Kaplan Announces New Step 2 CK Qbank!

PRESS RELEASE

Kaplan’s NEW Step 2 CK Qbank is coming soon! Kaplan’s new and improved Step 2 CK Qbank will be available starting May 14th with important new features like a Score Estimator - able to predict your USMLE score based on your Qbank performance - and 500 never-before-seen exam-like questions created by Kaplan Medical’s expert faculty and reviewed by top-performing test takers.

Learn more about the important upgrades to Kaplan’s Qbank and see how you score on a Qbank Challenge at http://www.qbankchallenge.com/step2. You can lock in the low price of Qbank today – buy now and delay your start date up to 90 days!

Only on SDN - Enter to win Kaplan’s new Step 2 CK Qbank!
Kaplan is giving away a Step 2 CK Qbank to the first 100 SDN members. Check the Step 2 forum on Thursday, May 1st to learn how to win a FREE 3-month Step 2 CK Qbank!

Why Study Medicine? Pre-meds not in it for the money, survey says

by Charles Daniel and Michael O’Brien
SDN Staff Writers

For some, the answer to the question, “Why do you want to study medicine?” is a simple one: to make money.  These individuals, however, are in a shrinking minority, a recent survey has found.  Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions examined the responses of 914 students in its medical and law school preparatory courses to examine their motivations for professional study.  It seems that even as the traditional financial windfalls associated with medicine continue to wane, students’ passion for medical study is as fiery as ever.  In fact, less than half of pre-med respondents indicated their future earning potential “very much” or “somewhat” influenced their decision to study medicine.  But what does this mean?  Pre-professional students are notorious for their exaggerated claims of altruism while the true and ulterior motivation remains the big salary.  …or at least that was the belief.  Read more »

SDN Announces First docLive Chat — Harry Rosen, MD

Press Release

In our first docLive chat, Dr. Harry Rosen, author of The Consult Manual of Internal Medicine, will lead a live discussion wherein he will answer your questions about surviving 3rd year medicine clerkships. During this Sunday, April 20th session, participants will be able to ask Dr. Rosen their questions and receive real-time responses.

The chat session will take place at 8:00pm Eastern Time on SDnet, the SDN Chat Server. A temporary link to the docLive web client will appear in the Clinical Rotations forum at 7:30pm ET. For those wishing to use their own chat client, simply point it to irc.studentdoctor.net:6667 and join #doclive.

Please post in this SDN Forums thread to indicate your plans to attend, as space is limited. Come meet Dr. Rosen and walk away with strategies to make your Medicine rotations go much more smoothly!

Community-Based Education: Gerard Clancy, MD

With this interview, Student Doctor Network begins a new series of interviews relating to “community-based medical education” and with it a new forum on this subject. To launch the series, we interviewed Gerard Clancy, MD, the Dean of the newly established University of Oklahoma (OU) School of Community Medicine in Tulsa.

SDN: Dean Clancy, how do you envision your School of Community Medicine in Tulsa differing from a typical medical school?

Clancy: First, it is important to recognize that all the students in OU’s Community Medical School in Tulsa will graduate with the same MD degree as the students in OU’s traditionally organized medical school in Oklahoma City. They will learn the basic core information about medicine that they need to be successful as a physician. Read more »

The Successful Match: The Importance of Mentoring

by Samir P. Desai, M.D., and Rajani Katta, M.D., authors of The 250 Biggest Mistakes 3rd Year Medical Students Make And How To Avoid Them

In researching our book, we asked applicants what they found most difficult about the residency application process. A number of applicants commented on the same issue. “There’s so much conflicting information out there. How do you know what to believe? Who should you listen to?”

Applicants with mentors have a decided advantage. A joint committee of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine described a mentor as “someone who takes a special interest in helping another person develop into a successful professional.”¹ In defining the term, the committee described a fundamental difference between mentoring and advising. Read more »

SDN Charts New Frontiers in Partnership

Press Release

The Student Doctor Network would like to welcome its two newest site partners, Medpod101 and My Medical Career.

Medpod101 is a physician run podcast site which offers medical students a new way to
learn medicine – on the go. Case-based podcasts can be downloaded for play on your iPod or computer.

My Medical Career is an online career planning portal for Australian medical students and junior doctors. Created by young doctors with the input of senior clinicians, My Medical Career aims to provide users with up-to-date information about different career options. Their goal is guide you through the process of selecting and achieving a career which best suits your interests, skills and lifestyle needs.

A Complement to Medicine

by Brittany Warrick and Sarah M. Lawrence
SDN Staff Writers

As health care providers, we are certain to encounter a patient who uses some form of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM). According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), 36% of adults have used some form of CAM in the past 12 months. Most patients who use CAM do so as an adjunct to conventional medicine. The very real potential for interactions between pharmaceuticals, herbs, and nutritional supplements highlights the need for regular communication between doctors, pharmacists and patients about CAM. Understanding the appeal of CAM is the first step in facilitating such conversations. Read more »

Cover Your Mouth When You Sneeze!

by Veronica Tucci
SDN Staff Writer

John T. Sinnott, MD, FACP is the Director of the Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Recently, he sat down with SDN to give us a glimpse into his career as an Infectious Disease specialist.

Describe a typical day at work.

I don’t think there is a typical day at work for me. It seems that each day is full of something new and exciting and different. One day I may be teaching concepts of diagnosing illnesses to medical students, the next day working on a grant and the day after that analyzing an epidemiologic study. To me the best part of my job is that there are no typical days.  Read more »

20 Questions - Sleep Medicine

by Sarah M. Lawrence
SDN Staff Writer

Michael Rack, MD grew up in Southern California. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1997. He completed combined residencies in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University-Morgantown in 2002. He completed a Sleep Disorders Medicine fellowship at the University of Mississippi in 2003. He stayed on at the University of Mississippi as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine until 2005, when he left to start Somnus Sleep Clinic in Flowood, MS. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry), and the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.  Read more »

Forum Remix: Trauma Care in the Prehospital Setting

by Alison Hayward, M.D.
SDN Staff Writer

Mark J. Seamon , M.D. is the director of trauma research at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. He has a keen interest in pre-hospital care and how pre-hospital interventions affect trauma patients, and recently published an article in the Journal of Trauma titled “Prehospital Procedures Before Emergency Department Thoracotomy: ‘Scoop and Run’ Saves Lives” which was hotly debated in SDN’s Pre-Hospital Forum. Read more »

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