
ploughboy
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ploughboy last won the day on August 22 2019
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I'm a simple man leading a complex life.
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FRCPC - Emergency Medicine. Clinical Fellow - Critical Care Medicine.
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"Meets Expectations" on Clerkship Evaluations
ploughboy replied to brady23's topic in Medical Student General Discussions
Ah yes, the "let's just be friends" of clerkship evaluations. Agree with above replies. Try and get specific feedback about your performance from a trusted preceptor on the rotation. Take that to heart, and then do a home-school 4th year elective in the specialty (maybe at a different site? U of T has a lot of them) to get a letter. -
ploughboy reacted to a post in a topic: Are preclerks allowed to attend grand rounds?
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aloeplant reacted to a post in a topic: What's going on with Ontario's LHINs?
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M.Sc/MPH during medical school
ploughboy replied to MDinCanada's topic in Medical Student General Discussions
Do it in residency. Get paid. -
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What's going on with Ontario's LHINs?
ploughboy replied to aloeplant's topic in Medical Student General Discussions
As far as I can tell they're replacing bureaucracy with different bureaucracy. -
Stop catastrophizing and join some sort of co-ed sports league.
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Taxes and donations to charities
ploughboy replied to Leon's topic in General Resident Physician Discussions
Probably want to talk to an accountant about this. When you're into six figures, there might be ways to structure it more advantageously. Or at least get a small piece of infrastructure named after yourself by your appreciative recipient (if you're into that). But I don't know, mostly because I don't have a hundred large burning a hole in my pocket every year. You might not, either. While $350k per year sounds like an outrageous amount of money, by the time you account for overhead, taxes, mortgage, debt repayment, insurance, retirement savings etc it will likely be a lot less an -
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General Question About Residency Match
ploughboy replied to clopidogrel's topic in Medical Student General Discussions
Don't count on institutional amnesia as part of your match strategy. I once walked into a fellowship interview at a school where I didn't match for residency, and a member of the interview panel was the PD of the residency that I didn't match to. He remembered me. It was awkward. -
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Ways to work part-time only X months/year?
ploughboy replied to Hanmari's topic in General Resident Physician Discussions
Stuck in the middle of the ocean on a ship full of decrepit octogenarians and limited medical resources at hand. What could possibly go wrong? -
ploughboy reacted to a post in a topic: Surgical specialties with good job prospects?
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ploughboy reacted to a post in a topic: Can't keep up in medschool
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"MD aware"
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"Have you been on break yet?" "Do you want first break or second break?"
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Fun/easy/interesting electives?
ploughboy replied to psychsohard's topic in Clerkship Rotations and Electives (Med 3 and 4)
NYC Tox. -
Youth is wasted on the young.
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Free food for Premeds and Med Students
ploughboy replied to FutureMDAlex's topic in General Premed Discussions
Do you have an affiliation with ScotiaBank?