https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2012/04/04_geisel.shtml

"Dartmouth College announced today the naming of its medical school, founded in 1797, in honor of Audrey and Theodor Geisel."

Theodor Geisel, also known by his pen name "Dr. Suess" was a graduate of Dartmouth in 1925.

....but still all I get from Dartmouth is an email saying that applications are up 17% this year and that they are thankful for my continued interest.

Anyways, just finished watching the Grinch. Happy Holidays and may the II/A Gods be in your favor this holiday season!

"We expect our vaccine candidate for prevention of genital herpes to proceed to human trials by summer 2022. We are now working on a vaccine as treatment for genital herpes that will reduce the frequency of outbreaks for people already infected. We are also evaluating whether we can develop a vaccine to prevent and treat oral herpes."

https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g20001882/p2712

Searched and found a very useful site for visualization of Alberta COVID data, run by the Health Infonomics group out of the U of C Cummings School of Medicine.

https://covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca/

Of particular interest is the Severe Cases in Alberta (Hospitalizations, ICU admissions). The visualization provides views of both absolute numbers and as a percent of total active cases. This is useful in assessing and modelling the impact on the health care system of the variant - taking into account it's virulence and symptom severity.

Also worth looking at the COVID Outbreaks visualization, and the variant comparison visualization.

Hi everyone!

I am long-time lurker and now posting as I seek advice on how to stay motivated in medical school in times of significant distress.

I am currently an MS2 (starting the second semester) at a US medical school.

My first semester of MS2 year was a roller coaster. The semester started off with some excitement about school only to be crushed after losing an immediate family member. For the rest of the semester, I just struggled to keep up. Every day, I felt a growing dislike for medicine/medical education...unsure if it is a consequence of witnessing a family member lose their battle or being behind fellow classmates or simply because I don't like medicine.

I believe my growing dislike for medical school/medicine to be two-part.

First, I am struggling with the loss of my family member...as expected. Studying triggers some of the traumatic memories I have of witnessing their battle and the deterioration of their health. I try to cope with spending time with family, friends and have tried counseling (though I don't find counseling very helpful). I hope that as time goes on, I can heal. However, I find that this struggle has impacted my ability to focus on schoolwork. I have been told to consider taking a leave of absence...but this really isn't an option for me. So for those who have experienced significant loss (break up/losing family member/etc.) during medical school...what steps did you take to continue pushing through with school work? Any advice is much appreciated.

Second, my passion for medicine has waned. I no longer feel excited about the material I am studying. I dislike the culture of medical education...which at least at my school consists of watching third-party videos, doing anki, and just brute-forcing mnemonics/statistics/concepts/etc. I find that I am very interested in the business/finance/econ side of healthcare. I've pursued a few research opportunities in this area which I find fulfilling. However, this growing interest has got me doubting whether I want to practice as a clinician. My interests in the healthcare industry/system at a macro level will not be satisfied if I practice as a full-time clinician. These doubts have kept me up, amounted to significant time considering/researching different career transitions (going to business school/doing consulting/etc.), and simply made it hard to stay motivated about medical school. Instead of doing school work, I spend time researching healthcare business m

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update: i will be performing the "stanky leg" at 11:17am tomorrow. refreshments will be served by whoever brings them

Video

https://twitter.com/war10rtrad3r/status/1479230834762829828?s=21

More specifically the PhD program!

Honestly was losing hope after one rejection and one soft rejection..

Just heard out about this school recently and I've never really heard anyone talk about it, wondering if anyone has any opinions on it...?

- The minimum required overall GPA is 3.0

-NOSM does not require the completion of specific preparatory coursework

1. Fin.aid money for U.S. students comes late. From 4 to 15 weeks to wait. Look at the date of the check issued for the Fall semester. You need to have money to support yourself for the entire semester!
2. Prices are high. Bread-$4; 48oz peanut butter - $11; 1 apple - $1. Broccoli - $6.50/kg; eggs - $5 per 18 eggs, small snack bar - $2; chicken - $17 per 3 lbs. frozen, olive oil - $9 per 500 mL, honey - $9 per 500mL.
3. Around campus is a disaster. Like from some poor war-torn country. See video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVVqQweqNVA&t=13s
4. At AUA, ROSS, AUC, SGU, etc. classes from 8am to 12pm. At Saba - 8am - 5pm. You will be exhausted and will likely will be out of time to study on your own.
5. Saba is know to fail people. 90 people started and 33 students currently at sem. 5.

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Congratulations! You have been invited up north (even farther than NOSM) for the North Pole School of Medicine interview. The elves worked hard to make the interview virtual for those who can't make it. Santa Claus, Dean of Admissions, will be conducting part of the interview with our holiday-themed questions.

Our medical school is special because we love creativity and your unique qualities. Other medical school interviews might be intimidating but not here in the North Pole. We just hope you have fun when you interview with Santa and get into the holiday spirit.

Our medical school is top notch! You'll be spending four years here with reindeer, snow people, and elves. We're primarily rural so we actually have urban rotations in Resolute Bay and Iqaluit. If you love wilderness medicine, then you'll be right at home because we have the only Extreme Cold Weather Fellowship in the country. Enjoy our jolly interview process and have fun with it!

Yippee ki yay fellow students,

John McClane 🧝

Admissions Assistant

Jello is mostly known for the Dead Kennedys obviously, and it ain't hard to see why they're great. But I wanna bring more attention to (in my opinion) his great project, the GSOM.

What do YOU all think of it?

Proposed is the Virtua Health College of Medicine & Health Sciences of Rowan University. The new college will include an osteopathic medical school; an expanded nursing and allied health professions school; a new school of translational biomedical engineering and sciences; and multiple new research institutes. I’m finally happy to see DO programs moving towards research focused initiatives (kinda saw it coming with the 2020 DO-MD merge). Recently, the University of Northern Colorado also took the initiative to open a medical school with the DO program; this is another big movement to establishing more research-focused DO programs.

https://www-nj-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nj.com/news/2022/01/rowan-university-gets-85m-from-virtua-health-for-new-medical-school.html?outputType=amp

Guys, can anyone who interviewed in DMC WSU in Rochester, tell me how was the interview in General? Conversational? Did they ask behavioral questions? Atypical questions? Thank you

People who got into UW School of Med, what are your stats and extracurriculars? How’s life?

I want to go to med school but the acceptance rate of UW is extremely small, for someone who has a 3.2 cumulative gpa as a sophomore right now, my chances are slim. Just want to know how you guys did it, and congrats if you got into your dream schools.

I applied to NOSM in September to begin in Fall 2022 and have not heard from them. I know their website mentions we should receive an acknowledgment and I’m worried I should have gotten it by now since other med schools sent theirs out. I appreciate any answers/advice - thanks in advance.

(i.e how an asian person may be underrepresented in a rural school in Alabama.)

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I was at Geisel until 3:30am yesterday (spent like 12 hours total) and I was next to some dude and his girlfriend (I assume) for like the whole time and I was tempted to tell them before I left have a nice night ( or morning) good luck in finals. I always find this happening to me and I was wondering if it happens to others, thanks in advance!

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

by Jared Diamond UCLA School of Medicine from Discover Magazine, pp. 64—66, May 1987

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/diamond

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our earth isn’t the center of the universe but merely one of billions of heavenly bodies. From biology we learned that we weren’t specially created by God but evolved along with millions of other species. Now archaeology is demolishing another sacred belief: that human history over the past million years has been a long tale of progress. In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence. At first, the evidence against this revisionist interpretation will strike twentieth century Americans as irrefutable. We’re better off in almost every respect than people of the Middle Ages, who in turn had it easier than cavemen, who in turn were better off than apes. Just count our advantages. We enjoy the most abundant and varied foods, the best tools and material goods, some of the longest and healthiest lives, in history. Most of us are safe from starvation and predators. We get our energy from oil and machines, not from our sweat. What neo-Luddite among us would trade his life for that of a medieval peasant, a caveman, or an ape? For most of our history we supported ourselves by hunting and gathering: we hunted wild animals and foraged for wild plants. It’s a life that philosophers have traditionally regarded as nasty, brutish, and short. Since no food is grown and little is stored, there is (in this view) no respite from the struggle that starts anew each day to find wild foods and avoid starving. Our escape from this misery was facilitated only 10,000 years ago, when in different parts of the world people began to domesticate plants and animals. The agricultural revolution spread until today it’s nearly universal and few tribes of hunter-gatherers survive. From the progressivist perspective on which I was brought up, to ask “Why did almost all our hunter-gatherer ancestors adopt agriculture?” is silly. Of course they adopted it because agriculture