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alright fam, I am in love with Anking and would do it all day if I could but my school uses house-made exams with random facts they pull from lectures and I am spending a lot of my time doing Anking which often times does not help me very much.

Have any of you made adjustments to the deck to spend less time on it/how has it been going for you? I don’t want to abandon Anking altogether but I’m wondering if this time spent is worth it because my class grades are starting to suffer. Ideally, I’d like to have less reviews somehow but to still review daily so that I have more time for class specific material.

Since c/o 2024 may or may not have p/f step 1, I'm interested in hearing what your plans are for tackling these beasts. I find Anki works well for me and if Step 1 for me is scored, I would do Anking's deck no questions asked. I was planning on starting this month during break. I'm now wondering if this is the best use of my time or if I should do a deck with fewer cards (like LY) or suspending cards after each block (which seems like it defeats the purpose of Anki?). Is it even possible to start studying for Step 2 so early on? I have a traditional curriculum so we haven't learned much clinical stuff yet.

Interviewed at a school 3 months ago and had still not heard back.

I email school asking for an application update. Within 20 minutes, they emailed me back with an acceptance lol. Since then, they’ve been emailing me pressuring to make a decision so I really doubt at this point that it was coincidence.

Don’t have too much faith in schools. Take initiative to contact them if something feels off.

Interviewed at one place end of Jan, another end of Feb, neither have said anything to me, no WL, no nothing! I am very very fortunate to already have acceptances but what the FUCK lol April 30th is almost here !!!

I’m in an area that has been in shelter in place for a month now. I’m not sure if it’s worth going in person to my pcp’s multiple times to confirm I don’t have TB for probably the 10th time in my life. I also need to get my physical and repeat titers drawn since my Hep B on my first titer was negative. I emailed the medical school’s health center to see if they have updated deadlines and such with the current situation but they didn’t say much.

I am just curious to see how everyone else is navigating this!

Coronavirus apocalypse is upon us and you may find yourself with some extra time. Here are some ideas on what you can do right now to prepare for the upcoming cycle!

• Calculate hours, start date, and end date for your activities and compile them onto a spreadsheet for easy entering into AMCAS later.
• Pre-write your personal statement. A lot of us who have already applied are extra active online right now and can help you look over them!
• Pre-write your activity section. Remember, you have 15 spots for activities at 700 characters each. You can choose 3 to be designated as "most meanin

From the guy who gave me a ride to the airport an hour away, to all the caring medical students who hosted me/gave me rides to my interviews the morning of/cooked me dinner/showed me around town, to the girl who got a manicure with me, I am always blown away by how genuinely kind everyone at my interview is.

I always kept my premed identity under wraps in undergrad bc the gunners scared me and I always wondered how I would be able to fit in with hyper competitive people. I’m sure there are some out there but I have somehow avoided them all during my interviews.

I’m so glad I stuck through it and I’m so excited to call these amazing people my colleagues down the road.

MCAT? Personal Statement? Secondaries? LORs? Interviews? Etc? Pls make your cases.

I’ve been going to classes for about two months and one of the coaches advertises her fitness ig so I checked it out and liked a few posts. The coach followed me on ig and I followed her back. I went to the beach this weekend and posted some photos in my bikini. I’ve always been pretty confident in my body and I’m mainly doing OT to build my strength. This is when it gets weird: she commented on my photo saying I should work on my core more on the rower??? I don’t have abs but I feel pretty okay with how my stomach looks. I was kinda shocked and immediately felt uncomfortable. I checked my OT classes to see if I had a class with her coming up and decided to just block her for sake of my frie

So I took 5 years of Spanish so my conversational skills and writing are pretty decent, I can get by. I was helping out a Spanish-speaking patient the other day and all of the interpreters were busy so I was trying to get her story down to expedite the process while we waited. I realized in that moment that Spanish classes definitely do not teach you a lot of medically-relevant words that would be helpful in situations like these.

Do any of you have resources (preferably free) that you’ve found helpful to improve your language skills in a clinical setting? I have Duolingo but it’s not very relevant to medicine. Thanks!

They’re applying to my lab as a study coordinator.

Most study coordinators that work at my lab are pre-meds taking gap years because you just need a Bachelor’s degree.

Imagine paying for medical school and making $45k a year to work with recently graduated undergrads.

Big yikes. Don’t go Caribbean

Title says it all. I have the MSAR and I’m trying to build my list for the next cycle and I’m wondering what numbers you look for when deciding whether or not to apply to a school when you’re OOS, assuming your stats are within range. MSAR gives # of OOS interviews and # OOS matriculants, is there a guideline on an minimum % or number to look for when applying as an OOS applicant?