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[louie-and-lace]

i was just accepted into an MD-PhD for philosophy. I AM SO NOT NORMAL RN ੈ✩‧₊˚

[lifeandtimesmed]

MS1 Resources

Class of 2023,  

I am making this post for myself and other members of the class of 2023. Anyone who has any advice or resources they want to share with us, pls do.

Please repost and add your resource/advice and reblog to save a Medical Student Life. 

I have started it below with this post I found on SDN (I don't normally use SDN and you shouldn't either)

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/good-websites-and-apps-for-medical-students.1161969/

[whatspringdoestothecherrytrees]

What a year it’s been. In 2018, I applied to medical school, completed my prerequisites, shadowed physicians, volunteered in hospice and hospital, worked in the lab, got another paper out, continued the daily fight with SLE, walked a show in Minneapolis, and have several offers from medical schools, including fully funded MDPhD programs with stipends!!!

It has been a tough year, with a lot of anxiety, unknowns, and self doubt. As corny as it is, you really do have to believe in yourself even when no one else does. ESPECIALLY when no one else does. If you don’t believe you can, then who will? I am so thankful for the people in my life who mentored me when I had nothing to offer in return. I am thankful for the people who accepted me into their labs when I had a limited science background. I am thankful for the friends who encouraged me constantly through this tough year of unknowns!

Ignore the naysayers and the haters. If you are passionate about something, get after it! Two and a half years ago, I hadn’t even taken a college level biology course! Now I am a full time scientist god-willing with a future in research. Comparison is the thief of joy. Follow your dreams and work to make them a reality. Shoot for the moon!

My main goals for this new year:

consistency, diligence, self-care, meditation, and inspiration.

Xoxoxox my loves

[infectiousmdphd]

future is looking academic

seems like I’m gonna be a physician scientist!

MSTP accepted!

[louie-and-lace]

is philosophy like plumbing? ༄.°｡˚ ○

Yes, I giggle and cringe slightly at Midgley’s comparison between plumbing and philosophy. As she says, many find it at first “undignified”. Yet, she has convinced me: both are logical structures hidden beneath and expanding with the complexities of society, both are oft only acknowledged when their subject matter starts working badly, both require specialization due to system size.

“When the concepts we are living by work badly, they don’t usually drop audibly through the ceiling or swamp the kitchen floor. They just quietly distort and obstruct our thinking.”

Mary Midgley constructs (and yes *flushes out*) this simile to clearly delineate the practical, reality-rooted purpose of philosophy. And, I am so thankful she did. In my graduate applications, I struggled over and over again to articulate this reality principle of conceptual work. I was trying to find the words to explain to MD-PhD committees what I had seen as a necessary link. Such is the self-concealing nature of concepts that are working, that i would then struggle to explain what I took for granted but which many (adcoms and philosophy profs at my undergrad) found unintuitive. One needs to have well-working concepts of life and action to act in ways that perpetuate life.

“Philosophy must emerge from its self-imposed solitude and return to …the world of flesh-and-blood human beings, with concrete moral and conceptual problems which need sorting out.”

The problems that dazzle me include the gap between declarations of death by a physician and actual death, how to practice medical aid outside of colonial structures, what 'intimacy' is and why can be painful, what psychiatric diagnoses do as a speech acts, etc. I firmly believe that all of these applied problems glaring me down need conceptual analysis and practical input. While policy provides a specific course of action, conceptual work provides resolution and the tools to face unprecedented situations.

I managed to convince some MD-PhD programs, but Mary Midgley states it much better:

“We live in a constant, and constantly increasing, conceptual mess, and that we need to do something about it.”

[studibuggi]

Currently writing my MD-PhD apps…it’s tough out here

[a-power-outlet]

really just unlocking new f/os after every show i watch huh. anyways this time it's mel from the pitt i love her so dearly i need to hug her.

[rebelbeattt]

PHOTO THREAD: MD-PhD Batch 9 DOST Summer Immersion

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) summer immersion marked the end of our first year as an MD-PhD student. It is a 5-day summe...

One of the best moments from our GY1. I can’t wait to explore new things with these people. :)