[badmedstudent]

Rolling into school as a post match Med 4

[doctorkintsugi]

Enjoying this gif/documentary. 

[captainmudphud-blog]

How to MS-4: Scheduling Your 4th Year Edition

For the most part, there isn’t a bad way to set up your fourth year schedule. Your best bet will be to talk to the MS4s at your institution to find out which electives are cush and which elective require more of a time commitment. These will be school-dependent, as will the amount of time you’re given to take off for Step 2 and vacation. I’m listing below is a collaborative post put together by medblr MS4s (thanks to @runner-kat, @anast0mosing, and @misshawley for their contributions).

I N T E R N A L     M E D I C I N E

July: medicine subI (requested 2 LORs)

Aug: dedicated study time for Step 2 CK

Sept: EKG elective (light elective, worked on and submitted ERAS)

Oct: emergency medicine elective followed by Step 2 CS (1 interview)

Nov: research elective (3 interviews)

Dec: research elective (9 interviews)

Jan: 2 weeks off (3 interviews) + 2 weeks IM subspecialty clinics

Feb: physical diagnosis elective

March: ambulatory SubI (required by my school)

April: 2 weeks hem consults + 2 weeks critical care primer

May: off

July: anesthesiology (light rotation) + studying for Step 2 CK

Aug: diagnostic radiology elective (so helpful for medicine!)

Sept: palliative elective (asked for 1 LOR), took Step 2 CS

Oct: medicine subI + 2 weeks GI consults

Nov: 2 weeks independent project + 2 weeks off (7 interviews)

Dec: off + holidays (3 interviews)

Jan: emergency medicine (4 interviews)

Feb: cardiac care unit

March: physical medicine elective

April: off

O P H T H O M O L O G Y

July: home ophtho elective + studied for Step 2 CK (LORs requested)

Aug: rheum elective (submitted ophtho app mid-August) + Step 2 CS

Sept: ophtho away (submitted ERAS for prelim/TY)

Oct: ophtho away (2 interviews)

Nov: family medicine (6 interviews)

Dec: ER/critical care (7 interviews)

Jan: plastics subI (4 interviews, SF match day)

Feb: off

March: off

April: off

P E D I A T R I C S

==Based on an accelerated 1.5 year preclinical curriculum==

March: peds chronic illness elective (mandatory graded elective)

April: peds endocrine elective (light hours to allow for research)

May: peds cardiology (requested 1 LOR)

June: PICU critical care elective

July: peds away rotation

Aug: dedicated Step 2 CK study time (prepared ERAS for submission)

Sept: research elective (submitted ERAS application)

Oct: peds subI (requested last minute 4th LOR)

Nov: research elective (5 local interviews)

Dec: off (6 interviews)

Jan: 2 weeks off for interviews + 2 weeks ENT elective

Feb: peds EM elective

March: TBD, likely 2 weeks developmental/behavioral peds

April: partially TBD, 1 week “transition to residency” program

May: off

If you’re a MS4 and would like to contribute to this list, shoot me a message or email. I’ll keep the post updated. For reference, all of the “How to MS4″ series is linked to my blog’s front page. 

[captainmudphud-blog]

Thanks to @ladykaymd for adding in a template surgery 4th year schedule.

S U R G E R Y

My school’s fourth year starts in late April/early May and we are allowed to finish right after match day. I also took two research blocks as I was involved in several research projects and had a whole bunch of papers I was trying to get out. If you’re trying to publish papers, take research blocks EARLY to get those papers out.

Late April: Study for and take Step 2

May: Surgery sub I

June: Research Block

July: Surgical ICU

August: Research Block II

September: Required school elective in ambulatory care

October: Radiology elective

November: Interviews

December: Interviews

January: General Surgery Elective (private practice)

February: Vacation

March: Surgery “Bootcamp” – a school elective

April/May: Vacation

Seriously – take as much time off as you can fourth year. When I was originally planning fourth year I had a TON of other electives scheduled, and after talking to my advisor and a lot of residents I trusted, they all told me the same thing: TAKE TIME OFF. And now at the end of fourth year I couldn’t be happier I did.

[thepowerwithin]

“You and your body are not meant to work against one another, but to work together in harmony. You’re both a team. A single unit.”

— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

[cwote]

BE DIFFERENT

You’re not your parents, and that’s okay. You’re not your friends, and that’s okay. You’re not your idols, and that’s okay. You are different, and that is okay :))

[thoughts-memories]

[refinery29]

White supremacists are holding horrifying pro-Trump rallies in Washington, DC. You need to know this is happening right. Now.

The National Policy Institute sponsored the 11-hour series of lectures and roundtables, headlined by its head Richard B. Spencer and former reality star and current Hitler enthusiast Tila Tequila.

Gifs: The Atlantic

SEE MORE

[iloveyoualeclightwood]

“america was, until this past generation, a white country, designed for ourselves and our posterity. it is our creation. it is our inheritance and it belongs to us” fucking die u disgusting nazi

[kinghardy]

Its honestly fucking appalling how lightly everyone is taking this. How NO one is even taking steps to denounce this and to actually put an end to this fucking shit. How so many journalists are using “alt right” instead of calling them out for what they are, fucking nazis. There was a time i wouldve believe people would be horrified but people today are so fucking PASSIVE about this?????? WHERES THE FUCKING ANGER? HAS THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS HORRORS TAUGHT US NOTHING???? JFC.

Like FUCK. IF YOURE IN ANY WAY NEUTRAL ON THIS YOURE JUST SIDING WITH THESE FUCKING NAZI ASSHOLES. SPEAK OUT. FUCKING EXPOSE PEOPLE TO THIS SHIT. YEAH ITS SICKENING BUT MAKE IT KNOWN REALIZE THIS SHIT IS FUCKING HAPPENING AGAIN AND UNLESS WE PROTEST AND FIGHT BACK WERE GOING TO ACCEPT WHATEVER SHIT COMES OUR WAY AND WE SHOULDNT. HOLY FUCKING SHIT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MORE PEOPLE NEED TO FUCKING GET ANGRY ABOUT THIS.

[barbie-cock]

WHAT IS HAPPENING

[inhale-exhale-y-deactivated2017]

Some dumb ass mother fucker told me not to talk about this. He said and I quote, “You’re white though, why does it even matter to you?” Shut the fuck up you inbred nazi trash.

White friends and family please do not be silent about this. I’m focusing on you, white people. Because unfortunately the people of color who are actually at risk here will not be given the voice or platform to speak up. And when they do express themselves the media just paints them as an outrageous angry POC. I’m begging every white person to use your white privilege for good. Use your voice. Do not be silent. Speak up for those who’s voices may otherwise be blocked or ignored by the systemic injustice we’ve tolerated for far too long.

[mynameisrocko]

[brainstatic]

I just want to remind everyone that we once had presidents who talked like this and we still can again.

[weavemama]

WE ONLY HAVE ONE WEEK TO APPRECIATE THESE DATES 

[aclassilieutenant]

And once again Americans get all the fun

[harriyanna-deactivated20221223]

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

I never even thought about it like this

[theeeprotagonist]

Bruh 😭😭😭

[sixxscnse-deactivated20211210]

Sis

[fyp-psychology]

F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

Zig Ziglar (via fyp-psychology)

[petrichorals]

You can preach self-love and acceptance all you want, but I would not have been able to transform myself into the person I am today without despising my past self.

[sgfhjsfbhjsbvhjfdf-deactivated2]

A+ agree.

[fightostudy]

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.

Andrew Carnegie

This quote really resonates with me. I have these big dreams that I sometimes tell people about, but i’m always thinking about, but I don’t work hard enough and I don’t motivate myself to do it. I’m trying to change it slowly with discipline. Mediocrity scares me a lot and I don’t want to be content with it, but I never seem to be able to motivate myself. And i’m at the point where my talent can no longer carry me through. I will work harder!

(via fightostudy)

[sheabutterbitch]

I know that I’m a great person to have and to love

[thelovejournals]

And when you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times.

Tim Urban, Wait But Why - How to Pick Your Life Partner (via khadlja)

[brutereason]

This how sexism tends to work. Very rarely does someone just come right out and say that women should shut up and talk less. Instead, they come up with a lot of irrelevant reasons for women to feel self-conscious about their voices. Most people who lodge these complaints likely don’t mean to bully women into shutting up. It’s often a sense of vague irritation, which they pin on the women themselves, instead of wondering if it’s just that they themselves have been trained to resent it when women are the ones holding the floor.

The war on female voices is just another way of telling women to shut up   (via ablogwithaview)

[alfaangel]

‘You just have to decide to do it and then do it,’ she said. ‘Discipline. Follow through. Like anything. You never understood that.’

[sgfhjsfbhjsbvhjfdf-deactivated2]

The moment you let your standards slip, the task of recovering them becomes monumental – far harder than the task of maintaining them in the first place.