Career advice

[Guest]

OP tell us who is your mentor. We can give you a % rate of matching.

[Guest]

> We would hear this “In my old country, I was a top doctor” a lot at interviews. Unless someone in the department knew that where someone trained actually was a big-deal hospital, we weren’t sure whether to believe it.

Being just a PGY1, I ofc cannot claim to be a top doctor, but I can claim for sure that I was training at the top 1 NSGY hospital in my country. The PD of my home country program personally knows the chair of NSGY department where I'm currently at, so I'm backed from that aspect.

> If they didn’t want to hire you as a resident, we generally didn’t want to, either. You think a 1-2/year program has some extra hidden spots?
I don't get what you mean with this~

> OP tell us who is your mentor. We can give you a % rate of matching.

lol

[Guest]

1) doesn’t that prove the point?

2) Are you being intentionally obtuse? What else would it mean when a chair/PD says “not good enough for us to train but good enough for you untermensches”

[Guest]

One thing you need to realize early is nearly everyone in this field is full of it. They may be talented and a leader, but they are still trying to manipulate you for their own gain. I would say <5% of the people I’ve met in this field had truly good intentions.

[Guest]

^Realest thing ever said on this site

[Guest]

(07-08-2023, 07:36 PM)Guest Wrote: One thing you need to realize early is nearly everyone in this field is full of it. They may be talented and a leader, but they are still trying to manipulate you for their own gain. I would say <5% of the people I’ve met in this field had truly good intentions.

100% TRUE NO BS. Look at the outstanding research profiles of IMGs who year after year don't match. It's painful to see them suffering.

[Guest]

Something to keep in mind is that the majority of people here are duds who are angry that the world didn't recognize their laziness and low-IQ. So instead of developing humility and self-introspection, these duffers externalize their failure, blaming the world for their own inadequacies. Just like in high school, how the state school kids would bash the "elite" schools, or like how pre-meds who didn't get accepted blame the med schools--never themselves--so it is here, where people who didn't match, or who matched at a shit place, or who are just frustrated with their lack of accomplishment, come to bash organize neurosurgery.

[Guest]

^Funny thing is that you're here too. Don't project. I got to a T5 school, best in my class.

[Guest]

So you go to Harvard Medical School? Why aren't you churning out papers with some of the MGH faculty?

[Guest]

(07-09-2023, 03:39 PM)Guest Wrote: Something to keep in mind is that the majority of people here are duds who are angry that the world didn't recognize their laziness and low-IQ. So instead of developing humility and self-introspection, these duffers externalize their failure, blaming the world for their own inadequacies. Just like in high school, how the state school kids would bash the "elite" schools, or like how pre-meds who didn't get accepted blame the med schools--never themselves--so it is here, where people who didn't match, or who matched at a shit place, or who are just frustrated with their lack of accomplishment, come to bash organize neurosurgery.

Can you tell us how you got into medical school and maybe residency without disclosing your identity? If your don’t mind obviously.