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  1. Have some close friends and colleagues who graduated from the program not too long ago so hopefully I can contribute. For the past couple of years and this current year as well, we haven't had any visiting electives. Hopefully, that'll change by the time you get to 4th year but you are able to request away electives at any school, as long as they have the capacity to do so. If anything, the challenge I would foresee is logistical in setting up back-to-back electives at the same school, but I would imagine this to be not too difficult if you were interested in FM (multiple FM sites at each school, can also do related electives at Calgary such as IM, palliative, hospitalist, etc.). Selectives are generally chosen from a pre-created list from the program, which means they are all at locations around Toronto and the surrounding area. They do allow for some wiggle room in creating your own selectives but they generally have to be with someone who's affiliated with UofT so I don't think you would be able to go to away schools to do those. Document prep week is purely time for you to work on finishing up your applications before submitting them. There's no other academic responsibilities at the time nor did we have to go into any classes. Capstone week is the final week of med school that consists of a few lectures. These are generally in person. Hope this helps!
  2. I just wanted to revisit this point, could someone please explain the benefit and process of having double coverage through OMA and RBC?
  3. Is there a limit to how many times you can use the Revision of Terms (interest only payments)? I understand you’d have to renew it q6mos but could you theoretically renew this throughout a 5yr residency?
  4. Is there a limit to how many times you can use the Revision of Terms (interest only payments)? I understand you’d have to renew it q6mos but could you theoretically renew this throughout a 5yr residency?
  5. For the federal student loan, is it better to consolidate to LOC? I’m not entering FM so I don’t have loan forgiveness option if I were to stick with loan repayment. My understanding is that if I started loan repayment, I would be subject to a minimum monthly payment rather than having flexibility to just pay interest (or nothing) on LOC if I were to consolidate. The latter option would require considerably lower payments than min monthly payments, which would give me more wiggle room on my resident salary.
  6. Is it a good idea to at least pay the interest on these loans or even contribute a little throughout a 5 year residency?
  7. Cross posted from other specialty residencies forum I'm interested in pursuing physiatry but one thing that I'm unsure of is the earning potential in the specialty. I also have competing interests in family medicine and, from a pragmatic standpoint, I'm not sure how I feel about pursuing a 5-yr program if the earning potential is less than that of a 2-yr FM program and capitation-based model (i.e. FHO in Ontario). Does anyone have any insights into income and ability to scale it in PM&R? Would appreciate any input! I would most likely split my time between inpatient rehab, outpatient sports med, and private medicolegal work. Would also appreciate any insights into coming by private work as a physiatrist and pay as well! (Obligatory disclaimer: I know money is not the be all and end all when picking specialties but if I'm equally interested in PM&R and FM in terms of the specialties, I would want to make an informed decision regarding other factors such as income)
  8. Cross-posted from general med student discussions forum I'm interested in pursuing physiatry but one thing that I'm unsure of is the earning potential in the specialty. I also have competing interests in family medicine and, from a pragmatic standpoint, I'm not sure how I feel about pursuing a 5-yr program if the earning potential is less than that of a 2-yr FM program and capitation-based model (i.e. FHO in Ontario). Does anyone have any insights into income and ability to scale it in PM&R? Would appreciate any input! I would most likely split my time between inpatient rehab, outpatient sports med, and private medicolegal work. Would also appreciate any insights into coming by private work as a physiatrist as well! (Obligatory disclaimer: I know money is not the be all and end all when picking specialties but if I'm equally interested in PM&R and FM in terms of the specialties, I would want to make an informed decision regarding other factors such as income)
  9. I do have the Bose QC25 (the previous wired model) which work fairly well. But word of warning: the active noise cancellation technology will be great at eliminating constant (low frequency) noises but they will not filter out normal chatter. So if you’re going for complete silence, I sometimes like to throw in regular ear plugs and then put my noise cancelling headphones on top, which does a good job at filtering most of the environmental noise.
  10. Do you (or anyone else) know what a physiatrist's income is like if you DON'T do any insurance or procedural work? Like if you only worked inpatient rehab.
  11. I found (as with many of my colleagues) that we were constantly changing up how we studied - partly because we were trying to find new/effective/efficient methods and partly due to the changing nature of the content we had to learn each week (e.g. certain weeks were focused on several diseases while others would be focused on ethics and concepts, which all require different methods of studying) I have personally found myself gravitating towards 2 methods of note taking that would make my studying much easier: 1) summary document containing all of the big picture concepts (I couldn't be bothered to sift through several powerpoint presentations and then hundreds of powerpoint slides to just to find something/study it, and plus I found that different lecturers structured their talks differently, which made it even more difficult to follow along and find info) 2) Disease/condition charts that compare etiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, investigations, management, prevention, etc. - especially useful for weeks/topics that contain a lot of different diseases and you have to differentiate them somehow I think a big thing for me now is that tests in med school are much more clinically framed so we don't necessarily have to memorize all the small details but rather understand the big picture. Of course there will always be some questions that test factoids but the vast majority are regards to disease presentation, management, etc. So if you really wanted to, you could spend all of your waking hours making super detailed notes and studying every single detail but I found that approach to be overkill and unnecessary (I tried it out for the first few weeks but found that the amount of time put into making notes/studying was not worth it imho). I know this is cliche but at the end of the day, it really depends on how you prefer to intake information and study and what works best for you. Unfortunately, that means it will involve some effort on you end to experiment with different techniques and methods that work best for you. Give your current studying approach a try and see how well it works for you. But don't be afraid to try out other methods (perhaps some that are less time consuming and allow you to do things aside from schoolwork from time to time)
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