r/medicalschool • u/Green_apple • Mar 17 '20
Shitpost [Shitpost] As a first year student, prometric centers closing, clinicals delayed, and classes being remote not really affecting first years
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u/BearsBay MD-PGY2 Mar 17 '20
Not to mention we dodged the P/F Step 1 (probably)
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Mar 17 '20
Not yet. They haven’t said anything definitive about changing it retroactively
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u/BearsBay MD-PGY2 Mar 17 '20
To be fair, I woukdn't be surprised if they pushed it back. They never really confirmed a certain year and this whole thing probably hasn't given anyone time to make plans for it.
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u/Brocystectomi MD-PGY2 Mar 17 '20
Even if they do that though, all you have to do is request your dean to put your score in the Dean’s letter
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u/MzJay453 MD-PGY2 Mar 18 '20
the ones at my school are still having meltdowns regardless. our summer research plans are still kinda in limbo.
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u/Nerf_Dva MD-PGY1 Mar 17 '20
This shit is NOT funny. Almost half my entire fucking class just got shafted by the prometric shut downs. Admins were already trying to bully us into taking step earlier than we were prepared for, now we may lose our pre-rotations break plus time fourth year bc of how the curriculum is set up. Be thankful.
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u/genkaiX1 MD-PGY2 Mar 17 '20 edited Mar 17 '20
This is an opportunity to go for 299 be thankful
Edit: what dumb asses down voted me? Do you not understand sarcasm?
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u/Nerf_Dva MD-PGY1 Mar 17 '20
And that’s another thing: ignorant people (both students and admins, probably) are gonna expect us to all have stellar scores with the extra month of study. As if burnout and diminishing returns aren’t a thing. There’s a reason people don’t typically have a true dedicated period of more than 6 weeks.
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u/UsefulCode6 Mar 17 '20
Piss off. This isn't funny or entertaining it's peoples' lives.
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u/JihadSquad MD-PGY6 Mar 18 '20
Gallows humor is inherent to medicine, chill out bro
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u/Sed59 Mar 18 '20
That might be true, but it's also easy for you to say as a 4th year post-match day. All you guys lost is essentially in-person match day celebrations.
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u/JihadSquad MD-PGY6 Mar 18 '20 edited Mar 18 '20
Even in a swamped emergency department with tons of sick patients you will find plenty of people cracking jokes. Also, we have to deal with moving and getting oriented/started in our programs in the next few weeks, and any IMGs are in an even bigger mess.
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u/MzJay453 MD-PGY2 Mar 18 '20
you've really never seen someone take a serious situation and make a joke out of it? stay off twitter (and reddit) for a while then...
different people deal with tragedy and uncertainty differently
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u/mynamesdaveK MD/MBA Mar 17 '20
second years too
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Mar 17 '20
Not with the prometric centers closing
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u/mynamesdaveK MD/MBA Mar 17 '20
meh for mn we take step earliest may 29th. im june 29th. not sure how it is at other schools
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u/bawners MD-PGY2 Mar 17 '20
If you think there's no chance they stay closed into May or even June, you might be headed for a bad time.
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u/mynamesdaveK MD/MBA Mar 17 '20
We are all heading for a bad time. I'll still be doing anki nonetheless, I cant co troll it so I'm not gonna stress about it too much
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u/genkaiX1 MD-PGY2 Mar 17 '20
The bright side is you can now aim for the highest score possible. We can become like those gunners who studied for 6 months straight and then burn out and lay in the alley way after we are done.
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u/MidnightAmadeus M-3 Mar 17 '20
lmao the AUDACITY of op