Also Allo related: FM shelf and OSCE on Friday 8am-4pm. I don't wanna.
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I wonder what is worse. Being a med student or being in a relationship with a med student. I suppose the former is tiring and sometimes annoying, while the latter is just frustrating, and probably annoying too.I am sure. I secondhand experience it nonstop and it sometimes makes me want to punch a wall.
you can do it!
Are you guys kidding? Anatomy is the best.
Oh my god, Ark v2.0 over here with the "everyone be happy now that I'm leaving"
Nope. I'm loving biochemistry on the other hand, but anatomy just doesn't click with me
Well. I will say that I knew what I was getting myself into. It is frustrating annoying difficult and in general exhausting sometimes. But the long distance part of it sucks more than the med school part
7 months and counting
I'm at a year and a half. I think you're right that it won't be as bad as it was initially
I'm the opposite.
Me too!!!
Not surprising that I then hated M3.
Exactly - it has everything I need to know, my job is to internalize the information and then regurgitate it on exams, and then out to bars for drinks and appetizers. M3 on the other hand -- catfights among classmates, passive-aggressiveness from overworked residents, etc. A lot of "hidden" rules, if you're a woman, depending on resident/institution maybe some sexual harassment thrown in. I'll take actual mutual respect from PhD professors anyday - they may not be able to impart the material well bc they're really getting old, but at least you knew they were trying and you had the material already.
Remember that when your female OB-Gyn resident is being passive aggressive to you but being awesome with a male med student. Or when your male surgical attending is getting a little grabby.
That helps on Surgery, but not as much on OB-Gyn where that will definitely backfire. Works opposite for guys on OB-Gyn, but not on Surgery so it evens out. M3 pretty much requires you to be a social chameleon of sorts bc each clerkship has such a very different "culture": Psych vs. Peds vs. OB-Gyn vs. Surgery, vs. IM vs. Neuro vs. Family Med.
Yeah I'm scared about that. But also I miss seeing patients. God I hope I don't get harassed tho, I can't deal with that kinda crap.
I mean don't go in anticipating that (obviously). But you'll see that what the "rules" are aren't necessarily followed, and you'll notice the hierarchy right away on certain specialties and can feel the power differential. A lot of "hidden curriculum" stuff involved that if you don't know about in advance can leave you a little disillusioned.
I heard that the female OB/Gyn residents and attendings are usually complete dicks to the male med students.
I was just using that as an example, bc touchpause is a female. See what I said after that. lol.
Except if I remember correctly, the girl's story fell apart and was thought to be lying.
Yeah, I don't know. It's really a foggy situation. Here's an article about it, FWIW.
That's kind of strong statement! The guy was found innocent...
These stats are hard to measure accurately but if you go for unfounded reports (which could be for more reasons than just that she is lying) it's 2 to 8% so even if every one of those was because she is lying, 92% are telling the truth.
Yeah, I tend to believe in innocent until proven guilty. Women can be just as guilty of lying as men are, esp. when relationships go awry, or there is a financial motive, etc. Too often rape accusations are more guilty until proven innocent -- see the Duke Lacrosse rape hoax case in which the defendant's lives were ruined bc of a party in which they hired a stripper.
I don't think it went to trial! but there were a civil suit; he gave her some money... She basically was someone who wanted money... I don't like Kobe though, but I just don't think it's fair for these women to damage people's reputation the way she did...
