***Just a message planning or considering joining the upcoming IV Prep Season*** I know many of you have requested to join IV Prep based on recommendations from our past alumni, which is awesome. I would imagine you are considering the course because of how your friends that are alumni described their experience with it. I say to you, right now, throw the positive reviews out of the window and demand more from us this season. Because going unmatched doesnt just hurt for you, it hurts me. And while most of you will only go through one match, I go through the highs and lows of the match every year. Voluntarily. Ive asked Mission:Residency to take less students this year. Say what?! Amazing programs like Kaplan and USMLEworld are big & successful because they can take a proven model, perfect it, and have the capacity to take as many students as possible. More students = GOOD. So why on earth would we choose to take LESS students? The world of USMLE is one that doesnt necessarily require the lecturers teaching it to get to know about their students. (although the best, like Dr Barone, are the best because he actually does know his students in addition to his teaching). A mechanism of action is a mechanism of action, right? Its why you can listen to Golijan, Barone and Fischer teach and as long as they adapt their knowledge to help you understand it clearly (which is why they rock) and you do your work on your end, they can reach THOUSANDS and have the same success. The opposite is true of what I have been tasked to teach. Yes, the Interview strategies and techniques I teach to help you be more like yourself and 100% genuine can be passed on. But the interview isnt objective like the USMLE . . . its a subjective. Its a test of the intangibles, the things that make you unique. I think one of the main reasons docs fail the Residency Interview is because it asks someone that, when in a hospital setting, has been trained to think as a scientist - objectively to save a life - to do something that is completely subjective to try and start a new life as a resident. In other words, it asks someone that that has succeeded in medicine mostly by using their brain, to all of sudden use their heart in a professional setting. The bottomline? Ive asked to take less students so that I can get to know every single one of my students as best as I humanly can. Its the only way I can help make sure you give your honest, individual answers. Ive also asked for Mission:Residency to plan the schedule to do the majority of the lectures during the summer. While that may mean less time at the beach for me on my days off, it also means I can get to my doctors more. I looked at the list of the 19 docs that didnt Match and Ill tell you right now, over half of them missed too many practices or started the course too late. This isnt going to happen again. Not on my watch. So the course as you see it on the Mission:Residency page has been adjusted. It takes into account that well be spending more time and resources on: practice and that we may (as we already have) hire additional staff to take care of the logistics, so that I can 100% focus in on teaching. One last thing: If you do decide to join our IV Prep family, be prepared to WORK. Interviews, as a Program Director friend of mine reminded me this past season, is STEP 4. And like every one of your other steps, you will only get back one you put in. You give me 100% and Ill give you a 1000% Session A&B rosters are almost finalized. Ill see you all soon in the classroom. PEACE OUTTTTT! ~ Dr Brian
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:40:52 +0000
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