This is so crazy.

Apparently Nick Baumel is back on social media, and is talking about being suicidal and depressed from facing bullying and harassment. To be 100% clear: NO ONE should ever face that kind of bullying or feel like they're in a position where the only option is to take their own life.

However, when all the discourse was going on around his videos, there were some extremely valid criticisms from the healthcare community. His videos literally were captioned

"FaceTime me that p*ssy"

"Damn girl, how many p*ssies you got"

This is so incredibly unprofessional and unbecoming of someone who is supposed to be providing care, especially since he claims "women are [his] people." And the whole coming out thing? Like, I'm LGBTQ as well, but that honestly just felt like deflection to distract from the fact that his posts were incredibly inappropriate and could be downright harmful to establishing trust with his patients who could one day see that. I don't care what your identity is. If you're a doctor, you don't post jokes like that.

Frankly, it reminds me of Kevin Spacey coming out to deflect from the fact that he had sexually assaulted a bunch of people. (I'm not saying nick had done anything to that scale but it gives me that ick)

Also, Nick's new reel didn't have a single apology or acknowledgment of wrongdoing. In his video he was "shocked" and "couldn't understand how it was OK to make assumptions about him". Like no? No assumptions were made. Those videos were misogynistic point blank. I was a sexual assault survivor, and if I saw that my doctor had made posts like that and believed that it was entirely appropriate behavior, I would never seek care. Is that really what we want to see in our physicians?

I'm not saying he's beyond redemption or that I want him to be hurt or that he deserves to be bullied. But y'all can't be effing serious that he was purely an innocent victim in all of this. He's a doctor that graduated from one of the most prestigious and influential medical institutions in the world. What does it say to our patients when this is how someone in that position behaves? He should know better, and frankly, so should we.

OMGG I’m actually in disbelief. My the record my stats are not insanely high 511 + 3.8 so I was expecting if I do get any interviews it would be much later in the cycle. But to have a school send it to me in July is actually incredibly surreal to me I had to reread the email like 4 times for it to register AAAAAAAAAA

I'm officially at 13/25 done!! Not that big of an achievement really but writing these things has been genuinely draining my life force so I gotta celebrate where I can lol

I'm troubled by how a first-quartile result may impact my application, but more puzzled and concerned about the quality of the test now.

I'm a law grad and a former mediator and teacher. Ethics and fair/multifaceted evaluation of conflicts are core to all of those and a significant amount of targeted training is part of law school (along with the professional responsibility exam for admission to the bar). There is a possibility that I'm just not as ethical or thoughtful a person as I (or my colleagues and clients of 15 years) thought. But wtf?

This is a niche question, I guess, but when people ask me what specialty I want to go into or what type of doctor I want to be, I say “critical care”. People don’t seem to know what that is— even other premeds, med students, or people in healthcare. So I clarify by saying it’s a subspecialty of internal medicine where you work in the ICU taking care of the most critically ill patients. Then they ask, oh so you want to be a hospitalist? or they just don’t understand how it’s different from internal medicine. Is there something I should be saying differently? Ig this doesn’t really matter but I just want to communicate better if possible

Edit: Thank you everyone for the information yall provided I realize I had some misconceptions I really appreciate the help

Started my application today only to realize what I have gotten myself into

Didn’t realize I had to ask to ask for transcript from every single college I attended (3 in my case) and how much digging I have to do find the exact course numbers and names for the classes I took because apparently the transferred courses and their equivalents at my final 4 year university transcript don’t count (since I need the official course names)

The real kicker: Texas (only state I’m applying to) requires 2 extra essays, a personal characteristics essay and an “optional” (aka not optional) unique experiences/circumstances essay which I thought were part of the secondary (major face palm, what is actually wrong with me). I literally thought it was just the personal statement I had to worry about which I already spent months working on

It’s already getting late in the cycle and this is lowkey making me just want to delay my application cycle until the next one. I already don’t feel good about my shadowing and non clinical volunteering hours so it may be a blessing in disguise but I’m worried about disappointing my LOR writers

I really should’ve done my research 🙂

woooo I'm #1!!!! 🤑🤑😹💯💯

in all seriousness though what the f 😭 I work in EMS and in behavioral health, all of the characteristics and skills that they purport to look for are essential in my day to day work. I practiced for 5 ish days in advance, I used all the terminology they tell you to use, recognized both sides, I really believe I gave thoughtful answers. So I'm very confused as to how this could have happened. The fact that they give no feedback too is so frustrating.

I already have a 3.3 GPA, I really didn't need another "red flag" on my application. My primary's already in, I'm in the middle of my secondaries. Also my whole application talks about me using these skills throughout my experiences.... I feel like schools are going to think have a view of myself that is incongruous with the "reality" of this "objective" metric. How much is this going to hurt me? Should I retake it?

Maybe a reason to choose an established DO program over a really new MD school?

Just a status check for everyone — many secondaries are y’all through now?

I’m 20/32 right now (not completing 1 of them tho)

Received all but 1 (belmont).

Good luck to everyone!!

The biggest bullshit exam. That’s the message.

I’m lowkey struggling with studying and It’s not bad, but it’s definitely not where i want to be. So drop your best studying techniques for bio, chem, math, and physics. Idc if it’s weird, as long as it works.

I get that secondaries are stressful for everyone but I genuinely am at a loss. I work 3 12s a week, all overnight shifts - woke up at 3 today to write before going in and have made (literally) zero progress on even a single essay. I prewrote for about 5 schools, 4 of which changed basically every prompt, and realized they were so specific that I hardly had any content as a basis for other essays. I got sent secondaries on the 20th and have submitted 2 of hopefully 20? But at this point I’m not even sure of what to do, I’m moving so agonizingly slow. When I see people finishing even one school per day it blows my mind

I know I should be writing instead of typing this pointless rant out anyways. I feel like I did everything right until now and no matter how hard I try I can’t make it over this last hurdle

Hi, I work 40 hrs a week at my clinical job. The problem is that secondaries are really starting to pile up (applied to 45 schools and did some prewriting but couldn't prewrite them all), and I feel like I'm drowning doing 12-hour shifts and then coming back home to grind out essays. I want to call out (I already called out one day last week and the week before because I had insane migraines) but I'm so worried about my job and I feel like this will look really bad, but then again this application is what I have worked all these years for...this is my first "real" job that wasn't research or anything like that so I'm kind of lost. Would really appreciate any advice, thank you so much

Has anyone submitted bad secondaries and still seen success as a high stat applicant

Kinda fell into the trap of rush my secondaries to get them in early but now looking back they are pretty bad and kind of doom and gloom about my chances

My interview genuinely went terrible. I feel like I blanked multiple times, was stuttering, and saying ummm too. I’m praying I’m not like this in front of actual people

I am a current 911 EMT transitioning into a clinical research position on the 3rd. I got subpoenaed today for a patient. It is a murder case. I have to go obviously. I want to go for my patient. The court time I have to appear is 10 business days long. Is this going to affect me negatively at my new job???

I feel like I legit don’t have any other experiences to write about and it feels like I’m just repeating and I’m legit almost done with all of my secondaries so I’m just frustrated now and feel like I ruined my apps

These people have invested so much time and energy into helping me through this process, so I am gonna keep grinding through these secondaries because these people need to know their investment was well placed. 🥲

Just submitted my primary yesterday. My app was thankfully marked ready for review basically immediately since I sent my transcripts weeks ago. But now that it's in the verification queue, I've been seeing pretty much everyone online dooming late July submissions and saying its too late because the chances are super low for getting an A when submitting this late. It's making me really second guess applying this cycle.

I just think it's so insane how AMCAS has only verified up to around the first week of submissions when it's already late July, meaning people who are getting secondaries now and are early/on time quite literally submitted during that first week it opened. Everyone else is still waiting, even those who submitted the second week it opened. In previous cycles, submitting late July would get a mid to late August verification which was a tradeoff I was willing to take for a more polished app but now it's looking like I might not be verified until early September which is much, much later than I wanted/anticipated. I know that there was a huge increase in early applicants this year and it's on me for not submitting earlier but unfortunately life happened and the months leading up to the app opening were rough on me. My stats are ok and my app and writing are strong, but I can't help but feel I'm shooting myself in the foot applying this late.

Waiting another year wouldn't substantially improve my app in any meaningful way since i have decently high hours in pretty much every category to the point where it's just diminishing returns. My PS has been looked over by someone who previously sat on admissions at a T20 school was given high praise. I filled up all 15 activities slots with meaningful activities and showcased my impact and/or what I learned decently well imo. Everything in my app supports a strong and cohesive narrative. It's literally only this verification timeline coupled with my average MCAT (but solid gpa) that's making me doubt my decision applying this cycle. If I applied with this exact same app but submitted it earlier, I'd have full confidence in getting in somewhere. I have FAP so it's free so the cost of applying isn't an issue. I'm more worried that I applied this cycle for no reason and just doomed myself to be a reapplicant...

how long after submitting secondaries do ppl usually get interview invites?

Pre-writing secondaries and wondering if I should explain how aspects of the med school "would" or "will" help me achieve my goals.

My inclination is "would" because admission is not guaranteed but "will" sounds more "confident in the program" or something.

Tbh I'm just wondering what people think because regardless of what I choose I imagine each person on the adcoms would think about it differently (unless it's just not that deep 💀)... If there is an option that is generally better I would love to hear it

Genuinely baffled at how this is possible. I actually made the effort to study time. I reread my notes from my medical ethics course, I took the Preview practice exam and read through the explanations, and I took the Casper practice exam. It is what it is I guess…

Hoping adcoms will overlook this since the rest of my application improved (504 MCAT -> 512, 0 research experiences -> 3 + a publication, submitting secondaries in September last cycle -> within 2 weeks and within July this cycle)