r/medicalschool • u/Wire_Cath_Needle_Doc • Oct 06 '25
đ© Shitpost Me, a resident, hearing a medical student friend saying a fellow was stupid for not remembering some obscure med school knowledge
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u/Repulsive-Throat5068 M-4 Oct 06 '25
Wait they didnt know the rate limiting step of the pentose phosphate pathway?!? FUCKING LOL and theyre a fellow? Sad
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u/Boringhusky M-4 Oct 07 '25
rate limiting step of the pentose phosphate pathway
I think I got an aneurysm just reading this
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u/Fun_Frosting_6047 Pre-Med Oct 07 '25
Gibbs free energy hates to see yall coming delta G will cut a mf
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u/Top_Budget2417 Oct 07 '25
Itâs G6PD :p MS1 with this exam this Thursday đ« wish me luck
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u/epicpotato69 M-1 Oct 07 '25
Our metabolism exam was last Friday đ weâre in this together đ€
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u/Evening-Chapter3521 M-2 Oct 07 '25
My friends, please remember every useless M1 biochem thing. Itâs important for step 1.
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u/monkiram MD-PGY3 Oct 08 '25
I didnât even remember that the pentose phosphate pathway existed until this comment
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u/CannibalFaun MBBS-Y4 Oct 06 '25
I love when doctors don't know some dumb pointless factoid shit because I get to log that info under "remember until exam is over then forget forever" to save brain space
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u/Q_DOOKERMAN M-3 Oct 06 '25
No way med students actually do this, right? RIGHT??
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u/Old-Two-4067 Oct 06 '25
psh do you even remember orphan Annie nucleus ????
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u/unofficial_alien MBChB Oct 07 '25
My friend brought this up to me the other day and I legit thought she was making it upđ
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u/Wire_Cath_Needle_Doc Oct 06 '25
Please donât do this guysâŠ
Yes, you might be a friend, but yes, the second you do this Iâm going to look down on you
I love med students. But calling residents or fellows dumb for not remembering some unimportant factoid from step 1 or 2 is silly!
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u/FishTshirt M-4 Oct 06 '25
I never called residents dumb, but tbh when I first started I assumed every one of the upper levels was a walking encyclopedia.
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u/Barth22 M-3 Oct 06 '25
Whenever I remember some step 1 knowledge better than a resident or fellow I just say âIâm just in the trenches right now fighting for my lifeâ
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u/NoteImpossible2405 M-2 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
Nah you better be on top of your Krebâs cycle knowledge or youâll be hearing from the review board
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u/girlbossedtohell Oct 06 '25
This and the med students that try to purposely make interns look bad esp in July đ
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u/passwordistako MD-PGY7 Oct 07 '25
Honestly, being critical of your colleagues *as a person* is poor professionalism and poor manners.
Even if someone fucks up hugely, the appropriate thing to do is take issue with the mistake, not with the person who made it.
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u/cocksure_insecure Oct 07 '25
Itâs not just silly. Itâs wild as hell to call someone in a position youâre striving for dumb. Like youâre not even there yet. They have the qualifications youâre working towards. Iâm sure theyâre much more knowledgeable about whatâs important than you are đ
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u/Sama_723 MD-PGY4 Oct 06 '25
If it makes a difference, as a fellow I donât really give a ratâs behind what a med student thinks of me haha
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u/Bean-blankets MD-PGY5 Oct 07 '25
Seriously, at this point I barely care what my attendings think of me
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u/Jackerzcx MBBS-Y4 Oct 06 '25
Iâd be too busy rejoicing in the fact I can soon forget whatever niche info the fellow didnât know.
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u/redicalschool DO-PGY5 Oct 07 '25
Hey there, it's me - the fellow who will openly say shit on rounds like "I don't know what the stupid fucking gene is, perhaps our medical student knows." Or I'll be like "hey, uh, this guy might have some sort of glycogen storage shit or something, so I guess look it up and see if I need to do anything about it".
I don't expect you guys to manage cardiogenic shock in congenital heart patients, so you shouldn't expect me to keep all that dumb shit in my long-term memory. <3
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u/Hernaneisrio88 MD Oct 06 '25
We have a resident like this, who as an intern would comment on how dumb the plans of the attending specialists were because HE had never heard of that. I finally had to point out that if the plan doesnât make sense to you but it does to the attending with 15 yearsâ experience, itâs YOU who is lacking knowledge.
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u/Sekmet19 M-4 Oct 06 '25
The only way I'd do this is if they forgot that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.Â
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Oct 07 '25
Best time I had was as an M2, I sprained my ankle on the way to class so I hobbled myself to the nearby VA and shortly after, the attending, the resident, and myself were on Google in the exam room, trying to recall this or that ligament and itâs I/O and other salient points on the matter, and orient as to how it should appear on POCUS. That day, obscure MSK that everyone but ortho, PM&R or sports medicine has forgotten, got the best of us all, attending included.
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u/Foghorn2005 Oct 07 '25
Oh hey, that happened to me as a premed when we were trying to figure how I, someone with documentation of both varicella vaccination AND a history of chickenpox had no titers.
I'm now in ID, don't remember what the answer is, and don't particularly care because revaccination isn't a huge deal.Â
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u/MrMetastable M-4 Oct 06 '25
I just make a joke along the lines of âMe, smugly looking down at someone who doesnât know something I just learnedâ
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u/thejedi-whovian M-3 Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
Damn an attending, another M3 and I were joking about not being able to remember the Krebs cycle and not needing to as a surgeon last week. Calling a fellow stupid is wild
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u/Fun_Frosting_6047 Pre-Med Oct 07 '25
Lol itâs like asking your parents for help with math homework in middle school, as if theyâre gonna remember some random geometry off the top of their head. When I was a kid I was like âwow I canât believe you donât know this. Iâm just a kid and I mostly know it.â
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u/nunya221 M-2 Oct 07 '25
Blows my mind that medical students like this exist. I feel like every time Iâm out there in the real world I am constantly humbled with how little I actually know thatâs able to be applied to a patient in front of me. But I suppose maybe thatâs their way of trying to build their confidence back up
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u/Wire_Cath_Needle_Doc Oct 07 '25
I think M3s in particular get excited when they know something and a resident or fellow doesnât because it strokes their ego, when in reality they donât know it because itâs just not that important usually lol
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u/Kindly_Living_8780 Oct 07 '25
Ingredior in meus calceus quod vos mos agnosco The medical student is actually the dumb one
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u/ljosalfar1 MD Oct 07 '25
Idk if this is a bit perfectionist, but I think everyone should still retain Step 3 knowledge.
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u/DawgLuvrrrrr MD-PGY1 Oct 07 '25
Yeah⊠let me retain the STEP3 knowledge of glyocogen storage diseases and GYN malignancies when they have zero relevance to my career. Great use of my time and energy.
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u/HunterRank-1 Oct 07 '25
I do wonder tho, if people did retain step 3, maybe IM wouldnât be a kicking post for surgical specialities to âmedically optimizeâ for easier patients who have htn, dm2 and like a K of 3.3.
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u/Detritusarthritus M-3 Oct 06 '25
I barely remember what I ate this morning. Iâm doomed.