Advice Paying off Loans :(
Hi everyone! Sorry if this has already been answered, but I’m interested to hear other people’s opinions/experiences with different debt relief programs. I’m a current first year so I still have time, but my debt is already adding up lol. Does anyone have experience with the army or their health professions scholarship? I’m also interested in how it works at hospitals who offer debt relief packages. Is it worth it to work at a corporate hospital with loan payment options? I really want to...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 5, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Danalittle Tags: Veterinary Source Type: forums
What is a normal patient volume?
Just curious. I’m early out of residency and just not sure what is normal for a community type hospital based practice. I see about 10-15 consults a week, and about 30-40 followups, with about 20-25 on treatment. Averaging about 70 patient visits per week. Also have tumor board at 630am on 3 days per week (not helping with my energy levels). We also do a lot of brachy and spaceoar, sbrt. Suppose I’d just like to know if this is normal, because then I can go with it. But if not normal, then...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 4, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: boredatwork04 Tags: Radiation Oncology Source Type: forums
another job advice post (TIA)
Hello SDN, long time lurker first time poster in this community. Current fellow with about 200k in student loans. Looking at a few jobs (all W2) that are all in decent locations and have a moderate cost of living, so these extraneous factors are all ~equivocal . Your advice is sincerely appreciated.
1. Large Hospital System Based
--position is open due to previous MD leaving. there is some room for negotiation
Pay: base 350k, ~$52/wRVU after 7000 (I know the latter isn't ideal)...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 4, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: ScawtyDawg Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
CRNAs doing Heart Cases Solo?
https://www.aana.com/news/michigan-medicine-cardiac-crna-team-fills-need-for-providers-makes-history-at-their-hospital/
Can anyone who works at this hospital provide more insight? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - December 2, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UTMB2014 Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Wamc urm 3.5/511
*this is for my friend who doesn’t have sdn*
State: NJ resident & Fl ties
URM: Y black woman
GPA: overall 3.5 sci 3.1 ish (no upward trend some Cs and Ws, F in Orgo and retook it for C)
*Good explanation for poor grades. Had to work full time to help out family*
MCAT: 511
Clinical volunteer: 80 hrs at hospital doing basic stuff
Non clinical volunteer: homeless shelter 400hrs, tutoring immigrants 200hrs, training service dogs 60hrs, teaching sex Ed to low income kids 25hrs
Clinical...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 1, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: tiramisu_44 Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Fellowship Training Goes Down The Drain
Did you all see the new abysmal fellowship match rates? So many open spots, even PEM and GI didn’t fill. So many children’s hospitals are now hiring NP-only pediatric hospitalist teams, but if you’re a pediatrician who wants to work as a hospitalist, woops sorry you need to be hospitalist fellowship trained! And there is recently an EM fellowship that accepted an NP and the NP completed it (ultrasound). Peds may be next …
Peds training has become a joke. So sad and if you think I’m being...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 1, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: calvinhobbes Tags: Pediatrics Source Type: forums
What will the future look like in the healthcare field?
My local hospital recently enacted temporary employee pay cuts and benefit suspensions and it caught me off guard. As a nontraditional student who is working towards the goal of becoming a physician, it made me wonder what the economy/job market will look like once I complete. Now I have three years before I even apply to medical school (1 year left of bachelor's & 2 years for DIY), but I would like to fully understand what I am getting into. Is this happening everywhere? Should I be...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 1, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Coffee-Bean-Counter Tags: Nontraditional Students Source Type: forums
Unexpected open first year Infectious disease fellowship program for July 2024 - UMASS Chan Medical School- Baystate
The UMASS Chan Medical School – Baystate, a 716-bed tertiary care teaching hospital, has an unexpected opening for a first year Infectious Disease fellow available July 1, 2024.
This is an ACGME-accredited 2-year academic clinically oriented program that provides comprehensive training in the practice of infectious diseases. Our program has 10 faculty members involved in teaching, clinical service and research.
Our program readily provides fellows experience in:
Microbiology...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - November 30, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: dkpwalker Tags: Other Subspecialties Source Type: forums
Hobby or volunteering?
I recently acquired a position called “volunteer cook” for an organization helping people with food insecurity, basically a food pantry with some shelter space. I can donate whatever food I want to donate that I’ve made, and so far I’ve mostly been doing cookies and peanut butter jelly sandwiches, just basic stuff like that. (This is subject to change.) Not to get too specific, but I’ve heard baking for hospital staff and crocheting clothes for premature babies both be classified as...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - November 30, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Egret_Farmer Tags: Pre-Medical (MD) Source Type: forums
good story PP vs Private equity
https://www.anesthesiologynews.com/Commentary/Article/12-23/War-Games-Private-Anesthesia-Group-Versus-Hospital-System-Versus-Private-Equity-Firm/72202 (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 30, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: caligas Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Who to put as contact if combining experiences?
I was a hospital volunteer at two different hospitals but performed the same function. Because the role was super similar at both (and since I am also running out of space), I will be combining these experiences and writing about them under one section in my W/A.
Question is, who do I list as a contact and can I list multiple contacts? Each hospital had its own volunteer program so there are two different coordinators. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 30, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: blinks Tags: Pre-Medical (MD) Source Type: forums
Academic, federal position - a few months in
I have had some ups and downs in my career, as I've worked to find a position that facilitated some academic engagement, reasonable compensation, and allowed me to feel good about my clinical work. No job is perfect, but after several months in a new position, I think I'm the happiest I've been since residency.
I took a federal position at an active duty military hospital that is a primary site for a residency program. I have a case load of 4-8 inpatients, and the residents do all the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - November 29, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: SmallBird Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
What are the highest paying contracts you ’ve seen in the middle of nowhere?
Considering anesthesia and I’m needing some motivation to get through surgery rotations. I’m from the country and plan on working in a rural hospital?
What are the best contracts you all have seen for working in the middle of nowhere ? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 29, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Dogruffle01 Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Who needs to be notified about board exam results?
To whom are the board exam results released? Can my employer or hospital see it? Program director or coordinator? I guess this applies more if you failed the test. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - November 28, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: chickensoupdr Tags: Neurology Source Type: forums
1st year
Hi! What should we be able to do at the end of the 1st year of residency in ophthalmology? At the hospital we don't have many cases and I still have difficulties recognizing large elements at the back of the eye or important pathologies, for example hypertensive/diabetic retinopathy or macular edema. At this moment, I didn't even have retinal detachments... I started to panic and I would need your advice, because I'm already thinking of giving up... It’s normal? I think that at the end of...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - November 28, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Myh60 Tags: Ophthalmology: Eye Physicians & Surgeons Source Type: forums
