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Why so serious?

All I encounter everyday is infinte stupidity of the inferior majority. Patients are always stupid. Nurses are usually stupid. Residents are sometimes stupid. They really make me insane. Insane.

Indicators

Leading Indicators
Average weekly hours, manufacturing
Average weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance*
Manufacturers’ new orders, consumer goods and materials
Vendor performance, slower deliveries diffusion index
Manufacturers’ new orders, nondefense capital goods
Building permits, new private housing units
Stock prices, 500 common stocks
Money supply, M2 Interest rate spread, 10-year
Treasury bonds less Federal funds (%)/Interest rate spread. 10-year Treasury bonds less 90-day Treasury bonds
Index of consumer expectations

Coincident Indicators
Employees on nonagricultural payrolls
Personal income less transfer payments
Index of industrial production
Manufacturing and trade sales

Lagging Indicators
Average duration of unemployment*
Inventories to sales ratio, manufacturing and trade
Change in labor cost per unit of output, manufacturing (%)
Average prime rate charged by banks (%)
Commercial and industrial loans outstanding
Consumer installment credit outstanding to personal income ratio
Change in consumer price index for services (%)

Plan

Time is short. I am so pressed for time.

來自ptt rskc的回信1

你寫的那些東西量都不少: Kaplan note, Q bank, USMLE world。至於Kaplan video?有這個東西流出來嗎?應該很難找到我也沒看過

step 2準備時間可以比較短,不過step2跟step1個著重臨床一個是基礎應該很難一起準備
只準備step2應該對step1沒有很大幫助,別忘了step2還有個CS只能在美國考而且很貴
如果不考慮到美國工作的話應該沒什麼用。
近年來外國醫學生又很難match,申請人數遠大於所需人數
每個program都說他們收到3000~4000的申請表
如果只收10個左右的話,除非你USMLE將近滿分不然很難

來自ptt的回信2

usmle考過, 去美國當R基本上4大科加上家醫科都會有缺
要看收的老闆的意見,也就是面談的氣份
所以對談也是很重要,也要會哈啦一下台灣的醫療環境等等
此外也要看你當時的家庭環境
萬一父母身體不好,老婆或是老公沒辦法配合
去那邊也是有學長後來AAD一年之後就回來台灣
畢竟去那邊多多少少會有一點次等公民感覺
USMLE 在台灣APPLY熱門科系沒用
在台灣當醫生,現在很難賺到稅後500萬以上了

綜觀來說考USMLE的特色

  1. 考過可能可以到美國的四大科工作
  2. 對申請台灣的熱門科並無幫助

  3. 總準備時數粗估1000小時
  4. 外國醫學生申請人數遠大於開出的職缺,因此除非USMLE考到高分難以如願

總的來說,usmle並不值得投資。

引述前輩的的說法,其實CFA最大的價值是:在給沒辦法在學校接受完整財務訓練的人一個自我進修的機會。大家的主修不同,對財務的了解多半很片面,有人熟 財報分析、有的人通債券、有人精衍生商品、有人懂會計、有人會統計、有人懂投資組合、有人會財管。CFA真正的意義是 向全世界證明,CFA持照人已經對財務各領域基本知識完整掌握,在金融界,那張執照的價值超過國內所有財金系的畢業證書(不一定超過財金所,要看是哪個學 校),而且又不會太難考。

Nihilism

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. (Act 5, Scene 5, Macbeth)