Thanks to everyone who has helped so far with the Wiki!  I'll try to help fill in things as I can but I have been rather busy lately with other things.  

The great part about a Wiki is it is community sourced and driven.  That means you guys play a major part in what's there both by editing and putting things you want, or letting others know what you'd request so it can be created.  

Thanks again!

Does anyone know if any programs require a step 2 report to be ranked?

Hi all,

I am currently an MS2 at a mid-tier MD program with an okay NSG residency program. I am interested in pursuing a career in academic medicine and would ultimately like to have a shot at a program at a respected academic program like Barrow,UCLA,Pitt, UCSF, etc.  I have one first author publication on a case-report in a good neuroscience journal, and I have two other clinical pubs in the works from this past summer. My grades put me in the top quartile of the class, but I should be top 10% and AOA eligible by MS3.  Besides striving for AOA and a 250+, what other advise could you give me?

Can we discuss this?  UC Irvine charimanship has been a revolving door for the last 10 years.  The Davis chairman got canned for infecting GBM patients.  UCSD abandoned ship for greener (ivy) pastures.  Leaving UCSF, who is also in a quiet chairman search and lost their cerebrovascular service to a private practice.  What is going on in California?

(01-11-2017, 06:02 PM)Rome is falling Wrote: Can we discuss this?  UC Irvine charimanship has been a revolving door for the last 10 years.  The Davis chairman got canned for infecting GBM patients.  UCSD abandoned ship for greener (ivy) pastures.  Leaving UCSF, who is also in a quiet chairman search and lost their cerebrovascular service to a private practice.  What is going on in California?

Can anyone who has done a Sub-I at the Mayo Clinic comment on their experience?

How do you guys keep your case logs?  I've seen a variety of ways.  Obviously, the ACGME log is necessary.  How do you decide which level to put (assistant, senior resident, lead resident)?  For a case that is booked as one case but has multiple parts (e.g. back/front spine, xlif + perc screws, crani for aneurysm w/ intraop angio) do you log that as one?  Do you keep anything else as a log?  I've seen moleskin notebooks with patient stickers or info.  I've seen binders of op notes.  One guy had a searchable database with pdfs.

I'll get this started with an interesting one.  It's been a while, so I don't recall the specifics but here's the gist:

Patient was on the medicine service and had a pulmonary empyema.  IR was consulted and placed a pigtail catheter.  We get called days later for paraparesis.  The patient can't get an MRI, but ct-myelogram reveals the pigtail is somehow entering through a throracic foramen and traverses the spinal cord.

Anyone have the latest gossip?  Who's going where?  Hirings? Firings? Scandals?   Dish!

Any advice for an incoming MS4 on applying for Sub-Is, what you could do differently etc?

Anyone who did a SubI care to share their experience? Thanks!