How long would it take to pay off international tuition?
I'm thinking about making a career change and going into medical school. International tuition is almost 100K/year, and sets you back $400K (not even including interest yet)
I'm trying to understand how possible it is to pay that off.
I read online that with overtime, interns / residents can make ~100K. Is it also right that tax is around 25% so maybe youd take home after tax as 75K for for the next 3 years from when you graduate? And then maybe be able to put 20-30K/ year toward the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 22, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: australiaquestions Tags: Australasia and Oceania Source Type: forums
Applied late to fourth-year IM sub-internships
New MS-4 here. I am hoping for a mid-tier academic IM residency and was told by my residency advisor to try super hard to get a LoR from a medicine department chair at an academic residency. I already have secured 3 letters from IM preceptors at my home site, each from a different sphere of IM (hospitalist, outpatient, specialty).
Unfortunately, I applied for 4th year rotations late due to taking step 1 really late in the year, and it was hard to find general medicine sub-I's that fit the...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - July 7, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: boyington! Tags: Medical Students (DO) Source Type: forums
School list help 3.5 cGPA, 3.46 sGPA, 522 MCAT, CA applicant
27 years old, CA resident, first time applicant
cGPA is 3.5 and sGPA 3.46 (flat trend) from UC Santa Cruz graduated 2015
MCAT in 2020 was 522, so a LizzyM score of ~74.
Several hundred hours volunteering, mostly clinical (COVID testing and vaccination), but some at food banks as well
40hrs shadowing
Working primarily in biotech since 2015 (4 years bench science at 3 different biotech companies as well as internships in labs as an undergrad)
2 publications
Experience teaching/tutoring
Here's...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - June 5, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Pico25 Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Discussing Code Status
Yearly repost... cos my dad got coded when he shouldn’t have been. 😏
Discussing Code Status
Since a whole bunch of interns just started (congrats) I figured I would try to get input from those who have been through intern year already as to their way of approaching a code status discussion Even now as an attending, I am appalled by the lack of training we get in this, the lack of...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - May 29, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: FutureInternist Tags: General Residency Issues Source Type: forums
Virtual Verification: Asset or Danger?
hi I'm a pharmacist in PA and I wanted to get a message out about virtual verification in retail pharmacies. I want to survey pharmacists, techs, interns on it. If VV gets overwhelmingly negative responses, I want to bring it up to a legislator or to the state board. Please take just a minute or two to fill it out! It's super fast but I need a lot of responses to make a real impact. I only have 290 responses. I need to get into the thousands for the board to take it seriously.
If you don't...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - May 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amm338 Tags: Pharmacy Source Type: forums
OMFS Non-categorical Internship Opportunity
The Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department at University of Maryland has a non-categorical internship position available for the 2021-2022 year. We are looking for a motivated OMFS applicant at a busy, operative heavy program. We have 2x6-year categorical and 1x4-year categorical spots at our program. Our noncategorical interns typically match the next year into the program of their choice.
The scope at our program includes head and neck cancer with microvascular reconstruction...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - May 5, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: MarylandOMFS Tags: Dental Residents and Practicing Dentists Source Type: forums
Self Doubt
Hi Everyone,
I know everyone has their moments of self doubts and that is quite normal. But I wanted to know if any of you still feel like a student even as an intern.
Like ofcourse doctors are life long learners and all but I mean mentally don’t feel like you are a doctor!
I am 8 months into internship and I still feel like I don’t trust my self to do much.
It kind of affects the way I interact with my seniors too. As most interns are pretty chill with them and I still act like they are my...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 20, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: sa10 Tags: Internship Source Type: forums
Neuropsychology internship questions, competitiveness ..etc.
Hi all,
I'm a 3rd year PhD student, a long time lurker, and have gained a fair amount of insight on this board so far on pursuing training in neuropsychology. I was wondering if I could get your opinions on a few questions regarding applying for neuropsychology internships (I am planning on applying next cycle as a 4th year student):
1. I have heard that it is common to take a 5th year to get extra externship hours, and that this increases your competitiveness for matching at a neuro...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 19, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: boba_psych Tags: Psychology [Psy.D. / Ph.D.] Source Type: forums
Pediatrics Internship Survival Guide?
Hey SDN,
The stickied thread from '07 has some useful tips for those starting peds internship; however, I have been trying to find just like a handbook or something for new peds interns. Is there any like pediatric intern survival guide y'all have access to or know of? I saw one from WashU on amazon, but it's outdated and... isn't free (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 12, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: To be MD Tags: Pediatrics Source Type: forums
What are my chances? 35yo Non-trad former SMP student.
Hello,
I'm glad my accounts still exists here. I'll get straight to it. 1st generation college student. I initially did very poor in undergrad but I got a 4.0 my last two years repeating many classes I did poor in and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Due to repeated courses my AMCAS gpa is 3.33 and sGPA is 3.23. Lots of EC's, internships, shadowing and interesting life experiences. Graduated ugrad in 2011 went on to PCOM's 2 year Biomedical Science, I did ok and finished with a 3.4...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: CalvinHobbes123 Tags: Nontraditional Students Source Type: forums
Unpaid internships (meaning unpaid practica)
#unpaidinternships is currently trending on social media, so I wanted to start a discussion here if anyone else is so willing. The topic of whether unpaid labor in clinical psych is ethical has entered my mind quite a bit over the past few years, given that, you know, we literally have to track the number of unpaid hours we slave over.
The astounding majority of practica across the country are unpaid, no? I am located in the nyc area and as a student, I have accrued >1500+ total...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 7, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: roryportman Tags: Psychology [Psy.D. / Ph.D.] Source Type: forums
OMFS advice NEEDED
Hello doctors,
writing this post to ask for an advice, Im currently an advanced standing student at an accredited american dental school. our program finish and we receive our degree by mid September 2021. The problem by this time its too late to apply to any OMFS program that i know of. my other option is to get my degree in September 2021 and wait to apply in jan 2022 to hopefully get into an OMFS internships to start in july 2021 and apply to OMFS programs. SO im going to have a gap...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 6, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Theacademycf Tags: Dental Residents and Practicing Dentists Source Type: forums
Help with a school list! 3.65/516
I'm mainly planning to apply MD! Stats & my first thoughts at a list here:
sGPA: 3.5
cGPA: 3.65, upward trend 3.93 and 4.0 last semesters (with 20+ credit hours each)
MCAT: 128/130/128/130, 516
experience:
400+ hours on three internships, one healthcare based
150+ hours clinical research intern
coauthor of a study in a reputable journal
presenting at medical association poster competition
30+ hours shadowing, will get more
75+ hours volunteering @ a hospital
worked a job (or 2) all 4 years...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - March 3, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: snowsnowbell Tags: What Are My Chances? WAMC Medical Source Type: forums
Misconduct Allegations
I'm considering applying to/working with a professor who recently had allegations of misconduct against him. It looks like they've been dropped, since he's still working in the department, and I'm not necessarily that worried about it. Are there any questions I should ask during the process or things I should try to find out? I'm mostly worried that it could impact my longer term career (more difficult to get internships, post docs, etc) if I'm affiliated with him. (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - March 2, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: CareerConfusion Tags: Psychology [Psy.D. / Ph.D.] Source Type: forums
What do NEW interns know?
Hello! I've been asking this question for a year now, and always get very unsatisfactory answers: "oh don't worry about it." "Just relax".
Well I've got about 4 months left as an M4 and figured I'd post it here:
What should I be able to do on day 1 of intern year?
Because if I'm honest, I don't know anything. I can do an H&P...I can come up with a dx and ddx...but after that? My plan is "probably....X?"
For example, I don't know on the spot how to treat diabetic foot infections. I have...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - February 20, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: PopeChaChaStix Tags: Medical Students - DO Source Type: forums
