WAMC: 518/3.98, No Gap Year
cGPA/sGPA: 3.98, 3.99. Biology major, statistics minor
MCAT: 518 (130/129/130/129)
State of residence: NJ
Ethnicity and/or race: White
Undergraduate institution: State school
Clinical experience:
600 hours EMT in a rural 911 volunteer service
Research experience and productivity:
250 hours brain cancer bench research, 0 pubs/presentations but won a $2,000 grant for an independent project
350 hours...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - April 23, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: premedgiraffe Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Rad Onc? Burnt Out?
Here’s some advice from a senior medical director from a leading prior auth company.
You know, those guys who make you wait one week to do a P2P because you wanted to do SRS on a solitary brain met and the nurse reviewer said she can authorize it right away if you do it “by 3D.”
Then the P2P guy says, sorry prostate cancer brain mets are excluded from our SRS policy. You can appeal if you’d like.
Those guys have nothing to do with your burn out I’m sure.
Not to be...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 7, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Gfunk6 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Chemotherapy-related side effects: Accommodations in Med school?
Hi everyone,
Does anyone have experience with or knowledge pertaining to requesting accommodations at med school specific to the side effects of chemotherapy?
e.g. chemo brain / brain fog, intermittent fatigue, delayed recall, reduced attention/ concentration, etc.
Do you know if med schools tend to provide accommodations for these type of cancer treatment-related side effects? Is this a difficult process? How extensive of documentation is required?
I'm coming off treatment soon and due...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 4, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Curlywhirly1 Tags: Medical Students (MD) Source Type: forums
WAMC 518/3.8 Non Trad
**PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS MESSAGE**
3.80 cGPA and 3.70 sGPA
518 (129/131/130/128)
VA resident (Have lived in NY and PA as well)
White guy
Well known state school - Biomedical Engineering major
EMT in a small city (volunteer): 600 hrs at time of application, additional 600 expected before matriculation
Research: 300 hrs in a neuroradiology lab, no pubs. 200 hrs for my senior thesis on ML algorithms to identify recurrent brain tumors.
Shadowing: None yet, have...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - October 17, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Gurububus Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Early stage NSCLC SBRT/hypofrac
Wanted to review how you guys would approach this
Got an elderly guy, GOLD 4 COPD, FVC 1.8L, 45% predicted, FEV1 860cc, 28% predicted, FEV1/FVC ratio 47%, with a peripheral early stage NSCLC, about 1.5cm, close to the chest wall, biopsy proven, PET negative, MRI brain negative. No matter what we did, tumor movement was 2cm+ on 4D, even after re-sim, plate/belt, education, etc. I've heard off hand that if movement >1cm you should not do SBRT, others say it is OK if it is a small target...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - August 12, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Radonky Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
How long it takes to get X
I'm curious how many days it takes to get things done in your health system or medical community.
Placing FDG PET/CT order to getting it completed
Placing diagnostic MRI order to getting it completed, like a pelvis MRI for rectal cancer staging
Placing volumetric MRI order to getting it completed, like a brain MRI for SRS planning
Placing IR biopsy order (or referral to IR) to getting tissue
Sending out surgical path to getting second opinion, like IHC or FISH for sarcoma, and visual...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - April 15, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: bluebubbles Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
How many more credit hours should I do?
Hello everyone,
I graduated in 2015 with an abysmal GPA (<3.0). I started a DIY postbacc that same year and realized I was struggling still (don't know why I expected a different result--I graduated and then went straight into it).
In August 2020, I decided that I WILL do well in all classes from here on out. I guess something clicked in my brain. All the classes I have taken since 2020 are 4000 level science classes and here's what I earned:
Parasitology: A
Biology of Cancer: A-...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 22, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Doc2Be93 Tags: Pre-Medical (MD) Source Type: forums
Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
Case discussion time. Serious replies only please.
Imagine a hypothetical young woman, 35 years old with known breast cancer on systemic therapy, well controlled and limited systemic disease, comes in to ED with headaches that become controlled on dexamethasone. MRIs of brain and total spine show subtle faint streaks and dots consistent with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis in brain and cauda equina. Lumbar puncture is performed confirming cells in CSF on cytology. You are the rad onc...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - June 18, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Neuronix Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
re-Irradiation of brainstem lesion after previous SRS
Dear colleagues,
I need your advice.
67 yo female, with metastatic breast cancer history to the bone, brain and lung.
Her disease was stable with second line treatment: Bone lesions symptomatic and stable, regression of lung lesions, with single ring enhanced secondary lesion of the right poster-lateral aspects of the pons at the level of the right middle cerebellar peduncle (1.4cm, PTV 1,6cc).
she received single fraction SRS 15Gy marginal dose in august 2020.
she tolerated very well with...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 31, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Kroll2013 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
re-irradiation after single fraction cavity SRS? What dose?
Dear colleagues,
please advise concerning this patient:
40 yo male, high PS, diagnosed a couple of years ago of colic cancer that was locally treated.
Aug 2020: he was diagnosed of left parietal (at the level of the motor strip) solitary brain lesion.
octobre 2020: he underwent a complete resection , followed by cavity SRS 18Gy /1 fr
April 2020: refractory seizures
MRI showed a relapsing left parietal cavity lesion, whose epicenter was next to the trolard vein.
he was re-resected quasi...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - May 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Kroll2013 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Jenny McJennyson, at it again.
Jenny McJennyson sent me these two gems over the weekend:
1.) 2 year old male child has a simple febrile seizure. Mom says that they called their doctors office, and spoke with Jenny McJennyson, who directed them to the ER after telling mom that the child would need a CT of the brain to rule-out brain tumor. No joke. Thankfully, mom was reasonable. Kid is totally fine. Afebrile. Playful. We spared him the radiation after a good heart-to-heart. I asked mom: "I'm sorry, who did you...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 13, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: RustedFox Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: forums
Delirium work-up and management
Hey guys, I would like some input about delirium management and organic mental disorders in general: after you order the inital labs and images, and there is for instance a brain lesion [tumor, stroke, etc], do you call Neurology and sign off the case, or do you work together with them? I say that because I'm someone very interested in organic mental disorders and psychosis in general, but not that interested in the common neurosis (depression, anxiety), so I wonder if Neurology fits the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - January 31, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Wynand Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
Fractionated vs. single fraction SRS for brain mets... What's your cut-off?
I am tending to fractionate tumors I can't get 20/1 into or at least 18/1.
Under 2 cm/3cc or so I'll do 20/1
2-3cm / 3-14 cc I'll do 18/1
Towards the upper end of that range, I start thinking more about fractionated SRS, and > 14-15 cc I go 27/3.
Not doing any single fraction < 18. Is anybody else?
I don't like that grey area very much, and can't find a lot of good data on this.
Curious how everyone else is approaching these 2.5 - 3.0 cm borderline tumors.
And also for fractionated...
Fractionated vs. single fraction SRS for brain mets... What's your cut-off? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - December 24, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: KHE88 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
Anyone else enjoy undergrad coursework way more than med school coursework?
Hey everyone,
Been studying all day, and came to a realization. I feel like medical school is 90% memorization. I literally spent all day learning about the minutiae that separates the different brain tumors. The day before, I spent all day memorizing and watching sketchy to learn the autonomic drugs. The day before that I was memorizing drugs to treat gout etc. I feel like theres very little understanding involved, just know certain things. Heck, I feel like my professors call things...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - September 1, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: MDPedigree Tags: Medical Students - MD Source Type: forums
SRS for BS lesion: what dose?
young female, known to have a metastatic breast cancer, since 5 years.
In 2017, she developed secondary lesions in the brain with positive CSF.
She receives 30Gy/10 fr whole brain radiation, with intra-thecal chemotherapy.
A month ago, she developed gait disturbances with blurred speech an hemifacial paresia.
Brain MRI showed a solitary secondary lesion, 1.5 cm involving the left middle cerebral peduncle with extensive edema. No signs of meningeal disease.
Pet CT : NED outside the brain...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 22, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Kroll2013 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
