I don't think a pre-M1 research program/showing up to the chief of neurosurgery's office during orientation week/studying FA or pathoma already is the best approach to going into neurosurgery. If you're at a top 10 research med school you'll have all the opportunities necessary to match at a great neurosurgery program even if you decided to go into neurosurgery as a third year. Prioritize wellness and your family life now, think about neurosurgery later on first year.
(02-21-2017, 11:14 PM)Guest Wrote: I don't think a pre-M1 research program/showing up to the chief of neurosurgery's office during orientation week/studying FA or pathoma already is the best approach to going into neurosurgery. If you're at a top 10 research med school you'll have all the opportunities necessary to match at a great neurosurgery program even if you decided to go into neurosurgery as a third year. Prioritize wellness and your family life now, think about neurosurgery later on first year.
Relax dude, he is not going to knock on the chief's door before starting his first year. The guy is excited and wants to get proactive about his boards. Better than the procrastinators right? He will go to med school, and will come to the realization that NS is a self selecting specialty and many who don't belong will weed out eventually. BTW, there are lots of gunners at the top schools and most start studying for the boards very early on and most tell others that they will just wait till the last few months to study.
(02-16-2017, 09:31 PM)socrates Wrote: (02-16-2017, 05:23 PM)11262729NSG Wrote: I will be a M1 this fall at a top 10 medical school program. The general consensus in Reddit and SDN is that I shouldn't think about medical school at all and just "enjoy my summer". However, as a non-traditional and an older medical student-to-be with family, I do not think that is really a practical option for me.
Browsing through multiple forums and the cached pages of Uncle Harvey, it seems pretty straightforward. For my M1 year, I am getting the impression that I just need to do well in school, slowly prepare for the USMLE, and start research (please correct me if I am wrong). However, there are a few questions that I'd like to ask:
- My undergraduate publications and research interests were mainly in cancer research. I would like to do basic cancer research in medical school as well since I am comfortable with it. Would doing basic research be disadvantageous compared to clinical research with respect to publication volume?
- Does membership in honors societies matter at all?
- I have started going through Pathoma and annotating the book with some things that Dr. Sattar says verbally so that I wouldn't have to waste time during medical school doing this (I do this because it has helped me a lot in undergraduate school). My goal is to finish this before medical school starts. I have also started doing Brosencephalon's Anki deck regularly for the chapters related to Pathoma. What USMLE related things should I be doing during my M1 year? I read online that people suggest only studying during the dedicated period, but I am wondering if that is not the case.
- I am moving to my medical school area with my family. This may sound like a silly question, but is it necessary to socialize too much with other students? I do not plan on being the guy who never talks with others, but I am thinking that I would like to devote most of my time to my family and my studies.
- Do you guys have any other advice for someone about to start his M1 year in a few months?
As a side note, I'm hoping to enter an academic neurosurgery program. Of course, I might change my mind later regarding the academic portion, but this is the goal for now.
Seem of to a good start. Focus on school, boards, and research.
Can I ask how you found this site? I reddit deleted the link to this site there and I don't think anyone has mentioned this site on SDN.
Im not the poster, but i found this site while googling residencies. Specifically, brown residencies, since they were trolling in the previous nsurg applicant forums.
(03-17-2017, 02:01 PM)Guest Wrote: (02-16-2017, 09:31 PM)socrates Wrote: (02-16-2017, 05:23 PM)11262729NSG Wrote: I will be a M1 this fall at a top 10 medical school program. The general consensus in Reddit and SDN is that I shouldn't think about medical school at all and just "enjoy my summer". However, as a non-traditional and an older medical student-to-be with family, I do not think that is really a practical option for me.
Browsing through multiple forums and the cached pages of Uncle Harvey, it seems pretty straightforward. For my M1 year, I am getting the impression that I just need to do well in school, slowly prepare for the USMLE, and start research (please correct me if I am wrong). However, there are a few questions that I'd like to ask:
- My undergraduate publications and research interests were mainly in cancer research. I would like to do basic cancer research in medical school as well since I am comfortable with it. Would doing basic research be disadvantageous compared to clinical research with respect to publication volume?
- Does membership in honors societies matter at all?
- I have started going through Pathoma and annotating the book with some things that Dr. Sattar says verbally so that I wouldn't have to waste time during medical school doing this (I do this because it has helped me a lot in undergraduate school). My goal is to finish this before medical school starts. I have also started doing Brosencephalon's Anki deck regularly for the chapters related to Pathoma. What USMLE related things should I be doing during my M1 year? I read online that people suggest only studying during the dedicated period, but I am wondering if that is not the case.
- I am moving to my medical school area with my family. This may sound like a silly question, but is it necessary to socialize too much with other students? I do not plan on being the guy who never talks with others, but I am thinking that I would like to devote most of my time to my family and my studies.
- Do you guys have any other advice for someone about to start his M1 year in a few months?
As a side note, I'm hoping to enter an academic neurosurgery program. Of course, I might change my mind later regarding the academic portion, but this is the goal for now.
Seem of to a good start. Focus on school, boards, and research.
Can I ask how you found this site? I reddit deleted the link to this site there and I don't think anyone has mentioned this site on SDN.
Im not the poster, but i found this site while googling residencies. Specifically, brown residencies, since they were trolling in the previous nsurg applicant forums.
The Brown residents were trolling?
(03-17-2017, 02:39 PM)Guest Wrote: (03-17-2017, 02:01 PM)Guest Wrote: (02-16-2017, 09:31 PM)socrates Wrote: (02-16-2017, 05:23 PM)11262729NSG Wrote: I will be a M1 this fall at a top 10 medical school program. The general consensus in Reddit and SDN is that I shouldn't think about medical school at all and just "enjoy my summer". However, as a non-traditional and an older medical student-to-be with family, I do not think that is really a practical option for me.
Browsing through multiple forums and the cached pages of Uncle Harvey, it seems pretty straightforward. For my M1 year, I am getting the impression that I just need to do well in school, slowly prepare for the USMLE, and start research (please correct me if I am wrong). However, there are a few questions that I'd like to ask:
- My undergraduate publications and research interests were mainly in cancer research. I would like to do basic cancer research in medical school as well since I am comfortable with it. Would doing basic research be disadvantageous compared to clinical research with respect to publication volume?
- Does membership in honors societies matter at all?
- I have started going through Pathoma and annotating the book with some things that Dr. Sattar says verbally so that I wouldn't have to waste time during medical school doing this (I do this because it has helped me a lot in undergraduate school). My goal is to finish this before medical school starts. I have also started doing Brosencephalon's Anki deck regularly for the chapters related to Pathoma. What USMLE related things should I be doing during my M1 year? I read online that people suggest only studying during the dedicated period, but I am wondering if that is not the case.
- I am moving to my medical school area with my family. This may sound like a silly question, but is it necessary to socialize too much with other students? I do not plan on being the guy who never talks with others, but I am thinking that I would like to devote most of my time to my family and my studies.
- Do you guys have any other advice for someone about to start his M1 year in a few months?
As a side note, I'm hoping to enter an academic neurosurgery program. Of course, I might change my mind later regarding the academic portion, but this is the goal for now.
Seem of to a good start. Focus on school, boards, and research.
Can I ask how you found this site? I reddit deleted the link to this site there and I don't think anyone has mentioned this site on SDN.
Im not the poster, but i found this site while googling residencies. Specifically, brown residencies, since they were trolling in the previous nsurg applicant forums.
The Brown residents were trolling?
No, just some tryhard creating multiple threads saying how Brown was malignant. 99% sure he wants to match to Brown and decrease the competition from like the 10 other people that frequent this site.
Focus on Step 1, few things matter more. Programs are mostly looking for people who can excel academically and the best indication of the type of resident you will be is your board score.
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