Podiatric medical school Puns

For individuals who are on the verge of potentially getting accepted to DO schools based off stats, would it be safe to also apply to Podiatric schools for the 2021 admission in case DO falls through with rejections?

I posted about a month ago with my stats and am just worried I might not get into DO schools this year considering my lack of DO shadowing due to COVID-19 which will begin towards the end of the summer.

Link to my Stats:https://www.reddit.com/r/Osteopathic/comments/gh69e7/can_i_get_into_osteopathic_school_with_these/

Notes: 24 years old, second cycle applying

Here's some other info;

Virginia resident

Neuroscience Major

Community College (2 years) - 4.0 GPA

University (2 Years) - 3.78 GPA

Combined - 3.89 cGPA, 3.82 sGPA

MCAT Score - 505 (From 2018)

(C/P - 126) (Cars - 123) (B/B - 128) (P/S - 128)

Academic Achievement

Presidential Scholars List (Community College)

Extracurricular Activity (Non-clinical Leadership):

48 hours Medical Mentoring Program (Georgetown University Program for serving underrepresented and minority individuals)

Volunteer (Non-Clinical)

20 hours University Tutor (Chemistry Tutor)

100+ hours Public Hospital (Emergency Room and & Surgical Services Center)

100+ hours Different Public Hospital (Emergency Room and & Front Desk)

150+ hours Shadowing Doctor (Family Practice MD)

Externship (Clinical Non-Paid)

160 hours Clinical Medical Assistant (Cardiologist MD)

Employment (Clinical and Non-Clinical)

2000+ hours Customer Sales Associate (Retail)

650+ hours Clinical Technician in Public Hospital (Trauma ICU for level 1 Trauma Care)

Research:

300 hours Laboratory Research (How Bisphenol-A Induces Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress In Zebrafish)

Research Symposiums/Presentations:

4 hours (At my University)

4 hours (Updated Research After a Few Months at my University)

4 hours (Presented at the National Institute of Health - NIH)

Currently No DPM shadowing because of COVID-19 but I am still actively looking for a DPM to shadow

Thank you!

This sub is geared toward podiatric physicians, surgeons, residents, and students. Any request for podiatric medical advice, or any type of medical advice, should be directed to /r/AskDocs

Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if there is a group where there are medical students that had gotten dismissed from medical school. I used to be a fourth-year medical student until the last year 2021 April, I got hit really hard by COVID disruption and was not able to complete my degree since I was not able to pass my board (I have passed Part 1 of the board and completed all the required rotations/courses). I have tried to plead with my school about allowing me for another attempt, but the school decided to ultimately dismiss me without any support even with hiring a lawyer. Is there anyone who had experience going through a similar situation? I really want to continue on this journey. Should I reapply for medical school, Caribbean medical school, dental school, or even podiatry? Thank you for everyone's comments/advice. Feel free to message me if you don't feel comfortable posting.

Add on: I just want to thank you all for the tremendous advice. The reason that I did not want to disclose my attempts/ academics is that I am not seeking any more arguments with my school (if you were in my situation will you feel comfortable exposing all the details?). I am looking for experience on how to move on further with a past record. There is really no reason to guess on attempts. In terms of which school I went to, I am not intended to expose it to the community. I do think my school was great in other situations like rotation planning but unfortunately did not handle my situation at last well. Every school has its goods and bads.

Timeline

Anticipated graduation Class: 2021

Start prepping Level 2 boards summer of 2020.

Applied for residency match fall 2020

Got dismissed April 2021

In appealing and grievance from April to November 2021

Moving on afterwards

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Graduated from residency 6 months ago. Have a group of friends with whom I went through medical school and intern year. Wide range of fields including derm (myself), IR, EM, ENT, Neurosurg, IM, etc. We are all in our first few years of practice. Happy to answer specific questions about post residency life.

Pretty broad question, but for example, I recently learned about triage: grouping patients by urgency, when resources are limited.

Any direct explanation, lists, or redirection to resources that mention such things would be appreciated.

Title says it all.

I had a classmate in university who cheated her way through every chemistry and physics assignment, whether it be lecture or lab. I’m not sure how she did on exams.

Just found out that she was accepted to a medical school this year. I’m truthfully very concerned.

Anyone else experience something similar? What are your thoughts on this?

I feel like we could make the process less arduous and time consuming if we just had a combined program like every other country where you apply for medical school out of highschool. I feel like all the extra time I spend in undergrad was wasted time and money. Would be better to just do like 6 years total.

Does anyone know the history of why we do it so differently than everywhere else, and if there is a benefit to the way we do it?

Never let monkeys eat 🍌

Anyone else?

I use to put so much effort into everything I do. Now everything is half assed. I mean everything: studying, reading, watching videos, chores.

Hi all,

I’ve made a number of financially-focused posts starting 28 months ago as a fresh hospital-employed interventional pain management attending, all to a generally warm reception. Past posts and large Q&As can be seen in my post history. I have said that I would continue to provide updates and answer questions as I made progress on my financial goals. Much of this will be carried over from previous entries so that each post can stand on its own, but I have edited anything relevant. See my post history for past entries.

I’ll start this update with a few points that have come up more and more commonly as my net worth grows. I graduated medical school in 2014 with $160k in loans, which was just about the median at the time. Clearly average loan burden is much higher now. I am also in a high-paying field. I make about 40-50th percentile for my specialty, but it is still more than many physicians. Finally, I lost my dad unexpectedly in mid-2020 and therefore received an inheritance which is enumerated below. In my opinion, all this does not change the principles of smart financial management, though it has certainly accelerated the timeframe. But you feel these factors trump all else, you may not get much out of the rest of the post. This is not an exhaustive list of my privileges, but I wanted them front and center.

I have been an attending now for approximately 2.5 years. I’ve spent far more of my independent career in the shadow of COVID than without it, but for the past 6 months things have felt essentially normal (I’m sure my ED and CC colleagues would disagree). Our elective procedure volumes are where they were in 2019, and my system thankfully weathered the storm with minimal financial disruptions. I feel comfortable in my own skin as an interventionalist and confident in my medical decision-making, and I am well into hitting my professional stride again.

As in the past, my major goal has been to show one person’s attempt to put the framework of smart physician personal finance into practice a la resources like the White Coat Investor. I don’t hold myself up either as an ideal or as a cautionary tale in particular, just a real-world example of what it can look like when you’re trying to do the ‘right thing’.

To repeat my prior posts, I’ve been tracking my income, spending, budget, and net worth since starting medical school in 2010.

Especially my 4th years. I’ll go first. I love inhaling pizza from little Caesar’s and watching reality tv shows (because I have no responsibilities as I wait for match).

By the time the war destroyed most of civilisation, she was already long dead, so I never found out how she knew.

https://preview.redd.it/6mvz3vfgrka81.png?width=1176&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccc406bc01a129e3208d4685ccd4d37943ecbbd4

Curious to hear people's thoughts on this. Especially as this guy didn't mention the big elephant in the room that tuition raises have been spiraling out of control for some time now. Also curious about people's thoughts on "society doesn't owe us anything", an interesting comment in the thread stated: "It's not just about the money - we all had to sacrifice a critical window of our young lives that we could have otherwise invested in other business ventures and/or in having a normal family life - a critical window of time that we will never recuperate and all in the interest of helping other people in our society who did not make that sacrifice. Arguing that "society doesn't owe us anything" is not only self-degrading, it is outright offensive."

I've been seeing lots of people believing that travis's (ex?) Ro is currently in medical school without any real evidence. I do trust ibeendrakein research (and appreciate all her effect) I really do! But I find it really hard to believe this part of the story since the only proof thus far (unless i missed something) is that Ro and her RN friend did a instagram live discussing medical terminology.

Some of the reasons I find it hard to believe

1. UCLA directory http://directory.ucla.edu/search.php. If you search her name (Rojean Kar) nothing comes up. I know other people who do attend UCLA and when I search for them, their names do appear.
2. Ro's obvious surgeries. She had multiple big surgeries like a BBL that require a lot of recovery time. She could not casually do these surgeries while enrolled in school without missing exams, required classes, required hospital rotations (depending on what year of study she is in). However i'm not sure exactly what year she got the surgeries (Can't stalk her instagram since its private now to see when the body transformation happened) so she might have had them done prior to enrolling in school?
3. Lack of any information regarding her medical education online. If you google almost any medical student, information about their scientific publications or involvement in medical organizations would come up. Nothing of the sort appears when you google Rojean Kar unless that is actually not her real name.
4. Furthermore I looked up the whitecoat program for UCLA class of 2025 medical school (where she allegedly attends) and her name does not appear. Therefore we know she is not a first year student at least (I cannot find the programs for earlier years)

I wanted to write this out because I got downvoted for suggesting that I do not believe she could be an MD or medical student, so those who disagree with my take I would like to hear your opinions.

EDIT: a user who attends UCLA said they are able to opt out of the directory.

This journey has been a doozy!! I never thought I would go to college but I did and then I became a nurse and now a doctor!! I am so excited for the next step of my journey. I’m moving back home as soon as I can finish packing and then I’m going to do some travel nursing until residency starts and start paying off these loans! 🥳 I am so happy!

Grew up in an abusive immigrant household where becoming a doctor was the only respectable career path. Despite expressing other interests and my protests, my parents were successful at pressuring me into medical school. I had no backbone. I had no idea what having a backbone actually meant.

I took out the loans, went begrudgingly into grad school and fell into deep depression. 3 years later I couldn’t bear it any longer and decided to leave it all.

I’ve since found a career in the industry I always wanted to work in but now find myself in over $500k of student debt. Only feasible way out seems to be my own death. Every day that passes by I explore that exit strategy more seriously.

2.2 GPA at 60 credit hours.

I basically wasted the first 2 years at college because I had no motivation or direction.

Fast forward 2 years of no college and I want to go back. A switch has flipped in my brain and all I want in life is to be a doctor.

I can only retake 2 classes, which would jump my GPA up to a 2.6.

I’m thinking of transferring schools as well, and I’m wondering if there is a way to get a fresh start? Will my GPA be brought over if I transfer?

I need some hope because this is all I’ve wanted for a few months, and I’m starting to lose faith.

I truly feel like I can maintain a very high GPA from here on out. Just want to know if I have a chance.

If I average straight A’s for 70 more credit hours my GPA will be closer to 3.3 or 3.4

Do medical schools prefer applicants from the same university or is it fair game for everyone?

Normally I’d go off of USNWR, but I feel like the ranking is somewhat inconsistent and not really too accurate. For example, NYU being #2 in research doesn’t make too much sense to me. Not really a serious post but just thought it’d be a fun discussion to bring up.

Dr. Who

To be promoted from a farm hand to a farm assist

One of my friends and I recently received our first acceptances! We both already have tattoos, but have always wanted a small tattoo to commemorate getting into med school. Over the years we’ve brainstormed a few ideas, but none really stuck. Does anyone have any ideas of med school themed tattoos that they really like?

I feel like I'm at a point where the only meaning of my life is medicine. Like for example. Right now just got on winter break and I literally feel suffocated because I don't know what to do. I'm kinda addicted to the early mornings, tiring days, and need to stay on top of my A-game. I even fear later in my life I will want to try to work as much as possible and do nothing else. I feel medicine is the only thing that gives my life any meaning. I don't even enjoy doing anything else anymore.

Edit: Thank you everyone for all ur comments. I'm honestly in awe how common this problem is. Its actually kinda crazy.

How accurate will it be to say podiatrists went to “medical school”? Please help edit misleading Wikipedia pages.

Who a physician is, is well defined:

1. ⁠Attend an accredited medical school you can find in the World Directory of Medical Schools.
2. ⁠Acquire a medical degree as listed in the WDMS.
3. ⁠Have the privilege to sit for the medical licensing examination of the jurisdiction (USMLE for the US).
4. ⁠Qualify to have an unrestricted access to medical speciality post graduate training by the jurisdiction (ACGME accredited residencies).
5. ⁠Qualify to practice any speciality as listed by the specialty college of the jurisdiction (ABMS for the US).

MD/DO/MDCM/MBBS etc. checks all above. DPM checks none of the above:

1. ⁠Podiatry schools are not listed as medical schools in the WDMS.
2. ⁠DPM is not listed as a medical degree in WDMS.
3. ⁠DPM holders do not qualify to test for the USMLE.
4. ⁠DPM residencies are not accredited by the ACGME.
5. ⁠DPMs do not hold unrestricted practicing rights.

DPMs have not attended medical schools, and, are therefore not medical doctors as such as those who hold one of the earlier degrees that I mentioned.

I don’t want to invalidate their profession, because podiatry is a well-paying allied healthcare role; BUT, I just don’t see the evidence and logic that their profession is not that of a physician’s and they have not attended a recognized medical school; they went to podiatry school.

The following Wikipedia page falsely says Some, unique to the United States, confer a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) degree.

The entire page rightfully talks about MD and DO programs and has no mention of DPM programs (correctly), BUT some vandal always chips that line in.

Please take that line off of Wikipedia, as I’m banned from editing against a flock of hyena editors. Wikipedia is not a reliable source, says Wikipedia. But, it’s the most popular one. Protect a physician’s identity; attending a medical school for a medical degree is absolutely unique to a physician, and no one can snatch that away from them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school_in_the_United_States

This journey has been a doozy!! I never thought I would go to college but I did and then I became a nurse and now a doctor!! I am so excited for the next step of my journey. I’m moving back home as soon as I can finish packing and then I’m going to do some travel nursing until residency starts and start paying off these loans! 🥳 I am so happy!!

I have no undergrad debt but the only medical school I got accepted into has the highest median debt at graduation in the US. Is it worth it for DO or do I reapply next cycle?