Northwestern Spine Research Fellowship

[Guest]

Also a few more points:

1. Agree with side hustles for medical students, i did it too (tutoring MCAT) and graduated with no debt
2. lol at social justice warriors complaining about rich families again. It’s got to be the same person that devolves every threat into this argument. No one cares, move on
3. Great point that this is an ortho position and won’t help with contacts in neurosurgery. Publications in spine are great but the turn around of writing and submitting to the paper being accepted on visible on pubmed is over a year so if you are applying for residency the cycle you do this “fellowship” then it won’t help you
4. The data from this ortho group will likely largely be skewed with the massive amount of Csf leaks given ortho

[Guest]

I won't add to the general takes above, but I will say Wellington Hsu is a very, very smart guy who puts out a ton of high-quality research. Most spine neurosurgeons know him or at least know who he is so a good letter would probably help in programs with high-ranking spine faculty.

[Guest]

I mean if you want to be someone’s bitch in exchange for less than minimum wage and the possibility of a letter…go ahead. Taking this fellowship seems more like a move of desperation, like choosing a Gen Surg prelim. If the letter was THAT valuable, a Northwestern student would already have the job, anyway.

[Guest]

The above poster is absolutely right. This is a terrible shameless attempt to take advantage of desperate medical students. The institution is desperately seeking slave labor they can exploit, and the medical student considering this are desperate for any kind of “in” for neurosurgery residency, and don’t realize this “opportunity” is actually a worthless waste of time. And like the above poster said, if this position was anything other than garbage, it would have already been filled internally by a northwestern med studen, but it’s not, so it wasn’t.

[mshauver]

This position has been filled. Thank you!

[Focus]

The free market has spoken.

[Guest]

Nah, an anonymous username on the internet has spoken (with no means of verifying the truth of what they’re saying). My guess is they saw how poorly received their garbage position was, and they tried to get ahead of the bad publicity it was generating by falsely claiming someone filled it. We’ll never know.

[Guest]

(03-12-2024, 10:53 PM)Guest Wrote: Nah, an anonymous username on the internet has spoken (with no means of verifying the truth of what they’re saying). My guess is they saw how poorly received their garbage position was, and they tried to get ahead of the bad publicity it was generating by falsely claiming someone filled it. We’ll never know.

Are you actually stupid? If you took 5 seconds to copy and paste the thread title in google you would find the program has its own page and the current fellow. But I guess "We'll never know". This Northwestern, not some Caribbean med school you are probably at.

[Guest]

Match is tomorrow and this job posting is what people are talking about on this site?!

[Guest]

There will always be someone willing to be a bitch for the shot at a letter. The only way this stops is if we have metrics for match that look at how much of a pussy-ass bitch applicants are. I’m surprised there isn’t, those people are the same bootlickers that are going to race to the bottom in terms of salary/reimbursement/perks/willingness to give up life for the job once they graduate.

“You want me to be at the bedside in 15 minutes for a nurse page at 2 am? You got it, no pushback from me.” That’s what we’ll all become letting this be ok.