make sure you THOROUGHLY use those review materials alongside your primary sources when youre studying to make sure you take away whats important. Everyones got their favorite books, but your most favorite should be your review books, if for no other reason than the fact that you will not have any other source of direction.
hey guys some general questions for people who have been at nycom for awhile:
1. do you take your laptop to class all the time?
2. do you need to get scrubs for 1st 2 years?
3. is there sufficient parking/ or do you need to get to school early for spots
4. how many hours do you study on a regular night after class?
thanks!
Oh and btw that program doesn't work that they gave us even with the new card. Even though I've been installing it on the card of my palm, it still refuses to work and just gives me fatal errors and restarts my palm.
I got it working but I had to delete a bunch of preinstalled palm software first. It takes up too much memory, try to delete some things and try again. Mine wasn't working at first but now it is.
Does anyone know anything about epocrates...is the $100 version worth it/better than unbound?
Also, does anyone know if we could download the nycom logs programs to use on a windows mobile platform or only palm?
I'm in line to get a new phone and can get either a treo 755p for free or a windows mobile phone which seems like a stronger platform. I'd rather get the windows phone if there was a way I can put the logs software on there. Anything know anything about this as well as if you can get a palm/smartphone and not pay the data fee. I don't care about the internet as much as I care about consolidating what I'm carrying around in the hospital.
Did they ever tell us how often we need to do logs or for how many pts per day. From what i heard it seems just once a week to upload, so does that mean one entry per week is minimum???
anybody know if it is absolute requirement to have signature for every logs records in our pda?? thanks guys.
i hate technology
I don't have any "forms" that show up under the forms 5.0 program... i think it might have to do with my datatel ID.... is that 2006 followed by our Super secret #, or just the 6 digit super secret #?
Any other ideas on what might be causing this? the password doesn't have to match our guru password, does it? i changed my guru password midway throughout the year.
i hate technology
I am a member of the class of 2011
Did you guys have enough freedom when scheduling your boards to allow for a week off before clerkships started? Just trying to figure out scheduling for an important family event. Any advice appreciated.
Thanks