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I’m considering both specialties, although I’m currently leaning more toward general surgery. I’m going into MS2, so I have plenty of time, but I had four questions for anyone familiar with either field:

1. What made you find general surgery or vascular surgery more interesting? How varied is the day-to-day practice, and how repetitive do the bread-and-butter cases become?
2. How often do you feel that your work is genuinely life-saving, particularly in vascular surgery compared with general or acute care surgery?
3. How do the two specialties compare in terms of technical difficulty and the breadth and complexity of the knowledge required?
4. What is the call burden actually like in each specialty? How often are you called in overnight for a genuinely life-threatening emergency?

Thanks in advance

Hi everyone. I'll be starting Step 1 studying soon and was planning on using the AnKing V12 deck - I just had a couple of questions:

1. I keep seeing something online about "media packages" and whatnot for the deck. My understanding is that, due to copyright, if you're not subscribed to the resource which the media originates from, you can't have it imported into the deck. Is that media really necessary in order to make effective use of the deck/for the deck to be useful or is it still fine even without it? My plan would be to go through something like Boards&Beyond and then do the associated Anki cards right after, maybe also doing the same thing with Sketchy and Pathoma
2. As someone interested in writing the Step 2 and Step 3 down the line, are these decks also embedded within the AnKing V12 one? Also side question but is there a lot of overlap between the Step 1 and Step 2 cards (i.e. would it be a good idea to keep up with the Anki reviews after writing Step 1)?

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related or Critical Care-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related or anatomy-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator

Hi everyone! I'm a medical student at a Canadian medical school looking to join any surgery-related systematic reviews, scoping reviews or meta-analyses. I've worked on a lot of these in the past so I have quite a bit of prior experience in this domain and would be happy to help with screening, data extraction, risk of bias, or manuscript writing. Please message me if you're looking for another collaborator