Pediatric urology Puns

Ngl to you guys- took an edible and now I’m wondering how many background checks does someone have to go through to become a pediatric urologist? You know what I mean?

I'm curious about congenital anatomical abnormalities that would cause a 1 year old uncircumcised male to have recurrent UTI's with various bacteria (e-colli, psnuedomoni). Would this usually be a valvular issue causing reflux, or something else? I've had several adult male patients with recurrent UTI's but these seem to be related to prostate issues. I assume in peds this isn't the same issue?

##Hello friends!

Apologies for being a few days late to post the latest addition to our ERAS megathread series. Hope you all had a great holiday season! We are now in month 4 of interview season! This is the month 4 megathread, please concentrate all interview, ERAS, rank list, etc. related posts to this thread. Feel free to ask all your questions and share your experiences here.

As we start the new year, lets reflect on far we've come! From hunting down LOR writers, perfecting personal statements, to refreshing our email inboxes every 2 minutes, to creating the best virtual interview set up, we've been through a lot. Remember, the interview season goes all the way until March, so keep refreshing those email inboxes! You never know when a surprise late season invite might come through.

If you have an excess amount of interviews at programs you have no interest in attending, it is encouraged to drop them to facilitate a trickle of interviews down to those who don't have as many interviews.

We're in the final stretch of the cycle now. I'm anticipating there will be a lot of questions regarding rank order lists, second looks, and letters of intent.

Good luck!

##Other Threads

• Interview Prep Megathread

• Month 2 Megathread

• Month 3 Megathread

##Specialty-specific sheets

** DISCLAIMER: **

These spreadsheets are made and run by random reddit users/applicants, and the moderators of this subreddit do not have control of all the spreadsheets and cannot moderate them. We helped users with setting some of them up, but they are run by active members of the community and not the moderators of this subreddit. We have only shared these spreadsheets with the community because they have been a great resource to applicants in past, and have been useful for getting advice from other applicants, preparing for interviews, and learning about programs. However, anything posted on these spreadsheets do not represent the views of our subreddit.

**Recently we have learned that some of the discourse on some of the spreadsheets was toxic, horrible, and absolutely reprehensible. In particular, the chat on the Orthopedic spreadsheet cont

I am getting towards the end of 3rd year and feel like I should be ruling things out but the only rotation I explicitly did not like was psych. And I have two more rotations left and what if I end up enjoying those too! I feel like I have so many options but I am struggling to find the right one for me.

- Gen Surg:

Pros: I feel like I really gravitate towards surgery because I love the team environment, working with my hands, spending time in that moment focusing on this one patient, and I feel excited looking into someone's body. General surgery has a lot of breadth and a lot of different types of procedures, which I enjoyed. There's also a certain joy I have in touching people's guts and I have fun with the bread-and-butter cases. The residents at my home program were nice even so it gives me hope about the future of surgeon personalities. General surgeons also seemed to be some of the most knowledgeable doctors I met- they did surgery but also managed people's medical conditions instead of punting to a medicine consult.

Cons: Lifestyle obviously. When I talk to non-general surgeons and say I'm interested in gen surg, they wince and ask why. I have a husband and want kids someday so this worries me. I had variable experiences with attendings, but they still seemed to work quite a bit. Being more a generalist sounds good to me but I know that's not really where the future of gen surg is going (everyone seems to do fellowship).

- Urology

Pros: The surgery pros like gen surg but the attendings I met in urology seemed happier. It seemed that they had more of an opportunity to have a life outside the hospital. Renal, pediatric, and female reconstructive surgeries were super cool. I also enjoyed the small kidney stones cases and TURPs. There seems less pressure to do a fellowship, so you can get to being an attending faster.

Cons: With there being more male patients than female ones, I was asked to not be a part of few consultations because I am a woman. I also don’t mind the bread and butter (BPH, difficult Foleys) but I’m not passionate about it. It's stupid but there is something inside of me that hesitates on being a "dick doctor" as many urologists I met put it. On a practical level, I don’t have any urology-specific research so I worry about my chances but my home program PD said I could still have a good shot at matching if I get started soon.

-EM

Pros: I worked in an ED for 2.5 years before med school so I think I know what I’d get myself

General Anatomy-

1. Textbook - Gray’s anatomy
2. Atlas - Netter’s

Neuroanatomy-

Neuroanatomy through clinical cases

Embryology-

Langman

Histology-

Wheater’s

Physiology-

Guyton and Hall (big textbook, bible)

Costanzo (smaller, more concise)

Biochemistry-

Lehninger vs Harper?

Pharmacology-

Goodman-Gilman (bible)

Katzung (smaller but still big textbook)

Rang&Dale ?

Pathology-

Big Robbins (absolutely lovely book, personally speaking)

Goljan & Rubin’s

Microbiology-

Jawetz vs Levinson?

Immunology-

Abbas vs Lippincott?

Internal Medicine-

Harrison’s principles of IM (best imo)

Goldman-Cecil? (Smaller book but some like it more)

Oxford Textbook of Medicine (I saw it and its just too fucking big to read. 8000 pages)

Smaller books - Davidson, Kumar and Clark, Essentials of Cecil

Handbooks - Washington Manual vs Pocket Medicine vs Oxford Clinical Medicine??

Medical Sub-Specialties-

1. Cardiology*- Braunwald*
2. Gastroenterology*- Sleisenger and Fordtran vs Yamada’s ?*
3. Endocrinology*-Williams*
4. Hematology- Wintrobe’s vs Williams?
5. Oncology*- DeVita vs Abeloff’s*
6. Nephrology*- Brenner & Rector*
7. Pulmonology*- ?*
8. Critical Care*- ?*
9. Rheumatology*- Kelley?*

Neurology-

Adams & Victor’s vs Bradley’s??

Pediatrics-

Nelson’s Textbook

Harriet Lane (handbook)

Psychiatry-

Kaplan & Sadock vs Oxford

Otorhinolaryngology-

Scott Brown’s ??

Logan Turner (small)

Ophthalmology-

Yanoff vs Wills Eye??

Smaller book- Kanski

Surgery-

Sabiston vs Schwartz vs Bailey&Love???

??? (Suggest smaller books and better books)

Urology-

Campbell Walsh

Orthopaedics-

Campbell (big)

Apley and Solomon (smaller)

Surgical Pathology-

Rosai???

Obstetrics and Gynaecology-

Williams (big)

Hacker & Moore (small)

Radiology-

Brant & Helms vs Grainger & Allison’s ??

Osborn’s (neuroradiology)

Dermatology - ???

Emergency Medicine - ???

Family Medicine - ???

Neurosurgery - ???

Cardiothoracic Surgery - ???

Vascular Surgery - ???

PM&R - ???

ALL QUESTION MARKS MEAN I'M NOT SURE IF THE BOOK IS GOOD ENOUGH OR NOT AND SOMETIMES WHEN I DON'T KNOW ANY BOOK REGARDING THE SUBJECT.

Thanks to u/kangokusenkan for the original Bible of Each Specialty thread.

I’m thinking of starting with a nEuroSurgery residency and then once finishing doing a pediatric-cardiothoracic residency, taking a year off to research bodily-discharge pathology and then doing an osteopathic-geriatric-urology fellowship. ThoUghtS?

3rd year here that recently did a urology elective, which I initially only chose for the chill hours, and ended up liking it way more than any other rotation I've ever done. I never had any sort of interest in a competitive specialty before because I was set on FM so my resume is pretty lackluster. But now I'm sure urology is what I want to do if I can pull off matching into it.

Here's what I'm currently working with: Step 1: 241. Preclinical grades were all average. Clinicals have been a mix of honors, high pass, and one pass. I have 3 case presentations in unrelated fields (pediatrics and IM). Really don't have any special ecs or anything (spent too much time playing Dark Souls during preclinical). I have a home urology program but there's only 2 spots and I know there's at least 5 people in my class that have been working with them for a while.

Do I have a shot at urology? Or is it best to just move on. Is there any way to build a competitive resume before the next cycle? I'm not opposed to doing a research year but if I go through that and can't match... I don't even want to think about it. Not to mention I have no idea what'll happen with my Step 1 score if I apply in a year later because everyone from now on will be P/F.

##Hello friends!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We are now in month 3 of interview season! This is the month 3 megathread, please concentrate all interview, ERAS, rank list, etc. related posts to this thread. Feel free to ask all your questions and share your experiences here.

We hope everyone's season has been going smoothly. Remember, the interview season goes all the way until March, so keep refreshing those email inboxes!

If you have an excess amount of interviews at programs you have no interest in attending, it is encouraged to drop them to facilitate a trickle of interviews down to those who don't have as many interviews.

##Other Threads

• Interview Prep megathread

• Month 2 Megathread

##Specialty-specific sheets

** DISCLAIMER: **

These spreadsheets are made and run by random reddit users/applicants, and the moderators of this subreddit do not have control of all the spreadsheets and cannot moderate them. We helped users with setting some of them up, but they are run by active members of the community and not the moderators of this subreddit. We have only shared these spreadsheets with the community because they have been a great resource to applicants in past, and have been useful for getting advice from other applicants, preparing for interviews, and learning about programs. However, anything posted on these spreadsheets do not represent the views of our subreddit.

Recently we have learned that some of the discourse on some of the spreadsheets was toxic, horrible, and absolutely reprehensible. In particular, the chat on the Orthopedic spreadsheet contained not only sexist, racist, misogynistic, vulgar, prejudiced, and abusive comments, but also attempts at doxxing, starting twitter witch hunts against other applicants, and mentioning other applicants by name. This behavior is absolutely intolerable and we strongly condemn it. Not only do we condemn it, but we have stopped sharing that spreadsheet and will delete it anywhere it is posted on this subreddit. This behavior is not okay and is extremely disappointing, especially given that it's coming from future physicians.

**If you see any of the same behavior on any of the other spreadsheets, please message us and we will look int

##Hello friends!

It's been about a month since ERAS applications have been released and interview season has started! The other thread was getting cluttered so we've decided to move the discussion here. Feel free to ask all your questions and share your experiences here.

We're in the home stretch folks. Hang in there. This is an exciting, but also stressful time.

For those of you who's cycle is going as planned or better than expected, congratulations!

For those of you who's cycle is NOT going as planned, we are here for you! We're only one month in, a lot can change until March. Stay strong and remember to take out some time for yourself.

If you have an excess amount of interviews at programs you have no interest in attending, it is encouraged to drop them to facilitate a trickle of interviews down to those who don't have as many interviews.

##Other Threads

• Interview Prep megathread

##Specialty-specific sheets

** DISCLAIMER: **

These spreadsheets are made and run by random reddit users/applicants, and the moderators of this subreddit do not have control of all the spreadsheets and cannot moderate them. We helped users with setting some of them up, but they are run by active members of the community and not the moderators of this subreddit. We have only shared these spreadsheets with the community because they have been a great resource to applicants in past, and have been useful for getting advice from other applicants, preparing for interviews, and learning about programs. However, anything posted on these spreadsheets do not represent the views of our subreddit.

Recently we have learned that some of the discourse on some of the spreadsheets was toxic, horrible, and absolutely reprehensible. In particular, the chat on the Orthopedic spreadsheet contained not only sexist, racist, misogynistic, vulgar, prejudiced, and abusive comments, but also attempts at doxxing, starting twitter witch hunts against other applicants, and mentioning other applicants by name. This behavior is absolutely intolerable and we strongly condemn it. Not only do we condemn it, but we have stopped sharing that spreadsheet and will delete it anywhere it is posted on this subreddit. This behavior is not okay and is extremely disappointing, especially given that it's coming from future physicians.

**If you se

Congrats everyone! Most apps are submitted and now we wait.

As you mash that F5 key to refresh your email inbox for those invites, we've decided to put up a thread where we can concentrate all your interview questions.

Feel free to ask all your questions about interviews here!

For current residents and M4s who have had some interviews, feel free to share your experiences, tips, and anything else you might find helpful.

Below are links to the specialty specific spreadsheets with useful information.

-mod team

##Specialty-specific sheets

** DISCLAIMER: **

These spreadsheets are made and run by random reddit users/applicants, and the moderators of this subreddit do not have control of all the spreadsheets and cannot moderate them. We helped users with setting some of them up, but they are run by active members of the community and not the moderators of this subreddit. We have only shared these spreadsheets with the community because they have been a great resource to applicants in past, and have been useful for getting advice from other applicants, preparing for interviews, and learning about programs. However, anything posted on these spreadsheets do not represent the views of our subreddit.

Recently we have learned that some of the discourse on some of the spreadsheets was toxic, horrible, and absolutely reprehensible. In particular, the chat on the Orthopedic spreadsheet contained not only sexist, racist, misogynistic, vulgar, prejudiced, and abusive comments, but also attempts at doxxing, starting twitter witch hunts against other applicants, and mentioning other applicants by name. This behavior is absolutely intolerable and we strongly condemn it. Not only do we condemn it, but we have stopped sharing that spreadsheet and will delete it anywhere it is posted on this subreddit. This behavior is not okay and is extremely disappointing, especially given that it's coming from future physicians.

If you see any of the same behavior on any of the other spreadsheets, please message us and we will look into it, and we will not hesitate to stop sharing any other spreadsheet with the same type of behavior. It's unfortunate that this even needs to be said, and it's also unfortunate that a great resource for applicants is being hijacked by the trolling and childish behavior of some.

-mod team

• Child Neurology -- MODS NEE