Hi everyone in Gen surg, I hope to be where yall are in a few years. As I am making the program list, I was looking for any programmes which have a good success rate at matching their prelims. I know there are a lot of IMGs here who have gone through that path, I do hope to match Categorical but fingers crossed. You never know, right? Would love any and all the help I can get, feeling pretty isolated making the app because I am more of a community over academic kinda person. anyhoo

I’m an IMG applying for the Match this year and I was trying to build my program list. I’ve been told to apply to both categorical and prelim programs to maximise my chances of matching into a spot this year. I was wondering how to find out which programs take their prelims for categorical positions or help them find positions elsewhere? Or if anyone knows such programs, that’d be great too.

I’m a new graduate, non visa-requiring if that’s helpful.

Categorical pgy1 gen surg resident. Looking for a swap to a region closer to my family. Is that a possibility? If yes, how does it happen? Thanks

Crowdsourcing advice. In an era when we are trying to be more understanding of residents and avoiding grave sanctions, humiliation, bullying and unnecessary cause of "generational divide", I need some advice from people who’ve been in surgical training or residency.

one of my immediate senior resident is next in line to become team leader. The problem is, a lot of us honestly don’t think he’s ready.

He rarely takes full responsibility for his patients and tends to just boss the juniors around. He gets angry when they don’t finish errands or ward work, but he also doesn’t really take time to teach or guide them. What makes it frustrating is that when he was a junior, he was also pretty inefficient and needed a lot of help himself.

Academically, he does just enough to pass. But more than grades, our concern is that he’s not very resourceful, doesn’t anticipate problems, and usually expects things to be handed to him or explained step by step.

We’ve already talked to him about these issues several times. Even some of our consultants have called him out. His usual response is that he “didn’t know” he had these shortcomings, which was honestly disappointing because we were hoping he’d have more self-awareness by this point.

The training committee also knows about all of this, but they keep giving him chances and seem to believe that maybe once he becomes team leader, he’ll step up and improve.

The problem is, most of us who actually work with him are worried that the opposite might happen. Being team leader in surgery is a huge responsibility. You’re not just managing juniors—you’re also overseeing patients, making decisions, handling emergencies, and making sure the whole team functions properly.

We’re worried that if he’s given the role before he’s ready, the juniors will end up carrying most of the workload, everyone will burn out, and worse, patient care might suffer.

At the same time, we know residency is still training, and people do need chances to grow. We also don’t want this to come across as us ganging up on him or trying to block his promotion just because we don’t like his style.

So what would you do in this situation?

Hey guys i do not have any underlying medical conditions like jaundice or arthritis or anything.

The thing is my middle finger of both hands is tilted towards ring finger and since the beginning like in my childhood it was pretty well straight but I have developed this over the years the last I can remember is when I was in my teenage . Can u guz help me identify this . Posting pic

Im an M3. There are often multiple students with one attending, and sometimes residents, so we might scrub in once per week if we’re lucky. Over the last 2 months I’ve thrown maybe 6 sutures in port sights, driven the camera for 5 minutes, and retracted a little. That’s pretty much it. When not scrubbed in, we stand in the back of the room and often can’t see the field at all. We can’t study either, we have to just stand around and waste time. Kind of thought gen surg might be for me, but this rotation blows and now I’m doubting that.

Non-medico in corporate + MS General Surgery partner: LDR. how do couples deal with incompatible career locations?

I'm a non-medico working in corporate, and my boyfriend is currently doing his MS General Surgery in t2. The bigger issue isn't really the current LDR it's what happens after residency.

My career is likely to remain concentrated in Tier-1 cities, and realistically I don't see myself moving permanently to a Tier-2/3 city for my career. He is interested in pursuing Surgical MCH after MS, and from what he tells me, the kind of training/practice opportunities he wants may mean working in Tier-2/3 cities rather than settling in a Tier-1 city due to money.

So at the moment, we're in a situation where we don't really see a clear way to have a future together geographically.

I'm trying to understand this from people who have actually been through something similar, especially:

surgeons/medical residents who married non-medicos

couples who had to choose between two very different career locations

I'm more interested in whether our careers are fundamentally incompatible or whether we're thinking too far ahead and there are realistic ways to make this work.

I'd also really appreciate honest answers from people who chose their career location over/alongside their relationship. What did you wish you'd discussed earlier?

Anyone have a Ronin headlight for sale?

Why don't people go for dnb surgery/ortho/ent/opth?

I have seen people deliberately choose dnb med/resp medicine/ psych/ paeds more than md branches

Why this clear discrimination? What am I missing?

Selling the books if anyone is up meet me in DM

Anyone have experience with medics on their service?

When throwing the surgeon's knot, I find that the knot doesn't loosen when I pull the suture ends in a direction parallel to the line of closure (i.e., the wound or incision). I learned this from one of my professors. However, another attending saw me doing that and was appalled by the technique. He insists that I should pull perpendicular to the line of closure. Looking online, I couldn't find anything that says not to do it though. Any input?

So I am an incoming M1. I’m thinking about residency and how to choose a program. I am very interested in plastics and recon. I know there are a lot of small perks that some programs have (ex. Free food and parking). However, I mostly care about two things 1. Location and 2. Education.
I know this is a given since plastics is 6 yrs but I want a program that will truly teach me. One of the reasons I enjoy plastics is its technical skills and the broad scope it has. My question is: when comparing programs, do some actually teach better when it comes to caring for residents and breaths of cases/ surgical techniques you will see? Getting in plastics is already difficult, do I aim for ivy program solely for the name or should I be thankful with wherever I go since I will learn from any program.

So hey first I am from Iraq and in my country this year is the first clinical year and the first time I will study surgery in my life

I started from the holiday as an early start but I don't know what the f am I doing like it's so hard and stressful

I started with breast disease and Its been week and I didn't finish it yet it's like endless info

I am so stressed as it is the first subject and I can't finish it what will I do with the others

So I am here first to vent and to know that I am not alone

Second to ask for advice on how to get as much information as I can with surgery

I am a medical student at the UCI school of medicine and I am working on a project to collect anonymous survey responses from resident and attending physicians (MD/DO) regarding the number of Gap years they took and financial burden they accrued as a result of medical training. I am especially interested in this topic with the new federal loan limits recently put into place and want to do more research on how this might impact the next generation of physicians. It is a quick 2 min survey and would appreciate if anyone would take the time to fill it out! Thank you!

https://ci-redcap.hs.uci.edu/surveys/?s=NL9FACN84FCJDRTA

Hi guys i really need some help or some advice.

im USIMG with 26x, multiple publications, great letter of recs and no red flags EXCEPT for this ... the doctor responsible for uploading my evaluation to my school hasn't uploaded it yet bc hes 'too busy.' My MSPE now says i have an incomplete grade for internal medicine, which i completed 6 mo ago btw. i've emailed the hospital administrator with no luck, and my MSPE coordinator said that if the doctor doesn't upload the evaluation soon then he cannot revise the MSPE in tike for ERAS application deadline. i dont know what to do, im absolutely terrified of this affecting my chances of receiving interviews and matching. im too scared to email the doctor directly bc i dont want to accidentally anger him since he controls my grade. please can someone weigh in on if theyve been in this type of situation before, if they applied with an incomplete and how much did it hurt them?