Daily life in Gen surg/surgical subspecialties - In terms of a typical non-call day for Gen surg, you will be up early (interns typically get to the hospital between 4 and 6am depending on the program). The OR starts between 7 and 8am. Depending on the service you’re on, you will be at the hospital till 5pm at the earliest to 10-11pm at night ...Some programs will have an integrated general surgery intern year built in with their IR residency—which is usually optional. The vast majority of programs you can do any prelim year, medicine, surgery, TY, etc. Not here to comment on the eye issue but to put a plug in for doing a surg intern year.Haven't seen much of general surgery, and I know so many of my friends were promised spots and ended up falling much lower on their rank list. General Surgery West Virginia University - posted this on the spreadsheet, but that was deleted. The interview day itself went really well, and I was hoping to rank them highly.ERAS 2023 season begins at 9 a.m. ET. August 1, 2022. Supplemental ERAS application opens for applicants. September 7, 2022. Residency applicants may begin submitting MyERAS applications to programs at 9 a.m. ET. September 16, 2022. Supplemental ERAS application closes for applicants at 5 p.m. ET. September 28, 2022.If you want general surgery, give it your all. Don't apply to anything else other than Categorical and Preliminary Surgery spots. Get the best letters you can get, do well on the Step 2. You are probably not going to get interviews at big academic programs, but that is not going to stop you from becoming a surgeon.A couple students a year above me actually switched from General Surgery to Pediatrics after being pretty dead-set on General Surgery. It's an interesting phenomenon and I'm curious if anyone else has observed it in their medical schools as more than a rare occurrence. Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 6.Google sheet for 2019-2020 General Surgery Applicants. This forum made possible through the generous support of SDN members, donors, and sponsors. Thank you.Not all Surgery Preliminary programs will abuse you. I did a Surgery Prelim year prior to switching institutions for my advanced position match in Anesthesia. In my case I went to a community hospital based program. Overall my program did a great job making my year a great learning experience and I was not abused because I was a prelim.I believe that General Surgery is a dead specialty due to the long hours, relatively little pay, impact on lifestyle and increasing levels of sub-specialty. I think that prospective residents would be crazy to chose it as a career path. As far as I'm aware, numbers have been dwindling for at least a decade now and I can't understand how this ...Can't decide between GI and General Surgery, help! Finishing up third year now, and have been dead set on IM->GI (love the pathophysiology of this specialty and procedures that are relatively safe). Did well on IM rotation and enjoyed it. Easy, relaxed and could easily see myself doing it until fellowship.Major complication rates for sleeves are 1% ish. Bypass 2-5% but you reserve that operation for the cherriest of cherry picked candidates. Patients stay in house 1 night in a well run program. Readmissions low. Reop rate super low most complications are non-op.Class Rank: 2nd quartile. Step 1: Pass. Comlex 1: Pass. Rotations: Our school is weird and dose letter grades not H/HP/P/F, but I guess H for surgery, HP for FM and OB. Research: 4 posters, 0 pubs (I acutely really like research and have a couple projects going that should get a pub or 2 in the next year and several posters)230s/240s, some research, pass in surgery. last year they did send out more invites on different days: 220s/230s, lots of research, very down to earth and personal PS, strong letters, lots of life experiences, surgery pass, 4 advanced surgery clerkship Honors: 220s. honors surg. 230/260, honor surgery/SICU, from CAMOD. Official ERAS Megathread - August 2022. SPECIAL EDITION. Hi chickadees, Here it is - the long-anticipated ERAS Megathread! Drop your questions, anxieties, and vents here. xoxo, Mama chille and the mod squad. Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.Guides and worksheets to help residency applicants complete their MyERAS ® application. The 2024 MyERAS Applicant User Guide provides information about all sections of the 2024 application for residency and fellowship applicants. FAQs will be updated throughout the 2024 ERAS ® season (June 7, 2023 to May 31, 2024).General Surgery + Vascular Surgery . Can be different : 92 . Early Specialization (4+2) 6 General Surgery + Vascular Surgery Single 3 *NRMP Match Data 2015-2016 . Online Resource: AMA FREIDA . AMA's FREIDA Online is a database with over 9,400 graduate medical education programs accredited by the .imastraanger. •. For general surgery, it's definitely not common to ask knowledge questions. They may realistically ask you about your own research or an interesting case that you saw and expect you to know enough basic knowledge around those kind of things. Reply. DatGrub. •. More often than not knowledge is not the answer they are seeking.Iam a non US IMG with Grad year of Jan 2018.. I have passed CS and recently scored a 260 in step1.. Currently studying for CK.. have no research experience and no USCE in surgery.. ( but have 2 USCE in IM) Should I try finding USCE in surgery before Match 2022 or should I try finding a research position for a year and postpone match for another ...r/medicalschool. •. SpiderDoctor. MOD. SOAP Prep 2023 - Official Megathread. SPECIAL EDITION. Hi everyone, As we near Match Day, we know that many people are nervous about having to SOAP and how to prepare. Please use this megathread to start reading about the SOAP process and ask all your questions before Match Day.Also applying gen surg and I have 3, I heard that the majority of invites come out Oct 20 - Nov 3, so stay positive! Following because I have the same concern. I look at the spreadsheet and it seems like some programs have sent out invites but definitely <50% of programs had. I will start worrying next week.Advice on general surgery ST3 applications. I'm aware ST3 application results are out today so thought this would be well timed. I've been looking at the ST3 scoring matrix, and it looks like having had time out (as I have) is massively penalised. However it's not clear what the maximum points for papers/presentations etc are.Moments like this reinforced my love for surgery, seeing how masterful craftsmanship — such as this end-to-side anastomosis of a graft to the anterior tibial artery or an intricate dissection of the planes during a total parietal peritonectomy — transformed and restored the human bodyScored 220 on USMLE. DO student with 564 on comlex. Lots of extracurriculars in 1st and 2nd year. Doing well in clinicals and classes in general. Thoughts on the 220 score for general surgery? I'm not looking to apply to big academic programs and I have no interest in the research 7 year programs. Looking for a community based hospital program.Most hospitals now have EMR's. Use the autopopulate functions for problem lists, meds, surgeries, labs, etc. PMH is a standard thing you need to write yourself, same with A+P. The templates I find most useful for notes are for ROS. I'll think about updating and releasing my google doc forms for ROS. 1.Vascular surgeons work ~500 hours more per year. (I believe they actually work the most hours out of any specialty at the attending level) General surgeons make ~20% less. The two balance out. Vascular has been one of the least popular/competitive surgery fellowships out of general surgery for a long time.Plastic surgery is Not on the tracker but I just got an invite for stony brooks plastics sub I! If anyone has any thoughts on stony brooks program please let me know 🥹 Reply replyr/6thForm. A place for sixth formers to speak to others about work, A-levels, results, problems in education and general sixth form life, as well as university applications and UCAS. MembersOnline. •. Forsaken-Meaning-232. ADMIN MOD. UCAS Applications Megathread (and the debut of an offers spreadsheet) 📂 MEGATHREAD.In this spreadsheet, the number of reps is always in the left-most column, and a "+" in a rep box indicates a plus set. Supersets are colored orange. If, like me, you occasionally like to vary weights between sets for an exercise (i.e. strip set), you can select a weight cell, go to the formatting options, and unmerge.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Plenty of residencies have notified me that they will send out their first round of invites in early November. would also love to know... currently don't have many interviews and am deeply concerned. I would imagine many applicants that are dual applying like me are dropping gen surg ...Yes, it can be done. I did three years in a categorical general surgery position before switching into diagnostic radiology. It was the best decision I've ever made in my life. There are many others that have traveled this road before us. It is not an easy transition, and you will "lose" some years of training.Major complication rates for sleeves are 1% ish. Bypass 2-5% but you reserve that operation for the cherriest of cherry picked candidates. Patients stay in house 1 night in a well run program. Readmissions low. Reop rate super low most complications are non-op.Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) In February 2022, the ABS announced the move to competency-based assessment of surgical trainees with the introduction of the ABS Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) Project, which launched in July 2023 for general surgery residency programs and will expand to all ABS specialties by 2026.Then right click anywhere and go to "Inspect". At the top you'll see a few tabs, one of them is "Console"--go to that. Then just past the script below in the box and hit enter. It'll copy all the data and then you can go to Excel or Sheets or whatever and paste. If there's a lot of programs it might take a second to copy but the browser should ...Worst bit about surgery is that you have lots of clinics and constant ward rounds, and you spend more time not cutting than cutting unless you're very senior. Crossing over to anaesthesia was the best decision I made. I get to watch all different types of surgeries, stay in the OR all day long.Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but anyone know what's up with the google doc that surgery applicants are using for residency interviews...imchrishansen_. • 9 yr. ago • Edited 9 yr. ago. • What would they change about the program? • What is the success of graduates of the program? (That is board scores, fellowships.) • What's the status of the program and the hospital? Have there been any major administrative changes? Have any housestaff left the program?a combo of clinic, OR and scoping (depending on the day/staff schedule) dealing with random ward issues between cases. handover to whoever is on call that night. clean up any outstanding ward issues, prep discharges for next AM, etc. Call is typically 1 in 4, including 2 weekends. Jr resident +/- med student doing in house call, Sr resident ...This is making non-US IMGs more competitive to take those spots, in my opinion. I'm a non us img in surgery residency. My scores are below average so it's definitely doable. It just takes a lot of hard work, patience, and a touch of luck. I worked with a non-US, visa requiring IMG applying to GS this season.Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but anyone know what's up with the google doc that surgery applicants are using for residency interviews...Yikes. Psychiatry for Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, IL. Program requires to you to have a physical address within a 30-minute drive of the hospital. Very restrictive since 35 minutes away are a bunch of nicer Chicago suburbs with way more amenities and better housing options.Fellowship can add some depending…. Hope that helps! Gen surg (especially surg crit care has seen major salary increases since covid) at least in the midwest. Starting salary is around $450k in academia (major midwest cities) and closer to 500k-550k in rural areas of midwest.imchrishansen_. • 9 yr. ago • Edited 9 yr. ago. • What would they change about the program? • What is the success of graduates of the program? (That is board scores, fellowships.) • What's the status of the program and the hospital? Have there been any major administrative changes? Have any housestaff left the program?ViolinsRS. • 4 yr. ago. Looking at match rate data, you are looking at an uphill battle as GS is one the most competitive residencies an IMG has a shot at aside from a few handful every year that might match something more competitive. Step 1 and 2 240+ (preferably 250+) with surgery USCE and good research will go a long way in helping you match.My interest primarily stems from the recent advances in functional neurosurgery especially for things like DBS, focused ultrasound, and gene therapy. Functional really seems to be at the forefront of therapeutic advancement in these fields.I'm particularly inspired by some of the gene therapy programs at places like Ohio State (Dr. Bankiewicz ...Unofficial ERAS Megathread June 2023. 🥼 Residency. ERAS is now open, so for the other neurotic students out there, I'm compiling what's available through a very limited search of the subreddit for what has been put out there so far. If you don't see a link for what you're interested in, you too could be the one to get it going.CT Surgery: Cardiac and thoracic are actually very different. Commonality for both is a super intense training program either via a 2-3 year CT fellowship after general surgery or a integrated CT residency.-Cardiac - lot of tough cases but your bread and butter will be CABGs and valves. NO, the field is not "dying", please stop asking.ADMIN MOD. My magical life spreadsheet to how I organise my life. Over the last 5 months I strongly suspect that I have ADD-PI because I'm so goddamned forgetful. However, since I've been experimenting, I've found that this spreadsheet is my goddamn lifesaver. I thought that it might be useful to some of you -- I've taken out any identifying ...Note that the r/medicalschool moderators do not moderate these sheets or channels. All discord invites were functional at the time they were added to this list. If an invite link is now expired, check the specialty spreadsheet for an updated invite or see if there's a chat tab in the spreadsheet to ask for help.Starting Surg onc fellowship in July. I love the cases, variety of MIS and open surgery. Fantastic anatomy. Patients are generally appreciative and you form strong bonds with them. Pay and QOL are variable depending on where and how you work. Reply. docfooty. • 2 yr. ago. RemindMe! 1 week.My interest primarily stems from the recent advances in functional neurosurgery especially for things like DBS, focused ultrasound, and gene therapy. Functional really seems to be at the forefront of therapeutic advancement in these fields.I'm particularly inspired by some of the gene therapy programs at places like Ohio State (Dr. Bankiewicz ...My 2021 Budgeting Spreadsheet (Macro Free) Budgeting. Hey guys, I just wanted to share with you guys a financial budgeter that I made on Google Sheets. I know there's a lot of software and spreadsheets out there already, but for me, I always enjoyed manually inserting to make sure I keep a finger on the pulse.Both roads are about the same in length. EM/CC is 5-6 years (3-4 year of EM + 2 years of CC fellowship, whether it is Surgical Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesia Critical Care, or Neurocritical Care). General Surgery to Critical Care is 6 (5 years of General Surgery + 1 year for Surgical Critical Care).Here is the list in no particular order. Ascension St John Hospital Detriot, MI ( pros : location, fellowships- Cons: not X+Y, 7/10 life-work balance) Marshall University Huntington, WV (pros: PD, fellowships, X+Y- cons location) Novant Health Wilmington, NC ( pros, location, very friendly, best life-work balance, cons-forprofit (no loan ...A couple students a year above me actually switched from General Surgery to Pediatrics after being pretty dead-set on General Surgery. It's an interesting phenomenon and I'm curious if anyone else has observed it in their medical schools as more than a rare occurrence. Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 6.Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now ... [Residency] 2019-2020 General Surgery Application Spreadsheet Archived post. New comments cannot be ...General Surgery is getting more and more competitive every year. Do not underestimate how competitive it will be when you apply. While it is not as competitive as ortho, it is a lot harder to match into than say IM or psych, especially if you are a DO. Make sure to apply broadly, even if you are a competitive applicant.General surgeons do pretty much everything from thyroid surgeries to gallbladders and appendices to taking out bowel, tumors etc. Nowadays there is a huge move towards specialization so now there are "endocrine surgeons" that work on the thyroid gland. 30 years ago, general surgeons did lots of gynecologic surgery too; now the ob gyns do that.Ortho. Reply. qkrrmsdud. • 4 yr. ago. If working out is a priority over general surgery, don't apply to general surgery. With this said, it is possible to workout as a gen surg resident, but no way will you be going to the gym as often as you'd like, and if you do get it in, lifting may be the only thing you end up doing that day besides ...A lot of academic centers have a "community rotation" where you rotate at a community hospital and the purpose of it is to see high-volume bread/butter general surgery and to get numbers. Community Pros: lots of bread/butter, probably higher case volume, I think you'll probably learn more the practice of Medicine rather than just the theory ...Sure it’s possible. 4 year Dental school -> if you match, 3-4 year OMFS (maybe get credit for Gen. Surgery 1 year internship) Not sure if you get med school credit for dental school, depends on the school. CODA does not give a shit compared to ACGME. I’m only brewing a crazy thought.r/medicalschool. • 5 mo. ago. Official ERAS Megathread - January/February 2024. SPECIAL EDITION. Hi everyone, Here is the latest edition of the ERAS Megathread for the 2023-2024 application cycle. Check out these resources and feel free to drop your questions, anxieties, and vents in the comments below. Please use the "Message the Moderators ...The sub will be back up tomorrow night. Welcome to the Residency subreddit, a community of interns and residents who are just trying to make it through training! This is a subreddit specifically for interns and residents to get together and discuss issues concerning their training and medicine/surgery. MembersOnline. •.Harrases immigrants. Hello everyone! I created a spreadsheet with all the data from all the Name and Shame & Name and Fame Reddit threads from 2019-2024. Please read first the sheet titled “START HERE/Information," it will give you all the information you need to start using this spreadsheet.Future away sub-I here and would love some tips haha. No, most people recommend against general surgery rotations. It's hard to really impress on those rotations, so it often hurts more than helps. The only reason to do aways is if there's a program you really need to match at that you aren't really connected with.General surgery is the internal medicine of surgery. Residents have to have a large knowledge base and the training can be long, especially if the program has built in research. Most residents specialize in fellowship so the training does not end despite the 7 years for residency.Class Rank: 2nd quartile. Step 1: Pass. Comlex 1: Pass. Rotations: Our school is weird and dose letter grades not H/HP/P/F, but I guess H for surgery, HP for FM and OB. Research: 4 posters, 0 pubs (I acutely really like research and have a couple projects going that should get a pub or 2 in the next year and several posters)View community ranking In the Top 1% of largest communities on Reddit. general surgery . I apologize for the long rant. However, I thought I would have hated surgery, long hours, crabby people, and I need my sleep. However, after 6 weeks of 80 hr works weeks (usually more) I enjoyed the rotation so much. Time just seemed to fly by.Official ERAS Megathread - October 2023. Hi everyone, Here is the latest edition of the ERAS Megathread for the 2023-2024 application cycle. Check out these resources and feel free to drop your questions, anxieties, and vents in the comments below. Please use the "Message the Moderators" button (located in the sidebar) to let us know about any ...Residency. Hi all, just wanted to create a consolidated list of the residency spreadsheets that have started popping up for the 2019-2020 application cycle. Will try to keep this updated, but please feel free to PM me if I miss things or there are updates! **PSA: the spreadsheets become “locked”/read-only when there are more than 100 people ...Only surgery will save the patient's life, nothing else will. You can cure cancer. With a lot of early stage cancers, surgery will often be the only intervention a patient will need. Some may need additional chemo or radiation, but surgery in the mainstay treatment. You can improve the quality of life of patients.Match 2024 Family Medicine Interview Invite Spreadsheet. Read More. Match 2024 Emergency Medicine Interview Invite Spreadsheet. Read More. Match 2024 Pediatrics Interview Invite Spreadsheet ... I checked your website every morning for about 8 weeks and matched into a surgery spot. Thanks! John Doe K.M. 2023 Surgery Intern. Previous. Next ...Current residents/attendings who SOAPed: u/corleonecapo - PGY1 who SOAPed in 2021, will help with emotional support, strategy, and program/specialty selection. u/samalander43 - PGY1, applied OB originally, check their post history for advice. u/wherestigger - MD, happy to answer any questions.If you look at the match data from 2014 GS is generally uncompetitive as long as you're willing to apply broadly. If i were you i would simply focus on doing things that further my knowledge and interest in surgery and veer away from the pre-med checklist method we all used especially in regards to research. -1. true.Average day (as a chief): 5:15 AM wakeup, coffee, get ready, check the EMR to pre-review vitals/labs on patients. 6:00 AM rounds. 7:00-7:30 AM call attendings to discuss plans on existing inpatients. 7:30 AM First start of the day for OR cases. 4:00 PM thru 6:00 PM (depending on OR schedule) finish last case of day.If you want to really crank out cases and cover more call or cover multiple hospitals, you're looking at $500-600k plus relatively easily. Some specialties in GS more so than others, but most fellowships and pure GS have a great outlook. Very strong. Great job outlook. People will always need surgery.Here is the link to the spreadsheet. File > Make a copy to create your own. The first sheet is the GG cheatsheet, courtesy of u/kvtb. You can find his post at this link. The spreadsheet is arbitrarily split up into three cycles of six weeks, making a total of 18 weeks of training. You could extend the cycle lengths if you wish, though there is ...The Repchicks subreddit is a community dedicated to discussing and sharing information about replica fashion items for women. This subreddit is designed for fashion enthusiasts who are interested in finding high-quality replicas of their favorite designer clothing, accessories, and footwear.what is surgery residency actually like? [Residency] Residency. As an M3 interested in surgery, Ive always heard that the hours are brutal and life is miserable for a time. I just wanted to ask any current or former surgery residents what their lives were like during residency, mainly intern year, and how they managed to live some semblance of ...Searchable DnD Gear and Items Spreadsheet. I want to shout out u/Yannka for the original spreadsheet that this sheet is based on. He created the sheet and I essentially just reorganized and built in the ability to dynamically search. This version is protected so you will have to "make a copy" in order to use the search function or modify the ...I'm really, really struggling with knowing if I'm cut out for general surgery (no pun intended). MS3 is ending in just a few weeks, and honestly, I haven't enjoyed most rotations. The only one that I did enjoy was surgery (and to a lesser extent, OB/GYN), particularly because I felt like I was actually doing something productive in the OR.Iam a non US IMG with Grad year of Jan 2018.. I have passed CS and recently scored a 260 in step1.. Currently studying for CK.. have no research experience and no USCE in surgery.. ( but have 2 USCE in IM) Should I try finding USCE in surgery before Match 2022 or should I try finding a research position for a year and postpone match for another ...This book should be renamed "Surgery pimping guide", but other than that its almost worthless for learning. 2)Google pestana surgery pdf and try to read it 2-3x, you will have a good start for surgery 3) read up on your patients and what surgery they will be having 4) practice knot tying and suturing as much as you can.pathology match 2021-2022 spreadsheet. Yes, I know it's only April. I'm a rising MS4, currently on an elective, needed a break from UWorld and was researching programs. Good luck to everyone this upcoming cycle. Any current resident and/or program director or faculty (honest) input and details appreciated.Here is the link for the 2024 General Surgery Residency Application Spreadsheet. Wasn't sure if any one else was working on it and I got impatient so I decided to give it a shot.The Department of Surgery and the Division of General Surgery are key players in this success. Through the Department of Surgery, more than 75,000 surgical patients are seen by over 650 physicians and staff each year. Through exceptional patient care, outstanding education, and cutting-edge discovery, the vision of the Department of Surgery is .... Stay tuned to the Campus Huddle as we will be baGeneral surgery is the internal medicine of surgery. Residents have Here is the link for the 2024 General Surgery Residency Application Spreadsheet. Wasn't sure if any one else was working on it and I got impatient so I decided to give it a shot. Regardless of what anyone says on here the f ADMIN MOD. All Inclusive Resort Spreadsheet w Ratings and Prices. Here is a spreadsheet I made with all the inclusive resorts I could find with the average rating between Trip Advisor, Google, Costco and Expedia. Prices are for March 9-16, 2024 or as close to it when they had rooms available. For families, I did 2 adults, 2 children aged 10.2023 General surgery (no fellowship) 400k starting. No EGS call unless you want (trauma team cover it there). 300 bed hospital. 2 OR days a week. Don't have to do scopes but you can. 2022 General Surgery (no fellowship) 380k starting. 180 bed hospital. Q3 call but it's a slower hospital. No ICU so big stuff gets transfered. General surgery is the internal medicine of surgery. Residents hav...
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