BIg Update Coming!
First of all, let me just apologize for the lack of updates, I've been really really busy...lol... I have so much to write, and I barely have any free time, so I'm gonna try and give a few updates about whats been going on. Please bare with me. I will post the following very soon.
Updates:
Dr. Devil
1st year resident Drops out!
New replacement residents coming in !
finished my ICU rotation !!
What I learned My first week of residency
Welcome to the real world !
Dr.Mike Getting Residency tip # 2
What to do after you don't match
I will work on posting the above. been working 80-90 plus hours 6 days a week..lol..
God Bless you
Dr.Mike
You are not alone, Jesus loves you.
posted by Dr.Mike PGY4 (Hospitalist/Internist) at
6:32 PM
2 Comments:
Hai Mike,
First let me tell you that your website is very encouraging.
I am also christian believer with scores 80 and 77, struggling to get into residency.
I pray everyday, but i dont have a clue how to try for observerships or experience.i have other problem too. I WISH GOD OPEN A DOOR FOR ME.
October 27, 2008 at 11:49 AM
You are a very real and compassionate person who wants to understand other people and wishes to help them. Your blog speaks that you are very kind and considerate. It is said that the average medical students make the best doctors. Therefore I don't think you deserve less than anyone else to get a good residency program. Although USMLE is intended to test your knowledge of medicine it does so less than it tests your test-taking skills. I think you should be grateful to god that good things have happened to you but your efforts and resilience did most of the job.
I have a score of 99/99/CS pass/85 all on first attempt, 3 year old graduate, won scholarship to go to Medical School and won best student award for the first 3 years, topped a class of 85 students in Biochemistry and got excellent scores in all basic science and pre-clinical subjects but I am still doubtful if I am going to make it in this match. MY MISTAKE: I faltered in the later years of medical school due to a very bad relation with a very special friend of mine which paralyzed me from inside. I started curl up in fetal position and wish that I could start all over again and undo all the wrong i had done to ruin my relation with her. I realized that I was in catch 22 situation where approaching her to talk about improving the relation only made her confident that she could take advantage of my emotional dependence upon her to her interest..........and that almost devastated me in the end. Eventually Internship year was a busy time and I could avoid worrying about how badly I wanted everything between me and her to be good again. And almost a year after graduation I collected enough of my self esteem to dare plan about taking the USMLE and come to the US for residency. I took the exams while working and did well in the USMLE exams. And having passed through all the exams I am here looking for residency spots. I applied to 56 programs and have only been invited from 3. I am again starting to losing courage and I don't know what I will do if I don't match. Even if I don't I will not think that I deserved better than you did to get a residency program.
The most important thing in your life is to learn to feel good about yourself no matter what happens to you. That is what life has taught me. Anyone who has grabbed the amount of academic success that I have would certainly think of himself as lucky. I think I am lucky too but time and again I always find something big or small that keeps me worried. Where there is none my subconsious makes me do some seemingly stupid things only to worry later.I am trying to learn to be happy again....I hope to finally learn it. I think this is the beginning of it because I rarely disclose my weakness even in anonymous forums. Because they say when you share your pain it decreases and when you share your happiness it increases. I am taking a small step towards sharing. I hope I learn better the more I do. I hope to find the purpose of my life. I hope one day I will. When you read my blog you can see that I am talking too much about myself, and that is what makes you a better person than I am. You deserve no less. Good luck with your residency and your happy life.
December 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM
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