Just got accepted into med school

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 04:43 PM

I just received my acceptance letter into University of Illinois in Chicago's Medical School. Proudest, most joyful day of my life. Now I normally don't drink at all due to my beliefs in up-keeping my healthy lifestyle and staying on track with my diet, but I think this occasion calls for a bottle of Gebtleman's Jack. Good day everyone. Just thought I'd share!

**auswest** · 04-23-2013, 04:45 PM

Congrats mate...now write me a script!

**songdog** · 04-23-2013, 04:50 PM

Congrats bro!

**Hoggage_54** · 04-23-2013, 04:50 PM

Congrats, have a beer!

**RipOwens** · 04-23-2013, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by auswest

Congrats mate...now write me a script!

LOL ... Me too! Also, I got this rash...

**tigerspawn** · 04-23-2013, 04:53 PM

Congrats.

**Lunk1** · 04-23-2013, 05:02 PM

Congratz...Chicago sucks!

**Flagg** · 04-23-2013, 05:03 PM

That's awesome news man, you must be over the moon

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 05:50 PM

Thanks a lot guys! Trust me, celebrating is an understatement for what I'm doing tonight! And probably the weekend as well! And I'd love to write you guys scripts in a few years

test, serms, or AI's anyone?

**austinite** · 04-23-2013, 05:52 PM

Good job. Congrats!

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by Lunk1

Congratz...Chicago sucks!

Some of it does, but it's still my favorite city and will always be home! Chicago food + Blackhawks make this the greatest city in the world (to me at least) haha

**auswest** · 04-23-2013, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by sjamal1023

Thanks a lot guys! Trust me, celebrating is an understatement for what I'm doing tonight! And probably the weekend as well! And I'd love to write you guys scripts in a few years

test, serms, or AI's anyone?

Friend request sent

lol

**LGM** · 04-23-2013, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by sjamal1023

Thanks a lot guys! Trust me, celebrating is an understatement for what I'm doing tonight! And probably the weekend as well! And I'd love to write you guys scripts in a few years

test, serms, or AI's anyone?

And we just became bestest friends!

Congrats mate.

**oatmeal69** · 04-23-2013, 05:59 PM

Congratz! Say goodbye to sleep for the next 8 years!

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by oatmeal69

Congratz! Say goodbye to sleep for the next 8 years!

I haven't slept since college started my friend haha

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by LGM

And we just became bestest friends!

Congrats mate.

Hahahaha

come have a drink in Chicago this weekend!

**kelkel** · 04-23-2013, 07:14 PM

What's your intended specialty?

And a big congratulations!

**GirlyGymRat** · 04-23-2013, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by sjamal1023

I just received my acceptance letter into University of Illinois in Chicago's Medical School. Proudest, most joyful day of my life. Now I normally don't drink at all due to my beliefs in up-keeping my healthy lifestyle and staying on track with my diet, but I think this occasion calls for a bottle of Gebtleman's Jack. Good day everyone. Just thought I'd share!

Be proud. Nice achievement! Now get yourself a designated driver!

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by kelkel

What's your intended specialty?

And a big congratulations!

Surgery. General surgeon is what I'm aiming for. They actually have lives compared to other surgeons.

***Admin*** · 04-23-2013, 08:14 PM

What degrees do you hold now?

And great job!!!

**frank13** · 04-23-2013, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by auswest

Congrats mate...now write me a script!

me too

AD · 04-23-2013, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by sjamal1023

Surgery. General surgeon is what I'm aiming for. They actually have lives compared to other surgeons.

if you want to have a good life, i thought ENT would be rather good. hardly any sort of emergency, no need to rush back to the hospital in the middle of the night.

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by *Admin*

What degrees do you hold now?

And great job!!!

I appreciate it admin! I currently hold a bachelor's in Biochemistry and an associates in biological sciences. While you're here though, can we somehow change my age... It says I'm 19. It ruins my reputation! Haha

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by AD

if you want to have a good life, i thought ENT would be rather good. hardly any sort of emergency, no need to rush back to the hospital in the middle of the night.

I considered it for their lifestyles, but I really enjoy working with my hands. Though I lots of things can change over the next few years, I've always been set on being a surgeon. I would feel as if I'm helping more directly.

**lovbyts** · 04-23-2013, 09:20 PM

Congratulations and hope it all works out for you. Hope you will have a lot of good new information to offer in the future.

**sjamal1023** · 04-23-2013, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by lovbyts

Congratulations and hope it all works out for you. Hope you will have a lot of good new information to offer in the future.

I appreciate it. I will try my best to help out as much as possible. Because I'm going down the research path, more school will done. Hopefully during this time, ill learn more about topics that apply to this website to help us all out here.

**Shol'va** · 04-23-2013, 11:34 PM

Hey if you go into specialized medicine, there's good money in it. Congrats. And hurry up and get your practice going as I'm suffering from a hematoma of the dorsum of the left temporal lobe and need some meds...lol

**bigZthedestroyer** · 04-23-2013, 11:50 PM

Congrats dude!!

**Perseverance1** · 04-23-2013, 11:56 PM

Congrats man...lets be friends (no homo)

(Okay, a little homo)

**ElDude** · 04-24-2013, 10:10 AM

Congrats! Now say goodbye to your life for the next 4 years!

But seriously... Congrats man, that is awesome. What do you want to specialize in?!

**humbleman** · 04-24-2013, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by sjamal1023

I just received my acceptance letter into University of Illinois in Chicago's Medical School. Proudest, most joyful day of my life. Now I normally don't drink at all due to my beliefs in up-keeping my healthy lifestyle and staying on track with my diet, but I think this occasion calls for a bottle of Gebtleman's Jack. Good day everyone. Just thought I'd share!

Wow man congrats!

**sjamal1023** · 04-24-2013, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by ElDude

Congrats! Now say goodbye to your life for the next 4 years!

But seriously... Congrats man, that is awesome. What do you want to specialize in?!

Surgery! General surgery is the plan. My other plan is neurosurgery. Simply because I have a great interest in the neuro system, but that's only if I can get to that point. Shoot for the stars I guess!

**sjamal1023** · 04-24-2013, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Perseverance1

Congrats man...lets be friends (no homo)

(Okay, a little homo)

Hahaha so many friend requests for future scripts lol

**GirlyGymRat** · 04-24-2013, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by sjamal1023

Surgery! General surgery is the plan. My other plan is neurosurgery. Simply because I have a great interest in the neuro system, but that's only if I can get to that point. Shoot for the stars I guess!

Did you consider orthopedic surgery??? I was told they are pre madonnas!!!! And if you do cosmetic surgery I will be your BFF!

**Hazard** · 04-24-2013, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by GirlyGymRat

Did you consider orthopedic surgery??? I was told they are pre madonnas!!!! And if you do cosmetic surgery I will be your BFF!

Primadonnas isn't even the word lol..... They're big babies. I know because I was an ortho specialist and sold medical devices and also accompanied them in surgery.

My advice may not mean much but from what I've seen and heard over the years - anasthesiology is where it's at. Ortho and some other docs have insanely high medical malpractice insurance. TheGodfather would probably know more so than myself.

**thegodfather** · 04-24-2013, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by Hazard

Primadonnas isn't even the word lol..... They're big babies. I know because I was an ortho specialist and sold medical devices and also accompanied them in surgery.

My advice may not mean much but from what I've seen and heard over the years - anasthesiology is where it's at. Ortho and some other docs have insanely high medical malpractice insurance. TheGodfather would probably know more so than myself.

Congratulations........However, to the OP, you can have a VAGUE idea of the specialty or sub-specialty that INTERESTS you, and that you THINK you might want to practice, but, without USMLE Step 1 scores, thats all they are, is a vague interest. Step 1 scores are paramount first and foremost, to predicting what specialties you are even remotely competitive enough for. On top of this, when doing rotations in M3 and M4, you may find that the specialty you "thought" you saw yourself dong the rest of your life, is not actually what you'd really like to be doing, when you are exposed to it first hand and find out the details of it. Furthermore, some specialties, even if your Step 1's make you competitive, will be lucky to match into anyway, such as the specialties via the San Francisco Matching Service i.e,......Neurotology, Opthamology, & Plastics.... the so called "lifestyle specialties"...Fun to talk about and speculate on, but keep it limited to "im interested in," rather then "I PLAN TO..."....

**Far from massive** · 04-24-2013, 07:22 PM

Congradulations, I have often felt if I had not mispent my youth that surgery would have been a great calling. The fact that you will be doing something that you can measure the outcome on each procedure is great, so many areas of medicine the ability to see the outcome is muddied by the patients compliance and so many other factors. Not to say this does not happen in surgery but compared to standard medicine where you are so often treating the symptoms rather than the problem, surgery is great.

Short story, after being sick for 6 months, I had my appendix pulled out about a year and a half ago, all was well till the next day when the surgeon told me it was full of Goblet cell carcinoids. Well the standard procedure for many surgeons is to go back in and take out half the colon and about 6-12 inches of intestine.....however I was very fortunate to have a great surgeon who did a great job of the surgery and also recommended me to another great specialist. The specialist got me hooked up with a brand new tumour marker test and said that due to the excellent job my surgeon had done he was confident that although the margin was only 2cm he still had faith that the cells were contained within the appendix. Well all the tests came back normal, I thank God every day that I was lucky enough to have two guys who were both on the cutting edge as if I had not (and they had done the cautionary surgery) I would no longer be able to eat and train and work the way I do.

FFM

**Bmwgirl11** · 04-24-2013, 08:18 PM

Congratulations. Huge accomplishment. Happy for you

**sjamal1023** · 04-25-2013, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by Far from massive

Congradulations, I have often felt if I had not mispent my youth that surgery would have been a great calling. The fact that you will be doing something that you can measure the outcome on each procedure is great, so many areas of medicine the ability to see the outcome is muddied by the patients compliance and so many other factors. Not to say this does not happen in surgery but compared to standard medicine where you are so often treating the symptoms rather than the problem, surgery is great.

Short story, after being sick for 6 months, I had my appendix pulled out about a year and a half ago, all was well till the next day when the surgeon told me it was full of Goblet cell carcinoids. Well the standard procedure for many surgeons is to go back in and take out half the colon and about 6-12 inches of intestine.....however I was very fortunate to have a great surgeon who did a great job of the surgery and also recommended me to another great specialist. The specialist got me hooked up with a brand new tumour marker test and said that due to the excellent job my surgeon had done he was confident that although the margin was only 2cm he still had faith that the cells were contained within the appendix. Well all the tests came back normal, I thank God every day that I was lucky enough to have two guys who were both on the cutting edge as if I had not (and they had done the cautionary surgery) I would no longer be able to eat and train and work the way I do.

FFM

It's the stories like this and people who need help as you did that make me look forward to what I'm going to be doing. I'm glad all is well with you. Keep lifting brother.